After C99 Track Day @ Kg Gajah, my mates and I decided to unleash our ‘missingness’ of the event at karting, and no better place to do it than City Karting, Shah Alam and no better time than this evening, just now.
Luck wasn’t on our side when few minutes pass 2 p.m., massive rainfalls started showering with all the monsoon thunder! It was so heavy that the track itself was almost flooded! After some sweet negotiation with the towkei, he was willing to install wet tyres onto the karts and allow us a bit more track time. Hats off to him completely :)
10 minutes passed 4 p.m. and we’re good to go. We’re the first one to start actually while the pros started observing us to see how wet it was out there. I started among the front runners and taken the lead at the beginning so that I could try to get better feel on wet tyres equipped kart, which is my first time having it. Things got off with further complications when I realised that there’re still some standing water puddles, naturally I couldn’t flat out there. And almost zilch front end grip at entrance of tight corners, it was so much different than when it was dry. Not sure whether most of it attributed to the wet tyres. But you know what, I wouldn’t care!
Come to think of it, it was lucky for us that it rained heavily and the track was soakingly wet. It allows us to experience behavior of how the kart throwing away grip understeer, oversteer at lower speed and that allows us more time to think and react accordingly. And drifting comes into mind too :)
At the end we wet ourselves pretty badly but no short of fun and good experience. Here’s my rundown on most laps I did:-
Coming from last corner, flat on the start/end straight, flat again through Turn1, slowdown going through standing water section, tackling Turn 2, try masking lots of front end grip loss with slight power oversteer injection, going through Turn3 and Turn4 as one with me normally taking Turn 4 very wide to have better exit speed on another sequence of Turn5 and Turn6 flat (in some laps I lift off slightly to kick out the tail to get the nose kisses apex of Turn5). Approaching Turn7 needs to be done cautiously as it was really slippery and that cause me often running wide sideways at the exit, then flat out before slowing down going through standing water again at entrance of Turn8. Brake really early approaching Turn9, no front end grip had to somehow initiate some kind of Scandinavian flick to get the car line up to close the apex, flat short straight and then carry on speed towards Turn10. Really nail the throttle on back straight which includes Turn11 squeezing as much speed as possible before suffering again loss of front end grip approaching Turn12 and exit it wide close to the grass, line up late approaching Turn13, initiate full drift from entrance till exit before another tight turn i.e. Turn14 and then continue again through the start/finish straight.
Luck wasn’t on our side when few minutes pass 2 p.m., massive rainfalls started showering with all the monsoon thunder! It was so heavy that the track itself was almost flooded! After some sweet negotiation with the towkei, he was willing to install wet tyres onto the karts and allow us a bit more track time. Hats off to him completely :)
10 minutes passed 4 p.m. and we’re good to go. We’re the first one to start actually while the pros started observing us to see how wet it was out there. I started among the front runners and taken the lead at the beginning so that I could try to get better feel on wet tyres equipped kart, which is my first time having it. Things got off with further complications when I realised that there’re still some standing water puddles, naturally I couldn’t flat out there. And almost zilch front end grip at entrance of tight corners, it was so much different than when it was dry. Not sure whether most of it attributed to the wet tyres. But you know what, I wouldn’t care!
Come to think of it, it was lucky for us that it rained heavily and the track was soakingly wet. It allows us to experience behavior of how the kart throwing away grip understeer, oversteer at lower speed and that allows us more time to think and react accordingly. And drifting comes into mind too :)
At the end we wet ourselves pretty badly but no short of fun and good experience. Here’s my rundown on most laps I did:-
Coming from last corner, flat on the start/end straight, flat again through Turn1, slowdown going through standing water section, tackling Turn 2, try masking lots of front end grip loss with slight power oversteer injection, going through Turn3 and Turn4 as one with me normally taking Turn 4 very wide to have better exit speed on another sequence of Turn5 and Turn6 flat (in some laps I lift off slightly to kick out the tail to get the nose kisses apex of Turn5). Approaching Turn7 needs to be done cautiously as it was really slippery and that cause me often running wide sideways at the exit, then flat out before slowing down going through standing water again at entrance of Turn8. Brake really early approaching Turn9, no front end grip had to somehow initiate some kind of Scandinavian flick to get the car line up to close the apex, flat short straight and then carry on speed towards Turn10. Really nail the throttle on back straight which includes Turn11 squeezing as much speed as possible before suffering again loss of front end grip approaching Turn12 and exit it wide close to the grass, line up late approaching Turn13, initiate full drift from entrance till exit before another tight turn i.e. Turn14 and then continue again through the start/finish straight.
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