I'm tall and I don't do it either so you probably shouldn't. From time to time I see others moving it to the rear because they want to have space for their feet but go karting is not like driving a comfortable limousine. Moving the seat to the front usually is the only way to achieve more front weight. The more oversteering the less you need to do. It depends on how strong the kart's oversteering tendency is. Sometimes you need to activate the drift with a short but hard braking maneuver and blocking tires. How to initiate the drift? Well, first get your weight to the front! This sounds paradoxical but it makes the kart more oversteering thus more unstable thus "easy" to start the drift. There's maybe a really short period where you aren't on the brake nor on the gas which breaks my first rule but you get the idea. Shortly after initiating the drift before the apex point you can hit the gas again so that the engine gains RPM. The curve entry speed can be higher because still the kart is going to decelerate via drifting. That's true but in racing the right amount of unstability is exactly what we want. Normally we learn that braking should be finished before cornering because it makes the vehicle unstable. Especially at end there is a slow motion to get a better feeling how it may look like. But there's another: controlled drifting inside the curve.Ī kid is practicing threshold braking a couple of rounds. The most common way to decelerate in front of a curve – you don't want to get off the track, I guess – is. No need to slowly accelerate because rental karts don't have overpowered engines that would make you slide. Hitting the gas usually is an all or nothing proposition. Rolling means losing speed because you could have hit the gas even longer. One rule of thumb while driving is that you should never roll. Since all racers have the same karts – yeah more or less – you cannot accelerate or decelerate better on the straight than your fellows. To be fast you need concentrate on the curves. I focus on gas powered rental karts that have rear brakes only because those are the ones that most hobbyists deal with. Many novices don't use it because it doesn't seem natural or logical at first sight but I'm going to explain so you can start applying it immediately the next time you are on the go kart track. This article is going to describe a commonly used technique in go karting to achieve faster cornering. ![]() I use it and it helped me to improve my lap time by 2 seconds on a 52 seconds lap from one round to the other. Follow these techniques and you are going to improve your lap times dramatically.
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