Sunday, February 24, 2008

Incredible Kart Video

I've gone whole hog YouTube! There is no shortage of videos of anything you might be interested in.




Try these for some wicked kart video.




1st up is some onboard of some 250cc superkarts in Great Britain on the Isle of Man. Some of you , I'm sure, have heard about the Isle of Man trials, mostly motorcycle (this is the first time I've seen kart video), but the whole Island shuts down all traffic for one weekend every year and the superbikes are insanely fast.




These superkarts are racing on a city circuit, don't know the city! With the speeds they're carrying, one loose moment and...you're toast.




Isle of Man is a testament to speed and cojones. When you get to you tube, look at related videos, some of the isle of man wrecks are the nastiest.


Below is a 250cc superkart with a top speed of around 140 mph. It is driven by Kevin Schwantz, world superbike champ in 1993. He holds the lap record at Laguna Seca of 1:23:875 with an average speed of 100.864 mph. By contrast, the superbike lap record is held by Troy Bayliss on a Ducate of 1:24:833 in 2002.
This link is a new motor being tested in the UK. The drivers are agog at the power and the compact design is significant.
Finally here is a compilation of some knarly kart wrecks set to some cool Limp Bizkit. The impact at about 1:00 into the video is brutal. That's competition near the top.

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