The Go-Kart that Changed Motorsport

[Bob Riebe]

https://www.motortrend.com/features/jim-yamane-go-kart-champ/?wc_mid=4035:22546&wc_rid=4035:34246972&_wcsid=7293EDDBE91A7D0919013BA3C0B6050EEDE7639B85CB4B02

[Casull]

Surprised they ran with McCulloch engines.

[Lloyd Smale]

one of sisters grandaughters is 9 and has raced go carts  since she was 5. Kicks but with them too. Pretty amazing the technology that goes into them today. They have big bucks into her racing.

[ironglow]

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  I think we might be surprised to lear how many pro racing drivers started on a Kart..

[ironglow]

Surprised they ran with McCulloch engines.

   It seems chain saw engines were their best option at that early date, and Stihl engines were not yet available..

[Bob Riebe]

Surprised they ran with McCulloch engines.

The first kart manufacturer was an American company, Go Kart Manufacturing Co. (1957). In 1959, McCulloch was the first company to produce engines for karts. Its first engine, the McCulloch MC-10 was an adapted chainsaw two-stroke engine.  Later, in the 1960’s, motorcycle engines were also adapted for kart use, before dedicated manufacturers, especially in Italy, started to build engines for the sport.

[Lloyd Smale]

i asked my brother in law and he said they use a duromax motor. Its a 4 stroke though not a two stroke. He said the most popular 2 strokes were combers or comers (dont know how to spell it) . I never heard of either of them.