FRESH.....karting thread

[LUCKY DAVE]

OK, as Jad suggested, here is a new thread, that's not so long.....yet.
The Hump Day Karting Series at K1 speed will continue this Wednesday evening at 6:30
Arrive and drive, all bumping/grinding included in the price.
Laughs guaranteed.

[SDGT3]

Do you guys go up the last Wednesday of each month? It's a long way from where I live, but during spring break I'd like to bring my 12 year old daughter to run with the group. She's raced real karts from the age of 5 and I'm sure she could do just fine, if not beat a couple of us that say...... .have a extra ballast on board ....

[LUCKY DAVE]

Peter, 12 years old is no problem. I've seen an 8 year old run there, and she was pretty fast. The more the merrier.

[mrondeau]

I just checked the calendar and there are no special events scheduled for tonight. Let's race!!

[LUCKY DAVE]

Well, we had a good time as usual.
This event was attended by two members who drove all the way from Ontario just to run with us, so for all of you that way "Carlsbad is too far from La Mesa" (or wherever) I say......WAAAAA
Our normal finishing order is "Damn, Mark beat me by .03 seconds....AGAIN! " and this outing was no different

[mrondeau]

Here are the results for this weeks Karting Challenge. We had a great time and thanks to Dave and Dan Hockett for making the trek down here from Ontario to play with us. I'm just beating Lucky Dave by a couple of hundredths each time. I know my days are numbered, but I won't go down without a fight (or at least try to spin him into the wall)

top times

date thursday, march 26, 2009 at 7:08 am
location k1car
track road
race type General Races
span this week


rank racer laptime date city
1 Nick Lloyd 28.98 24 March fallbrook
2 Raul Salazar 28.99 25 March escondido
3 Bill Groves 29.05 25 March Temecula
4 Mark Rondeau 29.07 25 March El Cajon
5 David Malmberg 29.10 25 March encinitas
6 Tony Castellano 29.13 25 March VISTA
7 Kirk Westerfield 29.15 23 March oceanside
8 Nathan Alvarez 29.36 25 March san diego
9 Dave Hockett 29.38 25 March Cucamonga
10 Brian Kagawa 29.40 25 March San Diego
11 Gabe Prieto 29.49 23 March Carlsbad
12 Jerry Bumpus 29.49 25 March ESCONDIDO
13 Jay Ruess 29.52 25 March Fontana
14 Josh Keeler 29.54 24 March OCEANSIDE
15 Jason Rhoades 29.54 25 March San Diego
16 George DeMarino 29.54 25 March Oceanside
17 John Schnepf 29.60 25 March Solana Beach
18 DAN HOCKETT 29.61 25 March UPLAND
19 james reid 29.63 25 March randallstown
20 Dennis Logashov 29.66 23 March oceanside
21 Kimma Curlee 29.69 25 March ramona
22 Eric Mazzetti 29.71 24 March valley center
23 Larry East 29.74 24 March Oceanside
24 steve kozar 29.74 25 March san marcos
25 Gene Potter 29.75 24 March la mesa
26 Larry Armi 29.79 25 March Del Mar
27 GUY BALOGH 29.79 25 March San Marcos
28 Tony Bennett 29.81 24 March Carlsbad
29 Waylen Quarles 29.85 23 March Lakeside
30 Victor Macedo 29.87 24 March san diego
31 andrew riggs 29.87 25 March San Diego
32 Erik Browarny 29.88 24 March lemon grove
33 Phillip Yim 29.89 23 March carlsbad
34 Tom Hansen 29.89 25 March Del Mar
35 dustin rhoades 29.94 25 March torrance
36 Brent Graham 29.94 25 March WILLIAMS LAKE
37 Sean Milliner 29.95 23 March Phoenix
38 Chris Sheiban 29.96 23 March carlsbad
39 Donnie Crutcher 29.97 24 March ridgecrest
40 Andrew Patron 29.97 25 March SAN MARCOS

[Cajundaddy]

Hey big fun guys! The local "home track hot shoes" showed us how karting is done but we still managed decent times for our first night at this track. I shaved a little every session. Maybe we will see you next month.

[SDGT3]

Hey guys,

It's spring break for the kiddies. I don't know if it's in the rotation, but is anyone going to K1 this Wednesday night?

[LUCKY DAVE]

We'll be there at 6:30 ready to do battle.

[LUCKY DAVE]

Tomorrow night at K1 kiddies......

[surfnchaz]

So for this event are you racing or just looking for the fastest one lap time?

[SDGT3]

So for this event are you racing or just looking for the fastest one lap time?

I went up to K1 for the 1st time a couple weeks ago with Mark R., Lucky Dave, Jerry B. and some others from PCASDR along with my brother and daughter and found out it's mostly for fastest timed lap. But the last race of the night we had 13 guys on track and naturally, it's hard if not impossible to get a clean lap in. Ironically it ended up being the most fun because no one could run on the ideal line. I tried my best to keep Dave behind me taking a defensive line, but he eventually gave me the NASCAR touch and go and spun me. That race was the most fun I've had in a long time and brought back a lot of memories.

[Erik K]

For These ultimatley we are going for who has the fastest time. But it is very easy an kinda fun to mix it up/bang it up with fellow PCA members or any one else on the track.

[SDGT3]

Erik, You remember those memories don't you?

[Erik K]

As if it were yesterday!! Mostly good with a handle full of drama race incident memories

K1 brings back most of my karting memories, but its not to easy to duplicate the feeling of going 70 mph plus side by side at the Q parking lot with SD karting, or the Banked turns at Cajon speedway.