Quote from tristancliffe :

But the really quick mousers probably hack LFS anyway somehow...

theres atleast one who i know of, and im sure everyone else does too!

sidepants - i wanted to drive at brummie wheels a few years ago but couldnt because i had to be a member or something... i have an MSA National A licence so im not dangerously out of control. can i have an arrive and drive with u and mantis sometime?!?! its right near the trainstation yea?

rofl yea kieran, but still less of a difference to GP (the indoor one) at whilton its about 0.2 per stone, but the track is twice aslong so the difference is half that of GP. anyway, you are banned, if you are that light!

25kg haha, where the hell did you put all that weight? i bet your helmet was made from lead! down here lead is £4 per kilo, so that would make your wallet lighter aswell!

Last edited by ayrton senna 87, Sun 6 Nov 2005, 08:14.

Quote from sidepants :

tell you guys what, next time the radar speed gun is on site and i'm in work, i'll get some accurate speeds for you. i know it's not 70mph, but 50mph is a little slow for these karts tristan. somewhere inbetween i would say.

i place my bet on 55mph!! +/-2mph

Quote from sidepants :

i reckon that it's just a ruse not to come to G.P. karting cos you guys know you couldn't beat mantis9 and I hehehehehe

damn :hide: you found us all out!

anyway, anywhere we go we will be using twin engine karts, more than double the power of GP karts means weight is much less of a disadvantage this time.

hey if we go to whilton ill be batting round in my 100 Nat, Scawen is first on the list for a go (for research purposes) any maybe u can go sidepants. (i have no idea on your size/height so i cant gaurantee u would fit in my seat!)

seriously, u WOULD notice the difference between a 2 stroke and a hire kart, nothing against hire karts tho they are great fun! i have seen some tracks say 80mph twin engine pro karts :/ sidepants have u been to many other kart circuits? (MSA ones?)

Quote from keiran :

Hate to break it to you but pro karts dont do 70mph especially hire ones they weigh a tonne.

Keiran

i was going to say that but everyone would have thought 'cocky bugger' or 'trying to be a know it all' something along those lines...

Quote from sidepants :

The cost at Grand Prix Karting Birmingham is basically £49 per person per half hour in the twin engine karts. The maximum on track at any one time is 12 karts, therefore in a 2 hr endurance race you have 4 per team so 48 drivers can be accomodated.

The 2 hr endurance race cost is fixed, so for a little more you can run smaller team numbers or for less money (and sadly therefore track time) run larger teams. And they're twin engine karts ~70mph.

I thought the point of the tyres is to protect you from major injury.

4 drivers per team is a little too much, we can have 30 TEAMS at daytona.

tyres on the track we need kerbs and proper outdoor 'furniture' i went through a fence at 60mph and got knocked out, and look at me now, just fine!! (just to pre-empt any jokes, i know what u are thinking )

looks great, good price too, but the fact u can only have 12 teams makes it a little difficult. definately on the shortlist tho. i thought it was more expensive tbh

EDIT - Just seen the MSA track on the gallery, looks a little corprate'ish with the tyres on the sides. shame, it looked alright

Last edited by ayrton senna 87, Fri 4 Nov 2005, 20:48.

at daytona u can only see like 2 corners and its £210 for 2 hours. great track to drive, but seeing karts go by every 1min plus isnt good.

Quote from Huru-aito :

A riceboy version of my friend's Astra illepall

wow u actually did that yourself?!?! amazing! looks real!

tracks in cyprus arent really very useful for a UK meet

haha like i said people will always go for the one most local (proved above). the only reason i decided to go to GP was because i thought the 1st meet would only be a few of us local lads...

BTW all i have looked into brummie wheels and red lodge, brummie was stupidly expensive (and its in birmingham) and red lodge dont have twin engined pro karts. thought of a track called 3 sisters in manchester (schiz wont have far to go ) but its a little out of the way for most people to go, and the airports arent great around there i think. really we are looking at midlands/london outdoor tracks with twin engine karts...

theres a bar at the track which will be available until 1am and its very nice, in the style of an old mill (its in an old mill, hence whilton mill) which is a few metres from the track. its a great place to chat and play pool and sit outside/whatever. we can then go to northampton in a few taxi minibus things which is about £4 a peice last time i went. its not quite as good of a track as byckmore, but there arent many pubs in the middle of the motorway, and buckmore is a little more costly...

dayona and whilton are twin engine karts aswell. daytona nor buckmore nor whilton have 'confrence' facilities like GP did (that we didnt use) but whilton and daytona have a bar and vending machines etc. the bar at whilton sells very cheap drink aswell. buckmore is the best track by far, but the fact that its miles from anywhere is kinda annoying...

obviously people will suggest places that are nearest to them, but we need to be fair

daytona is 210 for 2 hours
whilton is 160 for 2 hours
buckmore is 147 for 1.5 hours

i would have mounted it on rubber but because of the weight of the camera (almost nothing) it would still vibrate, and wouldnt get damped atall. the only reason why there was the break up is because the computer was inside, and like tristan said 200m away from the furthest part of the circuit.

there were hardly any vibrations, simply i didnt think of getting tristan to put his comp in the pits

sorry! would have been good to have seen fordmans middle finger popping up when i was behind him

wow cool, i had a crash that modified my car into a 1993 F1 car! its not as good as yours tho

ROFL check out 2:03, u can see tristans little middle finger popping up at TAA

Quote from Simon Savage :

Great video you guys are carrying a large amount of speed into certain corners!
Turn one is the most annoying corner i have never felt i have got that one perfect it always feels like i can take it faster.

and into the hairpin before the last two corners some hard braking and flicking there really shows it well with some great camera angles.

Infact all the camera angles were great!
well done!

thanks for your comments, its TAA we have to thank, im glad to see it wasnt ONLY turn 1

anyway, its best not to go flying round turn 1 man, its best to take a slower entry and go faster along the straight. hope to see u there 1 day!

Quote from the_angry_angel :

I was asked by the almighty bald owner of cart track, not to - although I was quite prepared to!

must have been speaking to the race director guy, when i spoke to glen he said it was fine, shame glen wasnt running the event from the start :@

AWESOME vid btw love it!

Tristan's WOO was superb

Last edited by ayrton senna 87, Wed 2 Nov 2005, 20:48.

Quote from kamo2000 :

i'm 22 but who cares...

i do! i have wondered for years and now i feel enlightened. thanks very much!

oct 13th 2004

just over 1 year. nice to see this for everyone, thanks vic!

Quote from Sk0rp :

Yesterday I was still 19.
But now I´m 20 years OLD.

wow do u age 1 human year in 1 day? u only have 50 days to live better enjoy them!

im 18 but still get asked on busses if i want a child fare (child fare is for 15 year olds...) and i never get into any pubs witout ID

its not good to crash cars! u lot shouldnt really be boasting.

i hit a car on my cycle at around 25mph, and went through a fence in a kart at 60mph, and it didnt hurt one bit (because i got knocked out).

drive safely on the roads kiddies, it isnt a race track

Happy birthday TagForce!

When is your birthday BTW?

only new guys lean to the inside, leaning to the outside transfers weight to the outside and lifts the inside rear wheel, which is designed into the karts to stop it bogging with the solid rear axle when the vid of the UK meet comes, u will see me and 3J leaning outwards

and how u hold the wheel affects the stiffness of the chassis, not so much on an indoor kart, which is why i didnt explain, but on outdoor when u stiffen your arm it plants the inside rear wheel on the floor giving the kart more understeer.

thanks for the suggestion Huru, ill get to that right away!