Kart Racing

Eckhart von Glan · Mar 30, 2011

amazing, we should start sth. like this at German schools, too. Who pays for the carts and for training (after all you need to book a track, don't you?) Is that all done by sponsorship or donations? Fascinating.

Fredrik Arbegard · Mar 30, 2011

I read about that idea and I was very fascinated about it and the fact that it seems to genereate so many teams from different schools.
If we have extra time on one of my karting meetings I will bring this up as it could be a good recruiting ground for us in the future.

ufunacaoenn · Mar 30, 2011

Fredrik Arbegard said:
I read about that idea and I was very fascinated about it and the fact that it seems to genereate so many teams from different schools.
If we have extra time on one of my karting meetings I will bring this up as it could be a good recruiting ground for us in the future.

Fredrik bring it up for Gymnasium because the kids in Gymnasiums are quite mature while the once's below aren't that mature on this materes.

(Just a good argument plus my chans to win something.

)

Austin Jordan · Mar 31, 2011

Georgios Davakos said:
Is that a KF3 you are driving Austin?

I go for Yamaha this year just because I don't have the time to learn a new class and chassi. Btw Fredrik if you will drive a CRG then put some Swiss Hutless stickers on to create a wanna be Swiss Hutless kart.

no it's a parilla leopard or a iame. fastest class i ever drove. i think the schools thing can really bring new talent to america. only thing is it's hard to win if you're shy of money

Ross Balfour · Mar 31, 2011

Eckhart von Glan said:
amazing, we should start sth. like this at German schools, too. Who pays for the carts and for training (after all you need to book a track, don't you?) Is that all done by sponsorship or donations? Fascinating.

Yeah it's a great idea for people who don't want to pile heaps of money into karting (like me.. I want to save up for my own car and drive it on the roads

) basically what my school did was hold £40 entry lists for the school qualifyiers - which is 6 races each for everyone. The top 9 guys went through to the regionals and didn't need to pay and extra than the original £40 (Where our team won

) and top 3 to the nationals also no extra pay (where our team won too) then onto the grand finals in the UK - which did cost a fair bit but just becuase the flights are amazingly expensive. The carts are provided by the track itself and is included in the costs.

Fredrik Arbegard · Mar 31, 2011

Austin Jordan said:
no it's a parilla leopard or a iame. fastest class i ever drove. i think the schools thing can really bring new talent to america. only thing is it's hard to win if you're shy of money

We use the parilla leopard for the 'old mans class' in Sweden.
Here it's called Sport 2000.
We also have a new class called Formula Production which runs with Parilla X30 and Vortex ROK engines.

William Levesque · Mar 31, 2011

There is also Formula Vee which is way less expensive than Karting

Austin Jordan · Apr 4, 2011

not the weekend i wanted. struggled saturday on my kpp and had to settle with last. sunday i qualified second by .04 0f a second over third. pre final i went back 4th after a bad start because of the easy karts that had to start ahead of us. final a driver not very good passed me down the straight and the corner right before i was gonna pass him he had a good gap and in one corner i got it up really fast and had no where to go but on top of him knocking me out.

Austin Jordan · Apr 5, 2011

also some good but more bad news happened this weekend. the driver 5 points behind me in the north florida rotax raced the fkcs this weekend in tag jr and fliped in turn 2 breaking something nearthe collar bone (collateral or something like that). He's out for 3 months taking him out of contention even though my motor was the reason he was so close. very hard to hear and see espeacialy when you know them. the little good is i'm now locked a spot to the grand nationals in Utah for free. good to hear after how expensive it is to get in.

William Levesque · Apr 5, 2011

Nice job

I hope you'll have success in your career, any ideas on what you might go in in the future ?

Austin Jordan · Apr 5, 2011

my goal was indycar has there was a big opening to get into that but i talked to the team owner of ogp who said to run indycar cost 100 million. gonna look into what else is out there for a cheaper cost. once i go for it he'll be there to help out

Fredrik Arbegard · Apr 5, 2011

I've heard that the Star Mazda championship is abit cheaper: http://www.starmazda.com/

ufunacaoenn · Apr 5, 2011

Fredrik Arbegard said:
I've heard that the Star Mazda championship is abit cheaper: http://www.starmazda.com/

Or move to Sweden and do the Formula Renault 1.6 (I belive we still host our own little 1.6 series?)

Austin Jordan · Apr 5, 2011

usf2000 is 4 mil, star mazda is more than that but cheaper than indy lights. star mazda is indy car's second of three feeder series.

Ross Balfour · Apr 5, 2011

Austin Jordan said:
usf2000 is 4 mil, star mazda is more than that but cheaper than indy lights. star mazda is indy car's second of three feeder series.

My friend races in USF2000's this year, Wayne Boyd you call him he raced in British F3 last year but moved across to the states to race in that series, he loves it :thumb:

Austin Jordan · Apr 6, 2011

did he tell you if it was expensive or not. if i get in it, i'll have ogp's team owner helping me out. just have to get to the top (very very very close right now)

William Levesque · Apr 6, 2011

Well, at least you started from somewhere and you know the right people !

I'll have to start from nothing, I have a friend who's interested in participating with me in the Formula Vee Canadian Championship, so in a few years if everything works the way it should I might race over there

ufunacaoenn · Apr 6, 2011

William Levesque said:
Well, at least you started from somewhere and you know the right people !

I'll have to start from nothing, I have a friend who's interested in participating with me in the Formula Vee Canadian Championship, so in a few years if everything works the way it should I might race over there

You are not the only one starting from nothing.

I am hoping this year to be at my best on all karting races because two year ago I got an invite to test drive a formula renault 1.6 and I have to say no due to school. (life is a bi***) But if I can manage better results this year and get the same invite I will do the test although it costed around 1 200€.

Austin Jordan · Apr 6, 2011

yeah really i started with nothing but after years of work i got to be really good and trust the right people.

Ross Balfour · Apr 6, 2011

Austin Jordan said:
did he tell you if it was expensive or not. if i get in it, i'll have ogp's team owner helping me out. just have to get to the top (very very very close right now)

He's sponsored by DHL so the funds are paid for him: