Know what? I have been saying this for the better part of 1 year. I have to learn how to drive the kart. The fact is, I don't know how to go about doing it.
Talking to people at the track is not much help.
Trying to find information on the net invariably leads to how to setup your kart instead.
And now, there is a huge problem, I cant find out my time. After the huge shunt last December, my cable for the magnet to the Alfano got ribbed off. Its now with a friend of mine, asked her to find out the cable type and see if she can build a new cable for me.
I was sent a video of me entangling with Tony and Alan hitting me and flying off. But from the video, I saw how I took that corner, and was instantly behind Tony's back. I guess learning to drive now would be learning how to break a corner down into parts.
Entry
Rotation
Apex
Exit
And remembering each and every details of what is happening. In each and every corner.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Race One 2010
Track C - Full Track
Qualified 10th.
Heat 1 finished 8th.
Heat 2 finished 6th.
A few top drivers did not attend, so finishing in the points may be due to that.
Only hit below 59sec one time on Heat 1 Lap 4. And kenna hit by Alan Smith in Heat 2 Lap 3 after entangling with Tony. My front left bumper got stucked in his rear right wheel.
Tested with rear sprocket at 80 teeth, but felt the engine really struggling at the end of the long uphill straights. So changed to a 78 as well as a new chain as old one is stretched at certain location. Was "advised" to use a 80 teeth instead for the next race.
Rear Width Track 138.5
Rear Hubs 95mm
Front Hub 90mm
Front Left 10mm spacer
Front Right 10mm spacer
Tires MG Yellow 10psi/0.7bar
Main Jet 165
Front Sprocket 12
Rear Sprocket 78
Qualified 10th.
Heat 1 finished 8th.
Heat 2 finished 6th.
A few top drivers did not attend, so finishing in the points may be due to that.
Only hit below 59sec one time on Heat 1 Lap 4. And kenna hit by Alan Smith in Heat 2 Lap 3 after entangling with Tony. My front left bumper got stucked in his rear right wheel.
Tested with rear sprocket at 80 teeth, but felt the engine really struggling at the end of the long uphill straights. So changed to a 78 as well as a new chain as old one is stretched at certain location. Was "advised" to use a 80 teeth instead for the next race.
Rear Width Track 138.5
Rear Hubs 95mm
Front Hub 90mm
Front Left 10mm spacer
Front Right 10mm spacer
Tires MG Yellow 10psi/0.7bar
Main Jet 165
Front Sprocket 12
Rear Sprocket 78
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Fixing the clutch
First trip in to Plentong for 2010
Got my new 2009 spec clutch delivered from Kartpartsuk. My old clutch was totally shot, had to be welded a few times before I can drive. Not only was the new clutch replaced, Jason also replaced all the fuel line to as he said, original Tony Kart.
Counted the chain used, was a 106 using 80 tooth rear sprocket. Same chain for 78 tooth sprocket. Looks like 106 is the sweet spot for chain now. Darn, I bought a 102 chain.
Adjusted brake position to reduce the lag. Meaning, when I step on the brake, there is less movement before the brakes actually does its work. Hopefully, it will give me a better feel on the brakes.
Adjusted throttle stop positioning as well. After the throttle is all the way down, I felt the cable can still be pulled a little more. So adjusted the stop nut so that the pedal can go down a bit more.
After that, it was just cleaning and cleaning. There is a citrus cleaner from 3M that looks interesting, will try it to see if it can clean out those tires marks.
Anyway, with the new clutch, does not mean its better. There are still a lot of reports on the 2009 spec clutch breaking. Have to re-look into my braking. Maybe the Rotax Max cant allow me to brake so hard like the other engines. Cant have this new clutch breaking on me this year. It took a 25% chunk off my karting budget for 2010.
Next Race. 7th February.
Got my new 2009 spec clutch delivered from Kartpartsuk. My old clutch was totally shot, had to be welded a few times before I can drive. Not only was the new clutch replaced, Jason also replaced all the fuel line to as he said, original Tony Kart.
Counted the chain used, was a 106 using 80 tooth rear sprocket. Same chain for 78 tooth sprocket. Looks like 106 is the sweet spot for chain now. Darn, I bought a 102 chain.
Adjusted brake position to reduce the lag. Meaning, when I step on the brake, there is less movement before the brakes actually does its work. Hopefully, it will give me a better feel on the brakes.
Adjusted throttle stop positioning as well. After the throttle is all the way down, I felt the cable can still be pulled a little more. So adjusted the stop nut so that the pedal can go down a bit more.
After that, it was just cleaning and cleaning. There is a citrus cleaner from 3M that looks interesting, will try it to see if it can clean out those tires marks.
Anyway, with the new clutch, does not mean its better. There are still a lot of reports on the 2009 spec clutch breaking. Have to re-look into my braking. Maybe the Rotax Max cant allow me to brake so hard like the other engines. Cant have this new clutch breaking on me this year. It took a 25% chunk off my karting budget for 2010.
Next Race. 7th February.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Buckmore Park
http://www.buckmore.co.uk/content.php/000
Was supposed to go for the Praction session sometime in July, but I have to cancel it due to my trip to UK being cancelled. Tough. I booked the Praction on a Friday, and I got the email on the following Monday from my company that my trip has being cancelled.
Anyway, what is a Praction? Well, its a Practise with Tuition given. You pay the same price, go round the track, but you get information on how you are driving etc. I managed to get to Buckmore eventually today, but there were no more Praction or 45 minutes session available anymore, and I had to settle for the 30 minutes session, meaning I lost some monies in the process as the booking is not refundable.
The track is well run, the karts are well maintained and it has metal bumpers which prevent damages to the karts as well as keeping the occupant safer. You could even adjust the seat forward or backward using a lever like in your own car. Wow. May be standard in UK, but from where I came from, where we have to prop cushion, its a wow factor. Before going to the track, you have to arrive 1 hour early to get fitted with driving suit, helmet and your timing device. Then shown a video on the dos and donts. The meaning of flags etc.
Then, it was another 30 minutes of waiting for the other session to finish, before its our turn. I say its really a waste of time waiting for 1 hour.
What can I say, have not driven a 390cc for such a long time, the chassis is really heavy due to the metal bumpers and the stuffs to make the sit move forward and backward, so you don't feel the kick when you accelerate like those in Plentong. Anyway, enjoy the pictures and my timing sheet.
Was supposed to go for the Praction session sometime in July, but I have to cancel it due to my trip to UK being cancelled. Tough. I booked the Praction on a Friday, and I got the email on the following Monday from my company that my trip has being cancelled.
Anyway, what is a Praction? Well, its a Practise with Tuition given. You pay the same price, go round the track, but you get information on how you are driving etc. I managed to get to Buckmore eventually today, but there were no more Praction or 45 minutes session available anymore, and I had to settle for the 30 minutes session, meaning I lost some monies in the process as the booking is not refundable.
The track is well run, the karts are well maintained and it has metal bumpers which prevent damages to the karts as well as keeping the occupant safer. You could even adjust the seat forward or backward using a lever like in your own car. Wow. May be standard in UK, but from where I came from, where we have to prop cushion, its a wow factor. Before going to the track, you have to arrive 1 hour early to get fitted with driving suit, helmet and your timing device. Then shown a video on the dos and donts. The meaning of flags etc.
Then, it was another 30 minutes of waiting for the other session to finish, before its our turn. I say its really a waste of time waiting for 1 hour.
What can I say, have not driven a 390cc for such a long time, the chassis is really heavy due to the metal bumpers and the stuffs to make the sit move forward and backward, so you don't feel the kick when you accelerate like those in Plentong. Anyway, enjoy the pictures and my timing sheet.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Changes
As stated in the profile. This blog used to be shared by 4 who enjoyed karting. As in anything with life itself, this blog is now only updated by me K[p].
Out of the 4, one has totally dropped out of racing.
I now share a kart (the Gillard) with Des, but with the impending birth of his 2nd child, I dont think I will see him in on the track for sometime to come.
As for the last one, he has decided to setup another blog in July 2008. You can find him at velocita-karting.blogspot.com. You can find more articles on that blog regarding starting to kart in Singapore/Malaysia. I am trying to add that link and others to this blog, you will know when I figured out how to do that.
Out of the 4, one has totally dropped out of racing.
I now share a kart (the Gillard) with Des, but with the impending birth of his 2nd child, I dont think I will see him in on the track for sometime to come.
As for the last one, he has decided to setup another blog in July 2008. You can find him at velocita-karting.blogspot.com. You can find more articles on that blog regarding starting to kart in Singapore/Malaysia. I am trying to add that link and others to this blog, you will know when I figured out how to do that.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
New Beginnings
Right. There were no updates for the pass few months. And I hope to change that.
I was away working in Norway for the last 6 months. And there was no karting at all, nada, zilch. But my kart was loaned out to a friend to race and came back with a blown engine which has already been repaired up to a tune of $1,200. My My My, no karting done, but still paying and paying and paying.
What I have been doing the last 6 months was a lot of reading. Reading up on kart setups. Reading up on the Rotax Max FR125 engine, which IS the engine on my kart. And during the repair, found out it is a year 2007 engine. Reading up on maintenance. Reading up on gear ratios. Etc....etc...
Now that I am back. I hope to apply those that I have read and learnt on my kart. There will be one more trip in August to London, which is smack right on the date of the 7th race of the season. Once I am back, I will have to run the engine in, and hope to prepare it in time for the 8th race in September.
In the meantime, I will think of what I want to acheive before this race, and immediately after that. I know I can drive fast, but I need to be more consistent. And also always learning ways to drive even faster. Priority is still in my driving and racecraft, and I will learn setup along the way.
I hope to improve this blog as well. Looks really stale to me. And I will use it as a record for all my races that I join.
Keep tune.
I was away working in Norway for the last 6 months. And there was no karting at all, nada, zilch. But my kart was loaned out to a friend to race and came back with a blown engine which has already been repaired up to a tune of $1,200. My My My, no karting done, but still paying and paying and paying.
What I have been doing the last 6 months was a lot of reading. Reading up on kart setups. Reading up on the Rotax Max FR125 engine, which IS the engine on my kart. And during the repair, found out it is a year 2007 engine. Reading up on maintenance. Reading up on gear ratios. Etc....etc...
Now that I am back. I hope to apply those that I have read and learnt on my kart. There will be one more trip in August to London, which is smack right on the date of the 7th race of the season. Once I am back, I will have to run the engine in, and hope to prepare it in time for the 8th race in September.
In the meantime, I will think of what I want to acheive before this race, and immediately after that. I know I can drive fast, but I need to be more consistent. And also always learning ways to drive even faster. Priority is still in my driving and racecraft, and I will learn setup along the way.
I hope to improve this blog as well. Looks really stale to me. And I will use it as a record for all my races that I join.
Keep tune.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Tires going to give
Finally I managed to do some karting. But after the last post asking when I am able to kart, I did in fact do 2 sessions including yesterday in Plentong. And 1 more very short session in Yanai Karting in Yamaguchi Japan!
Yanai was memorable as it was a public holiday in Japan on 13th October and it became a sports day with Inoue-san's family! I also test drove a Nissan GTR! Albeit, its a remote control car. Heehee. The kart was using 100cc Yamaha engines, I did not find out what was the exact model, I think SC perhaps. The track from the picture on the website was a little bit technical,
Yanai was memorable as it was a public holiday in Japan on 13th October and it became a sports day with Inoue-san's family! I also test drove a Nissan GTR! Albeit, its a remote control car. Heehee. The kart was using 100cc Yamaha engines, I did not find out what was the exact model, I think SC perhaps. The track from the picture on the website was a little bit technical,
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