This is perfect dude! I just got to Miami and going to Orlando tomorrow, was hoping to get some fun with Go Karts and didnt know what was the best option, thank you bro!
Hell yeah! Ryan Norberg hanging out in the rental karts with the rest of us! I have a series of videos on my channel from our local league, I think you've been to Pat's a couple times? Rentals (and rental leagues) are definitely a good place to learn race craft without worrying about destroying your kart while learning to pass or draft. I think if you can be successful in the rentals, you'll have a much better start in racing your own kart.
Yes, he is fast! Senna, my son, is also there with you at Sykart putting down top times. You can visit my channel or the RacingForBeginners channel. I'm not trying to highjack this but hoping to get more people into watching some quality indoor driving vids and get to the tracks! \(^_^)/
@@NorbergNation thank you so much Ryan! It would mean a lot to both Senna and I. They just changed the track so I need to upload the new footage of it.
Thank you so much man! I travled the east coast and found out that some karting places are more pointed towards family friendly and a secondary item. I'll definetly checkout the kart orlando kart center when visiting for the daytona 500
Thanks for the shoutout!! Sorry you didnt have a good time at K1 speed Orlando, i think indoor karting and outdoor karting are just polar opposites, you can tell the outdoor karting gives a more hardcore or realistic experience to pro karts, while indoor karting is just for a family friendly fun night out
I love watching your stuff, I was interested to see what you thought of K1 because that’s where I got my start. The things that sucks about K1 is that they have I think 4 different speeds on the kart and increase it as you get more experience. So you don’t get the full experience unless you race after a while and show the staff you are a good driver. I really enjoyed watching this video though and it was cool seeing the difference between all these tracks.
so the karts at k1 speed have 4 speeds. speed 1 is for the junior karts, and speed 3 is for the adult karts. when you become a regular there (or have a certain k1rs) the staff turn your kart up to speed 4. you'll certainly feel the difference and there is also some skill involved because you have to break at certain points. if you don't want to become a regular, than that's fine. there's also the gp(gopro) challenge. K1 speed hosts this once a month every month, each year. it's the first sunday of every month. all the racers are sped up to speed 4. and you compete for a prize at the end. I hope this comment helped. also the reason why andyracertv was passing everybody so easily was because he was on speed 4.
I keep hearing this. That definitely changes my opinion on the place but id still prefer a track where all the karts go as fast as possible from the start.
Have you ever tried NOLA Motorsports Park? It’s near New Orleans, Louisiana. I have a few clips on my RU-vid if you want to see how it goes. There is also a separate track for faster karts, but I never tried those yet
Would love to race you at OKC. I've got about 60 races in rental karts on that track and find it most fun when you're racing someone with the same skills level!!
Andretii I feel it's exclusively for casuals and noobs like myself. It's definitely a place where everyone can participate in which is great. It's good to gather a whole group of friends/family. It's easier to convince your date to gokart there than say OKC. I don't think there's enough width on the track to realitically go 35mph unless alone. The fake engine noises are also cute lol. I've also been to Orlando Kart Center it's pretty much inbetween a bunch of construction / industrial buildings in the far corner of dead end roads unlike Andretii which makes it less touristy but that's also why the tracks are legitimate.
Did you tell the guys at K1that you're a real driver? If you just show up and its your first couple of races they do not give you full power. I went to Orlando K1 2 wks ago and after the first race I went up two the guy with thr controller and told him I was experienced. He didn't want to believe me and said that if he gives me full power that I'll end up in the wall. I showed him that I was top 3 fastest and the week or Fort Lauderdale K1. Then he said "oh man ok I got you on the next race". Want out for the next race and the kart was easily 30% fastest and I clicked off 7th fastest lap on the 2nd lap of that race. But yeah if they don't know you the carts are set to slow speed.
Have you tried Elev8 Fun in Sanford FL? It's another go kart track with 45 mph electric karts. That place is just like Andretti Karting Orlando. And it's a new place from January this year.
I’m entering rental league at my local track for the first time this year. I’ve been going to the track for a little over a year now practicing getting my lap times down. Any quick tips for driving the low horsepower rentals quicker!? I’ve watched nearly all of your videos but feel maybe some of the techniques you teach apply more to the higher horsepower 2 stroke karts. Thanks for all the good content!
Everything applies to rental karts as well. The biggest thing to do is keep your speed up. Try to not overslow the kart. The low HP karts need help to get off corner. So making their job harder just makes you slower
Andretti looks like the EXACT same as supercharged karting. Even down to the karts. Takes skill to go fast there, but all the 20 year old dudes thinking they’re the fastest out there got frustrating. Impossible to pass someone if they defend
Karting for the public just isn't proper Karting, it's never going to be fun for someone whos done proper Karts. In the UK we have a couple companies that even do public arrive and drive 2 strokes with Rotax engines, but they're restricted to Mini Max power and the Chassis is about 125kg rather than 80kg with very hard tyres and even that's not half of what a genuine X30 or Rotax Senior can do. Indoor is meant for messing about with friends and family for a kids birthday day out etc, its not racing. Outdoor is the way to go if your only option is rental karting. But eventually if you want to do a lot of you get over the initial cost of buying a kart you'll have more fun and more experience and in the long run its even cheaper to run a proper Senior Rotax or X30. Especially if you keep it to local club levels, older used karts are a good bargain and then race fees are cheap and your biggest expense is your tyres. But the fastest rental karts cost more than a set of tyres do for a 60 minute race. Hence in the long run if you want to go out every couple weeks owner is the way to go.
