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Superkarts In Las Vegas 2009


Dan, ignoring Vette, watching karts.

More track action



Lots of traffic in the early laps.

Traffic


Start of a Saturday afternoon race


Standing start for shifter karts



Ooops

Happens a lot at kart races

Sometimes you get admonished

The loneliest place from which to watch a race.

Spin, stall, push,

Spin, stall, push, and - you'r off again!

Sometimes, you can't get restarted. Appropriate sign for kart being drug in after incident.

Lifting a rear wheel. Since karts have no differential on the rear axle, they are set up to reduce loading on the inside wheel, but this is extreme.

Photographers are not known for worrying about their safety

SuperPro Race: SuperPro drivers lined up for introductions. Schumacher in green near left with green sunglasses.

Buemi introduction

Schumacher introduction

First lap: Bas Lammers (60) went on to win

Piquet started around 12th in the SuperPro race.

Schumacher mired in traffic. Piquet is right behind him.

Piquet (80) leads Buemi (20) who retired early in the race

The 7-times F1 champion gets lots of attention.

The race was truly international. Jeremy Inglesias from France, leads Jonathan Thonon from Belguim and Tony Lavanant (Fr).