The MPUK Grand Prix

[Aardvark]

Vague plan discussed on IRC: MPUK karting fun :)

Now we could piggyback this on to an i-series, as more than an hour of karting gets both expensive and tiring :) So suggestions for outdoor, or LARGE indoor tracks nearish to Newbury would be handy. No pissant tiny indoor ones please!

Gentlemen (and ladies!), start your engines! :D

[Freelance]

there's a nice one in oxford

[Switch`]

OI! all of you!
you remeber when you were young and you said to your daddy
"Daddy Can I Drive"
Well you can now, GO GO GO!

[Aardvark]

Define 'nice one' please :)

[afty]

Vroom Vroom

[Groodles]

I'm am very certainly IN on this adventure. ;)

[Zeuseh]

/me revs engine

[firestorm]

you have LYD in kent i know its not near newbury but the track is used through out the carting championships held in the uk

[Elye]

With regard to this venture, I am sooo in.

MPUk carting sounds brilliant, any idea on cost btw?

[Aardvark]

Lydd is an actual international kart track Firestorm, it would be like hiring Old Trafford for a friendly kickabout :)

And anyone who calls it 'carting' is banned. BANNED I SAY!

[firestorm]

Tbh i dont think its that expensive if enough people do it. sorry i did mean karting honnest :D

[Nes]

Sounds like a great idea :D tagging it onto an ievent would be best tho, aslongas im there :p:

[Elbonio]

im there too


with the engines and the tyres and VROOOOOOM VROOOOOOOOOOOOM mmmmAYYE!

[KingDaveRa]

Couldn't you all just get onto the racetrack?

You'd have to move a few fences mind. Or maybe not, could make it more fun ;)

[Elbonio]

didnt someone do this at i19


and werent the police called?

[Elbonio]

incidently if we're gonna do this, you *know* we have to dress up as characters from Super Mario Kart...


i bagsie Toad

[Optimus]

im up for all of this...

bagsie Koopa Troopa...

[Freelance]

Originally posted by Elbonio
and werent the police called? i think someone needs incarcerating, either that or sobering up from th ebank holiday booze up before posting

[Mouse_On_Mars]

Thruxton (http://www.thruxtonracing.co.uk/karting.html) is about 45 mins away, which has a superb kart track.
However, I have doubts that doing this alongside an i-series would be a good idea. First of all, it's by no means cheap. £75 per head for a 2 hour group event at a weekend (£65 on a week day). Second, an hour in a kart will hurt in the morning, even more so without sleeping in a proper bed.

Thruxton also has a minimum driver age of 17.

It would rock though. :)

[Optimus]

i think finding some indoor karting warehouse would definitely be better than going to some huge outdoor track for a few hours... It's especially good when you can see the whole track...

[Pingman]

omg, ME ME ME, i want to race toooo :multi:
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :rotate:

[Aardvark]

Originally posted by Optimus
i think finding some indoor karting warehouse would definitely be better

No, because they're about as wide as a single kart, hence impossible to pass on. A Bad Thing, I think you'll find :)

[Switch`]

well indoor tracks made with tyre's can be 'Widened' or 'Streached' (word change depending on your prefered type of Man-Love)
and surly there has to be a good one somewhere near!

[andyf]

hmmm there was a good karting event that took place with the car club i'm in, I'll find the details. It was an outdoor event and went on for a good while.

[ant]

yeh up for this, should be fun.

ps: andyf you need a new avatar now, having an old man s14 and all :)

[Dan]

I'm in too, used to be ace at karting, just didnt have the cash to carry on :)

[Aardvark]

Just a taster from the 'GPLers against the world' karting enduro last December. I call this one 'spot the woman driver' (http://www.borntorace.co.uk/urs_2003_vid/Amnon%20off.WMV) :D