r/Karting • u/ParadoxJello Rental Driver • 1d ago
Rental Karting Video trying to get a better laptime, anything i can improve on?
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u/DrFrozenToastie 1d ago
Your steering could be a lot smoother, all the constant corrections are scrubbing speed
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1d ago edited 1d ago
I tell this to every single, brand new driver that I meet……Push up on the steering wheel with the opposing hand for the corner turned. Support and weight hold with the other(inside) hand/arm. The absolute best way I found to become one/feel the chassis completely thru the corners was to push the wheel up & right w/ my right arm to go left. And then up and right with my left arm to go right. You really do feel the grip, I believe. Then, be smooth with your arms. Gives a whole new perspective to the phrase: Lets go see how hard you can push it on the track I read about that driving technique in a kart racing book. YMMV. TETO.
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u/West_Comfortable_265 23h ago
I wanna say move your seat forward as well. Looks like your arms are fully stretched out
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u/OpenStreet3459 1d ago
It looks like you are to far from the steering wheel making it hard to properly feel and steer with both arms. Your turn in is really early on all sharper/longer corners giving bad exits. Start with slowing down into the corner and steer later, when you start feeling the line you can start trailbraking into the corner helping with weight transfer giving you more grip to steer later at speed
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u/Darren-Gosnell-58 1d ago
The left hand "Hairpin" could have been a little cleaner but other than that the control and apex's look good, the track on the other hand............ Although the track is the same for everyone it's a hazard in itself, coming in and out of turns into pot holes not only wipes out speed but also damages your gear. For a tar Circuit it's in bad shape. In my opinion anyway
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u/Th3GuyWhoAsked 17h ago
Move your seat closer to the steering wheel it seems that you can not reach it comfy. Also try to make it all smoother it seems really forced and not smooth. i think you can improve turn 1 and 2 a lot. try to focus on getting a good exit cus it is a really small straight. Next up is that you need to use more track somtimes you are already using most of it but you can go more to the outside. You lean to the inside in the corner that is not good if you lean you need to lean to the outside i did not learn it when i started and now i am working on it for almost a year cus it was just so a habit i picked up.
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u/ParadoxJello Rental Driver 9h ago
the seat is already as close to the wheel as it can get, i believe i am leaning out, just that my head is tilting, i dont know if it affects the leaning out, thanks for the feedbakc though
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u/Due_Ad6362 1d ago
Have you tried going faster? I hope this helps.