Historic Karting

Hey guys ! Here is a little onboard video of a short reconnaissance run

Kart : 1983 Birel T7 - Cadet Tyres
Engine : Parilla TG14
Track : Aunay les bois - Essay



The geezer missing apexes is yours truly  

There might be more, hopefully more eventful ones in the future

Impressionnant ce bruit de V8.
J'te souhaite une bonne saison, si tu t'engages dans quelques courses.
Et n'oublies pas le sticker HSO sur ton Kart et ton casque.

Very nice Although the camera makes it look like you're hanging on to that steering wheel for your life

Nice

Jukka Maattanen wrote:

Very nice Although the camera makes it look like you're hanging on to that steering wheel for your life

First time I saw Ant simracing in real life is when he came over at my place for holidays - I thought he was going to break my G25 in half Never seen someone so physical behind a steering wheel it was shocking !

Jukka wrote:

Although the camera makes it look like you're hanging on to that steering wheel for your life

Oh believe me I am If you don't grip it firmly the kart goes pretty much where it pleases ! And as Frank said, it is my style  

Will be looking for a new camera mount, maybe helmet, because with this harness the image is too low indeed.

No racing allowed with old karts unfortunately, but maybe a few great events to come, will keep you guys posted

As Frank, my wheel had to support Antoine's arms too, and it said me "never again".

I completely ripped the internals of two FFB wheels before switching to a TSW, so I might beat Antoine at least in something

Benny, here's another name to put on our respective G25's blacklist !

Added.

joli coup de volant  , trajectoires propres , a mon avis tu as le train arriere trop ouvert

Antoine, ton post est une machine à remonter le temps. Je me suis revu... ne riez pas les copains s'il vous plait...  
Il y a 40 ans très exactement, sur la minuscule piste de Vintimiglia,
où je me suis essayé au karting avec ferveur et passion. Le matériel était du Birel et du TG14 Parilla.

Sur la photo, les deux qui m'entourent étaient de très bon pilotes, qui m'avaient pris en sympathie et me prodiguaient
des conseils et surtout m'aidaient pour tout, me poussaient au démarrage du kart et quand je callais après mes tête-à-queue...

Cette expérience n'a pas beaucoup durée, mais ce fut pour moi une grande leçon et une source de sensations incomparables.

Je te souhaite de bien profiter de cette activité et de te faire de grands plaisirs au volant.      


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Déjà bogoss dans les folles années de ta jeunesse Philou . M'est avis que ça s'écrivait "filou" à cette époque !

Michel Delpech, sors de ce corps et de ce kart.
Excellent cette photo, Philou.

Sacré Philou ! Génial cette photo !

Le kart que je pilote dans la vidéo ressemble incroyablement au tien !

Par contre, ton moteur là, c'est pas un TG14, il n'a pas la Testa Grossa qu'on reconnait entre mille

How much power output do those engines have Antoine?

Oh dear, not much around 15hp would be good for such an old engine (first produced in 1967 !)

Top speed very much depends on the track and sprocket you use, but I would guess I rarely go above 80km/h. That said, it is good enough for great sensations.

Tu as sans doute raison Antoine, sur la photo je crois que le moteur que j'avais était un MB ou BM je ne me souviens plus. Je crois que le châssis était un Birel "Jezolo".

D'ailleurs je jour où la photo a été prise, je rodais ce moteur après d'assez lourdes réparations (piston cassé), ce qui ne m'a pas empêché de le détruire entièrement peu de temps après... Et de le changer pour un TG-14 réputé peu performant mais très fiable.

Je me souviens des ailettes du haut du moteur dont j'avais gardé la marques des brulures sur l'avant bras, en voulant obturer le carburateur pour "graisser" le moteur en bout de ligne droite, un geste que l'on voyait sur toutes les pistes de karting à l'époque...

@ Ben, déjà que Greg un jour sur team-speek disait que j'avais la voix de Francis Cabrel, avec Michel Delpech en plus je fait office de top 50... Enfin, presque 62 aujourd'hui

Amène Francis, on ira boire un pot chez Laurette.

Last week-end, on the mythical Pista Azzura in Jesolo, near Venice, was held the Coppa dei Campioni, or ASI Go-Kart show. It is one of the biggest - if not the biggest - historic karts meeting in the world, with 100+ drivers from all over Europe and even more karts ranging from roughly 1956 to 1989.

Here is a few videos I made driving some of these lovely little beasts

The first one is a run on a friend's Deavinsons Sprint, a British chassis from 1976, which looks like that :



And here is the run :




Then, here is a shorter run with a funny little thing, a French-made GLOBB-KART from 1961 ! One of the oldest kart ever built in France.



After a run in a 70's kart, it feels a bit like hopping from a F5000 into a Mini, but good fun anyway  





And finally, the most eventful run hands down, driving my Italian 1981's DAP equipped with cadet tyres



If there is only one run to watch, this is the one  



Enjoy

Great videos, shame about the bump with the other guy, any damage sustained to either kart?

What was the wally doing who was stood in the middle of the pitlane?

Lol Antoine why did you cut the recording, at the end of the video it looked as if the other guy was going for you, we could have seen Karting and Boxing in one

I'm no expert in karts at all, but it looked to me as some really good driving by you which is anyway not surprising as you have talent and I guess also a good amount of kms. under your belt

The poor guy is my buddy Claude, he actually broke his engine trying to stay in front

And when you dont have gears, when the engine breaks, well the rear wheels instantly lock I was too close to avoid him.

He actually pushed me back onto the track moments later, but in the excitement I forgot to turn the camera back on. No damage to either karts and drivers. (Well apart a broken engine obv )

And yes, those pits are messy, that's Italy for you

Never quite happy with my driving, but I guess it's still better than if it was worse

That Globb looks like some seriously aching knees, the way the driver is squeezed into...

Yeah these old frames are ridiculously tiny, I'm 1m82 so we can assume the average driver in the 60's was some 10cm shorter, but still very much a knee breaker ^^

By 1963-1964, they were already producing more "normal-looking" karts on which drivers have a more laid-back position. This is really prehistory of karting !