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After last night's meeting, North Texas Karters have decided to put a car barrier at the end of the drag strip. We have had several cars come through the fence at the end of Northstar and end up on the property. The last one was a brown street car ( Camaro ) on 10 " slicks a couple of weeks ago.
I was flaging the race and looked up to see this guy not slowing and curving off the strip at speed. In the middle of a Kart race. He end up hitting a big liquid filled square container and comes through the fence and stops 20 feet from the scoreing tower. No injuries but the car is bent. Later I see a dragster loop itself just at the end of the strip but stops. Again durring a race.
A full size car would crush any of the Karts. If anyone says "who would put a kart track at the end of a drag strip". We didn't, we were there first.
I know that the dusting of the strip is a issue and the karters are trying to get everyone to slow down to 10 MPH on the road to keep the dust down. I don't care for the tires / barrels on the road but they do keep people from driving fast down the road and I agree the strip has the right to do this. I wish we could oil the road down but the tree huggers say no.
Some people in the club want to put those Jersey Barriers, concrete road barriers across the back fence. Right now we have a pipe barrier with Armco on the bottom. It,s just not long enough. Works well as we have had it tested by several crashes and then rewelded. It will give some as it is just buried deep in the dirt but after each crash we have to repair it. I don't think the concrete barriers would be so forgiving. I like to hear if youall have any ideas on how to our keep the track safe and not be any more danger to the drag cars.
The new barriers cost about $25.00 a foot and would go completely across the back fence. Pipe is $$$ and labor intense.
Trying to be good neighbors but safe for our track.
I was flaging the race and looked up to see this guy not slowing and curving off the strip at speed. In the middle of a Kart race. He end up hitting a big liquid filled square container and comes through the fence and stops 20 feet from the scoreing tower. No injuries but the car is bent. Later I see a dragster loop itself just at the end of the strip but stops. Again durring a race.
A full size car would crush any of the Karts. If anyone says "who would put a kart track at the end of a drag strip". We didn't, we were there first.
I know that the dusting of the strip is a issue and the karters are trying to get everyone to slow down to 10 MPH on the road to keep the dust down. I don't care for the tires / barrels on the road but they do keep people from driving fast down the road and I agree the strip has the right to do this. I wish we could oil the road down but the tree huggers say no.
Some people in the club want to put those Jersey Barriers, concrete road barriers across the back fence. Right now we have a pipe barrier with Armco on the bottom. It,s just not long enough. Works well as we have had it tested by several crashes and then rewelded. It will give some as it is just buried deep in the dirt but after each crash we have to repair it. I don't think the concrete barriers would be so forgiving. I like to hear if youall have any ideas on how to our keep the track safe and not be any more danger to the drag cars.
The new barriers cost about $25.00 a foot and would go completely across the back fence. Pipe is $$$ and labor intense.
Trying to be good neighbors but safe for our track.
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