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Fly safely!By: Brendel Racing
This happened just at about the time when I wanted to get into karting for
the first time. My wife was concerned for my safety, though. So one
weekend I went with her to a local kart track, trying to show her that
karting is fun and quite safe.
We sat in the bleachers at the start-finish line. It was time for the
Novice Sportsman class to start next. During their flying start, one of
the karters accidentally drove with his front wheels onto somebody else's
rear wheel. He instantly went airborne! But not just a little hop, no,
his kart went flying over the heads of everyone this way while he was flung
in a high arch the other way, landing more or less head-first in the dirt!
It looked horrible, and after impact, he didn't move for quite a while either
(he turned out to be OK, though, while his kart which he intended to sell
this day, with the potential buyer onlooking, was a bent mess).
Well, today I am karting, so fortunately, my wife was understanding and
knew that some stuff can happen in any sport.
That of course was not the great demonstration of karting safety I had had
in mind.
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