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In the early days, karts were direct drive only, but the inconvenience of that setup soon led to the centrifugal clutch for the club level classes. Dry centrifugal clutches are now used in many categories (Rotax Max is one example) and will soon become the norm as the top international classes will be switching to 125 cc clutched engines in January 2007.
IAME (Parilla, Komet), TM, Vortex, Titan, Yamaha and Rotax are manufacturers of such engines. The current 2006 World Champion is Davide Fore from Italy. They are usually raced on scaled-down circuits. In the early days, karts were direct drive only, but the inconvenience of that setup soon led to the centrifugal clutch for the club level classes. * In Straight chassis the driver sits in the center. Dry centrifugalThe stiffness of the chassis enables different handling characteristics for different circumstances. 100 cc 2-stroke kart engines can run at 19,000 rpm. There are many different classes or formulae in karting. Speedway racing takes place on dedicated kart circuits resembling small road courses, with left and right turns. The most celebrated
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