how much and who is bring them in?

DONT GET THE KART BEFORE THE ------
We need a younger entry level into Off Roading before the kids get involved in other motor sports like Motor cycles and Gokarts.(Age 7 or 8)
Where do you invisage you will race these Trophy Karts and under what authority.
In NSW we would have to convince CAMS or AASA, then to lower the age limits we also have to convince the Dept of Sport and Recreation.
Racing would have to be on specially designed tracks for junior racing.
Great ideas and keep going with them, as there is plenty of money out there to buy or make these cars.

Maurie
Have a look at
http://torc.com.au/
There a CAMs affiliated club racing motorbike powered buggies. At the moment they only race in Vic but their rules have been used in W.A at Harvey for demo events. CAMs are currently ratifieing the rules to be used nationally. (So far it's taken them 18months.) Once the rules are FINALLY finished trophy karts would have a class to race in through out Australia. The only thing that would need to be looked at is age restrictions. Even if you get the age limit lowered you'll still have a hard time get junior racers. Not many parents can afford 10k  so little johnny can go racing and that doesn't include a driving suit, helmet or a trailer to get it to the track. you've better off with a cheaper entry level form of racing like what Torc does that will bring in the parents and as a result the kids get expossure to off road racing and can't wait till there 14 so they can drive to.
If you can atract the "Big Kids" the little kids will follow.



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I think there will be plenty of parents willing to part with the money one thing these cars have going for them is they wont be outdated like motor bikes or go karts I would rather my kids in one of these compared to go karts or motor bikes your Chris hutton

Cheers TD!

 Hi all , aparantly darian smith ( from smithy's place at hyden) is also bringin in a few (5-10 or so) was chatin to him when the safari came through kalgoorile.

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 Hi all , aparantly darian smith ( from smithy's place at hyden) is also bringin in a few (5-10 or so) was chatin to him when the safari came through kalgoorile.

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Hey Jero! Howsit?

Are the US ones going to be legal for Aus though? Might be worth looking into before the $$$ get spent!

BTW mate, you've now got 5 different user accounts! haha!

My young blokes are 7 & 5 years old, guess I better get my order in with the Simpsons...cant wait to get them racing!
Will they have to have a trophy cart, or can we biuld them a small buggy (maybe similar to Schembri), or even a small class 5 car or similar?

The licencing structure i have mentioned is specifically for the Trophy Kart class, it is not envisgaed to allow these younger ones to participate in our normal off road racing activities. Although ideally we will want to make it viable for say anyone over 12 year old who has a Navigators licence at the moment to automatically be eligible to drive a Trophy Kart, with of course the appropriate lecture and OLT stuff. This is what we envisage, what we ultimately are able to achieve within the CAMS licencing structure is yet to be determined.

The Trophy Karts will only compete on very short versions of track, maybe a short section of a prologue at a National Round as mentioned by Boss Truck and they will only compete as a group, not in with any other form of off road racing class. The Standing Regs for Trophy Karts is modelled on our existing Stadium Regs, as we envisage they will compete as basically a small scale version of a stadium race, maybe only 600 to a maximum of 1500 metres long for instance.

Trophy Karts Australia - Paul Simpson - 0418 777 030.

if they really want this as a entry level to off road we should be able to build them ourselvers not line someone elses pocket

TD when and where will we be able to see some specs as l no l will build one for my kids and there will be a few other budget races wanting to do the same for thier kids.

Wolf you would be to heavy for the chassis metal can only take so much and with the extra bracing for you the power to weight ratio would be shot. And how do you think l know l broke the kids billy cart on the weekend.

I only managed to finish off the draft of the Standing Regs yesterday, which has been circulated to AORCom for comment. The Technical Regs are still to be finalised by others. It takes a little while to do all this as we generally have jobs to do, make a living, etc. The next CAMS Board meeting is not until late November i think and considering how it often takes a bit of time to get things through the system, we may be flat out getting everything ticked off before the end of the year. Bob Piper, who is the CAMS Board member with the Portfolio responsibility for off road is very helpful though and once we get all the regulations together, he may be able to push things through somewhat, between the official Board meetings. Paul Simpson has to get all the engineering tests and approvals done as well on the chassis. so it all takes a bit of time to put everything in place. Our intention is obviously to have everything in place for the start of 2008, or at least when racing gets underway in February/March. I am trying to keep you guys as informed as much as i can along the way, because this whole concept is a great opportunity to put in place a much needed Junior Development pathway for off road racing. If you want any info from Paul Simpson, contact him direct. Can't really tell you if he would be watching this discussion, i suspect not if you know the guy and what his line of work is?