Drives available in a 24hr Karting race
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Hi all,
Hopefully this doesn't break any rules, but a team I am running has seat time available in the upcoming BUKC 24 hour race. Despite it being organised by the BUKC, you don't need to be a student to compete - and it is in normal 4-stroke Prokarts rather than the Club100 machinery.
The race is the 18th-19 June (though most of us will be arriving in the evening on Friday 17) at Teesside Autodrome, Sunderland. Our team (Liverpool B - Team Yellow Submarine) has 11 hours of seat time left to fill - you don't need to be an ace driver (because most of us aren't either), as long as you have some prior karting experience and know what a racing line is. We are charging £58.33 per hour (cost price to us) with a minimum buy-in of 2hours.
If you're interested, please can you add yourself to the pinned discussion here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/liv.bukc/
or if you don't do Facebook, let me know and I'll PM you further details
Hopefully this doesn't break any rules, but a team I am running has seat time available in the upcoming BUKC 24 hour race. Despite it being organised by the BUKC, you don't need to be a student to compete - and it is in normal 4-stroke Prokarts rather than the Club100 machinery.
The race is the 18th-19 June (though most of us will be arriving in the evening on Friday 17) at Teesside Autodrome, Sunderland. Our team (Liverpool B - Team Yellow Submarine) has 11 hours of seat time left to fill - you don't need to be an ace driver (because most of us aren't either), as long as you have some prior karting experience and know what a racing line is. We are charging £58.33 per hour (cost price to us) with a minimum buy-in of 2hours.
If you're interested, please can you add yourself to the pinned discussion here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/liv.bukc/
or if you don't do Facebook, let me know and I'll PM you further details
ribiero said:
no official name yet as linup's 90% confirmed.
Undecided on putting a hire entry in (didn't you guys do the 160 hire's last year) or putting an owner driver entry in, I had friends who did the bukc 24 and said reliability of the hirefleet wasn't great.
Hmm, Undecided on putting a hire entry in (didn't you guys do the 160 hire's last year) or putting an owner driver entry in, I had friends who did the bukc 24 and said reliability of the hirefleet wasn't great.
I've ran in both club hire x1 and standard hire x2.
We usually run two teams.
The more experienced team tended to have no issues. The big lads ran in 'club hire' last year and had a mare. Hardly a session with our some sort of mechanical. I think they snapped a yolke clean off the chassis.
I put it down to how you drive them. Teeside is a brutal circuit with some savage curbs it's very tempting to smash. My personal approach is to go 50/50, Not the most aggressive curb hopping line possible to try and save the kart a bit. You don't want a mechanical and 15 mins in the pits to save a few tenths.
The only issue we had last year was a lad knocked the choke during the driver change. It was in the middle of the night and someone had wandered off for a dump with the 3G dongle in his pocket so there was no data in the pit. Our driver was running well off the pace for a good 30 mins before we realised what was going on and pulled him back in. Ah well.
Nothing wrong with the kart at all.
We were running quicker than a lot of the club hire karts last year. Picking up the plate for the fastest hire lap. Think that ruffled a few feathers and the standard hire class has been binned this year. They've got 60 clubs instead.
I race 2 stroke owner driver and given the choice i'd run a hire kart all day at the 24. The owner drover teams are of a pretty high standard, Race trucks, the lot. You'd need to have a very nice set up to be in with a sniff. On the hire karts it's a level playing field to an extent. They are all pretty will prepared and actually not bad at all to drive for a big heavy 4 banger.
Cant wait for this year!
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