Sadly, even at the 'big-event' level, there is a bit of this.
A handful of over-competitive kids, and the occasional
over-competitive Little-League parent can spoil the fun
for the kids.
Thankfully, there are folks like GH and the Clements
to off-set the ugly stuff. (And some on the West coast
too, I am sure. . . . .)
R2
> Locally [SFR] the fathers of the kid karts took the
> hard case approach and chased off participation before
> they developed a viable class. Shame on them. At least
> one father bought a couple of used kid karts and
> intended to participate with his two kids, was
> attacked over wrong specifications the first time out,
> and took his family to the karting club. He had
> autocrossed for 20 years and was shocked by the
> attitude displayed. I think we have lost him as an
> autocrosser too, 8-[
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