{"id":39,"date":"2006-03-23T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T09:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2006-05-22T22:07:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T05:07:26","slug":"bondurant-ultimate-shifter-kart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Need for Speed???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to experience hair raising speed on four wheels, you must try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bondurantsuperkarts.com\"> Bondurant Ultimate Shifter Kart Course<\/a>. The shifter karts have a six speed manual transmission, and are capable of going zero to 100 mph in six seconds, and zero to 100 to zero mph in around 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t start feeling comfortable in the kart until the end of the three hour class. The experience of driving a shifter kart is unlike driving any street car. First, you sit a few inches off the ground, in a machine with mind-blowing acceleration (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bondurantsuperkarts.com\/multimedia.php?page=vid#kartvette\"> check out the Kart vs. Corvette video on the Bondurant site<\/a>). The karts do not have a clutch pedal, nor an H-pattern shifter. My left foot kept reaching for the clutch, and instead found the brakes. Unfamiliarity with the sequential gearbox would cause me to lose track of which gear I was in. Making those two blunders and then trying to find the right line into a high-speed turn is an unsettling experience, to say the least. When one finally nails a good lap, it&#8217;s quite a rush.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to go back for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bondurantsuperkarts.com\/courses.php\">lapping sessions<\/a>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/bondurant\">My Shifter Kart Images<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffnappi.com\/gallery\/superkart\">Jeff Nappi&#8217;s Shifter Kart Gallery, with videos!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/milestogo.azrunning.com\/mtgcontent\/gallery\/albums\/bondurant\/20060322_185258_JDD.jpg\" alt=\"Four Guys and a Shifter Kart...\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to experience hair raising speed on four wheels, you must try the Bondurant Ultimate Shifter Kart Course. The shifter karts have a six speed manual transmission, and are capable of going zero to 100 mph in six &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/?p=39\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azrunning.com\/milestogo\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}