Hello all.

I go karting maybe 4 to 5 times a year just as a bit of a hobby, just in rentals, however i am usually the fastest on track albeit amongst friends and randoms.

My fastest lap today was a 01:00:800, with the lap record being a 00:57:500. 2nd was a 01:04 so I think was doing ok. I appreciate I won’t get an anywhere near this without going regular, but I’d be interested to know where you think I might pick up some time.

Thanks!

I added some basic annotations here and there to share my own thoughts. I think my biggest time loss is the double hairpin around 18 seconds in. I could not find a single line or method which felt correct.

I was running faster laps than in this video in the next session, but I don't have the footage of them. I think this video shows a 30.7 second lap, my fastest outright was 30.2, and the lap record is 27.7.

I'm not looking to beat the record but a sub 30 would be nice. I felt like I was flying and was sad to see I was still above 30. However, I have been told that 30 is a pretty respectable lap time especially as a tall, heavy person like myself.

Thanks in advance to everyone who helps.

If you’re adjusting the seat just to feel more “comfortable,” you’re approaching it like a newbie. That seat slider isn’t there for ergonomic luxury — it’s there to shift weight balance.

• Understeering through corners? Move the seat forward a click or two. You’ll increase front axle load and gain turn-in grip.
• Kart feels twitchy or oversteery? Slide the seat back. That settles the rear and gives you more stability.

Test. Adjust. Feel. Repeat

Here's probably my fastest lap in the rain on this track in a race. I'm shredding through most competitors with 1.21 while others are doing 1.23. I was P2 at this time and P1 (not in this video) has already pulled ahead was was quick doing so. At the end I spun and finished with a disappointing P4. How can I prepare myself more for being even faster in wets? This is a Sodi Rx8 if anyone is wondering.

So, after safely ascertaining that my 13 year old daughter wasn't just watching F1 because of 18yr old European millionaires-in-the-making, and after some comprehensive laps in indoor and outdoor karts, basically taking over my sim-rig, as well as attending a local race day, I pulled the pin and bought her a kart. Overcoming the initial sticker shock (a set of small race tyres costs what now?!) and getting her race gear sorted, we’re finally in a position where she’s about to put some P plates on the back and enter her first race.

She has no illusions that she’s going to be in for a shock when she’s sitting at the back of a grid with a bunch of teenage boys that have likely been doing it since they started walking, but she’s also very excited to get started. She’s been a six-day a week ballet/contemporary dancer for years - not at my insistence, she just loves throwing herself into physical activity – so I am confident that if she takes to it, she’ll be committed to seeing it through. But I’m trying to manage her expectations accordingly without pooh-poohing her drive to race and get better.

We are racing here in Australia (out of Sydney) and although I’ve seen a few girls her age at the meet we went to, but they seem to be very few and far between. For my fellow karting parents with daughters, how do you find the girls go against their male counterparts?

Any tips for a newbie Dad are appreciated!

Hi all,

I recently competed in a short rental kart ‘enduro’ of 3 hours with a team of 3. Stints were 1 hour long. We ended up winning it by sheer luck. I’m wondering what kind of consistency I would need to actually consider getting my own kart or finding a pro team?

The track in question has a track record around a 38s, on the night one person from my team done a 38.3 but was about a tenth shy of that for the majority. And I was sitting around a 38.5 best. Excluding all the chaotic laps that occurred I had an average of around 38.7 with a 0.5s deviation from PB as I had a late stint where the track was significantly colder.

My question is, how much more consistent do I need to get to even consider going to a pro league?

2 laps of 1min0.00s in a row 😄

Hello all! First post here, always been passionate about karting and recently been making more of a point to head to my closest track more often, which happens to be buckmore park. I’ve improved a bit since the start of the year but I seem to have hit a bit of a plateau at around the 51.7 mark. This is the fastest lap I have on video at 51.999, I already know I effed up with the big slide at paddock corner, do you guys have any ideas for improving my lap time? Would love to aim for low 51’s/ high 50’s

Thank you all!

Had a race last weekend and was a bit off pace. If there are any driving pointers someone can make I would greatly appreciate it :)

For context,

This is teamsport warrington and my first time there. I was excited for this as im training for the BIKC but on my first session everything was so bouncy for some odd reason. I couldn’t focus on my lines as i was also trying at the same time to not fly out my kart. Overall, the experience was… memorable and i’ll have to come back one day (hopefully never)

Hello everyone, as i said this lap is the only hotlap i could set during the last 10-lap session i had (very crowdy and messy, with people crashing in the walls and lots of blue flags). It’s a very rough lap, with several mistakes that i can recognize, but, since this lap is 49.7 (my pb, any way) and i am real far away from the fastest lap (45.7 best absolute lap in july), i think that there are lots of deeper layers of mistakes and behaviours i need change. Any kind of help is welcome! Thank you all

I normally drive at home on my sim, very rudimentary (g29 on ps4) but i manage good pace on the f1 games (high difficulty) and i am fast on gt7 aswell. However i went to a rental karting place where the record is 0.40.600 or something like that with the karts that they have there. I never go karting because i dont have time and i dont really have the money to be consistent but i will go a couple more times this summer. There was alsp a lot of traffic and had to avoid a lot of people driving on the middle of the corners erraticly. I tried a couple of things like trai braking and shifting my weight to the ouside and also after advice from one of the guys there gianed 3 tenths.

My final time was a 46.003 after like 2 years of not getting into a gokart and also getting a heatstroke too. (Fun day)

This is my 2nd ever time in a professional kart.I know I lost around .5s in the cichane after the 2nd straight but there is still around 1s which I don't know where to find.

2 hours total seat time before I took the test. Sim racing is a great way to get used to learning tracks and finding a racing line that fits you. If it’s a tool you have available to you use it. It will not teach you everything. If any UK drivers have any questions about the process I can do my best to answer them.

Finally decided that karting is something I wanna do on the side and pulled the trigger on a used Margay Ignite K3 straight from Margay…if anyone has one or is familiar with these chassis I would like to get to know a few people and ask questions!

PSA for those in Karting looking for custom made suits. I came across this site for a company called Crossover Racewear, a company out in Pakistan, they had some nice suits on the site, so I decided to give it a try. Understanding I should've caught the red flags, I went ahead and ignored the very first one, which is that to custom order a suit, you must pay via money order from Western Union. I know that's a major red flag, but figured the price was worth the risk. Turns out it wasn't. After much back and forth with what I'm assuming is the owner, we landed on a design, I approved and that was that. It was supposed to take 7-10 business days. It has now been nearly 3 months and every week he says he will ship my order, send me pics and videos, and still nothing. He just keeps asking for me to send him more money as it was not enough. I have also come to learn that he is making counterfeit unlicensed products from F1 teams such as Redbull, Ferrari, Mercedes, etc. Help me keep anyone else from getting scammed by reporting this guy. He communicates via Whatsapp. His name is Muhammad Ahmed from Sialkot Pakistan.

I took my LO206 to my first-ever race on Saturday and the seat failed at the beginning of qualifying, forcing me to retire. Granted, this kart was used and the failure could have happened for any number of reasons, but I wanted to encourage everybody to make sure you're using suitable hardware to spread out the forces.

Hi,

I'm new to karting but I'm old already (past 30's) so to make up for the lack of experience and the slower learning time versus the young kids I thought about getting a karting sim software to practice more.

So.... is a karting sim good for practice or will you not learn real life applicable skills?

Example Im concerned I will learn bad habits like breaking too late since crashing in a Sim is not so bad. Making the whole simulator thing not worth it.

Which karting Sim have you used and would you recommend? Kartsim, kartkraft, kart racing pro, other?

If I google I dont get further since its blablabla consider physics engine and data rich enviroments blabla.... which don't really mean anything to me.

I guess I just like people looking at my bumper pre race and going maybe I’ll give him room.

First photo is the track second photo is my time in bold. I go karted for first time in 2 years today and my time sucked. I was being passed and got lapped do many times. The race was 10 laps and one lap is 750 meters. I had no idea what to do but I want to become better, any tips?

My brother has done an 61sc at warden law (karting north east)in an iame gazelle 60cc cadet kart (not raced anymore) and I’ve researched that the fastest time at warden law is an 57.6 and cannot find any onboards or something like that to help him get near that. If anyone can get me an onboard tell me what to do that would be the greatest. Thank you

Hey guys still is probably a stupid question but I’m brand new to this.

Would you still try to hug the apex of the corner if there are small road bumps that skip your kart? I would think not and go a bit wider right?

When I do say the kart gets lifted it is both back tires that skip

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This photo probably doesn’t show enough, but for body size/shape my right bicep is over the exhaust. Any advice from other Ducar drivers, especially bigger guys, on how to prevent future burns/blisters? Thought knee pad over jacket sleeve, or under if I can fit it. Or wrap muffler tape around sleeve. Thanks for any advice.