VCS 2021 Round 1 | X30 - Cobden

[@miwadabest1isgood476]

Either your rear end is too lose on entry or you're purposefully trying to flick the kart into every corner, either way you don't want that as it leads to inconsistent driving and unpredictable kart handling. When you watch the top runners like Jenner they're nice and smooth on the wheel, driving the kart through the corner rather than sliding it. Once you let the rear end settle you'll find a lot of time in the corners and the corner exit speed will improve, tires won't over heat as easily, and you'll be able to attack the corners harder. With the OTK chassis, on a yellow, as grippy as thy are, and assuming you're running full caster like most OTK karts, would be better off running a more narrow front track, you'll find this will make the kart more predictable in the longer corners as it'll be less sensitive to caster.

[@joshuaholmes1578]

Agree on all points made. And steering input is on the list of things to work on for sure! Cheers for the feedback 😊

[@miwadabest1isgood476]

@@joshuaholmes1578 What axle were you running on the weekend? also what front end set up, looked like an unhappy kart as well

[@joshuaholmes1578]

@@miwadabest1isgood476 HH axle, N was terrible and a mate who was also racing said the H was also too soft. Extremely course and grippy track. Needed the rear to release. I also was chucking the kart into the corners, I think just focussing on steering inputs will provide a large gain. The front end was fairly neutral, can’t remember specifically but yeah, think it was mostly my inputs resulting in an unsettled kart 😂

[@miwadabest1isgood476]

​@@joshuaholmes1578 I found the opposite, picked up half a second just from going from a H to a N on that same weekend, the H just gave the MG's no compliance and the track had very little grip, I run an OTK chassis as well, from watching your hands through a corner looks similar to what i was experiencing whilst running the H, caused the tires to slide more rather than dig giving the illusion of a better release off the corner but all it did was cook the rears from too much sliding then the front would over power the rear and it was just a mess. I found in my experience OTKs like more grip front and rear so you can drive them harder, they don't like relatively loose set ups (obviously take my advice and experiences with a pinch of salt because everyone one else has there own opinion), Over the 5 years I've karted for putting more grip in the rear and driving the kart through corners rather than sliding seems to be how I've been finding pace. Watching the pros this seems to be the case as well. It's interesting asking some of the proven front runners what sorta set ups tips they might have a couple tend to lie or alter the truth hahahaha. My advice that i can say will work is take the kart to a track you know, put in the hard, do 2-3 sessions, then put in an N on the same day and do the same without changing anything else and compare the two. Personally the N works 80% of the time unless the track is stupidly gripped up. Biggest give a away with the axles is that on the exit of most corners you're counter steering on the exit, you watch the pros they're steering into the corner and or have the wheel neutral and under braking your rear end is kicking out a lot, good indicator that your rear tires aren't digging in enough because your axles isn't allowing the tires to dig in.

[@aug9]

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