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In conclusion, I will join K1 only when I own my own kart or by lease to purchase.
Feekey, can rent your mechanics ah?
[quote=naza]Hopefully, it will turn out to be in your favour bro!………for mat remkarts sake…..hehehe.[/quote]
Keeping my fingers cross!
[quote=saa73] had to include in for Patrick’s sake! this would be his “farewell” before leaving for Vietnam[/quote]
There might be changes in plan here, hope to know by TT time.
[quote=yazidm]Adding K1 Time Trial to the collection
[/quote]It is Heat 1.
I don’t know whether it is my PC or the streamyx line or the video server is bad. For me, it takes a long time to download from zippyvideos but very much faster on youtube.
[quote=mikko]one possibility could be that your front pressures were too low and only got up to the proper pressures during the longer race?
[/quote]One of the possibility. Or the kart wheel alignment setting is not right.
[quote=Jules]Mikko,
I dun think any of the drivers checked their own tyres so let’s hope this improves……which is what K1 is all about – learning the technicals in kart preparation as well as driving.[/quote]For me I’ll try to remember to do that in future. Tend to forget when have to see that the other races are organised and rushed back to get ready for the ride.
Anorther problem is no experience on the characteristic of these tyres.[quote=Jules]EVERYONE will have brake problems – ask ALVIN JOSEPH. He drives a private kart as well and for your info, I had brake issues too. BUT the explanation is simple – it’s the hard compound tyres needing an early brake application.[/quote]
I don’t know about others but what i face is failure on the brakes and not due to lack of grip by the tyres. When I took the kart out for the time trial, there was practically only 30-40% braking efficiency. I have this habit of always warming the brakes on my outlap and when I hit the brakes on the end of the straight, the kart didn’t slow down at all. I took the kart in to check on the 2nd lap and when the mechanics tested the brakes by pressing the lever of the brakes and pulling the kart, the kart still move slightly.They did nothing and told me just to warm-up the brakes more. It is just like putting hard compound local brake pads on your japaneses car instead of the softer/medium compound japanese brake pads.
Correct if I’m wrong, I believe Alvin has not driven his kart for awhile and it should not be a surprise if his kart is not in tip-top condition.
[quote=Jules]Once again – the issue of differing performance of private vs rental karts is raised and I can only say it wun go away until you all race your own kart. I can say for now – the difference you see in speed or lap times is very driver related, less machine cos the tyres will level out any huge power advantage you have.[/quote]
Yup, as I mentioned in the early threads that I find it boiled down to the experience of the drivers rather than kart.
It is not easy to gain much experience if just depending on rental kart only. Moreover the 125cc rental kart for walk-in practise is not cheap. If I’m not wrong, the rental rate is RM180/- for 10 minutes. You could be practising the whole day on private kart excluding the tyre cost.
MORAL of the story : Get your OWN kart and fiddle with it.
[quote=saa73]i had no trouble with my kart’s power, but the brakes were awful. I was pumping at it as soon as I approached the start/finish line…[/quote]
Mine too. Apart from the start/finish line, I have to brake hard just immediately after the straight kink or else I’ll end up on someone’s rear end or overshoot the right corner and the brake pads take some time to warm-up.
For me, I find it a fantastic event (eventhough we were a little indecisive to run the race or not due to the changing weather). What more when we have 13 or 14 drivers competing all at one go, this is how I find racing should be.
The format of time trial, Heat 1 & 2 + final is agreeable. Thanks to Jules input from his vast experience in racing. Somehow, I would prefer 12 laps for Heat 1 & 2 and 15 laps for Final becos I find the races ended too quickly.
Somehow I noticed there is quite a big difference in lap speed between private own karts & rental karts. I boiled it down more to driver’s experience that make the difference.
For me, the kart that I got somehow doesn’t fit me well, it is not the kart that I tested earlier. The seating is slightly too short (more like ladies size kart) and very weak brakes. (I overshot some of the apex despite stomping on the brakes) Personally I find these problems wouldn’t exist with privately owned karts and the competition will be very much closer.
How could we prevent the mix-up of tested karts in future?Just like to find out, as all are on the same type of tyres, did you experienced bad understeering? Is it the characteristic of the tyre grade?
Mine did, It only got slightly better during the 2nd half of the final race when the tyres are nicely scrubbed & warmed up.RM500/- is a bit steep, RM450/- will be fine considering that the tyres could be used for 2 racing weekends.
Just like to have a small feedback survey from the private kart drivers & rental kart drivers who took part on 2 Dec 06.
What is your finding of the race? Is it how the K1 series suppose to be? Rental kart driver finding of the rental karts? Pricing?
Feel free to post any other questions as I believe K1 could improve with the bugbears (if any) are solved.
[quote=saa73]Mega Enduro proposed dates:
#1 – 27th Jan, 2007 (too close to KART round 2 – one week) [color=red](saa73 says…may have to cancel this round then…start in March..too many Saturdays taken up by holidays, Awal Muharram/CNY, etc..until March)[/color]
#2 – 24th March, 2007 (too close to F1 ~ need money ~ – one week, perhaps 17 Mar is better?) [color=red](saa73 says…this is 2 weeks before F1 laa..F1 is April 6-8)[/color]
#3 – 19th May, 2007 – ok
#4 – 21 July, 2007 – ok
#5 – 8 Sept, 2007 (too close to KART round 9 – one week, prefer 18 August) [color=red](saa73 says…Aug 18 is beginning of school hols….u folks with kids may not want to join in…affects you Fazz, more than me! heh heh..)[/color]#6 – 4 Nov, 2007 (too close to KART round 10 – one week, prefer 10 Nov) [color=red](saa73 says…this may be long weekend due to Deepavali dey!…..u folks might want to go open house, balik kampung, etc..)[/color]
[/quote]Haiee, tallewali (headache)[IMG]http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l34/nohadv6/Icons/017scratchhead.gif[/IMG]
[quote=saa73]Vietnam not so far what…Air Asia tickets very cheap…last time our pilot flew in from Vienna to join a race…
[/quote]Problem is I’m not around Ho Chi Minh area but at 100km south of Danang.
See if I can set-up viet-KART there.
[quote=TheFazz]pls review. this is my first cut. there may be some issues with regards to some of these dates once you start to factor in the Mega Enduro dates. I need some proposals on the Mega Enduro dates as well.
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http://www.thefazz.com/me%5B/quote%5DThese 5 months are out of question.
CNY on 18-19 Feb 06
Japan GT on 22-24 June weekend.
MME on 24-26 August weekend
Puasa month from 14 Sept
MotoGP on 19-21 Oct weekend
