20/05/24 RRC DM i dinokarts heat 4

[@ZakkLayster]

Can I please ask you which braking technique do you use In 6:09? Do you first turn and then brake so the rear of the kart rotates, and then you counter-steer?
If so, it looks hard to master :P
Maybe you brake with wheels still parallel, but I cannot tell since it goes fast :P

[@andreas_trier]

It's a bit of both in that corner. I need to get the kart slowed down a bit, after the straight, but of course i need to rotate it as well. If you slow the video down,you will see that I hit the brake, to slow it down, but only for fraction of a second, since that is all the speed needed to take away, and then begins the rotation. This exact kart gave me some problems in that corner, as the brakes didn't behave how i wanted them to, with my driving style

[@ZakkLayster]

Ok understood, so no need for trail braking or anything like that (probably it’s not really a thing in rental karts anyway if I’m not mistaken).
What’s interesting is that you know exactly how much sliding is ok, I tend to brake more and avoid sliding almost completely but I think it’s making me slower 😅

[@andreas_trier]

@@ZakkLayster Trailbraking is used to keep the balance in the car through the corner, which would be counterintuitive to this drivingstyle, which is to have the kart sliding a bit. Besides, the rental karts don't have a suspension or enough weight transfer from front to back, to recommend trailbraking.
Regarding the slide. I also use it to keep the rpm high, and use its power to push the kart inward. If I dont slide it, I would have to lower the rpm through the corner, and then it would cost me at the exit, and of course if it slides too much, the same will happen. That is why I listen to the rpm, to figure out if I slide to much. If the rpm stay, then I'm good, but if they drop significantly through the corner, then it's too much