GO KARTING: A Complete Beginners Guide to Start Racing!

All you need to know before you start racing!!
If you're a newbie to karting but want to get involved in racing, this video is especially for you! Based on my own experience starting this sport alone in my 30s with zero experience, I cover the basics of everything from race categories, the specs of each category, engines, kart brands and buying your first kart along with the tools, equipment and racegear essential to get started. Enjoy!

[@kartaroundtheworld]

My biggest mistake when I started karting (3 years ago) was to say to myself: "I will buy a kart just for hobby and training", so I bought an kart and engine with homologation expired. After 1 year, I started to be faster and wanted to race. So I had to buy another kart and engine. So my tip is, if you want to start karting, buy one that it is at least legal for racing at your club.

[@kimsmith7301]

Great Vid Wado!! Very informative!! Look forward to seeing more of your content.

[@rosannakenworthy986]

Great video, good starting point for my son’s future career as a F1 driver 🏎️

[@eugene4643]

Always let faster drivers through . Better to learn from watching than annoying someone 🤣 Went from indoors to Arrive and drive . Also did a few years of double duty as a track Marshall . When came to buying 1st kart bought mine off a club member who bought a new kart . Got kart and tins of spare parts for 1600. . Bought a newer one 2 years later . Was about to buy a new one and it all fell apart due to medical BS . So it's back to A+D but don't race as much as I use to .

[@ofafotu7639]

Before this vid… I didn’t know a gahd damn thing about karting. I prob still don’t 😂… but I know that this vid was great and I’ll probs watch more.

[@Zuludarkthirty]

Well done Wade.. I haven’t see you for a while. I hope you are Doing well? bb k

[@CrisPearson]

So well researched and put together. Good pacing too and didn’t become dry with all the info. You mentioned CIK chassis. Around 3:40. What’s that stand for? Is that nomenclature carried to other categories? Is there a haunted kart category? 😂

[@downvisor]

There's definitely a haunted category. A mate had a kart that was totally cursed! CIK stands for Commission Internationale de Karting. It's basically the FIA for karting... the main sanctioning body.

[@CrisPearson]

What are the advantages of the ignition advance on the EVO? And umm, what even is it?

[@downvisor]

The ignition advance is a timing "breakthrough" that kicks in at around 9000rpm to basically act as a timing boost down the straights. Without it the Rotax kind of runs out of puff, where the X30 engines keep revving and pulling.

[@Nomate368]

Is the x30 faster than the rotax? Most people at my track use the rotax

[@downvisor]

No not faster. They just have slightly different power delivery and are different to use. 👍

[@MrHarvey1301]

9:24 haha

[@downvisor]

@@MrHarvey1301 😉

[@tonykartracer8032]

How to get into karting ; Step 1 - Hit the lottery

[@downvisor]

@@tonykartracer8032 😅truth