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How ah if the instructor has not driven on the track before?
Guess the instructors might need a track familiarisation orientation run before becoming an instructor. Any programme planned for this?
Ramsey & Shaeran volunteering their car to be the instructor’s training car?
[quote=naza][quote=Nohad][quote=saa73][quote=Nohad]With regret having to give this event a miss. Will be driving up to Hatyai at noon on that day. [/quote]
Hat Yai? Meeting your other family ah?? heh heh…[/quote]To mandi bunga!
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Sawadee kap , long lai long lai abang Patrick…..selalu sangat ke Hatyai mandi bunga ha! kap kap!….hehehe![/quote]To make sure the team does well this weekend is one of the reason. 🙂
Soon Soon Lei Lei !
[quote=saa73][quote=Nohad]With regret having to give this event a miss. Will be driving up to Hatyai at noon on that day. [/quote]
Hat Yai? Meeting your other family ah?? heh heh…[/quote]To mandi bunga!
[quote=Nohad]Any my-karters going for the A1 Team Malaysia end of season party at Souled Out Cafe, Desa Sri Hartamas on 22 April 06 (12.00-15.00)?
I’m going with 3 of my kids.
Do register at info@a1teammalaysia.com.my if you are interested.
[/quote]Quote from Owen Leed at Pitstop website forum :
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“On Saturday 22 April 2006 A1 Team Malaysia will be hosting an “End of Season Party”.Venue: Souled Out Cafe, Sri Hartamas
Time: 12h00 (noon) to 15h00We will be running a guest list for the afternoon, so please email us at info@a1teammalaysia.com.my, with “Party” in the subject line and let us know if you will be attending as well as the names of any friends/girlfriends/boyfriends/husbands/wives/children you may bring.
Jack & Alex and the team will be delighted to catch up with you all following a dynamic and exciting first A1GP season.
Drinks and lunch time snacks will be on us.
Owen Leed
Commercial Director
A1 Team Malaysia”
UnquoteAny my-karters going for the A1 Team Malaysia end of season party at Souled Out Cafe, Desa Sri Hartamas on 22 April 06 (12.00-15.00)?
I’m going with 3 of my kids.
Do register at info@a1teammalaysia.com.my if you are interested.
Great congrats to Alex & A1 Team Malaysia.
[quote=OSFlanker]With 8 laps left he was around 4 sec behind with 8 power boost left. He still had the 8 power boost at the end of the race.[/quote]
I was thinking he was keeping the boosts for the last 6 laps (6 boost to get close to Thomas & 2 boost to overtake him) but that did not materialise. Apparently his tyres are shot.
Would love to volunteer here but need to check on the timing.
Looks like it would be from mid-morning to mid-afternoon. So far with this timing, I should be available.
Could we have the briefing this saturday (1 April 06) after the rd4 event? Any other time would be difficult for me as I will be travelling around Malaysia.btw, could I bring my son along for the charity event?
[quote=eravelly]Hello My-Karters,
I have organised a driving event at Sepang called High Performance Challenge (HPC) on April 8th from 9am to 1pm.
Brian E.[/quote]What is the cost like Brian?
[quote=TheFazz][quote=Nohad]To help Citykarting to improve the kart conditions, we need to provide a checklist of feedback to them to work on. In order for that to happen, we need the help of the karters to fill up the checklist of the kart they raced on after each race.
It is not good if only my-KART is providing the feedback report as City Karting shall develop the form for other rentor to fill up too.[/quote]How do we implement this? We need to develop this procedure properly.[/quote]
We shall develop a checklist form for each individual kart used. (We can somehow follow the concept prepared by Kartquest but with a little extra remarks such as the handling of the kart (understeering, oversteering, vibration, etc…), engine performance,brakes and so on) The technical adviser will mark down some the obvious defects prior to the race but the drivers will have to fill the feedback columns (if any problem) in order for the technical adviser to quickly inform the mechanics to work on the problem if possible.
I will try to work out a format for this.
[quote=TheFazz][quote=Nohad]IMHO, the most ideal race is to run K3 race with 11 karts max per heat and 8 karts max per heat for K2.[/quote]
Agreed. However, Citykarting had promised more karts precisely to allow us to run 15 karts in one heat.
[/quote]This is the same problem I faced during my one & only privately organised event. We were provided with 15 karts too and we ran 13 karts but a couple of the karts are basically sputtering around. The problem is at least 4~5 of the karts are not in ideal running condition.
On 80cc karts, I can basically live with a kart with a bit of poor handling (what can you expect from a rental kart which might have climbed up the tyre wall before) but not with a “lemon” engine. That practically kills your race. I can still remember seeing Tom Tan whistling away and tapping his fingers in rhythm with his whistling on the steering wheel when I overtook him during rd10 last year when he got a “lemon” kart.
It is OK for a total “freshie” as it might not make much of a difference to the person but it affects the top drivers who are basically fighting for every single championship point. The person will just go home with an empty feeling and will lose interest if these things keep going-on.Furthermore, sometime we have crashes in the race and that can sometime practically put a kart or a couple of karts out of action. If we are running full house, we are in danger of having no spare karts at all for some of the participants to participate if all the spare karts have been used up and broke down.
Overall, this brings back to co-operation of all participants to provide feedbacks on the kart you raced on, in order for the technical adviser & event director to feedback to the company providing the karts to action on it. Need more volunteers for this leh!
It might not be able to solve the problems on the current race but might minimise the problems for the future races.Somehow, I find the K2 100cc engines to be quite balanced out for all the karts except for the handling of some of the karts.
[quote=naza]Rd 3 was no different than previous rounds with respect to kart conditions…..totally unpredictable. You can win one round and lose the next. There were at least four or five k2 drivers who had to retire due to mechanical problems….problems that were avoidable…pity!
Granted these are rental karts, but the components above need to be checked and replaced anyway sometime…and all we need is citykarting to give mykart, a very good long term client, a little bit of premium treatment and check the 3 items before raceday.
My concern is that, too frequent of these avoidable mechanical failures could lead to more feelings of frustration from members and make them lose interest….hopefully not.
I suggest the Technical Director’s team (who?)to meet up with citykarting on an agreed date to discuss this issue.
[/quote]Yup, looks like CK need to overhaul their servicing strategy.
Kartquest improved their back-up after my-kART feedback to them the problems that we faced.
Looks like CK need to come up with customer satisfaction checklist and kart feedback checklist.
[quote=siewweng]”As for me, i had a frustrating day. Whilst Q1 went my way, Q2 was a heart breaker. After leading comfortably for much of the race, the kart failed on the very last lap with 5 turns to go.”
Fazz…looks like my bad omen went to u this race.bad luck!!
from the comments here, looks like it was a round to forget.
[/quote]For some maybe but not for me. This is the most interesting round for me so far this year. Was having a lot of dog fights from Q1 to final.
[quote=TheFazz]One thing that I will not do next time is run 15 karts in the K3 class without sufficient spares (at least 5).
[/quote]From my personal viewpoint, I know quite a few K3 drivers had a very frustrating day and to some extent to some K2 drivers too as there were no spare or just lousy karts available if one of the karts break down.
Moreover, some of the K3 karts are basically “lemon”. This can be very frustrating as you become non-competitive at all from the start but merely a passenger on the kart. This doesn’t go down well with any of the karters as the main reason we are there is to compete and to compete as evenly as possible. BUT we have to understand that we are running on rental karts and performance do varies from kart to kart.
I did spoke some of the mechanics regarding the tuning & handling of some of the karts and the feedback is they did tune up the karts to be as even as possible but as time goes on, they couldn’t be testing every kart as they are quite tied-up with the daily rental karts and some private karts.
To help Citykarting to improve the kart conditions, we need to provide a checklist of feedback to them to work on. In order for that to happen, we need the help of the karters to fill up the checklist of the kart they raced on after each race.
It is not good if only my-KART is providing the feedback report as City Karting shall develop the form for other rentor to fill up too.I do understand due to time constraint, we try to minimise the number of races as much as possible. But running without spare karts or very minimum spare karts is indeed running on a very thin wire. I know this as I did organised a private race before with 13 karts per heat and even with that we face having spare kart problems.
IMHO, the most ideal race is to run K3 race with 11 karts max per heat and 8 karts max per heat for K2.
The fiasco in the K3 Heat 1 lap chart recording is somehow directly related to the spare karts availability. Some of the karts are practically not in ideal running condition and the karters changed the kart before the race or during the race without informing the marshals somehow confused the lap charter and that resulted in the delay of starting the final race as race positions need to be sorted out slowly.
To avoid such confusion in the future, we will need 1 marshal at the pit to oversee the changing of karts and record the change of kart. The record to be provided to the lap charter at the end of the race.
At the start/finish line, a minimum of 3 marshals shall be available. 1 marshal to record the kart positions on each lap, 1 marshal to read out the kart number to lap charter marshal & 1 marshal to change the lap display + to look out for any distress kart + waving of chequred flag.
