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Track map is up!
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Interesting! I think everyone assumed it was going to be the Mont Tremblant layout, so itās good to see theyāve made some actual tweaks from that. Canāt wait to get on track! 
are you racing master shifter?
Yes, I will be! Racing with Factory Fury Motorsport aboard a GP chassis and TM R2 power.
Wish me luckā¦Iāll need it! Masters field will be Pro 2.0
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Awesome! Good luck! That class is big this year somehow. I will be under MPG side tent helpng out
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cant wait to watch! Master shifter is gonna be a fight thats for sure!
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Started my kart build up today. 
Will be in KA Senior (#993) as the sole representative for BestKart. Much better prepared this year, and with a full season of data and development we can hit the ground running this time.
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I look forward to reading your writeups as the weekend progresses!
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@tjkoyen - when I was listening to the ROK Vegas telecast the announcers mentioned how there are very few privateer participants anymore and itās āall about getting under one of the big team tents because data sharing is so vitalā. Being a privateer or a smaller team has always been a challenge, but I didnāt realize that it was becoming nearly extinct at the national level.
Is it really that uncommon at the national events, and if so what are your thoughts about the challenge of going against the grain as a single driver team?
āDad and ladā type privateer teams are really becoming pretty uncommon at national events. They still exist but 90% of the top drivers are all with a larger team. I think the data aspect has a big influence on it, as well as younger drivers being less involved in chassis setup.
I can do my own data, I know how to tune my carb, I can driver coach myself, my dad is a good wrench and I wrote the tuning guide for my chassisā¦ so surviving at a big event for me is pretty easy. For me the real benefits of a bigger team would just be having someone else on the same equipment for comparison and a more direct data set to look at. But for drivers who arenāt fluent in all those aspects, the team has all those benefits to offer.
Even when I have raced for bigger teams, my dad was still my mechanic for most events and we would do all our own tuning and everything.
Honestly one of the big benefits to a team besides the things listed above is the camaraderie and shared goal. Privateering is cool but it makes the weekend more fun if you have a team around you who shared the dayās ups and downs with you and you can discuss and laugh and hang out at the end of the day.
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Sorry to be pedantic, but most people are still āprivateersā. Teams still fit that criteria because they are customers of the factories. 
Thereās no direct manufacturer support.
We probably need to invent some nomenclature.
Many of the drivers in the big teams are arrive-and-drive; so they rent everything for the weekend including a hired mechanic. Regardless of what you refer to that as, itās a pretty big difference to someone doing it out their own little van/trailer.
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Exactly, which is why some new nomenclature is needed because they do technically count as arrive-and-drive privateers. They certainly arenāt factory drivers, and couldnāt be further from it.
Team Privateer
Solo Privateer
Factory
Does the trick
Track layout looks much better than last year, IMO. Good luck!! Canāt wait to watch and hear all about it.
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Looks much closer to it when you mirror one of the tracks.
This will be our first Supernats in mini. Free entry from being the TSRS champ!
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Of course, but Iād call mirroring a substantial change. Between that and the layout differences in the first sector I think it looks solid.
Oooh! Artsy! I like. Nice looking kart. Good luck!
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Please tell me you guys are bringing a spare chassis this time?
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We have two identical chassis this time, donāt worry!
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