https://www.gnarpowpow.com/sites/zizin/ Fri 08 May 2026 13:32:45 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/17076/gold-cup-road-race-2015-1-the-ridge-shifter-kart/
Starting P4 in Super Stock CR125 class, Hegar (#4) dropped out due to a wheel coming off so I shuffled up to P2. In front of us are the european shifter engines and behind are about 30 sprint stock and super stock CR125s. JG (#7) and Mike (#17) got a really good draft off the euro karts which are a bit faster and drove away from the rest of us for awhile. I caught up to JG for a little bit due to traffic but his engine was really boogieing and he was able to make a gap again, then he had mechanical issues and was forced to retire from the race. I battled it out with the rest of the Super Stocks for the lead and finished 3rd place. 2nd race I was wrecked into on the first lap and though I didn't go off track a lot of the field passed me by. Worked my way back up through most of the field but never caught the lead pack again. Managed to make it back up to 7th place. I do not have video of this or the 3rd race unfortunately, the video files are corrupted. The hit I took may have busted my camera. 3rd race nobody in the lead pack had mechanical issues and I was able to stick with Hegar, Mike, and JG for a long time. About halfway through, lapped traffic split JG and I from Hegar and Mike too much and we never caught up but I battled JG for 3rd the rest of the race. Sadly I was unable to make a pass stick on the final lap despite many tries and finished 4th. (scratch that, scoring seems to have placed me 3rd and JG 2nd, where did Hegar go?) It is really unfortunate that this video did not come out as there was a lot of excellent racing. It was probably the best race I've had so far. ]]> Sun 31 May 2015 12:38:50 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/17076/gold-cup-road-race-2015-1-the-ridge-shifter-kart/ https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/16949/shifter-kart-racing-at-pir-music-version/
No music: Race http://youtu.be/xaf6tUzYJJ8 Practice 1 http://youtu.be/UtDsBo7kuG8 Practice 2 http://youtu.be/115S1sMFqyw 2014 Gold Cup Road Race #1 @ PIR race highlights. Data from mychron4 + GPS sensor rendered in video with Race Render 3. First time I even sat in the shifter kart. Racing in Sprint Stock CR125 class which uses a Honda CR125 2-stroke dirt bike engine and the 6-speed gearbox that goes with it. Only got 4 laps of driving on my first practice run in the dry with slicks on and the track was a bit damp. Next time it was raining and I ended up rear-ending a guy who spun out in front of me in the 2nd lap (wreck at 4:05). This bent a steering column and tie rod and I was unable to compete in the first race. Second race it was raining while I was in the pits so I kept the rain tires on but then it suddenly became sunny and dry while I was waiting on grid. The rain tires burned up after a couple laps and then I was pretty much just having fun drifting around all the corners with no rubber for the rest of the race. Check out my tires at 7:00, haha. Anyone who chose slicks was much faster than me but I did pretty well against most of the other people who chose rain tires, which was about half the starting grid. [Music:] FULL METAL CARS / Daniel (M.Rizzi - C.Moroni) - Delta Music Industry CD: Super Eurobeat Vol.184 (Avex Trax) Special thanks to Delta Music Industry for the use of their song "Full Metal Cars" by Daniel in this video. You can purchase it on amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001BZJMW0/ref=cm_sw_su_dp Or visit their facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/DMI-Delta-Music-Industry-official-FB-page/184899171528102?sk=info ]]> Tue 22 Apr 2014 11:21:51 +0200 https://www.gnarpowpow.com/videos/16949/shifter-kart-racing-at-pir-music-version/