Tuesday, August 20, 2019

These are called "cross kart", or RX2, or ARX3, and it looks to me, is what we'd rather be zipping around in than a rally car that costs a 1/4 million and needs expensive parts. Also, it looks like a lot more fun than an indoor racing go cart



so if you have some great unused back woods dirt roads,



or gravel quarries,



or empty fallow fields

I think your only going to look at those locations with regret from now on, wishing (like me) that you had one of these, and some buddies with these, a day off work when you can all get together to goof off, and some gas.

Prices are steep... you can buy a new Camaro or Mustang for the same money, even used Corvettes! A complete base SIERRA starts at 40k, and the most commonly raced RX3 car is 50k.

But, it might just be cheaper to build your own, if you're a welder, with a 750cc engine and sequential gearbox from a Suzuki GSXR750 or some similar chain drive rocket. These weight about 650 lbs

It looks like, with very little research, that these cost around 40k in the USA, and the Semog is a European race cart, but these are built in the USA by Fast and Speed, Crosskarts USA,  Lyfe Motorsports / Sierra Cars, and called the CrossKart or ARX 3. You can even rent them at track days for $100 minimum - that's 25 per lap, 4 minimum - bring a helmet that is up to spec (good lord, you know you have to buy a new one every so often because some asshole keeps updating the stupid things in some minute way, then claiming the old ones he just thought were the best thing ever are now unsafe? Fucking mook is not wasting HIS money buying us a replacement)

The ARX 3 is a new introductory-level rallycross machine with 200hp six-speed at 900lbs and 0-60 at about 2.8 seconds.

https://www.facebook.com/semogracing/
https://www.arxrallycross.com/news/2019/5/22/americas-rallycross-launches-arx3

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