Hello and welcome to my racing channel, here you will find various racing videos and tutorials on how to improve your driving techniques.
I've had a lot of experience over the years starting karting at the age of 11 back in 2008 and have competed in a significant amount of championships like the following: Various 2 stroke club championships around the midlands, Formula Kart Stars in 2009 with the likes of George Russel and Lando Norris, 2 kart masters events, 2 seasons in Easykart junior, 2 seasons in Easykart senior, 1 season in Club 100, 3 seasons in Covkartsport, at least 10 British 24hr kart races at Teesside and Milton Keynes with 5 resulting in being the winners, 1 season in the Northampton karting league, 2 seasons in the British Pro-kart Endurance Championship and finally I won the Super one British eSports Championship in the senior class.
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What are the biz kart corporate events like now adays.?? Quality of karts. I visited today but was met by a stony faced Gate keeper women at the desk, who didn't sell any of the events nor the slightest bit interested to talk.
From my experience I’ve never had a problem with the staff at the circuit but as for the karts I raced there recently in Karun Chandhok’s charity event and the karts were dreadful, the variety in pace, lucky to even finish the race. Karun sent out an email after the event apologising for the karts and said they are expecting a new fleet before the next event in 2025 so I would hold off until then if your planing an event there until the new fleet comes unless it’s more just for fun.
@@BWR33 They were upgraded for the 24 hour last year, but there was a big speed difference between the Sodi's and the DMax's. More recently, around February i think, they have done a 'upgrade' including grippier tyres to get the times back towards the previous fleet time. They suggest 2-3 seconds faster than previously. It's the 24 hour again this weekend, so we shall see. Fastest lap last year - times matched by the 5 or 6 teams with the staff karts - were in the 1:13s. Im expecting to see some times in the 1:10s this year. For me the biggest problem with Daytona - a similar problem with all arrive and drive tracks tbh - is kart discrepancy. There were clearly faster karts than ours last year which, for example, pulled 5 kart lengths on the main straight despite a worse exit from the bottom hairpin. But its shouting in the wind to try and get that resolved, i think.
@@stevepearce5182 completely agree with the kart differences, it will always be the same wherever you go, the place that I’ve seen do the best with keeping the karts as close as possible is the Club 100 championship but they will never be perfect, as for the times for this weekend will be interesting to see the difference compared to the old tyre compound, also good luck for the weekend 👍
@@BWR33 Yes i agree. C100 do so well because they have a kart tester who checks for a representative (and very quick) laptime - i recall they aim for 3 tenths gap. I heard that the reference lap time when we asked for our kart to be tested last year was a 1m21 - not much good when we were lapping 5 seconds faster. Thanks!
Most helpful video! Do you have any tips on how to brake in order to get the kart rotated on the way into the corner? You’ve mentioned a few times on this video about a little slide on the way in.
Yeh so for me I do this technique into slower corners to help get the kart rotated, a lot of corporate karts tent to suffer from a lot of understeer so this is where it helps the most, I’ll go on the brakes hard ( but not hard enough to lock up and loose control) and stay on the brakes just after turning into the corner which make the rear of the kart try to step out canceling out some of the understeer on the way into the corner. Hope this explanation helps you 👍
@@BWR33 that’s useful, thanks! I did a D40 at MK on the weekend and used this technique. It was going great, I was running top 3 after 10 laps or so. But then I got greedy on the brakes and locked the rears, sending me into a half spin. Finished P5, so room for improvement.
Glad it was useful for you, it’s just about finding that balance of rotation and not locking up too much, practice will make it become more natural and will help bring in the results 👌
That’s actually me at the end of your video about to let you past haha. Can definitely see now where I was going wrong with the wet line on that section. Great help! Subbed.