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Are you interested in karting @ CMP?
Yes, Friday karting would be a GREAT addition to my track weekend! 63%  63%  [ 5 ]
No, not interested in karting 38%  38%  [ 3 ]
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 Post subject: Karting @ CMP to coincide with Southern Fried Track Event...
PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:32 am 
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If you're interested... save this date: Friday, June 17th and/or Saturday, June 18th

Right now I have Carolina Motorsports Park's kart track reserved to host a karting "school" of sorts. The plan right now is to include classroom time in addition to track time in the karts, with some pick-up races to end things.

I've got Friday reserved, simply because my target demographic would be some of you doing the Tarheel Sports Car Club track event that weekend on CMP's main track. But I could very easily be talked in to doing this on Saturday and/or Sunday if the interest from non-track day participants were high enough.

Price-wise, I'm thinking somewhere @ $125... this will include the above mentioned class and track time as well as a light lunch.

Here is the information on the track and karts (Kershaw, SC):
http://www.carolinamotorsportspark.com/trackkart.html

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 Post subject: Re: Karting @ CMP to coincide with Southern Fried Track Even
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Hey Vincent, you want to race? :twisted:

Stacy, what sort of "track time" are we talking about here? Sounds fun, and I'd probably come down to do this in addition to the THSCC event....

Edit: would want to do this primarily as an addition to the THSCC weekend....

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Dustin Fredrickson wrote:
Hey Vincent, you want to race? :twisted:


Do they make karts with power steering for us old-really-out-of-shape folks? :oops: Otherwise you'll never get me on one of those things again!

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Honestly, right now the format is WIDE OPEN... I have no idea yet how exactly it will be structured.

Part if it depends on how many people sign up... but I'm thinking there will be at least three or four 10-15 minute sessions, with possibly some heat racing to end the day. More than likely, it won't be ALL day long either... probably 10-3 or 11-4, something like that. My initial thought was to actually run it very much like an HPDE (albeit w/o in-car instructors)... with session/de-brief/session/de-brief etc... trying to corellate what's experienced with the karts onto what is experienced on track in your car. There will probably also be experience level based run groups (or at least a newbie/experienced separation) ending with either races or a time trial of sorts.

I'm open to suggestion on format/structure

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i'm participating in the "bimmerworld challenge" or whatever they're calling it (karting at vir next fri), i can provide some feedback based on that when i get back


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Jason Tower wrote:
i'm participating in the "bimmerworld challenge" or whatever they're calling it (karting at vir next fri), i can provide some feedback based on that when i get back


That would be awesome... and I know Evan's doing the NCEuro thing there too (keep in mind though that unless something has changed, those aren't shifter karts... right?)

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presumably, the regular vir karts are 9hp clutchless, i assume that's what we're using next week. i'd love to try a shifter kart one of these days but i'd probably embarrass myself.


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Jason Tower wrote:
presumably, the regular vir karts are 9hp clutchless, i assume that's what we're using next week. i'd love to try a shifter kart one of these days but i'd probably embarrass myself.


And tha t will be the great thing about the cmp thing... Nothing to gets embarrassed about cause it will be most people's first time in a shifter.

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lunch? wow, shades of Chin / TrackQuest. :twisted:

i might be up for just friday on the kart track. never been in a kart. i hear it's brutal.

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Stacy King wrote:
Jason Tower wrote:
presumably, the regular vir karts are 9hp clutchless, i assume that's what we're using next week. i'd love to try a shifter kart one of these days but i'd probably embarrass myself.


And tha t will be the great thing about the cmp thing... Nothing to gets embarrassed about cause it will be most people's first time in a shifter.


Shifter karts? I might come down just for that even if I don't run the track event.

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lunch? wow, shades of Chin / TrackQuest. :twisted:

i might be up for just friday on the kart track. never been in a kart. i hear it's brutal.


It certainly won't be a hoity-toity banquet affair... but I might bring a cold platter from the grocery store or something :wink:

Right now, I'm trying to generate/gauge interest (the date is reserved) and I hope once we get a more defined format that you'll still be interested

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Stacy King wrote:
Jason Tower wrote:
presumably, the regular vir karts are 9hp clutchless, i assume that's what we're using next week. i'd love to try a shifter kart one of these days but i'd probably embarrass myself.


And tha t will be the great thing about the cmp thing... Nothing to gets embarrassed about cause it will be most people's first time in a shifter.


Just to double confirm - these ARE shifter karts? The "standard" rentals we used at/after the last track event down there were standard (non-shifter) models, but maybe they have 2 sets of rental karts? I'm up for it either way, but would definitely be in for the challenge of a shifter kart....

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Dustin Fredrickson wrote:
Stacy King wrote:
Jason Tower wrote:
presumably, the regular vir karts are 9hp clutchless, i assume that's what we're using next week. i'd love to try a shifter kart one of these days but i'd probably embarrass myself.


And tha t will be the great thing about the cmp thing... Nothing to gets embarrassed about cause it will be most people's first time in a shifter.


Just to double confirm - these ARE shifter karts? The "standard" rentals we used at/after the last track event down there were standard (non-shifter) models, but maybe they have 2 sets of rental karts? I'm up for it either way, but would definitely be in for the challenge of a shifter kart....


I'm awaiting confirmation now. I was going by what is shown on the website, so I very well could be mistaken.

So this is what is on CMP's home page:
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• We now have rental/concession karts available! The rental karts are Birel N-35 Rock karts with 9 HP Honda engines. The price is $20 for 10 minutes of track time. Must be at least 12 years of age to drive the rental karts.

I'm no kart expert, but that does not sound like a shifter kart :x

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Ok... So the karts are not shifter karts... They are Birel rental karts with Honda 9 horsepower engines on them. They have a top speed of 50 MPH, so they should still be a blast on cmp's kart track

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Stacy King wrote:
Ok... So the karts are not shifter karts... They are Birel rental karts with Honda 9 horsepower engines on them. They have a top speed of 50 MPH, so they should still be a blast on cmp's kart track


Absolutely. We ran these karts last fall... in short, between the great, open track and the more powerful karts, it's a huge step over Rush Hour.

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