I've heard that this issue is going to come up at our local
autocross club, so all of the kart talk gives me a chance to
practice my view point.
I have nothing against karts. I'm also not going to try and argue
safety, even though I will point out about abrasion suits -- now
you're asking volunteer workers to check out something they know
nothing about...wouldn't karts be more at home at kart events?
And that's my opinion: this is not the Sports Kart Club of America.
If I had a kart I'd bet I could find a racing event at the very
least every other weekend within easy driving distance. It's my
understanding that there are kart events at the local drive in circles
track, plus there are kart sanctioning bodies.
If I want to do competitive driving with my autocross car, what can
I do? Well, there are autocrosses, and maybe the occasional "track
day" (which aren't competitive events, just seat time). So, unless
I want to build a production racer (which while is cool, what I
like are sports cars: sports -- driven in competitive events, cars --
machines for daily transportation), autocrossing is pretty much it.
I know it's not true of all sites, but here in San Diego we get enough
cars, I don't think we should hassle over karts.
I don't think that there's need to add karts to "attract new members"
as has often been used over and over for various other autocross
additions. Again, nothing personal, I'm not going to argue safety or this or
that, I just don't think karts belong in events sanctioned by a car club.
This has nothing to do with the corvette driver's nonsense about some sort
of lack of open-mindedness -- I've been around all sorts of machinery
and find it all fun. It's just that karts ain't cars, and they've got
far more places to play than most of us autocrossers do.
-Keith Wheeler
Team Sanctuary http://www.TeamSanctuary.com/
San Diego region autocross
MGB #159
RX-7 #259
MG Midget #359 (under construction!)
ClubRally MGB-GT #395 (woohoo! a class win at our first "Rim of the World"!)
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