How To Brake?

[NickW]

Smoother IS faster. What's also faster is keeping the wheel straight for as long as possible as opposed to having some steering input. And having little or to no toe either front or rear (keeps the chassis from binding, putting heat in wheel bearings creating hot spots).

I race laydown karts and road race sprint karts on big tracks, you had better believe steering input slows you down. Chassis setup is paramount for control. We watch everything from scrub radius to alignment almost every practice session- we can gain 1/10sec from more power, but literally a second or two if we can get closer to ideal chassis setup.

Of course all this is for naught if you can't drive... Smooth inputs at all times, smoothly to threshold braking, smoothly on throttle to WOT, smooth steering inputs to get into and out of corners quickly. Just because a car/kart can be darty does not mean that's how it's meant to be driven.