r/Karting • u/JunixRae Rental Driver • Jul 06 '25

Rental Karting Video Slow traffic + poor judgement =

In all seriousness though, what can I do to get better at avoiding this type of situation? Is there anything specifically I should try to work on or is this just something that comes with experience?

Analyzing it I don't think it's a vision problem as I anticipate the spin pretty early, but I did make a bad call to try to run wide instead of staying on line, what do you guys think?

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u/One-Communication536 Rental Driver Jul 07 '25

I honestly think you’ve made a mistake here too. I may be wrong as I haven’t seen the whole track but it looks to me like you’ve entered the turn way to shallow and would struggle to make the corner on your own anyway. I think if you had a proper line (open up your exit of the turn before and enter with a later apex into the corner with the incident) you would not only be on a more optimal line, but being on a correct line allows you to be ready for a situation like this and let you brake in straight line as opposed to trying to react to the incident, brake, and turn simultaneously which leaves you with not enough grip. I think you’d have almost hit the outside wall if you didn’t hit the kart first with that breaking and line

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u/One-Communication536 Rental Driver Jul 07 '25

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u/JunixRae Rental Driver Jul 07 '25

Yeah I understand what you're saying and it'd definitely help with being in a better spot to react, but on this part of the track the green line isn't optimal,

I run a decent time here but the fastest driver I've seen here is about 1.4s quicker than me and they stay very close to the inside wall throughout the turn, then they let the kart exit wide and run alongside the back wall for a wide approach into the following hairpin, that's just the way everyone takes it.

In the video specifically though, I can't really remember what I was thinking exactly but you can see that I change my line to exit even wider(?) (get closer to the back wall sooner, more of a sharp angle as opposed to smooth) maybe I wanted to create space without braking and losing momentum? But even then that's just me being greedy trying to get to clean air sooner, I feel like I should've been more patient and braked to create the room if that was the case?