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Originally Posted by Casper
A thesis could be written on why people change leisure pursuits away from what previous generations did. One huge impact on motor sport in this country is the implosion happening in karting, cutting the roots out of motor sport. The knock on effect will be felt through the next decade initially and that has already begun.
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Karting in NZ had, I'm pretty sure, less than 1000 race licence holders at one stage. It was rather sad to see as we had massive fields in the mid-1990's. We had three classes at our kart club that had close to track limit fields. The KT 100 was the engine of the day.
Later on, there was a move to more international categories which escalated costs massively and alienated a huge amount of kart racers who simply did it for the love and fun of the sport. A guy I know was doing an "arrive and drive" deal, for his son, although he owned all the gear. He knocked it on the head when it got to around $2500 a meeting.