BeaveRun Karting - what Roy, Celica Nate and I did

[SeanB]

So we decided to go up to BeaveRun and try out their rental karts.

$55 for 30 minutes of seat time, before most of you go what a waste of money listen up.

Average lap was 45 seconds, pretty similar to an autox course
We got in 40 laps or so
Course was 0.44 miles
Average speed was 35.2 miles per hour, so about the average autox speed

So basically for about 2x the price of a regular autox we got 8x the fun. Now factor in the 2x the price and my math says I atleast had 4x the fun.

Personally, I might drop a few autoxes from my schedule and head up there again. I'd like to better my lap times from this time around, I don't recommend more than 30 minutes at a stretch because these karts are brutal on your body.

[evilnissan]

Sounds like fun!

I will give it a try sometime if i ever get free again.

[Nathan]

Man, this was the best freaking thing ever. I love AutoX, but this was almost as fun. I'm going to try to go back as soon as I can to get more practice in for my AutoX. Those karts are just the single gear karts, but they move. Keeping your momentum up was really hard. They cornered so tight, it too balls to dive into some of them. But at the same time, if you would break late, you spun or did a slide and lost time. With the solid rear, you slide and your momentum is gone. We ran really close about the entire time. The only time any of us really got a pass on one another was when someone pushed the car too hard and spun. That was really a motivation to break earlier. I was tired at the end of it. It's a great work out. I'm debating buying a shifter kart now. It takes so much skill to make those things fast though.

Sean, being the turd that he is, came in with the fastest time of 44.8. I managed to pull of a 45.3. It killed me that he beat me. I did get in more laps, and had an over all better time, but he slowed down a lot so that we could run together. The 44.8 he ran was not a fluke. Believe me, .5 seconds on that track was a lot. I have been ribbing Sean for everything I can think of since he beat me.

Today, the he and I were playing tennis and he served a great ball to the outside of the right of the court. I went for it stretching as much as I could to avoid another shameful defeat. When I reached for it, I pulled my deltoid immediately. Pain shot through my entire right side. I tried to take a breather in the shade for a min but only realized that it was only hurting more. So, I forfeited. Now Sean not only beat me again, but crippled me in the process. That's just the kind of guy he is.

[erwendell]

I actually hurt a little more today than I did yesterday. Not real painful; its just that I keep discovering muscles that I didn't know I had whenever it swing my arms or move my head. I can't imagine how bad it would be without those neck collars.

I don't know that the sustained g forces are that high but certainly the instantaneous/peak forces are way up there.

[Nathan]

I actually hurt a little more today than I did yesterday. Not real painful; its just that I keep discovering muscles that I didn't know I had whenever it swing my arms or move my head. I can't imagine how bad it would be without those neck collars.

I don't know that the sustained g forces are that high but certainly the instantaneous/peak forces are way up there.
I'm with you on that one. I consider myself in pretty good shape, and that wore me out. It was so fun that I didn't notice at the time. That happened to me once in high school when I was riding dirt-bikes all day. Next day I woke up and I could walk because my legs hurt so bad. I would like to ride go-karts so long that I couldn't move my arms the day after. I just can't get enough of those things.

Next time we go I'm bringing my brother. He's not much of a car guy, or a driver. But he likes to have fun and he likes to drive fast, and unfortunately, wreck. I told him I would take him up there for his birthday anyway. Lets hope we can get him out to the AutoX track so he'll learn how to drive.