Team Honda spent 12 hours racing one of these around Kembla Grange last weekend. Came 9th outright and 4th in our division. Not bad for a bunch of guys with little or no Karting experience.

 

Certainly looks like fun

 

And we'll do even better next time. Our average lap time came down steadily over the 12 hours. We made too many fuel stops too. A podium finish beckons.

Oh, and our kart didn't look much like that at the finish. New plastic parts please!

 

BTW, Naishou is being very humble. He set what was undoubtably a B division lap record for the course and was consistently in the low 30's.

Best I could manage was a 31.69.

We beat both the BMW and WRX teams. I guess the fact that we drive a veritable go-kart of the road gives us an advantage.

 

That would make me do this

 

That looks like a lot of fun. 12 hours sounds like a long time to be in one of those though. How often did you guys swap out drivers??

 

We had a team of 8 so we each did two 45 minute sessions.

It's funny though, when you're in the cart you don't have a great sense of time (at least no greater than 30 odd seconds) and feel like you could go on all day. When you get out you feel totally exhausted.

 

Very very cool! Just curious, how does it work having two engines at each rear wheel? What happens if one engine is slightly out of sync with the other engine (in rpm and/or power output) due to wear & tear or heat differences etc, does the kart want to turn?

 

It still has a solid rear axle (obscured by rear bumper) just two engines driving it.

I believe the reason it has two 6.5hp engines is that they are cheap and robust (not an engine failure all day in 24 Karts) and add up to a decent 13hp.

They both have a centrifugal clutch so there's no synchronisation between each engines cycle. This means that their power strokes would not be synchronised and could happen anywhere within 360 degrees of each other. Didn't really seem to affect us in any way though.

Occassionally an engine would stall (happened to us twice) and you would have to come into the pits for a restart.

 

Oh man i wish we had enduros here, I would never leave.