Formula 600; paging just-a-scratch - You're future awaits...

Kinja'd!!! "Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
02/21/2017 at 20:01 • Filed to: None

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just-a-scratch, commenting on a 600cc ice-kart video I posted : ”I have an ‘05 600RR with questionable frame. Hmmmm. I think my wife would stop that kind of lunacy before it got to the functional stage.” Well, Have I found the ticket for you! Formula 600 racing! What was once 500cc cvt 2-stroke stuff is now ripping racy noise. It’s got all the goods!

-paddle shift

-130+ mph

-”affordable” slicks

-low downforce squirm

-power to get you in trouble

-multi-class heat events (f6 runs with f5 and Fvee )

It’s still a relatively new offshoot of a long established F500 class, but it brings in modern equipment, feels and noises.


DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! AntiSpeed > Grindintosecond
02/21/2017 at 20:10

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Is that a 600cc motorcycle engine in an F500 chassis??


Kinja'd!!! Grindintosecond > AntiSpeed
02/21/2017 at 20:12

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indeed it is!

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Kinja'd!!! AntiSpeed > Grindintosecond
02/21/2017 at 20:33

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Awesome! I always thought F500 would be fun if they didn’t sound so awful.


Kinja'd!!! Grindintosecond > AntiSpeed
02/21/2017 at 21:29

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F500 is actually slightly faster in top speed but the f600 is using intake restrictor plates to equalize the 600 motors across makes, at least last I knew that’s what they were doing. So max usable rpm’s go around 13k and on the banked charlotte road/oval they’re hitting 135.


Kinja'd!!! AntiSpeed > Grindintosecond
02/21/2017 at 22:01

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I would trade some top speed to not have to listen to REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE at a constant tone for an entire race.


Kinja'd!!! 2BWise > Grindintosecond
02/22/2017 at 10:04

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Look up the Formula 600 Challenge. The winner of that series is eligible for a seat in a USF2000 car for the following season. The main sponsor of the F600 Challenge also runs a USF2000 team (RJB Motorsports). F600 is definitiely enticing and are probably now the best sounding formula cars at an SCCA event. They sound moderately like a V10 F1 car.