Indeed. It’s like you’re hoping that they’ll make a slight mistake. Usually that’s when you’ll want to make the move. I watch a lot of NASCAR and F1 passing is extremely difficult so is Indy car
I worked at K1 Speed for a few months. Here's how things really work. There's 4 speeds, 4 being the fastest. Only regulars are put on speed four (35-45mph). Anybody that comes for their first time or maybe once or twice a year is put on speed 3. Kids are put on speed 1, if they seem like they can handle it, they're put on speed three. I've seen adults, GROWN men and women SO bad at driving, with zero concept of cornering, slowing down into corners, speeding up on exits, we had to put them onto speed 2. All the karts have identical batteries, tires, charges, etc. We test every cart every day in a shop in the back to make sure nobody can claim "your kart was faster than mine."
@@livingwellisthebestrevenge347 I did really enjoy working there, absolute most important thing I'd tell is to make sure you're only doing the job you're hired to do. I was hired to be a front desk operator and sometimes the boss would ask me to fill out spreadsheets on the computer or fix an issue on the track, those aren't part of my duties, I am not qualified to do those.
man thats not professional those are just rental karts professional karts go way faster than that there are many varities you got lo206 engines those go between 58-60 miles then u u got 100cc or 125cc u also got shifters which go up to 90 miles and is like driving a manual car because as the name of the kart says it has a shift knob. but for me the best category of professional karting are X30's they just beatiful.
Such a poor track layout, if you keep your line shallow in to the two deep braking areas nobody can pass you without bashing you out of the way, they cannot brake later from a deeper line to cut back as the track turns back on itself immediately.
track is really windy and theres 2 hairpins that follow each other overtakes are hard to come by and when they do theyre only ever when the person in front crashes
Yes this layout is pretty difficult to pass experienced drivers on without them making a mistake. And there also a defensive line makes it even harder.
@@fargeeks Everything cost $50,000 or more on an F1 but imagine the cart you could build for that and test in on a salt flat with a parachute for style.
@@fargeeks I remember hearing back in the 90's that steering wheel cost $30,000 they get 13 sets of tires for a race at $5k per set Engine Unit $7.5 million Carbon Fibre Monocoque $1.2 million Front, Rear Wing & nose cone $560,000 DRS overtaking aid $200,000 Steering wheel $90,000 Fuel tank plus assembly $160,000 Hydraulics $350,000 Gearbox $1 million Cooling system $300,000 Transmission $250,000 Tires Set Wet, Dry, & Normal $5,000 Disc Brakes $50,000 Accident Damage Cost $500k - $1.5million Total Basic Cost $13.45 million You can by a private jet for less than that and I thought boats were expensive toys.
My first time watching gokart racing and this looked fun and intense as hell. Number 22 was stressing me out lol, I feel like he/she wasn't trying to make any moves to advance when they could of. 22 was definitely keeping you from advancing. Good effort though.
It is really fun, been to a few tracks, the electric karts can get really fast. ones using a normal gas engine get fun if the track is long, these guys are best indoors imo.
Agreed. Those two super tight turns, the driver was definitely faster than the 22 and two drivers in front of him. There were a few times he had an inside run on the 22. Problem is, most refuse to let the faster driver have the position. This dude could’ve easily grabbed two more positions if the 22 moved out of the way, or at least not cut the man off as he’s diving into the corner.
Lmao 22 dove for the inside on a gap that barely existed in the first place and was always going to close, if it caused the guy they hit to spin more they probably would've been flagged bc it was their second warning
I used to work at K1 and it was always interesting watching league races. Those guys raced those karts so hard I watched a dude snap a spindle just from going around a hair pin. Funny enough that was the first repair I ever did on a kart
I feel like K1 need to make more tracks that encourages overtaking (at least 2). If you look at the Atlanta location, that's a good track for overtaking. one into turn 1, another into turn 6, turn 10, and turn 12. Maybe into turn 8 and 9 but it usually ends in a crash.
Even the atlanta location is hairy at times. Passing isn't too bad once the tires are warm, but it takes half the race before your tires are warm enough to really get solid enough cornering grip to pass someone in most of the turns.
@@monsterpoof1378 I don't know what that means but "Yeah!" I put the first part in because the track was new and I wanted to remember the "league experience" in its entirety.
Great driving man, I don’t know if I’m in the position to say this, but for some tighter corners I recommend a more “ideal” racing line. ie. late apex, it allows for a better setup for the next corner. But then again, everyone has their own style, and you seem to be doing very well with yours 👍
The issue as someone else said is nobody races properly here and just bumps you out of the way. The exterior kart protection makes people think they are bumper carts. Taking a racing line leads to you getting passed.
The guy the onboard driver was stuck behind always took the defending line inside every corner but slammed the throttle on exit and oversteer so much. It was frustrating to watch the guy in front block the onboard driver who was clearly faster.
Now I think these guys are ready for the upgrade to Japan's IRL Mario cart racing using ....Tokyo Japan street legal Mario carts that go fast as shit... even let you weave in and out of traffic with real cars.You literally have to dress up in a costume they have and then they let you loose on the roads of Japan. The things I would do to go to Japan right now and have a massive cart race, then find an Uber driver driving a Silvia S13-s15, maybe even an R-34 and drift the perfect streets of Japan on the drive back home.
Just like a V12 it's the sound of power and you can hear it more clearly because there are no extractor fans sucking the fumes out of the room. The rest is the same... well apart from the improved acceleration.
Indoor Karting is a ton of fun, but I would say if you live near an outdoor track, those can be even more challenging and fun. I’ve been to K1 Austin a few times and P2R once in OKC (a month before it shut down for good ☹️) and I can officially say my favorite time for karting was neither. I went to COTA this past December and went karting there. Very similar prices (COTA is a tad more expensive, but makes up for it with the speed and the track). Both are fun and great options to get behind the wheel, but if you get the chance, and have a little more dough, try some outdoor, it’s a ton of fun!
There is an outdoor track (Pats Acres) near me and I had lots of fun in their rental kart leagues. It was one race per month for 6 months and the starts were really chaotic but what a blast!
The K1 here for the most part does not allow filming (even from the sidelines) The last I heard they allow helmet camera for their once a month league races. They even said if you had the highest points after a 3 or 4 month series you would win a gopro.
for you guys that dont know.. they have speed settings.. i raced some at 2 and then 3 .. those things throw G forces at you and will blow your mind.. totally worth the MONEY!!!!!! the track doesnt have long straights because someone would probably be dead right now if they did..
really good driving, there are a few little spots I think you could edge out another tenth or two, on the start-finish straight be sure you're using the whole track, turns 1-4 your spot on, on turn five you're cheating in early, stay against that wall for another split second and that will have you better setup for the 2nd hairpin, then after the hairpin, from when you turn back left for 9 I wouldn't even apex ten, just focus on turning 9 into the finish straight, so hit the apex on 9, miss the 10 apex by about a foot and a half and really let the car wind out to the wall, because there isn't a corner after ten we can really manipulate the apex, and only use as much steer angle as we absolutely need, or, depending on if the kart pulls really hard in a straight it might be good to cut in hard and make the straight another 5 feet longer, but judging from the video these karts seem very strong on that corner so I would go with the miss the apex approach.
That is great and well thought out advice. Thank you for sharing your insight and I bet others who drive this layout will benefit from your strategy. Too cool!
Thank you for the compliment and the tip. Many faster drivers touch the outside wall approaching certain apexes but my instinct always drives me to shorten the line. I'll never be the fastest but I'll be ready to dive in!
the track has pretty good traction. it's hard to slide excessively. also the kart has a noise generator to simulate engine rpm though I always turn it off by tapping the upper left of the steering wheel screen.
nice! been there like 10 times now maybe a total of 35 races. I got top 3 on top times of the month! pretty stoked on that. it was the month of january so my name probably isn’t on the leaderboard anymore. I started at Sykart in tigard. have you been there?
Real Frank what did you think about these K1 Ekarts? My son and I walked in to take a look after some Topgolf about a month ago. My buddy Hans and I use to be at SyKart every Thursday and Friday. Man I miss the simple times. Lol now we’ve moved onto lo206 and rotax 100’s.
Fun is why we are out there for sure. If I remember correctly the people that were ahead were teens and probably 40 pounds lighter and my battery started losing oomph a few laps before the end but it seemed like we were all in the same boat as they weren't pulling away. Good times!
Oh my god, I went to this place and did the 40 mph gas go karts on my birthday. It was cool as hell. Or well, I think I did. I'm VERY positive it's just that since then they changed stuff it seems, but I went to a go kart place in hillsboro kentucky and it has that EXACT loadout so, I guess stuff just changes a lot.
@@JSXDrift Nah. I checked Sykart's website and it only has places in Washington and Oregon. I went ahead and did a bit of searching, it was the Full Throttle Adrenaline Park in Florence, KY. Guess the track was just VERY similar.
That's the thing about these indoor tracks, the lack of total space forces constraints on the limited track space which makes for constant hairpin turns where overtaking is greatly increased in difficult outside of the exceptions when there's contact usually leading to some kind of a crash or hinderance on the flow of the traffic. It ends up making really bogged down and difficult tracks that are nearly impossible to escape from as you have such little time to strategize and attack a position that isn't another hairpin turn.
It most definitely would be awesome but sadly if I’m not mistaken, they wouldn’t allow it due to safety reasons and you could be kicked off the track for attempting that type of maneuver.
Sounds like those karts are all belt driven. The indoor track where I race here in St. Louis have chain drive, and we don't have screens on the steering wheels.
@@IamRealFrank I ended up with a 28 second lap with a junior go kart which is the fastest they’ve had all week so it was pretty cool I kept my line clean and avoided any loss of traction
I think the major issue with the electric kart is that you can't overtake other player coz of the same speed limit on them this will be different on the engine ones. But yeah nice video.
You realize they make the gas powered ones do the same thing right? Its called a governor. Its to do with speed carried through the corners and how late you brake.
That looks like a good flowy course to race on, the karts i went on the other had a track with 5 hairpins in it, of which 3 were in a row one afte the other
