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dexter fletcher goes go-karting in a piece promoting lock, stock and two smoking barrels (1998) - KARTRACING magazine, october 1998. 🏎️ 🚦more photos + article under the cut!

Dexter Fletcher and Nick Moran, stars of the new British film 'Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels', have raced karts indoors and they now fancied driving a racing kart outdoors. With some help from Deavinsons and their new PRD 2-stroke, KARTRACING was happy to oblige...

Club sound-system guru Darrin De-Grads contacted his friend Oli Wheeler (KARTRACING's track-tester) to see if he could arrange a 2-stroke PRD sample for his mates Nick and Dexter. The fact that they both wanted to experience the 2-stroke presented us with a fortuitous problem.

The inevitable spinning/stalling and push-starts that accompany the introduction to a traditional direct-drive machine present potential [?] for all concerned. Therefore, what we required was a user-friendly [2-stroke PRD,] one with a clutch. Since Deavinson's PRD is so equipped and [none of us] at KARTRACING have had a go in one, Oli and I arranged to meet Dexter and Nick at Rye House.

During the journey to Rye, Radio 1's film critic reviews, ironically, [covered] 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. Alarm bells should have [rang] when the character described Godzilla, in his round-up, as an underrated film and 'well worth checking out.' For his review of 'Lock, Stock...', he obviously decided that this highly praised film was due for a [?] and felt that the film's style, plot and structure were derivative of Quentin Tarantino, dismissing the film as merely a 'British Reservoir Dogs', a misplaced and ironic observation considering that Tarantino himself is always keen to explain how Reservoir Dogs is a pot-pourri of various movies.

However, what interested me was the negative application of the word 'derivative.' Now, without wishing to get into some philosophical [discussion,] what the hell isn't 'derivative' these days, and especially within the [?] of go-karting.

Deavinson's PRD is another attempt at devising a 'budget' 2-stroke - goodness me, how 'derivative!' [...]

partial transcript of the article written by Nick Gordon