THE ATMOSPHERE WAS thick with excitement, as the screams of two-stroke engines rang through the air at the Mohite Racing Academy Circuit. The qualifying session saw the Asia Micro Max champion, Agra ...lad Shahan Ali Mohsin, driving for the Meco Racing team, set the time to beat at 57.603 seconds, followed by Bengaluru's Arjun R (Birel Art) and Pune's Aadityansh K (Rayo Racing), both less than a second behind Shahan. The first 15-lap heat of the day once again saw Ghorpade triumphant, finishing the race just ahead of his team-mate Manav, and setting a fastest lap of the race (51.945) in the process. ...place went to Nirmal Umashankar, who fought hard to keep the rest of the pack at bay. Senior Max Sunday's Pre Final once again saw Ricky Donison work his magic, stretching out a 9.891-second lead over the rest of the pack in the 18-lap race.
JK Tyre Indikarting National Series entered the final stages of the championship with the penultimate round being held in Ludhiana recently JK Tyre's new initiative to bring racing to the masses ...recently saw 82 kart racers take to the karting track in Ludhiana in various categories.
Motorsport karting has developed into a professional international competition. Kart racing poses a unique set of physiologic challenges for athletes who compete in this sport. Until today no major ...study has evaluated the physical and cardiac challenge in professional kart racing.
The aim for this study was to measure and analyze heart rate and cardiac rhythm by a mobile, smartphone based ECG (s-patch) on professional kart-race-drivers during actual karting races through annual seasons to test the hypotheses that high g-force and stress could trigger cardiac arrhythmia.
ECG-data from kart-drivers were acquired during local races, the ADAC Kart-Masters (KZ2), the German Kart Championship (DSKC) and the European Championship Senior CIK-FIA-Serie and analyzed in this observational study. In total, free practice, qualifying practice and 32 races were assessed during the kart season 2019. Data were interpreted by two independent experienced physicians.
The average heart rate (HR) during a selected German Kart Championship (DSKC) race in Genk (Belgium) was 169 beats min-1. The longest R-R interval was 0.72 sec. The average HR during a selected European Championship CIK-FIA-race in Lonato (Italy) was 160 beats min-1. The longest R-R interval was 0.74 sec. The average HR during a selected ADAC Kart-Masters (KZ2) races in Wackersdorf (Germany) was 147 beats min-1. The longest R-R interval was 0.86 sec. In total 32 races could be recorded successful. No couplets or bigeminy cycles were detected. In one other kart racer a supraventricular extrasystole and a ventricular extrasystole was detected. Interestingly, kart-drivers were found to have sinustachycardia throughout the races most likely triggered by emotional and physiological stress during speeding.
Professional kart racing drivers had sinustachycardia with heart rates up to 193 beats min-1 during races. This is most likely attributed to a considerably high emotional and physiological stress affecting the cardiovascular system. Episodes of tachycardia positively correlated with mean speed. In the warm-up lap the heart rate was significantly lower in comparison to the race, suggesting that faster driving speed would induce greater cardiovascular stress to professional drivers during actual races. The experimental results showed that the proposed S-patch system provided a good ECG signal quality with accurate measurements even during the kart race and could detect the ECG features of the race in real time. The cardiac interpretation software performs well and is a useful tool to assist clinicians.
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...placed Chittesh and fourth-placed Ameya Bafna also skipped one place ahead each, but Ameya moved into second halfway through the race and stayed there until the end, meaning Chittesh had to settle ...for third.
