Let’s talk about fitness and endurance training for kart racing. Now when we look at kart racing, it doesn't seem too difficult. You just sit in a go-kart, you turn the steering wheel, press a couple of pedals, and away you go.
Let’s look at how to defend your position in a Go-kart race. We want to look at the strategies for maintaining your position, the techniques that you can use to your advantage, but also how to handle other aggressive opponents.
Tuning a racing go-kart is akin to fine-tuning a musical instrument; it's all about achieving perfect harmony for maximum performance on the track. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned karting enthusiast, understanding how to tune your kart can make a significant difference in your racing experience. In this article, we dive into the essential aspects of tuning a racing go-kart to help you extract every ounce of speed and control.
Let’s look at when to use positive or negative camber in kart racing. Now the first thing is what is camber? That's changing the angle of the tire. As you are looking at it from a top-down point of view, if you've got the tires pointing towards the inside of the kart, that's going to be negative camber. If they're pointing towards the outside of the kart, it's going to be positive camber. What we see with racing cars is, they've got suspension, so you're going to notice their tires are pointing towards the inside, towards the chassis or the frame of the car. That's going to be negative camber.
Let’s look at why it’s so important to not just drive at the one circuit. For some people, they don't have the luxury of having a circuit close to them. So, they might have to travel one or two hours away and be forced to just drive at the one circuit. If you are fortunate enough to have a couple of circuits within a reasonable drive, we want to look at the key advantages of experiencing new circuits.
Today we're going to be discussing how to find the last one second in kart racing. Now, it can be quite frustrating as you're starting out in karting and you're picking off one to two seconds at a time because you're just starting out and it all seems a little bit too easy. You're like, oh, how good's this going? My times are dropping. Then it comes down to that last second, and it's extremely hard to put it all together to get onto that front pack.
In motor racing, the aim is to drive as fast as you can. But sometimes, even when you are achieving your fastest laps, you have competitors right on your bumper. This might force you to drive more defensively to protect your line and position. We look at tips at how to drive defensively and keep your spot.
Whether you are a beginner who is just starting to learn kart racing, or an veteran racer, everybody comes back to the fundamentals of karting. Because without it, you won’t be able to excel in the next stages of your karting career. With that, here are 10 basic karting tips that are essential in taking your driving and racing skills to the next level.
In the world of go-kart racing, here you will experience the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. The victories and milestones you achieve are very rewarding, but the incidents and mishaps that come along will sting. However, always remember that there is something to be learnt from everything you experience, including the negative ones. In fact, it is often at our lowest points that we learn the most. It is these moments that help us grow, improve, and mature as drivers. With that, in this article, we will tackle how to take those steps of progress, big and small, and improve overall as a driver in go-kart racing.
Let’s discuss how some drivers can dominate on a practice day, but then can't translate that onto a race day. We see in practice sometimes, kids setting the fastest laps they've ever set. Two days later, or a couple of weeks later, get to race day and suddenly, they're 0.4, maybe even up to one second off the pace they were driving the weekend before.
How much of an effect does slipstream have and how can drivers best get it on the racetrack. Slipstream is something we see a lot in open wheel race cars. Thinking of F1, when they've got their DRS open. The reason for that is, they're trying to get less wind resistance. They open their rear wing on the straights, more wind flows through that space, it doesn't hit the wing to slow them down.
Let’s discuss how to drive in wet conditions, with some basic tips. Now when it comes to driving in the dry and then we change into the wet weather conditions, there's a stark contrast. Straight away there's limited grip when it comes to the wet weather driving that drivers need to pay attention to.
