The UK national karting scene couldn’t make it work and drew only a handful to their national events and eventually dropped it. What happens when you homologate an engine package and you find out 2 months down the road that the clutches are all burning up and failing, as was the case with KF? KF has not only failed here, but across the world. The homologation thing is nice, sometimes. I think you’re pretty much preaching to the choir here. Just my opinion but I would interested to hear what everyone else thinks.
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It also runs very hard tires which is what you want at club racing and recreational level not what you want from national class racing.Īnd then we come to shifters and yes the Honda is not a problem in certain areas of the USA we get great fields at club, regional and national level it grows year on year due to stability of the engine rule package but there will come a day that we will need to go KZ which fits in with the KF again don’t know when but its going to happen.īut one think I can say we need stable engines rules, we need different manufacturer engines to race one another if the sport is to grow one make series will take US karting back years and nobody will make any money to survive long term . Yes and we Rotax which in my opinion is a good starter and recreational class but was never designed to be used for running national series and apart from that when you run Rotax on a national basis you are continually changing parts due to the part of the month. If anyone has any interest in KF go look at the CIK website and there is allot of good info there on the KF engines on performance and reliability. HP on these engines are pretty close to US TAG classes as they stand now, so no really change in that other than we now have a engine that will have some value after 3 years.
If reliability is a concern we in the US could have ignition restrictor for the restricting of the RPM to help the reliability So be it KF or TAG you are going to spend money on servicing, and you should not have to sell for cents on the dollar due to no series to run it in. I know we are going to get that the cost buying and of running these will be more than the TAGS, but when you are traveling thousands of miles to compete in a national race there is no way you are not going to put a piston and ring and check the motor before you travel to these races. Yet today we can buy a KF engine which is a TAG in all reality which all engine manufactures make which can race against each other with homologation till 2021 which means no changes for next 6 years which would give us the karters some stability in what we are buying. the problem then is no way of competing one engine against another due to the different specs so this leads to one make series, this just leads to a dilution of the customer base and fields, no real national championship which leads to small fields and series collapse.
The tag motor engines are completely out of control there are no real fixed specs they all try to have the most power with less maintenance. Our family have been in karting at national level for 14 years and we have never seen the upheaval we have in karting today.Įvery kart engine manufacturer is creating there own series we the karters need to decide what series we want to follow this will probably entail purchasing a motor, all good and well as long as you pick a series that lasts more than a couple of years or we have another boat anchor.
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