I was head marshal at that place many years ago. Good to see the old place. If you'd tried a few different lines you might have gotten past that girl, she always did exactly the same thing at every corner.
she also weighs less. at our local karting place the same is true. the "fastest" people are also 100lbs and 4 ft 7. I'm 250 and the kart just won't make it around the hairpins without bogging or sliding and they just keep going.
Another moment of terrible marshals and staff (this was at teamsport Sheffield), is when I crashed into the barrier at around 15-20 mph by turning in too early. They didn’t even show a yellow or red flag. To make matters worse, I also came dead last in that race because it took about 4-5 minutes to get my kart out of the barrier, completely ruining my race. Edit: it took 4-5 minutes for them to come but only about 1 minute to get me back on track and do a kart inspection
lol i have no idea why but you saying it took so long for them to come reminds me of the time I saw a child get stuck in the barrier at Absolutely Karting Bristol. He was stuck just out of the reach of either of the mashals' view and I had to point out he was there ._.
To be fair, you’ll often get black flagged if it’s clear you’re having difficulty controlling the kart or if you’re trying to drive it beyond the limit
You did contact other karts and barriers several times though to be fair... at least 10, I counted. 😂 On balance, the guy in black did contact you after he threw his hands up early in the race.
@@connormccabe6038at my local go kart track they told us “there is no bumping or contact allowed, but we understand when it is close together and it fine if it’s that”
Transport aren't great for this. Honestly I think sometimes they just get bored or are trying to set an example so bring you in. I once barely nudged my friend as we came up behind a slower kart, there was no way I could have seen he would slow down and there was almost no contact. Needless to say I was hauled in immediately
Pfff, this is why I will never go to one of these team sport places. Get yourself to a decent outdoor track, not only are they more fun, but the staff that run them are on the whole more professional.
I got black flagged for something stupid. On that hump bridge, a kid who I was somehow quicker than was turning his kart into me block me from an overtake so I might have used him as a brake on the right hand corner. Braking way to early into turn 1, with it been tarmac it only needs a little dab and a turn in, washing too much speed off also she was either very good or very new and got lucky with defending (which annoys me on a timed session) proper Sergio Perez type driving 🤣 ministry of defence
They are decent helmets, not the best but they arent too expensive. HJC are probably better quality but might be a little more. Also all helmets they sell are road legal, so if you wanted get a bike or something bam you got a helmet for two things now.
Leeds Teamsport is terrible if you have the uppity marshalls on. Got black flagged for spinning out where the underpass is because someone else slowed down infront of me and then I got a 1minute talk on how to control my kart. I've not been back since, not chancing the marshalls they have there.
I was at bradford and person that hitme hard i almost catapulted out of the kart severing my spine and almost breaking my arm and that person never got black flagged.
lol you got stories hahaha. the other day I stepped on a stick and almost had a brain hemorrhage and kidney failure. but didn't. I got in a car wreck and almost had my body torn into pieces....but didn't.
Wow, if you know the bloke in front of you, he’s leaning the wrong way into corners. The idea is to transfer the weight to the outside edge of the tyres so they grip up. Not the inside tyres lmao.
O and never do it in hairpins, sweeping corners only. Hairpins try keep the kart stable stay still, on exit lean over the back of the kart and get your weight over the wheels for better grip off the corner.
@@whracing I did read what you said the first time, that's why I had questions. Surely the reason why the outside tyres are loaded in sweeping corners is because you are pushed to the outside of the kart. In order to keep all tyres more evenly loaded, surely you'd want to lean towards the corner?
Tbf the contact was a mess only person not bumping was the girl in front 😅 you gave as good as you got I would have pulled you and one behind in if anything.
I did have a similar expirence to this at TeamSport Warrington, was on a race with a kid for his first time and because he was fucking shit got into my racing line and we ended up crashing and the dad or grandad got angry for trying to do a proper racing line for the times I was aiming for then and the Marshall black flagged me because of his response, I did apologise but I should’ve got a warning for going fast near him anyways but not a fucking black flag
@@Luke-mf7zo i know i didn't brake hard just started flying around the track till they told me to slow down when i got blacked flag 😂😂😂 # people are soft
Probably flying round on yellows or reds more like, why would they flag you for going fast, the whole point is to be the fastest and set the fastest time
The girl in front should have been blue flagged. Clearly holding up the 2 faster drivers behind leading to excessive contact. It appeared that you had to brake or swerve to avoid contact several times
hahaha this is like crying about campers in CoD. if you're not good enough to get by then that's your problem. if you're allowed to defend then no tears.
Holding them up by parking on the apex? They should have gone wide around instead of assuming that she was somehow going to go wide on the exit to open for a switchback pass.
@@justinhudson3851 10kg makes a 2/10th of a second difference so it's barely noticeable , I've had enough of morons saying weight makes as big a difference as you make it out to be