This is spot on! The kids aren’t the problem. It’s the parent’s spending crazy money and then getting frustrated when their kids don’t win, or parent’s getting frustrated because “that kid only wins because his parents have money . . . .
I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed a kid yell at a race director or flag person.
That is fascinating @Ruppdartkart. It was posted to YouTube 2 days ago. (fair warning - NSFW language ensues)
The video shows a group that are the very definition of grassroots - a handful of adults who collectively know very little about anything that came before and just ‘concentrate on what they are trying to achieve than worrying about all the details.’ Real world evidence that ‘knowing too much’ can actually be a detriment sometimes, and that by tossing out ‘rulebook of standard/industry concerns and considerations’ something completely new and unbeholden to all of that can come to exist.
It’s simultaneously a current example of the high level of interest in adult-centric karting that exists when a viable option is presented.
That this specific way of doing adult karting might not be attractive to a particular person isn’t the point. The point is that the very same principles/formula which got this off the ground can be used in a wide variety of ways, as well as that there are a lot more possibilities in the world than ‘conventional wisdom’ allows. Thanks for posting.
I concur to this. Things have to be put on a scale as always, but hearing everyone’s oppinion on here did guide me through a couple of things back at work.
If you have any contact with IAME employees, can you ask them to release their rental 4 stroke please ? Hehe
I have a lot of contacts with IAME employees, including Rovelli, the owner.
I think they’re busy making sure their new homologations will perform 
They have this engine on the shelf since 2020, I swear I cant take Honda GX engines inconsistencies anymore 
The only reason they designed the engine was concerning the possible ban of 2-cycle racing engines due to emissions. They built the prototype but I believe it was a bit heavy and they had issues sourcing timing belts for their design. 4-cycle engines are much more expensive to produce so it’s been shelved ever since.
Why not use TKM’s offering?