Trail Braking vs Threshold Braking in Karting (tutorial)

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Trail Braking vs Threshold Braking in Karting (tutorial)
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@DemolitionMotorsports 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.

@thehonorableaarongreene9792 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.

@kartingtips Ай бұрын

Try out the Threshold braking technique and let me know how it goes 😎

@antoniosamaranchi3223 Ай бұрын

2:33 “extremely used tires” 😂😂😂 For me and my budget it’s well enough ))

@kartingtips Ай бұрын

Haha, trust me the kart was undrivable 😂

@antoniosamaranchi3223 Ай бұрын

@@kartingtips you know, last time I’ve tried rm and it begins jumping in 100+ speed. It was very “tired” frame )))

@ElementsMMA 26 күн бұрын

Great stuff. You're a real gent, a true class act.

@francescocucuzzella8353 26 күн бұрын

Great video!

@manavsingh7378 Ай бұрын

Important one for me since I tend to trail brake coming from the motorcycling world.

@Lazy_Lazar 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 :)

@Sabar0_S Ай бұрын

useful video thanks

@RacersRushCars 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.

@HazardGarage 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?

@ElementsMMA 26 күн бұрын

That style of braking works a lot better in indoor karting than outdoor.

@HazardGarage 25 күн бұрын

@@ElementsMMA is it because indoor tracks or more narrow? Im curious as to why so i learn the concept and science behind it.

@ElementsMMA 25 күн 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.

@HazardGarage 21 күн бұрын

@@ElementsMMA thanks for the explanation!

@emog7609 5 күн бұрын

What form of breaking would you recommend in something like DMAX karts at Daytona

@baseerrehman9598 12 сағат бұрын

Could i use a bit of oversteer to turn the rental kart towards the apex?

@RJA 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.

@ElementsMMA 26 күн бұрын

He said that, at the start.

@recyclemeatt Ай бұрын

Can you draw a telemetry graph to show the difference of two braking methods?

@Litl_Skitl 23 күн бұрын

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@ropej00 Ай бұрын

Do you know is there go karts that have traction control?

@kartingtips Ай бұрын

Nope, karts do not have traction control

@ameen1358 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😮

@ElementsMMA 26 күн 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.