Last Place to Top Three Battle at Laguna Seca 

Yeah, the amount of time made up through Andretti and the corkscrew is wild

In everyone's defense, you can't see the corner until your over it in a kart. If you're lucky someone ties a flag on a tree on the mountainside to aim for. 6, 9 and 10 is where most of the drivers lost time when I was there a few years later.

Thank you!

it's great. minimal brake, carry the speed in

This might be a little long, but here goes. I was going to school in Sacramento in the mid-1960s, and my roommates and I got hooked on watching Group 7 racing at Laguna Seca (they held races in the spring and fall). Remember driver/engineer/car designer Jim Hall and his innovative Chaparral with the tall adjustable spoiler?). Anyway, in the spring of 1966 me and my roommates get in my 1965 Old Cutlass and make the drive to Laguna Seca to watch the races. After a great long day of racing under the California sun and many beers, I had an alcohol inspired idea. Like many others, we had parked for the day on the grounds on the interior of the track. After the last race of the event had ended and people were leaving in their cars, I said to my roommates, “Let’s go for a drive, boys.” So we got into my Cutlass and instead of heading for the exit, found an opening that led to the track. Nobody even looked at us as I pulled onto the track at the Start/Finish line. Maybe they thought I was an official checking the track for debris, I don’t know. At the first left turn we start up a hill and I pick up the speed. None of us can even talk, we are so shocked to be doing this. Then came the first surprise as we crested the hill in a long gentle left turn and then immediately entered the infamous “S’s”, a series of very sharp left-right-left-right turns that are also going downhill now, AND are completely flat (no NASCAR banking here, these are road racing turns). I was going way too fast for my Cutlass, and in the first turn it felt like we went up on two wheels. I slowed quickly enough to stay on the track, and we made it back to Start/Finish, and miraculously, still no one seems the least bothered by us being on the track! So without hesitation, off we went on lap number 2! This time we made it through the S’s cautiously, and at the Start/Finish line this time they were finally onto us. Some rather burly and angry race officials stopped us and escorted us off the grounds. What a memory. I have no way of knowing, but I’m guessing it’s a stunt that has not been duplicated at Laguna Seca. I’m 75 now, but I can remember that day like it was yesterday. This video brought it all back as I was able to go around the Laguna Seca track yet again.

Thank you, i was running a legal setup in a series with out real tech, and had a loose front left tie rod that got worse as the race went on

its a 125cc "stock honda" shifter, the only changes i made from sprint racing was gearing tall and jetting fat to save my engine from being run full throttle for extended lengths of time. all i have to do is change the pipe and i can race it with the premier racing series in the USA SKUSA...

I was wondering how tough it is on the body with as shaky as the cam seems.

This was a tony kart racer ev (kz) chassis with a 1999 honda cr125, top speed around 100, have seen 110 with a 3 kart bump draft

I’m guessing visibility might be part of it. You don’t have any rear view mirrors.

He has it showing that they're SKUSA class karts, so they're battling in their own class.

Hes braking far less conserving speed. atleast thats what it looks like

stock Hondas have more torque and kz has the hp... the two drive differently threw the corners, a kz is slightly faster on a sprint track and has more of an advantage on a big track. I race Honda bc of skusa and how big and competitive the class is, also the costs are tiny compared to kz.