GO KARTING: A Complete Beginners Guide to Start Racing!
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- All you need to know before you start racing!!
If you're a newbie to karting but want to get involved in racing, this video is especially for you! Based on my own experience starting this sport alone in my 30s with zero experience, I cover the basics of everything from race categories, the specs of each category, engines, kart brands and buying your first kart along with the tools, equipment and racegear essential to get started. Enjoy! - Sport
A good vid. I'm at the other end of my karting career, looking at KZ2 next, need a challange most classes are getting boring now.
Great Vid Wado!! Very informative!! Look forward to seeing more of your content.
My biggest mistake when I started karting (3 years ago) was to say to myself: "I will buy a kart just for hobby and training", so I bought an kart and engine with homologation expired. After 1 year, I started to be faster and wanted to race. So I had to buy another kart and engine. So my tip is, if you want to start karting, buy one that it is at least legal for racing at your club.
Before this vid… I didn’t know a gahd damn thing about karting. I prob still don’t 😂… but I know that this vid was great and I’ll probs watch more.
Great video, good starting point for my son’s future career as a F1 driver 🏎️
So well researched and put together. Good pacing too and didn’t become dry with all the info.
You mentioned CIK chassis. Around 3:40. What’s that stand for? Is that nomenclature carried to other categories?
Is there a haunted kart category? 😂
There's definitely a haunted category. A mate had a kart that was totally cursed!
CIK stands for Commission Internationale de Karting. It's basically the FIA for karting... the main sanctioning body.
Always let faster drivers through . Better to learn from watching than annoying someone 🤣 Went from indoors to Arrive and drive . Also did a few years of double duty as a track Marshall . When came to buying 1st kart bought mine off a club member who bought a new kart . Got kart and tins of spare parts for 1600. . Bought a newer one 2 years later . Was about to buy a new one and it all fell apart due to medical BS . So it's back to A+D but don't race as much as I use to .
Well done Wade.. I haven’t see you for a while.
I hope you are Doing well? bb k
9:24 haha
@@MrHarvey1301 😉
Making a video for beginners and not even mentioning LO206 is crazy, honestly if you're a complete beginner at karting, you shouldn't even be thinking about 2 stroke. 4 stroke is by far the cheapest and way more people race 4 stroke so it will be much easier to find a racing series for it.
@@Fetaldareaper1414 what country are you from? This video is aimed at people who are ready to make the step up from rental karts. I did also mention 4-stroke btw👍 90% of people here start out with 2 stroke. Maybe we are crazy?!
I only see a couple of videos of lo206 in the US, in europe 4 stroke is dead (except for some endurance series obviously). It isn't really worth it to get a 4 stroke if you want to get seriously into karting. Just get a X30 or Rotax or whatever class is more popular in your area.
@jpnod4078 you see professional karting videos of 2 stroke, but there is a lot of amateur 4 stroke racing in the US that isn't being broadcast or recorded. If you're watching this video for information on how to start karting, you are an amateur. There is a lot of kart handling and race strategy to be learned when switching from rental karts, and I think that's best done in a 4 stroke class.
@@Fetaldareaper1414 yes, this video is aimed at amateurs. As the vast majority of racing around the world is 2 stroke, that is the focus on the video. 4 stroke setups differ from 2 stroke setups and I will be delving into setup tips soon. To say that 4 stroke is the best class to learn about setup is your opinion but I think you’ll find that most serious karters will disagree. Besides,LO206 is not a homoligated class in many countries including Australia, so the US is one of the only places where you can race it. 99% of people that start out in 4SS here only do it as a stepping stone into 2 stroke.
LO206 isn't really a big engine in Australia, it is the engine for one Endurance series in NSW Australia, but in 4SS (4 stroke sprint) it's not really fast enough, it's too slow and gets a decent weight advantage against other engines. In my local area recently we had a cracker of a final with 27 4SS Medium karts, not a single Briggs in the field. Yes 4SS is one of my regions biggest classes.
Is the x30 faster than the rotax? Most people at my track use the rotax
No not faster. They just have slightly different power delivery and are different to use. 👍
What are the advantages of the ignition advance on the EVO? And umm, what even is it?
The ignition advance is a timing "breakthrough" that kicks in at around 9000rpm to basically act as a timing boost down the straights. Without it the Rotax kind of runs out of puff, where the X30 engines keep revving and pulling.
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@@tonykartracer8032 😅truth