The CIK is Watching – On-board Cameras for All World Cup Racers!
By Karting1 ~ August 28th, 2009. Filed under: Kart Racing News.
The CIK has announced they are going to make mandatory on-board cameras for the upcoming KZ1/KF3 World Cup to be held at Sarno on the 6th September. With the introduction of plastic bumpers to karts over the years, race officials have struggled to keep pace with the increased contact in modern kart racing. Some tracks already employ CCTV to monitor on track behavour but the CIK have moved it a step forward by making sure every kart is equipped with Motorsport Hero Wide miniature cameras manufactured by GoPro.
CIK – “Karting must be exemplary as regards education” explains Luigi Macaluso, President of the CIK-FIA. “The international federation therefore naturally seeks to incite the participants to have the most sporting behaviour possible. Leaning on an opponent or even pushing him so as to overtake are methods which motor sport must reprove. As a matter of fact, there are disciplines, in particular single-seaters, where contacts, be they deliberate or not, are out of the question because a driver who is too bold or illintentioned risks retiring on the spot or having a mechanical failure. Since many young kartmen aspire to switch over to single-seaters, allowing in Karting what is forbidden in single-seaters would be both inconceivable and counterproductive.”
The CIK has already recently taken action against the KF clutch problem, which saw the implementation of Uniloggers on karts to monitor clutch slip. This was something that was successfully introduced also into the KF and Rotax Super 1 series in the UK.
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