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why do we need so many stewards on a club day. to many rules, we are a stater for motor sport, but seem to make it to hard and the costs are way to much,
what do you think
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Permalink Reply by Andre Elliot on -
You only need 3. If people are trying o get ratings you kinda need 3 at least depending on size of meeting. And even though it's just a club day, you do occaionally get issues result in a visit to the stewards room and you can't keep going if your Steward/s are in the room.
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Permalink Reply by Aarron Cunningham on -
I find it offensive that you refer to us as 'stater for motor sport'. (sic) We are a legitimate sport in our own right and saying that we are a starter or feeder for other motorsport diminshes what we are and what we all spend weekends doing. Are you going to look at a professional race car career? Am I?
The short answer is no.
In saying that we are getting a little to heavy on the the stewarding at events.
If you have an idea to make karting cheaper we would all love to hear it. We all want to see the sport become more accessible to everyone but unfortunately there has to be rules otherwise you would instead complain about the guy that can afford all carbon gear, 10 different motors that are all set up for different tracks.
The price of gear and petrol are set by outside forces unfortunately.
Where would you reduce the costs? Race day fees? licencing fees? Aftermarket equipment? Government funding for gokarts? Safety equipment? How would YOU reduce costs? This is the issue that we as members must tackle.
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Permalink Reply by Tracey Nielsen on -
accomodation is a big cost in travelling for karters. maybe clubs could start a list of people who are willing to billet karters for their club events. a lovely family let me stay with them when i travelled to taranaki. it made such a difference to my overall costs. and it was even better making new firends. we have 4 different families down here in ebop that are more than willing to put people up for the night. just a thought.
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Permalink Reply by Aarron Cunningham on
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Billeting crossed my mind too, I wrote a rather sarcastic thread on Karting New Zealand's page (really a couple of members from KS South - not to be confused with KSNZ) regarding it at the nationals and I had a thought this morning regarding billeting and getting a Racket 120 class up and running in Auckland. I regularly stay with friends when I travel
and in return have friends stay with us when we have big meetings in Auckland, (even though I live 40mins away from the tracks.) It allows me to spend money in other areas, say repairing a Yamaha Kart after putting myself into a wall at EBOP.
I hope to approach some people after Mt. Wellington's AGM in May about getting the ball rolling for this class. It will definitely help bring costs down to social and less serious kart racers. We need to nurture grass roots somehow - elite karting is very healthy in New Zealand at the moment with the shifter series and the RMC. In fact at the next Committee meeting I will bring billeting up!
Yes that thread was all over the place but it is early in the morning so deal with it :D
Aarron
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Permalink Reply by Tracey Nielsen on
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aaron, alot of peopel i speak to would like to travel to diiferent tracks a little further than normal, but the 4 hour travel there and 4 hours back makes it a very long day. if they could stay the night before this may mean more people would travel just little further to try a new track. to attend a club day they may not otherwise attend.
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Permalink Reply by Aarron Cunningham on
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As I said Tracey, 3 things on my mind at the moment are number colours, racket 120 and billeting. The latter two are more important but I need something frivolous to spend my time on too.
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Permalink Reply by Tracey Nielsen on
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good morning Aarron and everyone else to. i have been thinking more on the billeting possiblites. most clubs do not have time to sort this type of thing as they are already strectched just doing the normal club things. so to me we need a national data base for karters to join up . i am prepared to start the data base and get it up and running if more people think this is good idea and would use it.
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Permalink Reply by Aarron Cunningham on
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Perhaps get it attached to this site. Check out the couch surfers site, could give us some ideas.
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Permalink Reply by Graeme Moore on -
Tracey we could start a separate section here in MyKart as a trial if you want. Its a great idea, the cost of travel is a huge percentage of most folks budget just gets a bit hidden as doesn't get billed to you from the Club/Kart Shop/etc.
Aaron go strategic with your billeting. I like people like Teddy Bassick, I find he is great with a welding, frame straightening etc. Can be a bit heavy on the refreshment cabinet but well worth it
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Permalink Reply by Tracey Nielsen on
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awesome, sounds great. how do we start? the billeting part that is. would we be able to include it in the next kartsport email out to all the members so people would know about the page?
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Permalink Reply by Taylor & Simon BC on -
I'd second the idea of a new section on here. I am looking at travelling more with my son and the accommodation is certainly a $$ headache.
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Permalink Reply by Graeme Moore on
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New Section created where we can discuss travel billeting options for events around the country called: Travel
You find it as sub-tab under Discussions or Events HERE
Remember if you have a "Team" you can always start a Group which gives you ability to open access to that "Group" solely to your team or Club members. It effectively becomes a mini Mykart within the main site, but one you control and moderate.
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