Safety Tips when Karting

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  • #1967
    Jules
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    4. Warm up the brakes and do a few hard stops on WARM UP lap to get a feel of brakes and how kart will handle on braking limit…..

    #1969
    OSFlanker
    Participant

    1. Check the brakes & throttle BEFORE getting into the kart
    2. During the 1st few laps, do not follow directly behind the kart in front until you know the braking points of the driver. Leave yourself room to maneuver in case he brakes too early – half a kart’s width should be sufficient.
    3. Do not party too late the night before MyKart race!
    4. Warm up the brakes and do a few hard stops on WARM UP lap to get a feel of brakes and how kart will handle on braking limit…..
    5. Be alert at all times and take notice of flags being waved
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    Jules, maybe we should talk to City Karting about them getting a black flag and put another red flag at the hairpin near the pit building.

    #1970
    TheFazz
    Member

    [list=1]
    [*]Check the brakes & throttle BEFORE getting into the kart
    [*]During the 1st few laps, do not follow directly behind the kart in front until you know the braking points of the driver. Leave yourself room to maneuver in case he brakes too early – half a kart’s width should be sufficient.
    [*]Do not party too late the night before MyKart race!
    [*]Warm up the brakes and do a few hard stops on WARM UP lap to get a feel of brakes and how kart will handle on braking limit…..
    [*]Be alert at all times and take notice of flags being waved
    [*]always test the handling of the kart under braking and cornering especially… you will certainly find some karts threatens to swap ends under braking, or understeer/oversteer into corners
    [*]most importantly, make sure you are comfortable in the kart
    [*]
    [*]
    [/list]

    #1971
    naza
    Participant

    Avoid at all cost any wheel to wheel contact which may cause the following kart to flip over the front kart.

    #1975
    Jules
    Participant

    OSF,

    on your flags – can you elaborate who will man them and for what reasons? I know the flag meaning but who will decide? esp the black one……

    [quote=OSFlanker]1. Check the brakes & throttle BEFORE getting into the kart
    2. During the 1st few laps, do not follow directly behind the kart in front until you know the braking points of the driver. Leave yourself room to maneuver in case he brakes too early – half a kart’s width should be sufficient.
    3. Do not party too late the night before MyKart race!
    4. Warm up the brakes and do a few hard stops on WARM UP lap to get a feel of brakes and how kart will handle on braking limit…..
    5. Be alert at all times and take notice of flags being waved
    6.
    7.
    8.

    Jules, maybe we should talk to City Karting about them getting a black flag and put another red flag at the hairpin near the pit building.[/quote]

    #1983
    cyclonite
    Participant

    [list=1]
    [*]Check the brakes & throttle BEFORE getting into the kart
    [*]During the 1st few laps, do not follow directly behind the kart in front until you know the braking points of the driver. Leave yourself room to maneuver in case he brakes too early – half a kart’s width should be sufficient.
    [*]Do not party too late the night before MyKart race!
    [*]Warm up the brakes and do a few hard stops on WARM UP lap to get a feel of brakes and how kart will handle on braking limit…..
    [*]Be alert at all times and take notice of flags being waved
    [*]always test the handling of the kart under braking and cornering especially… you will certainly find some karts threatens to swap ends under braking, or understeer/oversteer into corners
    [*]most importantly, make sure you are comfortable in the kart
    [*]be prepared for the worse case scenario when you try to overtake someone or follow him/her too closely into a corner. That person might just brake for no reason and you could injure the person.
    [*]
    [/list]

    #1999
    alfagta
    Participant

    any tips for heavy racer?
    say out 95kg…..:)

    #2001
    bmFive
    Participant

    [quote=alfagta]any tips for heavy racer?
    say out 95kg…..:)[/quote]

    Start shedding weight………hehehe! No offence, joke only!

    #2002
    TheFazz
    Member

    [quote=bmFive][quote=alfagta]any tips for heavy racer?
    say out 95kg…..:)[/quote]

    Start shedding weight………hehehe! No offence, joke only!
    [/quote]

    Wah… that was an easy shot. *wink*

    Anyway, the question was more about safety and not lap time.

    #2003
    Jules
    Participant

    Under some circumstances……ie. low grip, rain – a heavy person can help get more grip by shifting his weight around the rite ends of the kart…..

    as fazz said, this thread is abt safety, so I wun dilute the topic with another…….

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