Mentally prepare yourself before you get to the race track. Both my boys play soccer when they are not racing. I’ve had the opportunity to be an assistant coach to a successful coach that not only had a winning record but had a winning record because of how he coached the boys. We were a …
Avoid the slide by finding the grip Today we are going to work on one of the most important mistakes that new drivers make. As you approach the track and discover your racing line (see our earlier blogs post 8 through post 11) one thing that you should have picked up throughout all of those, …
Blog Post 14: Common Karting Mistakes of Beginners – Part 1 Read More »
There is a learning process that happens when taking on something new. We’ve all done it in some form or another. Kart racing is no different. We all need to make mistakes to find out what works and what doesn’t. Through these mistakes, you can be better prepared for when you are racing to the …
Putting Them All Together From the previous blog posts, we have established the importance of the components to the racing line. We learned how the apex is the tightest part of the corner and that it can move according to how you want to approach the corner and how it will affect the approach to …
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Applying Snap-In and Track-Outs Applying the snap-in and the track-outs has to do with the skill of timing. Only through seat time and experience, will you pick up this skill. When you arrive at the track and you’ve already found the apexes for each of the corners, previously discussed, in the blog post, “In what …
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What is an Apex? There are many important aspects of discovering the racing line and the one that tops them all is finding the apex of a corner. Without making things too complicated, the apex is the point from when the corner closes or gets tighter, to the point where it starts to open up. …
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Finding the Parts of a Racing Line This is the start of your journey, once you’ve made it to the track. There is one thing above all other tasks that you need to do when you are looking at the track. You need to discover the racing line. As I stated in “Blog Post 7: …
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Over the next several posts I will be going over different terminologies and the different ways to apply them. These terms will help you have a better understanding and how you can use them to become a better driver. There are also different ways to implement and interpret these guides to find what will work …
Kart racing is where it usually all begins for professional racers. You can watch countless interviews with racers and they will almost always say that they started in kart racing. It’s where you learn the fundamentals of racing. Such fundaments that you will learn are how your reflexes are important at such speeds, the eye-to-hand …
There are a lot of factors to being competitive and winning is only one of them. Many will argue that it’s the most important factor and that may be true at the highest of levels. However, other more important things to be competitive are your (or your child’s) ability to take input from coaches, instructors, …
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