If you get into a karting for the first time, or if you wish to improve your stopwatches, this heading will be able to bring to you advises,and ideas in order to better approach the turns, brakings... .
The best driving school seems to be the observation of the best pilots. The most common spectacle on television is Formula 1. To observe the trajectories is already the best means of initiating oneself with piloting. In addition, the courses of piloting are rather rare. The majority of the pilots learn by themselves, or while discussing with other practisers. It is by the strenth of turning that one learns how to handle the kart. It is a rather intuitive sport. It is not necessary to know a particular movement (as with tennis for example), nor to have a specific position (as for the ski...).

First contact with a kart:
You get in for the first time in a kart. Either rented (it is preferable for a beginning!) or of race, you must remain modest: you know neither the circuit, nor the behavior of the machine. It is not completely comparable with that of a car. The direction is radically different. Braking is different. Carry out some turns quietly to discover all that. Then you will be able to accelerate gradually as confidence gains you. At a certain time, you will be so confident that you will make your first error: slew-round... exit! The errors which lead to slew-round are often the same ones. With a balanced kart and by making the following recommendations, you will avoid them perhaps a little more. All make it,be reassured, and even the best can make some, it is enough to have a little of too much enthusiasm or too much confidence.

Trajectories:
The principal referee, in karting, is the chronometer. During the drive, It is advised to embark it, is stuck on the wheel. One can thus read, turn after turn the achieved time. A good chronometer will even make it possible to visualize partial times. This trick thus makes it possible to test the trajectories, the approaches and techniques of piloting. It is while testing in this manner that one can realize the good trajectories.
Another technic of training consists in following an expert. Ask him however to drive slowl. if you try to follow a pro without having experience, you will not pass the first turn! On a circuit, one is not likely to find somebody opposite oneself! One thus can, and it is even highly advised to occupy the working width of the track... but not anyhow! The beginners tend sometimes to remain on the right of the track. It is not necessary. Follow the trajectory which you want, but do not prevent obviously the others from exceeding you! Drive normally, without abrupt change of direction. It is up to the one who exceeds to modify his trajectory except (if you drive slowly... In this case, do not forget to announce it by raising the arm!)
To approach a turn, one deports himself toward the outside, then one aims at the rope to come out to the possible outside. The general rule can be summarized in this: "external - interior - outside". In practice, that intensifies, of course. The goal is in fact to take the turn with the largest ray of curvature. To take the turn at the very outside does not bring obviously any saving of time. To take it completely inside is not faster: speed will be more important if the ray of curvature is large. However, it is believed that the fastest way is shortest, but it is not the case here. The speed of passing in curve will be larger if one follows a trajectory with an important ray of curvature. TheTime that one could lose to take a longer way will be caught up with by the fact that one can roll there more quickly.

.Styles of piloting :
Just as each turn has its characteristics, each pilot has his style. One distinguishes two principal categories of them: the on-turn one, rally kind, and the under-turn, F1 kind.
To understeer means that the front does not follow completely the required trajectory. The kart tends not to engage sufficiently in the turn. Too much understeering is impossible to control, obviously since the direction does not respond. But a suspicion makes it possible to direct correctly, to more easily keep his kart in the axis and to speed up more easily at exit. Moreover, it makes it possible to slow down with more ease because the limit of the slew-round is pushed back
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Alain Prost tended to prefer this kind of adjustment for his F1, slightly understeer.
To oversteer means that the rear of the kart turns more than the front one. It is then necessary to counter-direct. The slew-round is easier! The feelings are on the other hand guaranteed. Slips, steerings into the skid, drifts... all pleasures of the pilot of rally! Attention however: the abuse on-turn is dangerous, bad for the stopwatches. Sometimes the skid harms the tires on the one hand, and makes fall the engine speed. However a kart generally does not have a gear box. With a hired kart, this style is to be proscribed, because a slip of the tires makes fall the mode, and considering the lack of power of these engines, one will waste time enormously. In fact, in 2 times or 4 times, it would be necessary to preserve a raised mode for a larger power. Attention also not to to stall if the kart does not have a clutch... Lastly, this piloting is to be held to the informed pilots. It is necessary to know the behavior of its kart before claiming to take the trajectories in on-turn. The trajectory will be modified: broader at the beginning, it is tightened earlier towards the rope. The speed up at exit can be earlier