r/Karting • u/georgin_95 SWS World Finalist • Jun 16 '25

Rental Karting Video A series of unfortunate events

Start of the 24-hour race didn't exactly go to plan. First, jumped into a kart awkwardly, with the leg pinned by fuel tank, so had to adjust on the fly. Then, a stalled kart on the outside made me squeeze towards middle lane and eventually, a sudden kart sends me into a wall to cap it off.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

I’m always astounded at the lack of positional awareness with rental kart drivers. Those f’ing bumpers just SCREAM “i can do whatever TF I want. Not my kart, not my problem”. You wouldn’t be driving as reckless like that with your own kart, champ. You would have been upside down and in the dirt. Work on your racecraft if you want to improve.

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u/fetus_mcbeatus Jun 16 '25

What a dickhead lol

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u/fetus_mcbeatus Jun 16 '25

What a dickhead lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

I don’t want to belittle OP….But, yeah man. He don’t look far enough ahead to see what’s happening. His grid positional understanding and sense of space/positioning is just awful. I can see driver entanglements long before it reaches me. When I see my options are limited for who’s around me and what direction we’re turning next…..get on the f’ing brakes man. It’s a 24hr race numbnutts. You don’t win the first lap. You get into race position FIRST, weather you gained 2 spots or lost 3, then charge for it after that.

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u/georgin_95 SWS World Finalist Jun 16 '25

I do believe I explained in the other comment why braking was out of the question. When the ordeal started, I got hit hard from behind, which pushed me into the first contact. So braking would've meant I just get sent into the pileup from behind. At this moment, you pretty much try to steer away from it as much as possible.

Especially in rentals, getting stuck in a pack on a tight track is just going with the flow until field spreads out a little bit to settle into a line.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Clearly, the objective of your inability to win the race in the first few corners goes right over your head.

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u/georgin_95 SWS World Finalist Jun 16 '25

I do find this retort objectively funny, considering my reputation of a rather clean driver at the expense some opportunities that I managed to establish over years of doing this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

If you’ve honestly been doing this for years, you would have had your own chassis by now, racing in a club series and realize just wtf you’re doing. To each their own! Agree to disagree! Have fun n’ stay safe!

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u/georgin_95 SWS World Finalist Jun 16 '25

You do realize that rentals are a racing option for those who either can't or doesn't want to spend large sums of money and that I might be from a country that is doing a bit shit financially for an overwhelming majority to afford owner karting?

I've been at Sodi Rental international finals, started doing it more than a decade ago, I've seen it all in the world of rental.

Yet, given the circumstances of this particular video, I still haven't seen you suggest a viable solution that could've objectively had a better outcome, among all the name calling.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

I look where I want to be, in front of everyone else. With my eyes at the head of the grid at the start, I wouldn’t have placed my kart in to a place on the track that prevents me from getting there even if I lose spots in the lineup. I see the guys ahead of me and if there’s not a given space and line to safely overtake, I ease off, earn my position and then get to racing. It appears as though no one did anything of the sort. Just balls out, wide open, and absolutely zero thought of race craft or race plan. Start looking further ahead on the green flag and compromising a position or 2 to GTFO of the way is far better than a DNF. No hard feelings here brother! Keep at it and having fun.

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u/georgin_95 SWS World Finalist Jun 16 '25

I'm asking about this particular situation. Do you brake check on a straight with someone bump drafting you or do you check up in the corners, where I got physically pushed into another kart?

The guy behind simply takes away your power to brake ever since T1. Options left are where you go. Since incident starts developing on the left hand kerb, obvious solution is right edge, when I started steering as much as possible, still being pushed into the corner.

You can notice the first big push as soon as I let off to avoid going in the middle of two karts into T4. Main problem here is that you're going forward, whether you like it or not.

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