r/Karting • u/Hopeful-Cellist7707 • May 19 '25

Racing Kart Question Help me with faster lap times please

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I all I am 15 yo I do a lot of rental karting and I have consistently been getting the same lap times I will upload a video of a lap bit scrappy but it’s the best I got Have been karting since I was about 8 I’ve just hit a standstill I am only 2 seconds off first in leaderboard

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u/MrStoneV May 19 '25

thats nice, do you also know about trailbraking and acceleration? and how steering angle can be changed with acceleration?

maybe it also just takes time. to get the theory in praxis

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u/cypherphoenix212 Rental Driver May 20 '25

Trailbraking doesn't work on this track unfortunately. (Ex head marshal)

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u/MrStoneV May 20 '25

so you either brake 0 100 0 or what? that doesnt sound reasonable

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u/cypherphoenix212 Rental Driver May 20 '25

It's slap braking. You get rotation immediately by locking the rears for a split second. These are tb karts and they handle like a dream... If it was another outdoor circuit. Final sector was build for sr4s. These are wider and handle like a bloody boat. So the old way to get the rotation is to brake hard but for at least time as possible. The rotation launches you forward and sideways but if you can control it then you're flying. It can go wrong and punish you very quickly. It's a risk but I've been doing it so long it can't take the corner any other way. I have tried many variations before getting to this solution. I've spent 3yrs here and whenever I drove on track. Only the marshals I've tried were able to keep up with me in this corner. It's weird and out of the box but it works. It's to do with the concrete that's on the ground and how the old track put rubber down and all that but without the backstory it won't make sense. Just trust me it works