Explaining Karting To Your Neighbors

My initial thought is to group the kart types and not go into too much detail. They don’t need to know about every little nuance, chassis color or motor package at the outset. Just the general types of karts. We want to avoid confusing people and spend more time having them talk and us listen…

Let’s assume we’re talking only about sprint racing for now…

One short video could cover the basic kart “groups”

4 Cycle (basically 206)
TaG
Shifter

At this point, there’s no reason to go into outliers, keep it simple. Next, if you want you could make a video for each group that goes into specifics.

I think it would also be interesting to add specs that compare performance a given kart “group” with both a similar well known road car and a race car.

Points could include:

  • Power to Weight Ratio (including driver)
  • Typical Entry fee or test fee
  • Cost of a set of tires
  • Number Of tracks available within 250miles of NorCal

So for a 206 you could compare to Spec Miata for a racecar (bit of a stretch though), not sure on a road, some sort of hot hatch I guess. Then do same for TaG and Shifter.

Maybe someone else has done some work on comparisons…

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