Ted, sorry to tell you but that wasn't the main reason why the sold the chassis. Back on those days most European manufacturers rarely used their chassis for more than one weekend, much less when they raced abroad, even within Europe, because the price of flying the stuff back to Italy was way more expensive than what they could get out of them. It wasn't uncommon to find bare chassis abandoned or left after those races.On a right turn biased track, you bias weight right just like you do on a left turn biased oval for a LTO kart. Only it's built in on the LTO frame. Oval karts unweight that LR too, just not as much as sprints. On a LO206, I doubt I'd change my setup at all unless it was the only track I raced at. When the Birel team came to North America from Italy to Charlotte for the 1996 North American Karting Championships, they brought specially built chassis that sold off after that race because the old Charlotte track was biased (right, IIRC.) The whole point of biasing is so that you can take more lateral G's before the kart bicycles. The only reason LTO's don't bicycle (often) is that there's not enough available grip to induce it with the ultra low Cg most LTOs are setup with. Concrete syrup ovals are the only place most oval racers get to see how a kart is really flexing.
I thought the FIA mandates the chassis manufacturers have to keep the chassis design for 5 years after getting approval?. they can only design a new chassis for sale every 5 years. wouldn't creating a new chassis for one race violate the FIA rules?On a right turn biased track, you bias weight right just like you do on a left turn biased oval for a LTO kart. Only it's built in on the LTO frame. Oval karts unweight that LR too, just not as much as sprints. On a LO206, I doubt I'd change my setup at all unless it was the only track I raced at. When the Birel team came to North America from Italy to Charlotte for the 1996 North American Karting Championships, they brought specially built chassis that sold off after that race because the old Charlotte track was biased (right, IIRC.) The whole point of biasing is so that you can take more lateral G's before the kart bicycles. The only reason LTO's don't bicycle (often) is that there's not enough available grip to induce it with the ultra low Cg most LTOs are setup with. Concrete syrup ovals are the only place most oval racers get to see how a kart is really flexing.
Unless rules have changed they can have several new chassis approved. Homologation periods usually open every certain number of years, but they can have several different chassis homologated for the same homologation period, and even in between homologation periods there has been modification approved. The real deal is you need to build a minimum (pretty high) number of chassis for every homologated chassis or even any modification to be approved. In theory yes, every modification should be approved and checked for homologation.I thought the FIA mandates the chassis manufacturers have to keep the chassis design for 5 years after getting approval?. they can only design a new chassis for sale every 5 years. wouldn't creating a new chassis for one race violate the FIA rules?
Not trying to start an argument, I know personally some of the chassis builders from Europe who took part in both big races at Charlotte, that particular one too, and I don't know of any of them shipping my chassis back to Europe, doesn't matter if they were according to FIA/CIK rules or not. Ted, I didn't reflect my thoughts, they are facts. Ask Mike Berg here for example. He was a dealer for a manufacturer from Spain who came for that race too. I don't even think they built a special chassis for that race. They did have the karts setup way different though but a kart has enough ways to set it up, even offset the setup, without building a specific frame. One of the things about most European manufacturers is that most they don't care about the US market. Maybe more now, but back then not at all. Of course that's a big mistake but it was like that. That's another reason why the Yamaha classes grew so much here, because Americas were tired of the crazy prices Italian stuff cost and the lack of customer support and reliability.Santiago -- you've certainly gotten more argumentative these days. While your thoughts are true, in this particular case, I know what happened from people who were there. And, IIRC, the NAKC was a non-official world championship round. I don't think the circuit met FIA/CIK standards. I could be wrong on that 2nd part.
Don't blame COVID for it, Ted, lol. Just kidding. Hopefully we can race at RR.K30, K35. You'll have to excuse my COVID brain.