BenB
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| posted on 22/4/07 at 01:42 PM |
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Daytona Karting Milton Keynes
Went there yesterday on my stag do.....
Gorgeous day for it!!
Good fun. Very fast karts and the track is pretty challenging.....
It was an open 90 minute session- we had teams of 3 (although my one was a two-man team- hard core!!!!)....
Driver standard was variable... Some of the drivers had obviously done karting for quite a while (their lap times were 3-4 seconds better than most
people).... Some people were stupidly aggresive (slamming it up the inside of tight corners and T-boning you out of the way etc)....
The main problem was the marshalls..... We had a period of non-waved yellow flags and I was following round a driver who took the "slow down for
yellows" rule a bit far!!! Fricking plonker overtook both of us under yellows and the marshalls did nothing........... Another driver tried a
stupid overtaking manoever on the ultra narrow hairpin. I was following a slower car, some twit slammed it up the inside of both of us way too fast
(was never going to make the turn), spun but because the turn was so narrow no-one could get past until they drove off in front.... I reckon they
should have blacked flagged them, it was just stupid and dangerous (the car in front spun to avoid smashing into that car and I spun into them!!!)...
But of course the marshalls just showed me a "no bumping" sign!!!! I think the problem was they had one marshall for two corners and they
really needed a marshall for each corner- otherwise they tended to see the end of incident and not see the wazzock move that precipitated it!!!
Shame really... Never mind, it was still a laugh!!!
Oh well!!!!
Got a bloody big hangover today though!!
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flak monkey
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| posted on 22/4/07 at 02:13 PM |
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Went there in Feb, its a great track with good twin engined karts. The marshals are quite variable as you say, we had a group od 20odd of us go, so we
got the track to ourselves. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but then I won when we went.   Track was soaking wet though, which slowed us down a touch
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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JoelP
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| posted on 22/4/07 at 02:14 PM |
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thats the eternal problem with little tracks, they never get the marshalling quite right. I did karting on my stag do, was my finest ever drive
especially if you include the hangover factor! Qualified second, got spun on the first lap to 20th place, then overtook everyone except my skinny mate
to finish second again! 
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the_fbi
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| posted on 22/4/07 at 02:42 PM |
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The company I work for supplies the IT hardware to Daytona and we get to go to MK (and Sandown Park) quite a bit.
(You hopefully saw "Box Technologies" boarding around the circuit and on the machines you signed in on).
Did you do the international track or the national?
http://www.daytona.co.uk/track.php?venue=milton%20keynes
Got an event there on May 12th so hopefully the weather will be nice then too.
Marshalls are normally good there although I guess as with any sport there will always be decisions which aren't correct.
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nitram38
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| posted on 22/4/07 at 02:48 PM |
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I am pretty sure that the circuit was once James Hunt's kart circuit with his own "formula1" style karts.
When it opened, we drove from london just for the F1 karts but there weren't any!!!!
What a swizz 
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Bitten hero
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| posted on 22/4/07 at 05:54 PM |
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Hi all,
What you may not realize is that the marshals mostley are on the min wage and are treated like something that a dog does( I have spent more than 15
year racing karts and spent three years running and organising one of the biggist series for owner/driver prokarts in the uk at rye house )and we had
the same prob throughout all the time we done it. We always moaned and were always told the same it was a expense that they really didnt want to
spend and so any tom ,dick,harry/harriet that did not want to flip burgers. We eventually got a better standard of person but then we got less of them
which just moved the problem to differant areas- But then i retired to build my project -appears that its still the same at various places!!!!!
cheers gary
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BenB
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| posted on 22/4/07 at 08:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by the_fbi
The company I work for supplies the IT hardware to Daytona and we get to go to MK (and Sandown Park) quite a bit.
(You hopefully saw "Box Technologies" boarding around the circuit and on the machines you signed in on).
Did you do the international track or the national?
http://www.daytona.co.uk/track.php?venue=milton%20keynes
Got an event there on May 12th so hopefully the weather will be nice then too.
Marshalls are normally good there although I guess as with any sport there will always be decisions which aren't correct.
Did the full international circuit 
Was very nice!!! (marshalling aside!!)
Good software on the hand-out, shame the telemetry on the karts wasn't working...
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TangoMan
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| posted on 22/4/07 at 08:32 PM |
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I did the full circuit there on a BEN charity day a couple of years ago. Great circuit, and on the day the marshals were pretty good.
I spent a few years racing karts at national level so am always critical of leisure marshals as they don't have much of a clue about racing.
I hope to go there again soon, as the circuit was fun.
Summer's here!!!!
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