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ABOUT 250
SUPERKARTS
0 - 100 in 3
seconds, speeds of 260km/h and an adrenaline rush that will leave
you breathless and shaking, this is 250 Superkart Racing.
Unfortunately it is the most under published form of motorsport in
South Africa,
250 Superkart
racing has been taking place at our South African circuits for
more than 30 years. With grown men squeezing their bodies
into a kart that is no more than an inch off the surface of the
track, climbing out with sore ribs and no wonder why. Speeds
in excess of 200 km/h and braking as late as possible, g-forces
that can only be described as out of this world. What could
be better?
With a power to
weight ration up there with the Formula 1's and the Indy cars, 250
Karting has been the starting point of a few of the current
Formula 1 drivers racing careers. These pocket rockets have
been clocked at 292km/h at the old A1 ring in Austria.
The current lap
record of 01:02:48 at Zwartkops is held by Veron Pappas in a
250 Formula K Superkart.
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NEWS |
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East London, 5th June 2010, race meeting. Report by
Shondor Benevento
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Hi Guys. Well well what a weekend..... So we arrived in East London
at about 6:30 am, and lets just say the weather didn't look great, a
bit of drizzle and wind made it fairly cold so it was off to the
wimpy for coffee and breakfast. Anyway lets get to the excitement. Everyone
started arriving at the track, some tired, some fresh but everyone
eager to get out onto the track for thier practice session including
myself. So kitted and ready to go. The green flag drops and WING
WING we're off, to find myself coming out of the corner and bang
thinking another kart has rear ended me, looking around i see no
other kart. So what could that have been?? Well lets just say brake
discs can explode! In the pits we discovered that my rear brake disc
had exploded and instantly my lip hit the floor. Thinking that my
weekend of racing was over. Trying to make a plan, my wife and best
friend organised a disc to be flown in Saturday morning from Jhb and
thank the man above (and of course my beautiful wife and simon) I
was back in. The disc arrived after qualifying so i went out not
getting a grid position. The rest of the guys did well. On pole was
Fabio followed by The Moore brothers and the rest of the guys. Race
one came quick nerves kicking in and everyone looking hungry for a
win, lights go out and WING WING we're off - 15 superkarts go racing
into the first corner, starting from the back meant I had some
serious work to do pushing hard I weaved myself into 5th position.
Will let you guys know on official standings, but if i remember 1st
went to Fabio 2nd went to Greg Farah and 3rd went to Stevin Levin
(well done mate) well done guys. Into the pits and it was caose
blown engines were being fixed or replaced due to the fact that
holding a 250twin at 14 000 rpm for so long tends to break engines
after a while. Anyway after all the work all the guys were ready to
go out for race two looking even more eager to get out. Holding 1st
gear at about 9500 rpm lights go out and were off hitting tunnel
vision at the end of the straight, hard on the breaks into the first
corner i managed to make up four or five places, pushing hard
gaining places, 5 laps down i here this sudden change in the exhaust
tone and power just dropping, i check my temp and its climbing.
(bummer) I'm out. The rest of the race went well for others, Fabio
cleaning up ( i mean this dude is on fire) taking 1st place. 2nd and
3rd places will update once i have official standings. Thanks to all
the guys who really made a effort to be there it really was a great
weekend, And a special thanks to Fabio for the transportation of the
karts. See you all soon next round, 19th June 2010 P.E Regards
Shondor Benevento AKA: Italian stallion # 48 |
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