I was karting last weekend, the first time I had been in a very long while, and had the opportunity to test a couple of things mentioned in this thread. Hope some people with karting experience could agree or refute anything I said.
1.Lifting the inside rear wheel, unfortunately I don't think the karts I am racing were set up to do that, I was leaning my weight on the outside wheel in the slow sharp corners and just could not get the wheels to come of the ground; at least I didn't notice it. I suspect there are no other tricks in this regard?
2.Snaking, I was able to do this but it is a technique that seems to be reserved for only high speed and only when you are of the throttle, if you try and do this at low speed you end up killing your momentum. At high speed you can use it to just deceleration a little with the added benefit of positing the car better on the exit. Is there any other times where you can do this?
by and large though, smoother is definitely faster with low grip, low power karts so far as I can tell.
Now one other thing...
Cornering
In a situation were you are arriving at a slow sharp corner, such as a harprin after a long straight is it better to do the following:
a. Brake in a straight line but carry momentum across the apex and accelerate hard when you have grip on the other side
b. Brake in a straight line, you are slower on entry but you get the power down mid corner
c. Brake and turn into the corner, and carry momentum through the corner
d. Brake and turn into the corner and apply throttle mid apex
...now c and d would seem better, because you are braking later and by extending the braking zone, but in low grip, low power karts if there is any slide I seem to be killing momentum thereby making c and d slower. Is that just a case of me not doing it correctly, or is customary to be slower using those two methods when karting with low grip/low power machinery.
Thanks Guys
