Talk:Kart racing

message: What is the copyright status of that image?  
: The snapshot was taken by me in 2000, and I declare it public domain. --Boleslav Bobcik, Wednesday, May 29, 2002
By the way, this should probably be shifted to kart racing, the capitalized naming is against conventions. --user:Robert Merkel
All these leisure karting images on the page jarr with the actual content, should there be a leisure karting topic? --user:maryann
Isn't it ironic that the WORLD karting association or federation etc. ONLY govern the USA? Kartcrazy | Talk 22:35, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: General

message: What is the origin of the word "kart", (mis-)spelled with a "k"?  This isn't addressed anywhere in the article, and should be covered in the lead section or very early in the History section.—QuicksilverT @ 21:41, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This article should NOT be titled "Kart Racing" as a good deal of the content has nothing to do with racing, and "karting" is not necessarily racing.  A more generic "Go Kart" or "Kart" entry should contain much of this article.   TC 18:15, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: I added information on a drift kart track near me in Australia. Someone removed it as spam, but I thought it was worth putting on because it is quite unusual to have a dedicated drift racing track, and because it is a new thing, I didn't think it was quite popular enough to add "Drift" as a subsection. Please let me know what you guys think. --Sean deFaoite (talk) 00:12, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You can "drift" with any type of vehicle, this "information" doesn't introduce anything new to the article exept for a commercial link - Wikigi | talk to me | 07:13, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

text: Would you please point to a source mentioning this. I cannot find any information regarding a dedicated drift tracks on the website you posted earlier. If it cannot be sourced, your edit will have to be reverted again. Thanks - Wikigi | talk to me | 12:13, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

text: That short and single line is all I had already seen about it, more information was expected. Is it really a dedicated track? Are they using the same main short 400 m track for special drifting hours? etc.. - Wikigi | talk to me | 07:52, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikigi - you first say "I cannot find any information" and then you say "That short and single line is all I had already seen about it" - both of your statements can not be true. Since I feel that you are harassing me on my user talk page anyhow, I don't want to continue this discusion with you further. --Sean deFaoite (talk) 10:03, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: My question was "I cannot find any information regarding a dedicated drift tracks". I am still awaiting more information with regard to a dedicated drift track. If not confirmed, the information will be deleted from the article - Wikigi | talk to me | 03:37, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Article edited today - Wikigi | talk to me | 08:05, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Sean, you said yourself that the facility was using water and oil on the track, this argument is getting really silly now, bring evidence of a "dedicated" drift track to us or let go.. - Wikigi | talk to me | 07:19, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Very well. Thank you - Wikigi | talk to me | 14:53, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is nothing but spam for an amusement park in Victoria. No information there. Wikigi | talk to me | 08:04, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Added Drift track info in Indoor Karts

message: :Why is kartingextra.com not allowed... e.g. it keeps getting removed. Karting.co.uk is something I have been involved in a few years back, and indeed that spun off a number of club websites. Kartingextra is going to be an site that draws all the aspects together, including lots of information from its users about their kart wins, set ups, pictures etc which are relevant.
The site is not making money, it is run for free, and does not sell anything, it is totally free for members. Is someone able to give me some good reasons as to why it should not be included as a resource? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.195.160.59 (talk) 
:You should read Wikipedia's External links guidelines, and maybe also WP:Spam#How not to be a spammer.  Rule number one: don't add links to your own website.  Also, no blogs. -- Mwanner | Talk 13:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would second this; they do seem to be relatively personal websites, rather than those about Kart Racing in general. Djomp 15:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  there's a webiste http://www.lebkart.com that has an immense database about karting, worth a look at 194.126.24.3 08:09, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: The External links section was tagged with . As a result, as part of WP:WPSPAM, I've reviewed the external links. I believe the links to NGBs (National Governing Bodies) warrant inclusion. Links to promotional sites/magazine sites etc... Have been removed. -- Rehnn83 Talk 10:58, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, maybe we could add a dmoz (see Template) Open Directory Project link such as ""? - Wikigi | talk to me | 15:26, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added dmoz link today, as mentioned above - Wikigi | talk to me | 14:14, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up of External Links 

message: Liftarn, you have reposted your picture taken in a Swedish museum in Kart racing without any argumentation. As I said before when I reverted it, I believe your note has its place on the Swedish Karting article, or maybe you want to create a new page on the history of karting in Sweden. If we start to explain how karting started in France, Germany, India or Japan, this article is going to be extremely boring and out of place. It is already made mention of the 50th anniversary - with FIA reference - as well as the introduction of karting (which started in the US) in Europe with reference also. This is enough of history for this topic as it is more interesting to know what the sport is about today IMO. - Wikigi | talk to me | 19:36, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not globalize the article instead of blanking valid content? The picture is also interesting since it's an example of an early kart. // Liftarn 22:47, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have re-introduced your picture of an early kart under History. - Wikigi | talk to me | 12:27, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sweden?  The article has no history whatsoever.  It certainly has no links to any History of Carting in XXXX anywhere.  An History of Carting in The United States would be fascinating, as in Sweden, Britain, you name it.Bugatti35racer (talk) 00:54, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Karting in Sweden 

message: I concur with the previous post. BTW, it is not vandalism to include a reference to "Video of 125cc shifter kart, on Quebec City streets, at night." as a shifter kart is a prototypical sports microcar just as Morgan 3-wheelers etc. were to cyclecars, and though illegal to drive one as such in Quebec, it is not elsewhere. 65.246.126.130 (talk) 14:52, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 1) The video you are referring to has no other purpose than selling you a DVD (see the end of the video) and if posted on WP it constitutes spam. 2) A shifter kart has nothing to do with a Microcar and is certainly not a prototype. Karts are racing machines built according to strict CIK-FIA regulations and chassis, engines and all components have to be homologated by the same. All sprint karts, even when raced under national governing bodies, are using chassis built by manufacturers following the same CIK regulations 3) They are designed to run fast on circuits dedicated to the sport, in a safe environment, for the sake of performance, excellence, and competition. I don't know where it is legal to drive such a machine on the street, surely not in the US or in Europe - Wikigi | talk to me | 08:10, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shifter karts on the street 

message: I think this article needs a safety section.  I raced karts for the first time today and I just can't understand why there are not seatbelts and roll cages.  Surely this just makes the sport far more dangerous than it needs to be. Andrewjlockley (talk) 23:50, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Due to their very low center of gravity, it is extremely rare to see a kart roll over, for that to happen you need to drive over the wheel of another kart at a great speed and you will never do a complete rollover (I've seen a complete rollover happen only once with karters while running at very high speed, over 60 mph, driver was ok although a bit shaken..). As for seat belts, you would be better off being ejected in the case (even more rare) of a frontal collision (again, speed is a factor and there are no hard obstacles on a race track). Kart racing has a great safety record, if you wear the proper equipment, race a kart with a CIK-FIA approved chassis, run on a certified track, I can assure you that you're practicing a "safe" sport. - Wikigi | talk to me | 06:00, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

text: Done - Wikigi | talk to me | 08:20, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Safety

message: Is there any transmission information there.  Didn't think so.--Ericg33 (talk) 00:20, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  transmission  

message: Formula zero and Formula Hybrid aren't mentioned; see http://www.formulazero.nl/
http://www.formula-hybrid.org/about.php  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.225.103 (talk) 09:59, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I cannot reach the Formula Zero site at the moment but the Formula Hybrid has suspension. That makes it a car, and outside the scope of this article whatever fuel it uses as karts do not have a separate suspension system. Britmax (talk) 10:27, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no mention of gas (LPG) fuel in the engines section either - it seems to be increasingly popular in European rental karts, so is probably worth a mention. Jellyfish dave (talk) 08:54, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Fuel

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