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@DemolitionMotorsports3 ай бұрын
Awesome guide! I’m a head and a coach of a small karting team, and I teach my pilots literally the same techniques. However, I must add that rental karts are often very sensitive on weight distribution, such as Sodi Sport or RT-8. Because of that, tall or heavy pilots often tend to have a lot of understeer, and trailbraking sometimes becomes necessary in certain situations when you need to stay on certain trajectory. But still, you did an excellent job explaining how to brake for general public, and that’s awesome! Keep up on good work, you have a new subscriber.
@wjspadeАй бұрын
This is spot on. I let myself go and got up to 250 lbs and found that threshold braking was the only way I could be even remotely competitive. Now that I got my act together and am back down to 185, I can drive normally again. I still get beaten by far younger and smaller drivers, but it’s a lot more fun now.
@antoniosamaranchi32233 ай бұрын
2:33 “extremely used tires” 😂😂😂 For me and my budget it’s well enough ))
@kartingtips3 ай бұрын
Haha, trust me the kart was undrivable 😂
@antoniosamaranchi32233 ай бұрын
@@kartingtips you know, last time I’ve tried rm and it begins jumping in 100+ speed. It was very “tired” frame )))
@Panthercholo2 ай бұрын
I forgot already.
@warriorgp4640Ай бұрын
Womp wimp...more opportunity for me to win
@thehonorableaarongreene97923 ай бұрын
I love this guy! This is what I needed to hear. I only do indoor karting (9 hp karts) but yet I was using the technique for the two-stroke kart technique. Thank you.
@kartingtips3 ай бұрын
Try out the Threshold braking technique and let me know how it goes 😎
@xaviermaczko2 ай бұрын
if im not mistaken threshold braking refers to the initial and mid part of the braking phase where you brake at the limit (but important not over) which avoids locking up the tyres, the opposite of this is lock up braking where you smash to brakes to just above the tyres limit and hold it there to slow the kart both with the brakes and with the horizontal load on the tyres, trail braking literally just means continuing to hold the brakes into the apex after the turn in phase, threshold braking and trail braking can both be used at the same time as they are not mutually exclusive, also threshold braking on its own does not induce any rotation as you remove the weight off the front tyres before turning and accelerating.
@nick16652Ай бұрын
I think you are right
@HazardGarage3 ай бұрын
a 3rd style of braking I have seen people use in the rental scene is basically using the brake as a hand brake. They go super hot into a corner, smash the brake to lock the rear and rotate the kart then accelerate once the kart is pointed straight. I have seen this with good effect in both electric and gas rentals. Albeit I don't see the top-top drivers do this, these "hand brake" drivers are able to post fast lap times that rival the top times. What's going on here and is this something that is good practice?
@ElementsMMA3 ай бұрын
That style of braking works a lot better in indoor karting than outdoor.
@HazardGarage3 ай бұрын
@@ElementsMMA is it because indoor tracks or more narrow? Im curious as to why so i learn the concept and science behind it.
@ElementsMMA3 ай бұрын
@@HazardGarage A myriad of factors, the tyres being a crucial one - rental karts have more durable tyres, so you can hammer the breaks multiple times per session and not experience any degredation, whereas outdoor performance karts or pro karts have performance tyres which a driver needs to look after or they will lose all grip after a small number of lock-ups and general abuse. The surface being also very important, generally indoor karting has a slicker, grippier surface where you are less likely to slide uncontrollably when locking up. Indoor circuits are not likely to have marbles associated with tyre deg described above either, so locking up in any given aprt of the track comes with a lot less lost in lap time than outdoors, where if you lock up on the marbles you have basically ruined your lap. Purely being outdoors also means you would do well to keep control of your kart, with cross winds and all the atmosphere of an outdoor track as opposed to limited factors indoor.
@HazardGarage3 ай бұрын
@@ElementsMMA thanks for the explanation!
@ObiKurt17 күн бұрын
I'm so happy that I used both apropriatly without knowing what threshold braking is
@manavsingh73783 ай бұрын
Important one for me since I tend to trail brake coming from the motorcycling world.
@sollysuliman2357Ай бұрын
Wow.. I struggled and platoed in karting the last 5 years, didn’t know why! Now i know i need to Threshold break In rentals. Thank you very much i will practice now 👍
@ElementsMMA3 ай бұрын
Great stuff. You're a real gent, a true class act.
@Lazy_Lazar3 ай бұрын
Threshold is very satisfying do it in slippery indoor karts and indeed it's the faster way of riding around the track. Trail braking will be for outdoor, grippy tracks. Enjoyed it :)
@RacersRushCars3 ай бұрын
Great video! I am generally pretty bad at gokarting, I will try to threshold brake in rental karts, as I normaly always tend to trail brake.
@Sabar0_S3 ай бұрын
useful video thanks
@francescocucuzzella83533 ай бұрын
Great video!
@AntonLitvin87Ай бұрын
I use wall braking sometimes, but prefer to stay on a threshold throughout all the training session. 🙂 Now dreaming to build a 2-stroke cart. 😊😼
@RJA3 ай бұрын
Really great video, one thing to mention though is that for threshold braking a lot of the time you are using the brakes to almost steer the kart. Rather than trail braking where you want to be almost completely off the brakes when turning in.
@ElementsMMA3 ай бұрын
He said that, at the start.
@CJ-zi9fg2 ай бұрын
wasn't expecting to see bushy park!
@kartingtips2 ай бұрын
It’s an awesome track!
@CJ-zi9fg2 ай бұрын
@@kartingtips are all the tracks in the video in the caribbean?
@marq11122 күн бұрын
Thank you for your vids!! When threshold braking, how fast should i try to get to the threshold (ie how hard do i have to slam the brakes)? As hard as possible without going over threshold?😊
@recyclemeatt3 ай бұрын
Can you draw a telemetry graph to show the difference of two braking methods?
@Litl_Skitl3 ай бұрын
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@bongbay4525Ай бұрын
Hey man, just a question with the threshold braking with rental karts, can you only use the technique on tight hair pins, or can you use it on different corners like 45 degrees? Thanks!
@melvinpearse56302 ай бұрын
I’m doing LO206 does trailbraking apply to those karts as well
@baseerrehman95982 ай бұрын
Could i use a bit of oversteer to turn the rental kart towards the apex?
@DctrBreadАй бұрын
Not really the way I'd recommend thinking about braking, this is more of a difference between types of racing lines. This is more the geometric line versus decreasing radius line. For most vehicles the line becomes more geometric when the viable speed range at corner entry is pretty close to the vehicle's top speed. Slow-in fast-out simply provides no benefit unless your car's power plant can make good on the "fast-out" part. The situation is just a bit different on go karts because they lose so much power at low speeds.
@Average121217 күн бұрын
honestly the video explains it much clearer than you are here. in your mind this may be the "better" way of looking at it but in reality it is just a way of looking at the exact same thing.
@DctrBread16 күн бұрын
@@Average1212 I wasn't really trying to make it easier to understand, but developing the ideal drive is fundamentally not an easy problem to solve. The video is easier by not telling the whole story, and is not "basically the same thing." For instance, it isn't true for electric karts, which are very common in recreation, and for shifter karts, you're going for the geometric line on high speed corners.
@Average121216 күн бұрын
@@DctrBread His video is literally for beginner drivers with no experience, given that his information is appropriate for the intended audience. If you are driving a shifter cart you aren't watching this for driving tips. Yes electric is a completely different animal they also aren't mentioned at all.
@raulgaletsАй бұрын
hey. guy who made the bodycam game. please do a game like this
@EJRacing_20 күн бұрын
Where do I go to get the classes for karting you talked about at the end of the video?
@kartingtips20 күн бұрын
Track Help is hosted on the KTips Academy and you can join for free using this link: www.skool.com/ktips-academy-6036
@mashutv22722 ай бұрын
"extremely used tires" ahahahaahhaa
@emog76092 ай бұрын
What form of breaking would you recommend in something like DMAX karts at Daytona
@zencisuyu512 ай бұрын
i would say threshold because it is still a rental kart. plus in 2 stroke (specifically rotax) you need to be really smooth on the power, if not your kart bogs down. and in rental it is probably difficult to be smooth on the power as they are made for everyone to drive so the kart isn't as responsive as any professional kart. so for a kart like DMAX just treat it like a normal rental kart and do threshold braking to keep the revs high.
@ropej003 ай бұрын
Do you know is there go karts that have traction control?
@kartingtips3 ай бұрын
Nope, karts do not have traction control
@ameen13583 ай бұрын
Karting is supposed to be a raw driving experience. It's to do with your instincts and driving skills competing against the rest. Sitting just inches from the ground, there are no gadgets or technology to save you😮
@ElementsMMA3 ай бұрын
@@ameen1358 Yep, it used to be even more raw back in the day, when you were more sat on the ground and "in" the kart, as opposed to on top of it, like it is nowadays.
@Marine450x2 ай бұрын
Yes, it's called "the driver's right foot" 👍🏼
@Shirokov_Anton2 ай бұрын
What is that kart (i mean chassis and engine if possible). Great vid