1997 Irish Karting O Plate - Crashes

Lots of crashes from the 1997 O Plate.

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• karts
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• karting
• kart
• crash
• watergrasshill
• mondello
• ireland
• racing
• cork
• langer

[balmedie2k10]

yeh man look at 40.0 secs in the vid blue numbers and sounds like a tkm

[polychomaticzena]

@balmedie2k10 Blue plate is junior (JICA) rookie. Its a JICA engine with a 19mm restrictor plate on it, at a later stage they ran a smaller carb. A choked JICA could sound like a TKM I guess haha.

Its not a TKM though, for sure. I saw every one of the karts there first hand. TKM wasn't raced in Ireland. Also remember most TKMs back then were direct drive too, so you'd need to add a clutch to run it in JICA. Even at that, it would get smoked by a JICA engine so there'd be no point.

[balmedie2k10]

ahh tkms proper karting :D

[polychomaticzena]

@balmedie2k10 No TKM's here :)

[polychomaticzena]

@balmedie2k10 TKM was never raced in Ireland. I'm curious where you see or hear one. Its probably just a JICA running bad LOL.

[polychomaticzena]

Yep the newer Comer Cadet engines are 80cc. The ones that we ran in the 90's were comer S60's

[balmedie2k10]

yeh there is i herd them

[mybizuk]

This is back when karting was proper... 100cc two strokes, air cooled. None of this KF and Rotax rubbish we have now.

[shaundasheep7]

the first 1 made me laugh some how lol

[forslammer1]

i have a cadet and its a comer 80