Maui Go Karters Association

Cool story from Art Gumpfer below — sharing his email along with the photos and video he sent us.

"You gotta love this. My uncle Ken Sylva of the Drag Association invited my son to do a halftime show at a night drag race. So we took two of my C.R.G. Stock Moto Honda setups and Tom Zaccagnini a long time club member drove my second kart. I left Tom's kart with normal track gearing at a 1.52 ratio , and I threw the biggest front sprocket on Alecs Kart , a monster 19 on front and a 47 on the back I had to add like six links on the chain to make it work. I had no idea of a standing start quarter mile it ended up being a little tall off the line with all that traction no wheel spin at all and he had to slip the clutch and no practice we put the gear on in the staging lanes we only did one run because the return was so bumpy it was scraping the chassis if we had another run he would've known how to slip the clutch and we would've been in the 12 second range easily as it was we ran a 13.29 @94 mph. You can tell by the time slip that the gearing was too tall because between 1000 feet and 1320 he gained 6 miles an hour he should only gain about one mile an hour between that distance at the end he went through at a low RPM in sixth gear so I estimate if I get it right the stock moto would run at 12:50.
Needless to say the spectators were shocked ,
it was fun
Just sharing"