Ok so its not as easy as it looks.

[hybrid_flyer]

Ok, I tried go-kart racing today for the first time, and wow its not as easy as it looks. Now granted all the people I went with have raced there before, but I thought I could at least keep close to them. But heck no, I was getting smoked. I figured because of the windy roads I have to drive daily, I would at least have some idea of the racing lines LOL who was I kiddin??

So I was curious how many people on here us karts as a training tool instead of training in their own cars??

[KDashy]

Did you go to the Malibu Speedway?

[hybrid_flyer]

no i went to a place called go kart racer check it out at http://www.gokartracer.com its a really nice facility

[Silvia007]

How were you smoked? Not confident in cornering?

[hybrid_flyer]

nah first time in a kart, and i was tryin to muscle the car around the track instead of finessing it through

[Chingon]

one thing i noticed while karting is that it's close to impossible to under/oversteer so I took the corners @ WOT and that helped a bit.

[hybrid_flyer]

when I was racing it was easy to under/oversteer, the tires were slicks and the track was smooth/polished concrete. Even with the tires warm at WOT it was easy to break it loose. The karts top out at 35 mph. So by the end of the race I was losing so badly that I started drifting through the big corners lol, it was acutally the only time I lost control of the kart.