How do we get everyone to call out sport SPRINTKARTING rather than GO KARTING???
Many ppl outside the sport still think of go karts as the things kids push down the hill!!
Even when the sport gets on tv the go kart word comes out.
I think if we used the word sprint kart it would give a better image to the sport and divert ppl's view away from a "billykart"image.
But is it too hard to change a word thats so entrenched in our vocabulary??
I know its hard as I keep using the Go kart word as well. DOH!!!
Many ppl outside the sport still think of go karts as the things kids push down the hill!!
Even when the sport gets on tv the go kart word comes out.
I think if we used the word sprint kart it would give a better image to the sport and divert ppl's view away from a "billykart"image.
But is it too hard to change a word thats so entrenched in our vocabulary??
I know its hard as I keep using the Go kart word as well. DOH!!!
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Hmmm people refer to karting as sprint karts sometimes, As we have sprint karts, endurance karts, dirt karts, The only problem with calling it "sprint" karts is that people think about sprint cars and then we race karts around a dirt track and really dont want our kart racing to be put in the bogan dirt kart racing boat...
Agree Jaime,
Maybe KARTING is a better word???? covers all spectrums.??
Even today I was watching funny home vidios and heard the word go kart so I flashed into the room to see what was happening and it was a billy kart up a tree !!!!
But I sppose those at the top used a different word eevntually it may filter down??
thats true i go karting does not sound serios at all i mean u tell some one that go karting take up ur weekend and they can nearly laugh at you people dont realise that it is a serios sport
The second people put 'Go' in front of kart it makes it sound like a toy.
I reckon Formula K sounds pretty good
They need an awesome name to make them sound dangerous and extreme.
I like Death Karts personally. This will surely get the ladies.
hahahahahaa
Bret Mullavey said:They need an awesome name to make them sound dangerous and extreme.I like Death Karts personally. This will surely get the ladies.
ye i recon formula k sounds sik haha
I say im taking my ""kart out and everyone thinks im taking my "car" out and you end up saying "go kart" anyways just to explain it. I think its just one of those things that is stuck.
bogan dirt karters?
i feel like a hypocrit, but i used to hate dirt karters, and called them bogan and that, till i became one haha.
i started racing speedway karts after 5 years of sprint karting, they hate me, i hate them. cant seam to mingle with them!
Jamie McCarthy said:Hmmm people refer to karting as sprint karts sometimes, As we have sprint karts, endurance karts, dirt karts, The only problem with calling it "sprint" karts is that people think about sprint cars and then we race karts around a dirt track and really dont want our kart racing to be put in the bogan dirt kart racing boat...
Sam Crack said:i started racing speedway karts after 5 years of sprint karting, they hate me, i hate them. cant seam to mingle with them
Would you really want to mingle with them, haha i went down there one time to check it out and it is a bogan part of our great sport! But one thing i will give them is that they get better following from sponsors then we can.
Also Formula K does sound sweet Karl
I dont mind what the Kiwi's have... "KartSport".
Formula K sounds very cool though