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Originally Posted by 911pcars
Some of you seasoned racers are pretty harsh on an 8 yo kid. A liability waiver was signed, but that doesn't absolve the track from negligence (works the same way when a parking attendant parks your vehicle). Exposing course workers and sitting targets to speeding karts is dangerous and negligent.
I believe the karts at K1 are electric, and if so, the crew has a master control over all vehicles. Sounds like a lack of training - management's issue. Hope your son is okay and quickly recovers. He doesn't need this experience to dampen his enthusiasm for motorsports.
Sherwood
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Initial first reactions of people when something goes wrong - is to either do nothing - or get to the scene of the accident. Running for a computer to shut down karts, then going to the scene is counter intuitive to natural instinct, which is to get to the problem first. Yes, continued training can change this instinct, but its not a natural reaction.
As for employee risk, all they have to do is jump on top of a kart and grab a roll bar if something is incoming, the kart's crash protection will extend to them.(been there, seen that.)
As to whether its a good idea to stop all the karts, will depend on the track length in time. 15 second track with 20 karts, then yeah, 45 second track with 5 karts, no.