I let my gf drive a two seater kart, and she went into a hairpin flat out like it was mariokart. I pulled hard on the steering wheel to slide the kart sideways and it stopped before the barriers. It is very common that people turn up and rent karts and expect to be able to drive full throttle the whole time.
My uncle raced karts. I was an impressionable kid back then, and when he told me he had lost the brakes during a race and then proceeded to win said race, I thought he must be the best driver in the world. Thank you for this 😂
I saw an short interview with a former racedriver called Walther Rhöhrl and they asked about the most ignored driving skill nowadays. He answered finding the right entrance speed for a given corner. People carry too much speed at the entrance of the corner. So I guess braking helps
@@raffaeledivora9517 i agree but probably not everyone knows him. Back then they even had some decent female drivers in the world rally championship. I’ve seen his old teammate stig blomquist driving a Quattro S1 E2 ones
Another Quote from Röhrl is: “When you see the tree you’re driving into you have understeer, but if you can heer it you have oversteer.” and “Driving starts when you steer your car with the gaspedal not with the steering wheel.” He certainly is great to quote and a legendary driver.
ex professional go-kart driver here (10+ years of experience), braking is the most important part of this sport, braking becomes even more important in the wet, and the way it has to be done can earn you tenths at every corner. However, in rental go-karts the brake is way less important, and with a little practice the difference between braking/not braking is zero.
This is the result I would have expected but the analysis was cool. I really just use the brakes to turn the car; you can really control the rotation with trail braking in karts.
Be specific, there may be a question with 4 stroke "public" karting. With competition karting, if you d'ont brake.....your race ends just after the first corner ;)
You see. When driving with my coach, at leats with the tracks i'm used to race - breaking is the key ofr being fast - specially when you have a hard turn before a long straight.
@@SenneMeuleman I've been to outdoor go kart tracks where it's nice and wide and yeah, but mine is a very tight and twisty indoor track with a sneaky little big braking zone at the end of the lap lmao
@@elliotcowell3139 ye mine is outdoor with long, fast corners. It gets a bit borig after going too much and not a lot of space to improve unless its raining, one of the most fun things i have done, with slicks in the rain, 0 grip its like ice
You do a good job showing the difference between these and it showed by the end how much you were able to find the optimal entry speed to carry exit speed, I'm trying pushing and find the right limts and track knowledge by repeat visits, any tips?
How much is body weight a factor in karting? i weigh a little over 200lb and was a couple seconds behind smaller guy, im thinking maybe my weight was a factor rather than ability?
Usually first 5 laps are slower. Need to warm up tires and get yourself more aggressive. It would be fair to make such test with two sessions. Also different tracks react different. On some no breaking could be even faster than with breaking.
Lol, first 5 laps are the quickest ones. Then the tracks starts to overheat and gets slower…. If you see in every race, the fastest lap is usually done in the first 5-10m
@@joaomachado4359 No, maybe with KZ2 or smth. But with ocasional 13 hp carts tires gets warm only in 3-4 laps. And then only you get faster and faster. And your fastest laps are in the end of the session.
@@Nepyragas no! You just need 1 or 1,5 laps to warm up your tires! Im assuming that there are at least more 10-15 guys racing against you. Test it! Because i did! After 10m the times goes up at least 0,5seconds per lap
So true. Went go karting last weekend. We had 3 stints. First 2 i was always trying to brake as less as possible and ended up drifting like crazy. At the end of the 2nd stint one of the responsibile guys told me to take the corners with easier cause im drifting and then i can go way faster. 3rd stint from 10th on quali I went 2nd with only a tenth down the first guy. Improved by 7tenths it was insane. My friends asked me wtf happened in the last stint haha
why'd you compare one lap that wasn't affected by traffic to one lap that was? the lap without brakes was influenced heavily by that kart on the inside at @1:52. it put you way out of position, and that's what made you loose going into that next right hander.
Mate if you look at the end he showed a list of all the 14 laps he did and just took the fastest of both with and without breaks so try setting aside your bias and look at data and watch the full thing before jugdeing… don’t judge a book by its cover you know 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿💀💀💀💀
@@iconiccfs Yea, I saw that. I figured the two laps he did the side by side comparison were of those two fastest laps, no? And in that fastest no brakes lap, it showed he was compromised heavily in a couple positions. One, specifically, being @1:52, and then he incorrectly attributed him being out of position as "lifting unsettled the kart", when in reality, it was because he was out of position entering that complex. No bias here, I'm simply pointing out that he put forward flawed information. Were we even watching the same video?
To be fair, there are tracks where you don't even have to lift, but can just go full throttle all the way. I've found that even there, lifting usually works, but it's not like this track where there are actual braking zones
Can it depend on the cart? For example when I go carting at my local track with renting carts I notice that the engine is much slower and accelerates slower after I brake than after I just lift into the corner. Is this a thing or am I just imagining things? I really need to know! Thanks!
electric carts accelerate faster, can compare the lines you have to take and the braking to f1, normal karts accelerate slower so you take the karting line, a wider line so you can keep your minimum speed higher and dont lose too much speed, so if your local karting track does not have electric karts you should indeed brake a lot less and take wider lines
Won't work in a kart, you lose a lot of speed that way. That driving style worked very well with the Renault F1 cars that Alonso drove because those cars had very stable rear ends which is the exact opposite of what a gokart normally does. Even Alonso changed his style with other cars that handled differently.
Wouldn’t really help here. Also Alonso only did that back in his first stint with Renault when they used the Michelin tyres. They had a more square profile and took a lot to get temp into them. He would purposefully induced under steer to heat up the fronts for better grip. It was a technique really specific to that car and those types of the time.
in a go karting one should learn that brakes are used to set the car & rotate the car before entering a corner. Other than that brake is only used to bring the car to a stop.
I have 7 years racing experience. I remember I always have problem with brake in chasis . Even I can not stop on the start line xD and I must brake on the start line with my legs on the tire xD . But this shity chassis give me experience with sliding breaking. It's funny because without brakes I can overtaking another drive on the breaking.
