Quote from jasonmatthews :

Hiya all, someone left a grey jacket at the kart centre. I have picked it up and it is now at my house, so if you recognise it let me know and I will send it to you

These were Jason Lovett's and his Dad's tops

Send a pm to eq worry here http://www.lfsforum.net/private.php?do=newpm&u=192431

Then he will ask for a small donation and will help you get it setup i'm sure

Quote from jmari :

Hello

The Airio version on your servers is a FREE or FULL version ??

It will be the free version. It is up to you to pay for that if you want it, as the license is yours and only yours.

Hiya all, someone left a grey jacket at the kart centre. I have picked it up and it is now at my house, so if you recognise it let me know and I will send it to you

I personally would much prefer an outdoor track in Scotland. We have done up north, the midlands and down south so I think it is time for scotland to have a go. Also I agree with Becky that on that massive indoor track the racing will be shite as you won't see much of the other karts hardly at all.

Hi Jason,

Following our conversation, please find below details of the private Grand Prix and Endurance events that we offer on our Main Arena. For your records I have also attached prices for the shared events we offer on our Main Arena and the private hire events we offer on our Standard Circuit.

Speedkarting Warrington specialises in race events for adults over the age of 18.

All race events must be booked in advance.
We apologise in advance for the volume of information: with 2 circuits to choose from, there really are lots of options for you to consider.

Please do not hesitate to contact our booking office for any further assistance (open Monday – Thursday 9am to 5.30pm and Friday 9am to 5pm on 01925-415114).

However we do hope the following will help as a starting point…


MAIN ARENA

The largest, longest running, purpose built indoor karting circuit in the UK. And as of September 2006 now the only 3 level indoor circuit, incorporating the longest Monaco-style tunnel, in the UK.

The Main Arena building is approximately 90,000 sq ft, the circuit itself being 1000m in length and approximately 9m in width. Please see our web site www.speedkarting.co.uk for a view of the Main Arena.

On this circuit we offer private events (Exclusive) 7 days / 7 nights per week, subject to availability and booking restrictions.

We can also accommodate shared events (Opens) on Saturday or Sunday afternoons or evenings; particularly in mind for groups below 20 / individuals.


Private hire options

1) Exclusive Grand Prix (Main Arena)
A Grand Prix is an individual driver competition where people compete over a number of heats / races to accumulate as many points as possible with their sights set on qualifying for the overall Grand Prix Final. This event is not a knock out competition; all drivers will receive 5 races each (subject to punctuality of arrival, standard of driving, etc.).

Each race will have 7 / 8 drivers participating with the Grand Prix Final having 8 / 10 drivers.

The event also includes tuition, practice, equipment hire, computerised timing, trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd and a bottle of ‘Chateau Mersey’ for the winner!

For many, many years the minimum weekday evening booking was an event lasting 3.5 hours costing £1800 inc. vat. This event is still available for larger groups of up to 40 drivers but due to demand we have recently introduced much smaller private hire events than ever before, reducing the private hire cost by up to 50% for parties of up to 20 drivers!!

Your private hire Grand Prix choices now being:

i)A Grand Prix lasting approximately 2 hours costing £900 inc. VAT; this GP allows you to bring up to 20 drivers
New for 2009: Additional drivers = we can now accommodate up to 4 additional drivers at £45 inc. vat each = maximum event of 24 drivers.

ii)A Grand Prix lasting approximately 2&3/4 hours costing £1350 inc. VAT; this GP allows you to bring up to 30 drivers
New for 2009: Additional drivers = we can now accommodate up to 2 additional drivers at £45 inc. vat each = maximum event of 32 drivers.

iii)A Grand Prix lasting approximately 3&1/2 hours costing £1800 inc. VAT; this GP allows you to bring up to 40 drivers
New for 2009: Additional drivers = above 40, each additional driver will be charged at £45 inc. vat. No maximum limit to additional drivers.
NB: we do however need exact numbers on booking to allocate the correct time for the completion of your event.

The circuit is available to book 7 days / 7 nights per week privately (subject to availability).

However to be able to accommodate these new smaller events on weekday evenings we do have certain start times at which we offer certain sizes of event: please contact our office for assistance (June ’09).


2) Exclusive Endurance (Main Arena)
A private hire team event; the team who complete the most laps around the circuit within the allocated racing time are the winners! This format is all about team tactics!!

The event includes tuition, practice, equipment hire, computerised timing, and trophies for all team members of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed teams with one bottle of ‘Chateau Mersey’ for the winning team!

The minimum option for an Endurance on this circuit is £1800 inc. VAT for 6 karts on the circuit with a 2-hour race plus practice and tuition. This event is for an unlimited number of drivers (within reason) and would last approx 3&1/2 hours in total.

You can increase the number of karts / teams for your event; if required this would be at a cost of £250.00 inc. VAT per kart / team.

Additional racing time is available if required; please contact our booking office for details.

We would accommodate an Endurance event 7 days / 7 nights per week = start times are flexible, subject to availability.


3) Gold Card Exclusive Grand Prix
Unique to the Main Arena, this is an ‘all inclusive’ package providing lots of extras including additional races for each driver, catering with beverages, etc.

Please contact our office for full details / minimum numbers / cost / availability / etc.




CATERING


Main Arena

On all Main Arena race events, the circuit side café will be open for guests to purchase refreshments, as they require.

Alternatively catering can be pre-ordered, served on commencement of racing to be enjoyed in between races. Menus are available if required.

NB – due to customer feedback we would not recommend pre-booked catering on events of less than 30 drivers. Please call to discuss this in detail / your requirements.




BOOKING PROCEDURE

To make a booking please contact our booking office on 01925-415114 during office hours: Monday to Thursday 9am to 5.30pm and Friday 9am to 5pm.

To save time on arrival for your event, we recommend that you pay in full when you book in.

However you can, if you wish, pay 50% of the cost of a private hire event as a deposit. The outstanding balance is then payable on event arrival at latest (including catering, if required).

We also require a fully completed booking form, hard copy.



I do hope this helps! Please do not hesitate to contact us should you require any further assistance. I will send a copy of our brochure to you in tonight’s first

Thanks again,
Claire



PLEASE NOTE:
To participate in a race event the minimum age is 18 years

Details contained within this email are correct as at date of production, June 2009. Speedkarting Ltd reserves the right to change any details without prior notice.

No way!!

I just want to help us get started is all

Just spoke to the Manchester Centre, they are very accomodating. They are willing to tailor make an event for us, but the gold package sounds pretty good. It is £1950 for a 3 1/4 hour event for 30 drivers. Included in the price is coffee, tea and biscuits on arrival, BBQ and MOET champagne for the winners. This works out at £65 each, which isn't bad at all. The centre are sending me details via email and a brochure.

We need to get this kind of information for each of the centres we are considering, so if anyone wants to speak to the kart centres in scotland that sound good aswell, then we could run a poll maybe when we have the options.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Found it: http://www.speedkarting.co.uk/

Not quite a labryrinth I'm afraid, but does look more interesting than your typical indoor circuit.

Track layout: http://www.speedkarting.co.uk/images/main_track.jpg

I agree, if we were to do an indoor track, that one does look alot better than all the others I have seen. Also, looking at the prices, it could be quite cheap?

Quote from boothy :

http://www.xtremekarting.co.uk/Panaramaofcircuit.stm Think its the same circuit as the last time I was there, though they chance it every so often...

Well I wouldn't want to travel all that way to do that circuit if I was being honest, which I am

Got any links Ray? Worthwhile looking into

Well we did around 1.5 to 2 hours karting each on Saturday, and I think I can safely speak for everyone and say that was enough. Any more and I wouldn't have enjoyed it at all, but saying that, the last races were by far the best, as we all knew the tracks so well by then. I did the very last stint, I had to hold off 4 faster karts for at least 20 minutes, but it was an awesome race (cheers pswillies, krslim, tongey and boothy)

Quote from Bawbag :

A Scotland karting meet would be considered.......

The Extreme Karting in Falkirk is quite decent, they are running some competition atm too, your 3 best times from 3 differnt sessions get added together and if you are in the top 20 you get to compete in a heat, this happens at quite a few karting centers over Scotland, until eventually you get the final 20.

Usually it is a fixed price, and we all want the same amount of track time for our money, being a scot you should understand that So a knockout comp wouldn't be the best IMHO

Quote from CSF :

And then Keith found actual prices and we were in business. Buuuuut... hmmm... is it a great idea the boothy and I trying to organise this... I mean I didn't even make it this year due to some stunning piece of shit called money and work... hmmm.... :P

Don't worry Chris, when you have 30+ people travelling from around the world relying on you, including lots of moderators and developers, and the leaders of your team, knowing we know where you live, you suddenly find you HAVE to sort it all out

Quote from amp88 :

When is this in the planning for? Next July or sooner?

We normally have it around July/August, to avoid the shitty weather in this god forsaken country We then run a poll of available dates to fix the exact weekend.

TBH we were amazingly lucky, it has rained in Wales every day leading up to and after the karting. Last Saturday was the only nice day we have had.... AWESEOME!!

Quote from Bob Smith :

Unless you're planning on organising the next meet, it doesn't make sense to discuss things away from the majority of potential attendees. Plus, this is the real forum.

So tell your team mates to post over 'ere!

Well to be fair, Boothy (may aswell be SR) and CSF (SR) were discussing organising it in Scotland, that is why the convo started over there :P

Yeah Bob, Craig (need) did mention it, and it did sound very good. Ideally we should get as many options and costings as we can in the next few days/weeks, then work out which is the best option. But we are having two convo's atm, one on our forum at SR and one here, quite confusing

That looks VERY interesting Amp, 70mph pro karts Close to Edinburgh aswell. Maybe you could give them a call and ask how long the karting is for? It says £600 for 12 people, which equates to £50 each, but it doesn't say how much track time that is?

Quote from mcgas001 :

Hehe...come on then Jason. Where and when is the next meet?

There is a discussion going on at our forum about looking into doing it in Scotland. I am more than happy to host one again at mine, but it is someone else's turn now

lol, you really can't take a joke eh Passo JP is for Justin Parker, will update my previous post

Edit: 9 Hours to go Joe's pics are up, aswell as Boothy's first part.

Last edited by jasonmatthews, Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:47.

Yeah, renamed them, so they will be signed with mb for Michael Booth, aka Boothy, JP for Justin Parker - aka Dru or CR|J.Parker and JK for Joe Keaveney, aka iCON Joe. I assume KJ will also be in there later, which will be Kenneth Oaten, aka [SR] KayJay. If everyone who uploads photo's can do the same, it will help

Last edited by jasonmatthews, Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:43.

Good thinking Dean, I still have loads to upload, so I might aswell do that for the rest.

I did upload the lot, but unfortunately it looks like it broke 500 servers, waiting for franky500 to tell me it's fixed

There are some you might not have seen here

Last edited by jasonmatthews, Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:17.

Or what if you had a stable version, say 2.30, with its config settings set in stone. Then for all the little updates, until the next stable release, lets say 2.40, airio would read the 2.30 config file, and also the update configs.

So when you install airio 2.35 for example, it would read cfg.txt (same as in 2.30) then also read cfg.35.txt, which could have default values on install of the updated airio. This way, us server operators would not have to change anything at all, unless we wanted to use the new features.

Wasn't me, honest guv