Gift
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Ah, so it won’t work as designed with the existing nosecone!
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Interesting cutouts ahead of the front tire, probably to try to create some outwash.
of course. Gotta keep spending 
Karts have the aerodynamics of a brick so anything you can do to move air around the driver with your frontal area is going to help. Honestly, moving the intake into the bumper and re-energizing it out the panel should be beneficial. Will it make a difference? Probably will you be able to see that difference in quantifiable ways on track? I doubt it.
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Boy, I can’t wait to catch those corner vents of the nose on someone’s rear bumper or barrier, rip a giant hole in my nose, and throw it in the trash…
I will not run this by choice unless someone can point to tangible improvements. I just bought a 507 fairing to try against my 508. For me, I think the 508 is throwing air right at my helmet causing terrible buffeting if the conditions are right.
If that doesn’t work I’m going to try and build a gurney flap to try and kick the air over my helmet.
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It’s better with graphics but the blunt edge on the front of fairing I don’t like. It would also look weird if it extended out more though also.
All I see is kids whose parents*are not well off thinking why their kart isn’t ‘up-to-date’ with all the ‘aero’. Dreadful stain on karting.
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On a side note, looks like Birel(freeline) finally updated their side pods.
I think that’s a bit hyperbolic. If you are a parent and you’re so dumb that you think a piece of plastic is a better investment than driver coaching or a set of new tires, that failure is on you.
Aren’t you the same Alan Dove who wants us to race 100cc engines that explode randomly as a “feature”? 
Surely working-class parents would lament that as well.
Still not everyone runs the M7 fairing, so I don’t think these aero pieces are the silver bullet that people assume they need to win.
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Good hassle vs bad hassle.
The 100cc creates depreciatory environment, has a ‘happy to be out there’ factor, sustains a functioning media that promotes the sport and a whole plethora of other alchemic things that come together. So it’s a false equivalence if we want to get into the weeds on it. Those days are long gone anyway though. I think Conspicuous Consumption is a ever growing force in the sport. Certainly at the World Champs the 99% of the paddock was that.
My specific issue here is that these are homologated items that only exist for safety purposes. They aren’t part of what a ‘kart’ is. They were an addition specifically mandated by the governance. Like the Halo in F1. That’s the sole purpose. That’s why we have bodywork. The Nassau doesn’t, as far as I can tell, even go under any safety testing but part of the overall bodywork mandate.
So you have a compulsory device that’s protected by homologation. That means they an be priced way higher than usual.
So the FIA have come in and said “right you have to have bodywork for safety BUT you also will have to spend money because we’re going to allow aero development”. it’s not like Superkarts where anyone, in theory, can make their own aero kits.
it’s not hyperbolic because it’s a slow drip of extra costs that add nothing to the experience. There’s nothing positively alchemic about them.
Maybe it’s better in person. I’m just glad they finally updated the side pods. I just need those in black. I’ll hold off getting the nose/number panel until I get a new chassis or obliterate mine.
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Whale shark complete with gills!
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I don’t mind the fairing. I quite like the new livery.
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I’ll never unsee the whale shark
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