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23 Mar 2005, 15:44 (Ref:1259868) | #1 | |
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Granja Viana 500 mile race
The karts in this run a strange looking bodywork..unlike anything ive seen before. Does anyone know firstly what the karts are and secondly why they run such a huge amount of bodywork as it looks like the karts are much bigger than say a 250 long circuit gearbox kart
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23 Mar 2005, 16:16 (Ref:1259896) | #2 | ||
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Where is this race? Sounds interesting-more like the old F4.
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23 Mar 2005, 17:36 (Ref:1259974) | #3 | ||
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The race is held in Brazil.
The karts as far as I know are entirely normal single speed karts but with bodywork. I remember reading once that the bodywork: http://www.fittipaldionline.com/seas...cars/kart2.jpg is styled around the old can-am racers: http://www.bruce-mclaren.com/images/m8d_denny.jpg Highly believable, but very pointless, as it's 100% for the purpose of styling. |
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23 Mar 2005, 19:51 (Ref:1260109) | #5 | |
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Top link from alex's post plus various on the internet
http://www.motorsport.com/photos/sel...500_Miles/Race Seems like quite a good race...lots of famous drivers etc Is it run for charity? |
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Something that initially attracted me to this thread made me laugh, but I forgot what it was.. Just remembered though.. "Granja"
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27 Mar 2005, 21:33 (Ref:1263170) | #7 | ||
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lol. If i was driving those karts i'd find it all too tempting to drive it like a Touring car rather than an open wheeler because of that bodywork. Reminds me of a time i took my mum on these stupid little 15mph twin seater 'fun karts' at a theme park, they had bodywork all the way round like a car, terrified her all the way round, was awsomme with the Touring Car style hit-n-run style though
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Tut tut Speedy we all know that Touring Cars is a non contact sport!
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