British Indoor Karting Championship unveiled

[Killboy]

The only time weight is any advantage in a kart is during contact. Its the only reason I've done "reasonably" in the past.

[ridds]

At my local track one of the karts was 3 seconds off the pace....

Imagine getting that for your qualifying kart?

[seniorwibble]

No link to the organiser or track list...?

[wst]

I reckon the benchmark laptime will probably be attainable in open arrive-and-drive conditions (aka. full of people who've never sat in a kart before and are in the way) so am not too worried about the impact a "slow" kart will have.

Also not too concerned by weight. 20kg has literally less than a tenth of a second of impact at Teamsport Reading, assuming you are talented enough to drive differently to account for it. Source

[BenLowden]

seniorwibble said:

No link to the organiser or track list...?

Good point –  https://www.team-sport.co.uk/go-kart-racing-events...

Qualification hasn't started yet, but we'll update once we know more.

wst said:

I reckon the benchmark laptime will probably be attainable in open arrive-and-drive conditions (aka. full of people who've never sat in a kart before and are in the way) so am not too worried about the impact a "slow" kart will have.

Correct. So if you like going karting anyway, you can just go along for fun and if you find out you're in with a shot of getting through to the races, pay the £35 for the K-I licence. If not, you might still be the fastest on the PH leaderboard for your local circuit and win a prize anyway

[CanoeSniffer]

geeks said:

Alan Dove said:

"Unbelievably, the series is apparently the UK's first nationally recognised indoor karting competition and, as such, is set to garner a fair amount of attention during its debut season."

The British Rental Kart Championship has been going for nearly a decade.

I pointed this out above, however as good as the BRKC is, its not MSUK recognised, so in that regard, they are correct.

I’ve done the BRKC twice now, not by choice but due to being granted free entry for winning my local championship.

The talent there is unbelievable, the format and coverage is absolutely first class and it’s a beautifully run event.

But even by indoor standards, that track is terrible and though the kart parity is good the karts themselves are so gutless as to be joyless to drive. I’m absolutely baffled as to why such a great event that attracts top talent from across Europe is held at that venue.