2010, a terrific year for CRG (part two)

CRG GROUP closes the year with excellent resluts and shows a growing trend at World level. Regarding the regulations, a Technical Development of the KF Engine is getting more and more urgent in order to give back to the National Karting its own Identity. 2nd part of Giancarlo Tinini‘s Interview.

So, which will the CRG sports engagement be in 2011?
“We will continue our racing programme in the WSK International Championships, where our official team will be always present. In 2011, anyway, we will take part in the CIK-FIA races again, in the new five-round World Championship, the KZ World Cups and in the European Championships.”

What are your expectations about the International regulations?
“It seems that CIK is willing to meet our requests, but at the moment, in particular from the technical point of view, for me there’s still a lot to do. We all hope that in the future we will be able to optimize the development for the KF category which needs it urgently. The KF category is a rather complex one. That’s why the category needs new regulations which can help to simplify it in order to make it a more popular category. Unfortunately I still notice how other constructors do not have the same opinion and seem to prefer to leave the category unchanged. I think that this is the way not to make the category soar in order to preserve the single-brands that these constructors have at their disposal.

I’m convinced that the path to follow for karting is the one represented by KF; but instead of keep it at this level, either we stop it and we put all our efforts in the single -brands or we face the situation once for all and we solve the problem. Four years have passed since the birth of the KF. We are about to enter the fifth year and we are still treading on the old path without finding a possible solution. It is a negative situation which casts a shadow on the internal market. There’s such a chaos today in the national markets – not only in the Italian one but in all the markets in general – which is caused exclusively by the lack of a reference category.

Unfortunately today there’s no more a fully fledged national “classic” racing category, where everybody can race and compete with a wide choice of products of different companies. This exists only at international level in the CIK and WSK championships. And today we see how the choice for a single-brand rather than for another one is made only because, after all, is much simpler but also much less interesting both from a technical and competitive point of view. If CIK does not decide to face the problem and put the pieces back together, the situation will never get better. If we don’t change, future won’t be better.“

As for 2011, what are the market perspectives?
“We have rather positive signals for our range of products that can meet the needs of all our customers. We think we can continue to maintain our market share as for the chassis. Moreover we have just finished the set up of a good chassis for the rental which completes our offer. Regarding the Maxter engines, we hope that sooner or later things will get better in the KF category. As CRG we will continue on the Rotax side to promote this single-brand at national level. However, if the economic slump should not end, the Rotax world is the right medicine for those who want to race and get some fun cheaply.”

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