The 2 stroke karting trip thread

[Rotaxmax125]

Off the back of the ice karting thread

If enough people are interested and are prepared for a trip across to the north part of the M25 and to have a day off we could have a go at this
http://www.club100.co.uk/midweek.htm

it is expensive (£95 an hour) but it is worth it. nothing quite matches a 2 stroke

If we had 4 to 9 people interested we could do an hours testing each (probably sharing 4/5 karts between us over a 2 hour session)
If we had 10 or over we can have a race
10min Open Practice
5min Qualifying Session
X3 15min Races

Who would be interested? and I would probably need some help organizing this as I haven't got much spare time at the moment

[Rich_M]

I am very interested!
I have few other friends that are not from this car club but are big car enthusiast that im sure would be more than interested also.
More than willing to offer help with organising this also.

Rich

[FullMetalGasket]

As I said on Sat I'm interested as long as I can swing a day off ect :thumbs:

How would you like me to go about collecting that boost pipe Rich?

[Madda]

Interested :nod: Rich, keep me posted on this if things happen as I doubt I will remember to keep an eye on the thread

[Rich_M]

As I said on Sat I'm interested as long as I can swing a day off ect :thumbs:

How would you like me to go about collecting that boost pipe Rich?

Where abouts do you work/live, i am sure i could drop it up to you next week?


Interested :nod: Rich, keep me posted on this if things happen as I doubt I will remember to keep an eye on the thread

Will do.

[FullMetalGasket]

Live in Yate and work in Cromhall out towards Wotton :)

[Sender]

I'm also after some karting but only over 10 people, and date is important :sxoc:

[Rotaxmax125]

I thinking about setting a date on the 14th of march. What I'll probably do is contact club 100 and set it up as a test session at first then if we get enough people change it to a race. On the money, everyone will pay Club 100 for the karting and we'll sort out the transport separately.

[Sender]

14 is friday.... bad

I'm flying back to Poland....

[Rich_M]

Fridays are bad in general for me as i do day release at college every friday.

[ecksjay]

i'd love to but thats crazy money for karting, no matter what engine is in it :P (the one in birmingham now have biogas karts which are apparently crazy quick).
if it was for an all day session for that money i'd be very much interested, but just couldnt justify that (my rally day was almost that sort of money).

[Rotaxmax125]

(the one in birmingham now have biogas karts which are apparently crazy quick).


The Biogas ones aren’t any quicker than the normal indoor ones and they weigh more that an oil tanker (but then again most indoor places think their karts will do 60MPH :rolleyes: )
Can people put down what days of the week they would be free to do this and hopefully there will be a consensus

[Moonhead]

Yes! Any day is good for me except the 18th March:thumbs:

[FullMetalGasket]

I have no real preference, just as long as can get the time in the first place :thumbs:

[Rotaxmax125]

Bad stuff (prices for races)
1. SINGLE DRIVER EXCLUSIVE

FORMAT
OPEN PRACTICE 10 MINUTES
QUALIFYING 5 MINUTES
HEAT 1 10 MINUTES
HEAT 2 10 MINUTES
FINAL 15 MINUTES

COST (PER DRIVER) £105inc VAT
MIN 10 / MAX 20 DRIVERS


2. 2 DRIVER TEAM EXCLUSIVE

FORMAT
OPEN PRACTICE 30 MINUTES
QUALIFYING 5 MINUTES
ENDURANCE RACE 1 HOUR
COST (PER TEAM OF 2) £190inc VAT
MIN 10 / MAX 20 TEAMS



3. TEAM EXCLUSIVE

FORMAT
OPEN PRACTICE 40 MINUTES
QUALIFYING 10 MINUTES
ENDURANCE RACE 2 HOURS

COST (PER TEAM OF 2-4 DRIVERS) £290inc VAT
MIN 15 / MAX 25 TEAMS

[Rotaxmax125]

Bad stuff 2 (availability)

MARCH 2008

Either 6th or 7th
Between 10th and 12th

APRIL 2008

Either 16th or 17th
Between 21st and 25th

MAY 2008

Between 7th and 9th
Between 12th and 14th

[Rotaxmax125]

Good stuff
Circuit Guide

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and another good bit of on kart footage

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and yes these are the karts (the old club 100 fleet we'll be in the new more powerful but slightly heavier ones) and they are at the track we'll be using

[J..]

Sorry Rob, chances are I won't be able to make it.

But to everyone reading this..... do it! If you enjoy driving your 200 you will love this - do not confuse these karts with the usual corporate arrive and drive shite. An experience definately worth trying (unless its raining!) :nod:

[J..]

ANd what's this doing in the West COuntry section - Rye is East :smash:

See i you can get a mod to move it to motorsport section - you might catch some more people :)

[Moonhead]

Blimey that looks fast:cool::cool:

[Rich_M]

I'm very interested but fridays are not good for me as mentioned above, with enough notice i should be able to do any other day though.
As this is quite a high cost event i would suggest going for a late date to give people chance to budget for it - then again you run the risk of it clashing with summer holiday saving funds.
Rich

[Rotaxmax125]

Looking at the availabilty
APRIL 2008

Either 16th or 17th

looks really good to me as I'll be racing at Rye house that weekend, May going to be out for me as I'll probably be going to Spa to race these karts

[Moonhead]

Sounds like a plan - i reckon option 2 sounds the best if thats the price for the team (i.e 2 peeps):

2. 2 DRIVER TEAM EXCLUSIVE

FORMAT
OPEN PRACTICE 30 MINUTES
QUALIFYING 5 MINUTES
ENDURANCE RACE 1 HOUR
COST (PER TEAM OF 2) £190inc VAT
MIN 10 / MAX 20 TEAMS


1.Moonhead + His old man

[Rotaxmax125]

Sounds like a plan - i reckon option 2 sounds the best if thats the price for the team (i.e 2 peeps):

2. 2 DRIVER TEAM EXCLUSIVE

FORMAT
OPEN PRACTICE 30 MINUTES
QUALIFYING 5 MINUTES
ENDURANCE RACE 1 HOUR
COST (PER TEAM OF 2) £190inc VAT
MIN 10 / MAX 20 TEAMS


1.Moonhead + His old man


I think we might struggle to get 40 people interested

[Moonhead]

min 10 teams of 2 so only need 20 overall!:thumbs:

[Moonhead]

true, but its min 10 teams of 2 so only need 20 overall! I think its very do-able:thumbs: i could probably get another 2-3 teams of 2 together (can you tell i really want to have a go at this?!!)
1.moonhead
2.Moonheads old man

[mattlake]

interested but does sound an expensive day once travel etc is factored in:(

[Rotaxmax125]

If anyone wants to see where the track is the postcode is EN11 0EH
I'm supprised no one who lives in the east is interested as it's not that bad a trip

[Rotaxmax125]

http://www.forumula1.net/2008/f1/f1-news/joshua-hill-to-follow-in-fathers-footsteps/

:Plug:

[Bug2K4]

I took a rotax dd2 out recently, great fun, no road car can compare to the way you can throw a kart into a corner :thumbs:

[Moonhead]

time to reserect: what about this go kart boys :
http://www.paintballguide.co.uk/go-karting/sites/Prices.asp?id=1579
are these as quick? 200cc 50mph, how quick are the 2 strokes?

[Rotaxmax125]

time to reserect: what about this go kart boys :
http://www.paintballguide.co.uk/go-karting/sites/Prices.asp?id=1579
are these as quick? 200cc 50mph, how quick are the 2 strokes?

I very much doubt they could do 50mph (same karts as at combe) (lawn mowers) they are probably in the region of about 35-40mph. Club 100 kart probably does about 60-65mph at Rye (Average speed about 40mph) and thats before we get talking about acceleration