Even a 32hp rotax max scared the sht out of me when i first drive it the adrenaline rush when you first drive this thing is insane but when you get used to it the fear is just gone you still get a little bit of adrenaline rush when getting oversteer and getting close to the wall.
@@jvsyoutube3298 Yep, scary af.. Back when I raced carts my old mans mate let me have a practice in his supercart, it had cesna brakes, 250cc rotax, 6speed, I think back then it was around 90hp.. I near touched cloth driving that thing, was way off the pace but the speed I thought I was going was absolutely insane.
@@therealf.b.i9468 drove a 36hp kart for the first time when I was 16 with my dad on holiday. My only experience with racing then was indoor karting. Scared the shit out of me for the first few laps.
@@purwantiallan5089 where did you get that idea from. The most expensive brand new all carbon bodywork kart is 25k/ 30k. The one in the video (number 67) was built for Less than 5k
Love seeing Bananaru any time. Feels like it's a great benchmark car, just having the same car with admirable performance in different situations and tracks.
Use to race unlimited 125 CC Shifters (106mph max) and had a friend racing the 250 cc on the California great tracks like Laguna, Sears point, Big Willow and others. At time the great 4 times Grand Prix Motorcycle champion Mr. Eddie Lawson would come race with us in his Yamaha 250 cc superkart. It was not even a contest when he was on the track. The guy is crazy fast. One year the club did an exhibition race at the Rolex Sport Cars Series (2000 to 2013) that was held in Laguna. Patrick Dempsey was racing Mazda Rotary at the time coming to check out the 250 karts and the drivers as they were just 3 seconds off from the Rolex Series GT Factory Cars (1,000+hp). If I recall correctly, after checking out the kart, Patrick looked at the driver who raced the one 250cc's and said. "you guys are nuts."
Hey do you know my dad? He raced 250cc single but had a really cool idea by putting a 450cc in. On the faster tracks he would use the 250cc in and on the slower tight tracks he would us the 450cc 4 stroke.
Back around 2000 they drove those things on the Nordschleife. Not at racespeed, but definitely not slow either. I was around 8 back then and I had mad respect for those daredevils. If anything, my respect only grew over the years as I found my way into simracing.
GT3s running around the Nordschleife is already super scary, can't imagine with this or an old F1, the drivers back then were absolutely crazy. Or as Niki Lauda said: "My personal opinion is that the Nurburgring is just too dangerous to drive on nowadays,” he said . “On any of the modern circuits if something breaks on my car I have a 70/30 chance that I will be all right or I will be dead. Here, if you have any failure on the car, one hundred percent death. We're not discussing if I make a mistake, but if I have failure on the car. If I make a mistake and kill myself, then tough shit."
So awesome to see Superkarts get the love they deserve. We’ve been racing Superkarts since I was 13 (39 now) and there simply isn’t anything out there that can touch the performance envelope of a well developed Super. These reactions are very real for Super first-timers. Awesome video!
3:54 - have done that too many times in a go-kart because their power/weight ratio is bonkers compared to regular sized racing vehicles. If someone says they've never spun their go-kart out on a corner, you can confidently say they're a liar :)
In the rain, second corner at Sear Points. Then later at the last right just before the Carrousel. Be honest, the scariest for me was when my front tires overheated. They were my practice tires but gripping so well I decided to keep them on for the next event. Was a Big Willow in Willow Springs CA. Was on my 5th or 6th lap, 1st place. Doing about 105 mph on the long straight and into the left hand bend. Lost complete grip, and understeered at 70+ mph out of the corner and into the gravel. Managed to safe it, and finished 2nd place. Still have the skid plate mounted on my garage wall with all the scratches and rocks hits.
7:33 That is my dear friend and mentor Barbara Hepworth who hit the wall first at the Adelaide F1 Grand Prix. I think it was wet or there was oil on that section of the circuit and she plus a few others just went straight into the wall. She won the race one year before or after.
Ever since I’ve seen these at Assen, where I marshal, last year I’ve been terrified of these things. Amazing to watch, but I’d never step into one of these. Props to Scott for stepping in and I can’t wait for these to pass me again at insine go kart speeds this summer
I remember for years the gokarts held the lap record at Westwood Race Track in Coquitlam BC (RIP) and it took Formula A's to finally beat the time. Utterly insane !
Oh do I remember driving go-karts, as kids my brother and I went to a summer holiday camp two years running where for half of each day we maintained, drove & raced go-karts. So much fun!
@@patrickschneider1986 Those two holidays were so good, a world away from the 'walking holidays' my brother & I also got sent on; two weeks walking over the mountains of Scotland... The views we got to see were wonderful, but didn't quite make up for the horrible wet windy cold weather and all that walking on steep rough terrain we had to experience to see them.
😏 Nice. You guys are lucky to experience things like that and having fun out there! I love all the content that you made. Keep up the great work and stay blessed.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I did regular karts. Raced the tag class and did 3 tests in a 125 shifter. Shifter karts are something else. However, i have always wanted to do some laps in a superkart as they are 250cc and lightning fast. They hold lap records at some local tracks.
So cool. As a kid in the early 60's, my dad helped the McColluch Gocart team with local races. He and two coworkers (one was a Master Mechanic) helped tune/fix their engines for the races. These were the old 1/4 to 1/2 mile snaky tracks, nothing like the track in this video. The team had a cart with dual engines - one on each rear wheel - that they did time trials with. Use small local airport runway to time the run. They turned a time of 110 MPH on one run. Quite a feat at the time. Given they were not built like today's carts. So really cool to see this one flying around on a big track.
Yes I was wondering what's happening there. Obviously the plans to turn it into a car park haven't happened. I did the last public track day there in 2018.
Awesome video lads, that machine looks so so scary, can't imagine how mindblowing it would be (especially in the wet!) And if Scott says it's scarier than an 80s F1 then I don't even really wanna try (maybe..)
That thing is sick! I'd send it! I've driven fast carts a few times back in the day, almost bought one to race at one point, they're terrifying lol! At 80-90mph an inch off the ground feels like triple that. Scariest thing i've probably piloted ever was a tiny reverse 3 point hydroplane. It was a 10' long closed cockpit with a fighter jet like canopy and a '90hp' Mercury outboard tuned way past 90hp. It was all of about 3 feet wide at the back and had three small zinc 'ski' plates, one up front below the nosecone and two on tiny rear sponsons, the reverse of a normal hydroplane. You had to be delicate with the throttle and jackplate to get it up on plane and not just backflip, and once it was up on step it was terrifying, like being strapped into a sea skimming missile. A mile by half mile lake got real small real fast when i went full send over triple digits with the screaming 2 stroke wide open and everything going blurry from vibration. Doing the run along the opposite shore i hit a bit of my own wake and got squirrely at full send, bouncing from side to side and almost rolling it.
There's a go cart place in my town called drift cart, and it's basically an indoor dirt track that you can drift go carts on and race your friends. In fact, one of the go carts had actually been modified a little by one of the guys working there and somehow he gave the little engine V-Tech. It was noticably faster.
Man. When someone who has driven a f1 car reacts likes this to another car. I’ll take their word for it. The way the last driver reacted was a great moment. Been their the 1st time I drove over 200mph
If they want to eject in a crash, Callum should have been wearing motorcycle leathers (like the guy who helped them restart the car), and probably Scott, too. Sliding on that asphalt would have eaten through Callum's jacket and skin in seconds. I'm not sure about Scott's race suit, but I suspect it's more fire protection than friction protection. Also, what was blurred out on the hood of the Bananaru? I feel driven to discover that. 😄
Three really good friends out for an exciting afternoon. I wish I’d known you’d be there - I live just down the road. Brilliant video and thank you for sharing 🌞
I used to race a 125cc shifter kart with a modified Honda (about 47hp) We'd hit about 115mph in the draft and corner so hard you have to wear rib protectors. Good times.
I want to see the lads try out double decker racing. Seeing how the different driving levels mash-up with that type of motorsport would be a great laugh.
I'd love to see your guys' reactions to driving a shifter kart on a kart-sized track. I know it took my brain months to just keep up with how much was going on each lap.
@@danielthompson3849 Oh no, I was more so thinking the opposite! I raced Kz2 karts on very much kart made tracks (like 750 - 1100m total) which meant that the gears were really short leading to around 25 gears changes in about a 35 second lap. The amount of mental load it created (in me at the very least) would be interesting to see in this sort of format :)
Ha. I drive one of these all the time and they feel normal to me. Awesome to see someone that has driven lots of other types of cars be blown away by superkarts. Chris Harris did same thing on top gear extra number of years back. Let's me know that if I can handle one of these I would do alright in other forms of motorsports.
There's a reason so many young racers start off karting before transitioning to other kinds of racing. The care and awareness it takes to drive one of these at the limit absolutely translates to other motorsports.
@@DeFausti if it were regular car racing on ovals i'd somewhat understand your hesitancy to check it out but oval karts are seriously MENTAL. it's a different beast from hopping in a car with a roll cage and racing flat out, you're in a motorized coffin with big them big daytona walls on your outside. youre like inches away from your bum kissing concrete at any given moment. I can't guarantee it'll catch your interest but it's definitely worth checking out since there are some good videos of the experience on youtube, including some karting multiclass on the daytona road course i believe
@@GenuineRage If anything, car racing on ovals is just as intense. Especially dirt. Put Fausti the keyboard racer in a sprint car, and watch his brains turn to mush lol.
@@TrackDaysDude thank you they really are somthing else Round Cadwell my first ever weekend racing there. I took my rs6. On a Friday to learn the track Then went out in the kart on sat. Was 15 seconds a lap faster The fact that Scott knows the Subaru well distorted the kart times a lot. Example at silverstone the kart time is 2second faster than gt3 race car
You have to try snowmobile drag racing. Or just snowmobile racing... it's totally insane. The drag snowmobiles cram 1000hp under the bonnet... scary fast.
Seems similar to my KZ2 kart(60HP vs 90Kg), at least a manifestation of the engine 🙂So I can image the ride.. those who haven't tried won't understand 🙂
Karting crashes are nasty. Mate of mine broke three of ribs and a arm once. That was in a super basic 125cc two stroker. About 1/3rd of the power of this kart
I had one and loved it. Only raced it a few times on the track, but on public roads it was a really scary fun. You need to get the tires warm and on day as cloudy as this was pick the right tires
I remember discovering these super karts in an article when I was 8 and the article was about David Coulthard describing this as the scariest thing he ever experienced. That day I knew, if it was too much for a F1 driver, it must be too much for me
It's Formula 1 for Oompa Loompas, but without the up and down because the suspension is keeping it flat. Perfect. This is spectacularly fast for a go-kart where you can get thrown out.
I can remember going to the inaugural motorcycle 500 gp at eastern creek inthe 90,s and these things were a support class. They were coming full blat on a downhill main straight and not backing off at all to tip into turn one. Very impressive.
Wow I'm blown away fellas!!! So glad I came across this channel,my son and I have been making carts and minibikes faster for years and love our time in the shop and on the track. Certainly not this level😁but we love the cart and minibike world.
I love these videos and this channel as a whole. You all seem like such down to earth guys and it’s nice to be able to watch this sort of content with people who aren’t pompous jerks, aren’t trying to constantly sell clothing or merchandise. I hope this overdrive continues to prosper but remains the same as it is now in regards to you 3 and your content. 👍
i recall seeing a video with David Coulthardt driving one of these a long time ago, he may still have in F1 back then, and he was blown away by the sheet performance of these supercarts, he said it was the only racing car the that was similar to F1
I used to race the 250cc national class on short circuits. They were only about 65-70 bhp maybe, but still incredibly quick. Never had the guts (or budget) to race Div 1 though.
Back in 1987 when I raced motorcycles at Willow Springs there was a Super Cart race where on a 250 CC TZ 250 powered cart that did 155 MPH top speed someone ran a lap record 1:12 lap time during a race. He was actually weaving through traffic through turns 3 and 4 between 60-80 MPH At the time and maybe still the fastest time was Michael Andretti @ 1:06 in an Indy car.
Love it and that was insane! I absolutely love the British, great people and hilarious sense of humor. Don’t worry gents, most people would be scared shitless to drive one of those too!
Seeing Scott so blown away says a lot about how crazy these things are tbh.
Normal gokarts are already incredibly fun. You sit almost literarily on the ground.
Yeah, and Scott drove ex F1 cars. That kart must feel terrible
@@aidarhelpswithenglish4160 he loved it. Went out for one lap in the dry after the cameras stoped came in after 5 laps with a massive grin
and that old bloke has been racing the fucker for 5 years, what a psychopath
@@dingusmagee3326 bit harsh. Some have been racing them since they where 16
And he is a good friend of mine
the fact that scott is lost for words really gives me an idea for how raw these go carts are..... I reallllyyyyy want one
driven a 50hp one, yeah, its completly insane, and adrenalinrush is, YES!
Even a 32hp rotax max scared the sht out of me when i first drive it the adrenaline rush when you first drive this thing is insane but when you get used to it the fear is just gone you still get a little bit of adrenaline rush when getting oversteer and getting close to the wall.
@@jvsyoutube3298 Yep, scary af.. Back when I raced carts my old mans mate let me have a practice in his supercart, it had cesna brakes, 250cc rotax, 6speed, I think back then it was around 90hp..
I near touched cloth driving that thing, was way off the pace but the speed I thought I was going was absolutely insane.
I think they're over £30k
@@therealf.b.i9468 drove a 36hp kart for the first time when I was 16 with my dad on holiday. My only experience with racing then was indoor karting. Scared the shit out of me for the first few laps.
Haha go kart go vrrm
💀😭😭
Why did i die from this
go kart: go vroom vroom
Me: kachow
That part when Callum "can't pull away" and here comes Scot doing somewhat of a baby run to tell Callum the obvious was so annoyingly amusing 😂
The Superkart costed $500k.
@@purwantiallan5089 where did you get that idea from. The most expensive brand new all carbon bodywork kart is 25k/ 30k. The one in the video (number 67) was built for Less than 5k
Really?
@@SopwithTheCamel ????
@@danielthompson3849 he is trolling and he is pretty much a bot
Love seeing Bananaru any time. Feels like it's a great benchmark car, just having the same car with admirable performance in different situations and tracks.
Use to race unlimited 125 CC Shifters (106mph max) and had a friend racing the 250 cc on the California great tracks like Laguna, Sears point, Big Willow and others. At time the great 4 times Grand Prix Motorcycle champion Mr. Eddie Lawson would come race with us in his Yamaha 250 cc superkart. It was not even a contest when he was on the track. The guy is crazy fast.
One year the club did an exhibition race at the Rolex Sport Cars Series (2000 to 2013) that was held in Laguna. Patrick Dempsey was racing Mazda Rotary at the time coming to check out the 250 karts and the drivers as they were just 3 seconds off from the Rolex Series GT Factory Cars (1,000+hp).
If I recall correctly, after checking out the kart, Patrick looked at the driver who raced the one 250cc's and said.
"you guys are nuts."
Wow this comment needs more upvotes! Some serious talent to drive these things at the limit!
@Keichi Tsutsiya Keichi san, this Superkart could be as fast as Super GT500 cars.
Haha, all you are doing is revealing to the world that you are a sad angry little boy, who can’t get any.
@@purwantiallan5089 This dude really just used Japanese honorifics for a fake ass account 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey do you know my dad? He raced 250cc single but had a really cool idea by putting a 450cc in. On the faster tracks he would use the 250cc in and on the slower tight tracks he would us the 450cc 4 stroke.
Back around 2000 they drove those things on the Nordschleife. Not at racespeed, but definitely not slow either. I was around 8 back then and I had mad respect for those daredevils. If anything, my respect only grew over the years as I found my way into simracing.
GT3s running around the Nordschleife is already super scary, can't imagine with this or an old F1, the drivers back then were absolutely crazy.
Or as Niki Lauda said:
"My personal opinion is that the Nurburgring is just too dangerous to drive on nowadays,” he said . “On any of the modern circuits if something breaks on my car I have a 70/30 chance that I will be all right or I will be dead. Here, if you have any failure on the car, one hundred percent death. We're not discussing if I make a mistake, but if I have failure on the car. If I make a mistake and kill myself, then tough shit."
They also drove those in Isle of Man
Man that’s mad, with all the bumps and elevation and grip changes that must have been a proper nightmare
@@DeFausti At least with GT3 cars, theres rollcages and they are built to withstand crashes. In superkarts, you have no protection
@@DeFausti Whats so dangours or crazy about the old f1 cars ? I keep hearing people talk about it
That was brilliant lads, old school top gear vibes. Keep it up, don’t get too scripted, keep it light and have fun… great stuff
So I was not alone in thinking that!
So awesome to see Superkarts get the love they deserve. We’ve been racing Superkarts since I was 13 (39 now) and there simply isn’t anything out there that can touch the performance envelope of a well developed Super. These reactions are very real for Super first-timers. Awesome video!
Jesus what an incredible bit of kit. no way I'd go near it!
I'd stand next to it (at a respectable distance). Drive it? no way. I'll stick to sim racing where I can crash to my hearts content :-)
@@petiertje danger makes racing racing, sorry, you gotta try to understand
3:54 - have done that too many times in a go-kart because their power/weight ratio is bonkers compared to regular sized racing vehicles. If someone says they've never spun their go-kart out on a corner, you can confidently say they're a liar :)
In the rain, second corner at Sear Points. Then later at the last right just before the Carrousel.
Be honest, the scariest for me was when my front tires overheated. They were my practice tires but gripping so well I decided to keep them on for the next event.
Was a Big Willow in Willow Springs CA. Was on my 5th or 6th lap, 1st place. Doing about 105 mph on the long straight and into the left hand bend. Lost complete grip, and understeered at 70+ mph out of the corner and into the gravel. Managed to safe it, and finished 2nd place.
Still have the skid plate mounted on my garage wall with all the scratches and rocks hits.
A kart spins around its center of gravity (you). The sensation is that of bouncing up and down in one spot as the scenery spins around you.
The fact that Scott who has driven an F1 car is that pumped up after this shows how crazy this is! Brilliant video!
7:33 That is my dear friend and mentor Barbara Hepworth who hit the wall first at the Adelaide F1 Grand Prix. I think it was wet or there was oil on that section of the circuit and she plus a few others just went straight into the wall. She won the race one year before or after.
Ever since I’ve seen these at Assen, where I marshal, last year I’ve been terrified of these things. Amazing to watch, but I’d never step into one of these. Props to Scott for stepping in and I can’t wait for these to pass me again at insine go kart speeds this summer
Assen great coty (i live there haha) the tt circuit and the small version look amazing! Id love to drive karts on there
@@jblcharge3_basstester these super karts are just something else. If I remember correctly, they take the main straight as fast as the superbikes
@@jamesinoregon1081 they have their own races and i believe they have similair lap times as motogp around assen because they can corner faster
I remember for years the gokarts held the lap record at Westwood Race Track in Coquitlam BC (RIP) and it took Formula A's to finally beat the time. Utterly insane !
I love that before/ after race adrenaline rush! In the middle of race it is not noticeable.
Oh do I remember driving go-karts, as kids my brother and I went to a summer holiday camp two years running where for half of each day we maintained, drove & raced go-karts.
So much fun!
Jo what a nice Camp. I always were in the forest building 'houses' :D
@@patrickschneider1986 Those two holidays were so good, a world away from the 'walking holidays' my brother & I also got sent on; two weeks walking over the mountains of Scotland...
The views we got to see were wonderful, but didn't quite make up for the horrible wet windy cold weather and all that walking on steep rough terrain we had to experience to see them.
Brilliant Guys, no script and a great laugh to watch. We need more of these team racing events. 👍
The poorly blurred out “driven” in the hood had me dying laughing
I thought it was some sort of FakeTaxi thing... LOL/
Why was it blurred?
@@yunghernando3946 they changed the name of the company. Assuming it was some sort of legal dispute over naming rights.
😏 Nice. You guys are lucky to experience things like that and having fun out there! I love all the content that you made. Keep up the great work and stay blessed.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love how you guys go from a Ford Ka with mudflaps to these Formula like karts!
When you're that close to the ground not only does it feel faster, but the track and turns are so much harder to judge.
Must have been a FUN day!
This was great! I love watching you 3 drive random stuff.
How you guys don't have millions of subs is beyond me. I'll keep sharing.
Brilliant video.
Apparently they are faster than F3 cars around a full length circuit.
Karting is just the best.
In the sim they’re on pace with group c cars at brands hatch Indy at least
I did regular karts. Raced the tag class and did 3 tests in a 125 shifter. Shifter karts are something else. However, i have always wanted to do some laps in a superkart as they are 250cc and lightning fast. They hold lap records at some local tracks.
"Is someone coming to help me?" absolutely took me out 😂😂
Fantastic sound...love the 2 stroke off/on powerband - all or nothing
I have to try this one day! Absolutely fabulous!
I'd love if possible to see the lads do the mini practice sidecars, or just a sidecar attempt.
So cool. As a kid in the early 60's, my dad helped the McColluch Gocart team with local races. He and two coworkers (one was a Master Mechanic) helped tune/fix their engines for the races. These were the old 1/4 to 1/2 mile snaky tracks, nothing like the track in this video. The team had a cart with dual engines - one on each rear wheel - that they did time trials with. Use small local airport runway to time the run. They turned a time of 110 MPH on one run. Quite a feat at the time. Given they were not built like today's carts. So really cool to see this one flying around on a big track.
You guys are the best comedians out there. Funnier than any other uk/us car show. Keep it up
I want to see all F1 drivers in these at Monaco. Also, replace all the F1 sprint races with these.
It's the only way we'll actually ever know who's the best driver because the car has so much impact on the drivers in F1 it's ridiculous.
But then the little guy would have so much advantage, unless there was some equalising ballast?
Its so nice to see Rockingham back as a racecourse. lovely track
Yes I was wondering what's happening there. Obviously the plans to turn it into a car park haven't happened. I did the last public track day there in 2018.
@@althejazzman nice. I went to the last btcc race in 2018. Hoping that cinch let's them race there again
@@benjybriggs8434 yea. Currently they only seem to be using it for car reviews but letting CZcams channels film here is a big step.
Love karting. Glad that you guys tried it. It is real racing in the purest form.
It’s weird now because rockingham speedway closed down a few years ago so it’s nice to see that the track is still in use. 👍
i didn't know it had closed thats really sad was a great track.
Pretty sure he was screaming 'I am a driving god' (despite what the subtitles may incorrectly suggest)
Awesome video lads, that machine looks so so scary, can't imagine how mindblowing it would be (especially in the wet!) And if Scott says it's scarier than an 80s F1 then I don't even really wanna try (maybe..)
That thing is sick! I'd send it! I've driven fast carts a few times back in the day, almost bought one to race at one point, they're terrifying lol! At 80-90mph an inch off the ground feels like triple that.
Scariest thing i've probably piloted ever was a tiny reverse 3 point hydroplane. It was a 10' long closed cockpit with a fighter jet like canopy and a '90hp' Mercury outboard tuned way past 90hp. It was all of about 3 feet wide at the back and had three small zinc 'ski' plates, one up front below the nosecone and two on tiny rear sponsons, the reverse of a normal hydroplane. You had to be delicate with the throttle and jackplate to get it up on plane and not just backflip, and once it was up on step it was terrifying, like being strapped into a sea skimming missile. A mile by half mile lake got real small real fast when i went full send over triple digits with the screaming 2 stroke wide open and everything going blurry from vibration. Doing the run along the opposite shore i hit a bit of my own wake and got squirrely at full send, bouncing from side to side and almost rolling it.
Scotts reaction is priceless haha
There's a go cart place in my town called drift cart, and it's basically an indoor dirt track that you can drift go carts on and race your friends. In fact, one of the go carts had actually been modified a little by one of the guys working there and somehow he gave the little engine V-Tech. It was noticably faster.
Fascinating
Those karts are incredible. They can really punish you for an entire race. great video
We can only imagine what you relived there.
thx for sharing!
Man. When someone who has driven a f1 car reacts likes this to another car. I’ll take their word for it. The way the last driver reacted was a great moment. Been their the 1st time I drove over 200mph
If they want to eject in a crash, Callum should have been wearing motorcycle leathers (like the guy who helped them restart the car), and probably Scott, too. Sliding on that asphalt would have eaten through Callum's jacket and skin in seconds. I'm not sure about Scott's race suit, but I suspect it's more fire protection than friction protection.
Also, what was blurred out on the hood of the Bananaru? I feel driven to discover that. 😄
“Driven”
I came to say the same thing. No way I would drive that without leathers.
Love the Subaru. Great episode as always!
EPIC! Talk about jumping in the deepend. Love it.
Three really good friends out for an exciting afternoon. I wish I’d known you’d be there - I live just down the road. Brilliant video and thank you for sharing 🌞
Loving the new Top Gear!
Excellent model for a channel. A nice addition to Driver61
No kidding. These three could do a way better job leading the new top gear than the three current presenters that have zero chemistry.
I used to race a 125cc shifter kart with a modified Honda (about 47hp)
We'd hit about 115mph in the draft and corner so hard you have to wear rib protectors. Good times.
Great to see you having so much fun!
I want to see the lads try out double decker racing. Seeing how the different driving levels mash-up with that type of motorsport would be a great laugh.
I love how you censored the old channel name at 8:42, but forgot to do it earlier at 7:56 on a much more prominent shot
Also in the race suit
Damn. Even an f1 driver got scared. Gotta give Callum credit for hitting full throttle
These videos are so well made, deserve way more subs
I'm used to Sprint and Endurance karts, but when I drove one of these, oh wow that's a whole new ball game indeed.
I'd love to see your guys' reactions to driving a shifter kart on a kart-sized track. I know it took my brain months to just keep up with how much was going on each lap.
To be fair the layout we used that day was very small that’s why we only got 105mph. Rather than the 140mph + that is possible. Out of them
@@danielthompson3849 Oh no, I was more so thinking the opposite! I raced Kz2 karts on very much kart made tracks (like 750 - 1100m total) which meant that the gears were really short leading to around 25 gears changes in about a 35 second lap. The amount of mental load it created (in me at the very least) would be interesting to see in this sort of format :)
@@technicallyspeaking4821 I drive mine (the one in video ). on them tracks and Race a historic 250 twin. Imagine more power than kz but less grip 😂
Ha. I drive one of these all the time and they feel normal to me. Awesome to see someone that has driven lots of other types of cars be blown away by superkarts. Chris Harris did same thing on top gear extra number of years back. Let's me know that if I can handle one of these I would do alright in other forms of motorsports.
Yeah. I raced one for 8 years. I’m glad these guys tried it out.
There's a reason so many young racers start off karting before transitioning to other kinds of racing. The care and awareness it takes to drive one of these at the limit absolutely translates to other motorsports.
This looks amazing. I would love to have a go in one of those. Great content.
This trio is so lovely!
Lov the video. Now if u guys want something serieusly mad.
Try sidecar racing, its absolutly insane, Just don't flip like i did
I'd love to see y'all out in america on some of those oval karts youre all but laying down inside of.
probably not as impressive since there's no corners
@De Fausti You severely underestimate the skill of oval drivers lol.
@@DeFausti if it were regular car racing on ovals i'd somewhat understand your hesitancy to check it out but oval karts are seriously MENTAL. it's a different beast from hopping in a car with a roll cage and racing flat out, you're in a motorized coffin with big them big daytona walls on your outside. youre like inches away from your bum kissing concrete at any given moment. I can't guarantee it'll catch your interest but it's definitely worth checking out since there are some good videos of the experience on youtube, including some karting multiclass on the daytona road course i believe
@@GenuineRage If anything, car racing on ovals is just as intense. Especially dirt.
Put Fausti the keyboard racer in a sprint car, and watch his brains turn to mush lol.
I was genuinely scared for Scott there. Those Karts are mental!!!
this is incredible lads, well done!!
I drove a KZ shifter kart with 45hp last week and it blew my mind (having owned 700hp cars). Simply unimaginable what double the power would do 🤯
Any chance to rent it in the UK?
Callum was driving my kart and it runs two. Kz125 engines. 👍👍
@@danielthompson3849 amazing kart 👍
@@TrackDaysDude Yeah there’s a few teams that do test days (~£400 for the day) I did it with MK Racing at Fulbeck
@@TrackDaysDude thank you they really are somthing else
Round Cadwell my first ever weekend racing there. I took my rs6. On a Friday to learn the track Then went out in the kart on sat.
Was 15 seconds a lap faster
The fact that Scott knows the Subaru well distorted the kart times a lot.
Example at silverstone the kart time is 2second faster than gt3 race car
was expecting the child to appear again, but life is unfair
Love these cars in Project Cars
Crazy nuts lads!! 💯
You have to try snowmobile drag racing. Or just snowmobile racing... it's totally insane. The drag snowmobiles cram 1000hp under the bonnet... scary fast.
Let's not have these guys end up like Ken Block, eh?
Seems similar to my KZ2 kart(60HP vs 90Kg), at least a manifestation of the engine 🙂So I can image the ride.. those who haven't tried won't understand 🙂
The one cal drives has two kz engines one each side
@Daniel Thompson Sure, that is the reason why it has 100HP 🙂
@@jindranereknu5753 I know because it’s mine 😂👍👍
@Daniel Thompson Nice, could you unreveal the price for this? And how much is the maintenance? 🙂
@@jindranereknu5753 when I built it tm kz9c motors where cheep so both engines cost £1500 and I already had the chassis
I'm REALLY looking forward to Callum in Caterham. That's gonna be so fun to watch
I've actually seen like 20 of them race irl it was great!
Shits like an early formula 1 car. Fucking coffin mobile.
Karting crashes are nasty. Mate of mine broke three of ribs and a arm once. That was in a super basic 125cc two stroker. About 1/3rd of the power of this kart
@@HRM.H Yeah I race indoor karts that only go about 40. Shits still scary and have seen plenty of bad crashes
I had one and loved it. Only raced it a few times on the track, but on public roads it was a really scary fun. You need to get the tires warm and on day as cloudy as this was pick the right tires
Another fab vid, cheers guys. Always make me chuckle 😂
I remember discovering these super karts in an article when I was 8 and the article was about David Coulthard describing this as the scariest thing he ever experienced.
That day I knew, if it was too much for a F1 driver, it must be too much for me
It's Formula 1 for Oompa Loompas, but without the up and down because the suspension is keeping it flat. Perfect. This is spectacularly fast for a go-kart where you can get thrown out.
I can remember going to the inaugural motorcycle 500 gp at eastern creek inthe 90,s and these things were a support class. They were coming full blat on a downhill main straight and not backing off at all to tip into turn one. Very impressive.
Wow I'm blown away fellas!!! So glad I came across this channel,my son and I have been making carts and minibikes faster for years and love our time in the shop and on the track. Certainly not this level😁but we love the cart and minibike world.
I love these videos and this channel as a whole. You all seem like such down to earth guys and it’s nice to be able to watch this sort of content with people who aren’t pompous jerks, aren’t trying to constantly sell clothing or merchandise. I hope this overdrive continues to prosper but remains the same as it is now in regards to you 3 and your content. 👍
This is 100% my favorite channel!
You know a Go-Kart is fast when the thing itself sounds like a goddamn Pikes Peak hill climb car
Fantastic video guys!😃
i recall seeing a video with David Coulthardt driving one of these a long time ago, he may still have in F1 back then, and he was blown away by the sheet performance of these supercarts, he said it was the only racing car the that was similar to F1
This channel is the modern day Top Gear :D. Keep up the excellent work!
By they way, it was unexpected to see 'driven' censored at 8:42
Always top content guys😄😄
I raced long circuit Superkarts for 4 yrs absolutely loved it ...
My dad raced these for years. Those races were absolute carnage, sometimes 40+ karts on the same track
brilliant episode that lads
Callum sounded like will from the inbertweeners when he spun lol. " can somebody help me " " help " lol, very enjoyable
Scott, you're a hero!
I used to race the 250cc national class on short circuits. They were only about 65-70 bhp maybe, but still incredibly quick. Never had the guts (or budget) to race Div 1 though.
Ha! Best vid yet guys! That thing looks mental, well done Callum, looked like you had a good crack at it. When does the caterham season start?
Crazy, I didn’t think you could drive on Rockingham anymore. Loved the sketchiness of T1 in the rain🤣
Very nice to see cars going fast at Rockingham again!
Back in 1987 when I raced motorcycles at Willow Springs there was a Super Cart race where on a 250 CC TZ 250 powered cart that did 155 MPH top speed someone ran a lap record 1:12 lap time during a race. He was actually weaving through traffic through turns 3 and 4 between 60-80 MPH At the time and maybe still the fastest time was Michael Andretti @ 1:06 in an Indy car.
I'm sitting here watching with 7 broken ribs, when Scott made "that comment" at the end I almost passed out trying not to laugh 🤣🤣🤣
This sounds soooo amazing. Would love to try one!
i would absolutely love to race one of these wow hearing that 2 stroke BARK gets me going 😍
Love it and that was insane! I absolutely love the British, great people and hilarious sense of humor. Don’t worry gents, most people would be scared shitless to drive one of those too!