C.Skowron
February 28, 2019, 12:34am
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Not to drag up an older topic, and toot my own horn, but this unfortunate statement ties into my reply to Greg Wright in his previous thread from a few weeks ago:
I would like to hear some comments about what I see as being a crisis in the future for our sport. It has occurred to me that most of the lifers in the sport, the ones that have always been there, the ones that many rely on for sage advice are going to age out.
These are the people that have ground it out year after year seemingly forever motivated by pure love for the sport. Nearly all of them are now in their 60s and 70s.Along with myself there’s John Copeland (Fox Valley Kart), Jerry Cole (M…
My reply:
I think there will be others that will eventually take over as the “old sages” of the sport. However, what segment of the sport these future gurus represent is another question.
Kart racing here has seen a shift in culture from one individual pitting from the back of a pickup truck (or small trailer), to big-tent, tractor-trailer, high-$$$, professional layouts. That may be a broad generalization, but anyone in the sport of karting for a while has seen a change.
One would assume the change in …