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[quote=OSFlanker]But the Italian, who has also competed in non-championship rallies in Italy, did not make it through the first day.
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For some reason I remember him not making it far through the first stage. 🙂I just read his autobiography (a bit odd all these sports heros coming out with books well before they retire), interesting read and included stuff about his rallying. The crash was very much expected as he apparantly always crashes out on his debut in a new series/bike/car/etc… including a spin in the Ferrari F1 test.
[quote=alvinkhorfire]About going to Shah Alam, my Dad has stopped me from going back to Shah Alam. The reasons are it is not safe for me to be there.
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Gangsters are that bad-ass in Shah-Alam then or are you saying that the karting isn’t safe? I’d say the drive to shah-alam is more dangerous than karting at shah-alam, crossing a road on foot in the city is more dangerous than karting at shah-alam.It’s been a good 6 months since I’ve last driven at shah-alam so I might not remember everything correctly… but the last curb out of the chicane can be used, the first two can be run over but they are so big that it’s almost down to luck if you get a lucky bounce that’ll be faster than going around them – so not worth driving over really. Otherwise the slow left-hander going onto the back straight can be driven over – but not much gain to be made – it’s just one you don’t have to watch out for. The last corner can also be cut a tiny bit, but rather stay off it imo :).
I’ve already started on track guides similar to the speedway plus guide for both shah-alam and sepang but it’ll be a few weeks before I get fully into them and post them onto kartingmalaysia.com.
Looks like I might have to re-write some of it soon ’cause they’ve been resurfacing the track this week :).
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Mikko will the better bet at Elite, so go bug him….he he he
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Unless Mikko wanna show us how to kart at Elite
[/quote]In response to the two above comments check out my just completed “Speedway PLUS Track Guide”. Let me know what you guys think of it, and also if there are any errors (typo, grammatical, or otherwise).
[quote=sabelt]mikko, where i can find more info about British Standard Institution? Couldnt see them any,
Homologation: BSI red label 6658-85 Type A/FR. what kind of test do they made with 6658-85?[/quote]
check here for a comparison of the bike standards Snell M2000, BSI 6658-85 Type A, DOT, and EN22-05.
just have a read around the articles on the Snell website, I remember spending hours on that site going through the different stuff, quite interesting :).
[quote=naza][quote=sabelt]Mikko: are u the mikko working with BELL helmet malaysia?
For those who wants to get a SNELL certified, ensure you buy those with SA2005 helmet or else FIA would no longer accepting race drivers to use SA2000 helmets.
lots of vendors clearing up SA2000 at very reasonable price (but still not very reasonable to me)
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….and here is what the recently completed Malaysian ROK series says:
Note:
Only the following helmet standards are acceptable:
• Snell Foundation 1990-SA, 1995-SA, K-98 and SA2000 (USA)Any idea when is the cut off date for SA 2000 certified hemets…….haiyah! rugi woh![/quote]
Yeah bell helmets from me :)….
SA2000 can be used in pretty much any FIA car racing series worldwide until end 2010, and in Malaysian series for karting and cars most likely easily until 2015, so buying a SA2000 helmet now is not a problem, no point worrying about a cut-off date. The first SA2005 became available late last year.
The difference in actual requirements for a helmet to pass the certification for SA2000 and SA2005 for the helmets is very small, you can read about it on the smf website in detail.
The most important thing in helmet safety though is helmet FIT. I’ve seen on a few occasion perfectly good quality helmets (ARAI GP5 and SPARCO) fly off karter’s heads in a crash because they were too big (strap was done up). A poorly fitting FIA-8860 (F1 driver requirement, standard worked out with SNELL) will be worse than a perfect fit cheapo aral, skoei, etc helmet. Having said that you won’t know what a “perfect fit” helmet is until you’ve tried a good quality helmet that fits your head shape and is your size.
[quote=naza][quote=ST]Bought a cheapo helmet last week from Bali that has a Snell M2000 and DOT sticker on it… does that mean it is not even Snell 85?
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Snell M2000?…..god forbid, what is that?[/quote]Snell M2000 is the motorbike certification, M for motorbike. For car racing you’re looking at SA2000/2005 helmets, SA for Special Application.
M2000 is approved for use in some karting/autocross categories in some countries.
If it was a “cheapo” helmet – anything under a few hundred ringgit then I VERY much doubt it is genuinely SNELL certified. What brand/model is it? You can find all the helemts that are certified M2000 HERE.
Check inside the helmet/on the chin strap etc. to see if it has a SNELL sticker.
[quote=sabelt]with 30,000.00 MYR = 6,396.38 EUR
there’s no way you could survive to race in EU kart championship.
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true… if you’re going to do a full season of proper karting in europe you’re looking at 100,000 EUR +.Proper karting meaning a few top-level championships and testing a 3 times a week or more.
And check out smf.org for a lot more info on SNELL.
Jules: with BELL helmets Taymen paintjobs start from about RM800. :)… or really high quality paintjobs by BELL Racing Europe from RM1800 (following FIA guidelines to the T).
I’d say the main thing to note is that no matter what kart you are driving – 80cc fun kart, 100cc piston port, Formula A, Rotax Max, 125cc shifter kart – the basics apply to all of them.
Smooth and minimal steering input, smooth getting on and off the brakes, smooth on and off the throttle. Unwind steering as soon as possible after apex, use all the track, get on the power early. These are far more important than getting caught up on how one should be driven differently from the other.
With more power you can throw a kart into slides a bit more mainly because if you get it slightly wrong the penalty isn’t as great as in a slow fun-kart. “Slides” as in barely noticeable oversteer to rotate the kart around a hairpin for example.
As for the curbs at Shah-Alam… there are a few that you can use without problems. Some I’d use only in qualifying or during a race if I really have to push, otherwise in a race it is too much of a risk to the chain to bounce over curbs and it wears down/overheats tyres – of course it depends if there is only a tiny advantage from using a curb or if it can really save you time.
At the Speedway Plus(elite) track more curbs are usable now after partial resurfacing than before, and some have always been usable, and very much worth using. There is still one that really should be avoided though (up-hill right hander that leads into the last section).
At sepang using the curbs is wicked.. the only curbs that don’t really work are the inside curb of the last corner, and maybe the inside curb of the left-hand T2 (or T3 depending on how you count the turns).
I have a ~4 year old mike wilson chassis with rotax 125cc engine. Hasn’t been started in about 6 months. Needs new battery, probably a bit of brake repair, engine should run ok but not fast. Interested?
You can find it here. I need to get updated info for the track from Razman. It was going to be run by swiss hutless for a while but now kartquest.
Not sure what you mean by “are they too logical”?
There have been really good female racers, among them a European Karting champion for example.
The way I see it though is that the chances of a woman becoming a formula 1 champ are a lot worse than a guy, not because of talent, but because of simple numbers, there are probably close to 100 times more guys that get involved in motor racing than woman. The chances of one of those 1% of racers that are women being the top 0.1% of race drivers is a lot worse than the guys being the top.
