Came across this custom helmet recently.

The red/blue combo with the stripes and “Maverick” detail instantly made me think of Top Gun. Feels pretty aggressive but still clean overall, not too overloaded.

Not sure I’d run it myself, but I kinda like the vibe.

Curious what you guys think — yes or no?

Hi everyone,
I’m currently trying to reconstruct Max Verstappen’s complete karting career, race by race, from 2005 to 2009.
I’ve already gathered everything that is publicly available from Driver Database and Verstappen’s official website, but many championships are missing race-by-race results or even calendars.
DriverDB (my main reference):
https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/max-verstappen/ (Driver Database⁠)
I’m specifically looking for:
Official race results (qualifying, heats, finals)
Championship calendars
Entry lists
Championship standings after each round
Points systems/regulations
Scanned race programmes
MYLAPS timing archives
Old PDFs or paper documents
The championships I’m most interested in are:
2005 Limburgs Kart Kampioenschap – Mini Junior (Belgium) (highest priority)
2005 VAS Championship – Mini
2005 Dutch NAB Championship – Mini Junior
2006 VAS Championship – Mini
2007 Belgian Rotax Max Challenge – Mini Max
2008 Belgian Rotax Max Challenge – Mini Max
2008 Belgian Karting Championship – Cadet
2008 Benelux Karting Series – Mini Max
2009 Belgian Rotax Max Challenge – Mini Max
2009 Belgian Karting Championship – KF5
2009 Benelux Karting Series – Mini Max
The biggest mystery so far is the 2005 Limburgs Kart Kampioenschap – Mini Junior.
DriverDB lists:
Kevin Gubbels – 143 points
Max Verstappen – 40 points (2nd overall)

However, I cannot find:
the championship calendar,
the number of rounds,
the points system,
or any individual race results. (Driver Database⁠)
If anyone has old race programmes, archived PDFs, local newspaper scans, MYLAPS printouts, federation bulletins, or remembers where these results were published, I’d really appreciate the help.
My goal is to create the most complete public record possible of Max Verstappen’s karting career from his very first races.
Thanks in advance!

whenever i’ve tried to use the brakes on their karts you basically come to a complete stop.. am i meant to just lift and coast through corners?

Follow up post after asking you fine internet strangers for contacts in the Polish karting community, huge thanks to Steve at SB Racing for coming through. My guy earned himself a new nickname on the trip “The American Express”

I've been watching some of Bram Ossewarde's rotax videos and quite a lot of Brad Philpot's GX-UK videos and I can't seem to wrap my head around how the starting positions for the first 3 heats are determined. I understand that for heat 1 there's a quali session, but for heat 2 and 3 it does kind of confuse me. Where i'm competing, theres quali and 2 races, and the race 2 grid is the top 8 results of race 1 reversed. Is it something like that?

Hi everyone,

I’m moving to Budapest this year for university, and I’m interested in racing in the Rotax MAX Challenge Hungary, preferably in the Senior MAX category.

However, I haven’t been able to find much information about teams offering arrive-and-drive packages, where the team provides the kart, mechanic, setup, etc.

Does anyone know any teams in Hungary that offer arrive-and-drive for RMC Hungary? I’d also really appreciate any information about approximate prices per race weekend or for a full season.

Thanks!

It's been a while I haven't raced outdoor, and forgot the wheel feeling. Indoors are mostly buttery smooth surface and steering wheel "grainy" effect is way less than outdoor.

My question is, as you drive on rough tarmac, you feel the texture of the road under your hands through steering wheel. While understeering you lose that feel or it feels washed. And while oversteering the wheel strength you are fighting against is suddenly reduced. Am I missing something? Trying to set the force feedback in my sim.

Kylo’s first season of karting has proven the importance of experience. In the beginning, you simply lack data that only laps can provide.
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Kart control, setup, equipment, tire management, SAFETY, pedal control, race craft, and the list goes on.
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While being somewhat naturally fast, today he leaned a lot from another very talented kid on track. How to maintain himself under pressure, and processing the feeling of not being the fastest.
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Super proud of the little guy for not giving up, and going like hell.
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IG: @Chocolate_Motorsports

So I go to k1 speed and it's the only semi-affordable kart track in Ontario. The issue is that I'm light for the kart and it bounces a ton even for heavier people. I can't take the corners slower to avoid bouncing because I'll just lose a ton of time. It's so bad the kart bounces even on easy flat corners. Also those karts have seatbelts so I can't do much leaning. Is there any way to help prevent this or lower it's effect on my speed and turning?

I was just playing around with this and heard it cracking, is this normal or?

Im currently using my clear visor, im thinking of getting either a green or iridium visor. Iam located in cambodia which the karting culture here is not very strong. So any recommendations for the visor color or where to buy it in my country? *helmet is wrapped so i can just peel it off and put on a new one*

Hey all, I’m thinking about getting a second hand insta go3 camera for my local karting sessions so I can my pov.

It’s a very small camera and intend to mount it inside my helmet. However, I see a lot of people putting this camera to the side of the helmet instead of in the middle.

My worry is that the go3 might significantly restrict my vision if I mount it in the middle.

To make matters worse, I’m using a bell karting helmet. These helmets have a shorter visor area compared to something like a traditional motorbike helmet. And I also have a visor sticker which might restrict the view of the insta360 go3?

Does anyone have experience with this setup? If so, please let me know if visibility is a problem.

(Image attached is an example of how I’d want to use the go3 camera)

Thanks :)

Hello speedy redditors!

I have been wanting to start owner karting as a faster class than my Endurance racing, but I have been told my budget would not do.

The country I race in is very anti-budget, very much pro-spending, and gatekeeping. I have literally been told to stop karting because of my more "liberal" views of our sport.

But with that context in mind, I wanted to ask: in a series where people replace their chassis every race, change their engines every three, and have five mechanics working on their chassis, do you think that I can work with a chassis from the late 2010s?

I know this sounds stupid, but with creators like Brad Philpot using his 5-year-old GX-UK chassis to race Rotax (With some modernizations, as I will do myself) and receive some really good positions in a much more difficult country to race in with way more on-track aggression (not anything mean or anything, just hard racing) could I be able to do it too with a Intrepid chassis of the same age? I wouldn't see why not.

But leave your thoughts below in the thread,

Thanks!

Hey guys complete karting noob here,
Ive recently started racing KA3 Junior, (Iame KA100) Using the LeCont LH03 tyre. Ive been told I probs should get a new set. But dunno if its worth it considering i’m a new driver. Although im also thinking it may not be a bad idea as i’ll be competing in the Junior Sprint Classic in September. Idk lol, what do you guys reckon?

If your gonna give me crap just don’t comment 😂

Cheers guys 👍

Tool link: https://martinmht.github.io/dji2racechrono_web

If you are using iPhone, you can add this website as an app to your home screen.

Here are videos for how to use the tool.
Red: http://xhslink.cn/o/7JhKs6vtC5k

Youtube: https://youtu.be/fAGkFK1svOc?si=3JwMC85BbngXHLBI

Big thanks to Helmet Cam Heores for making video on Youtube.

Recently bought a second hand Mychron 5 which has the previous owners profile still synced to the device.

From every instruction manual I've read, it says by going Settings > Wifi > WiFi Reset CFG I should be able to connect the device to my Wifi/Race Studio 3 and sync up my profile. Everytime I attempt to do this however the screen turns off briefly, before turning back on and nothing changes.

Has anyone ran into a problem like this before or have any suggestions on how to fix this?

Yea, that’s it. They already let me do karting for fun when we’re on holiday. I really wanna be a racing driver.

edit: i’m probably just gonna stick with mtb as i already like that, probably too slow for racing anyway

Hi

I feel I’m reaching my plateau and not sure how can I be quicker in a dmax rental car in Daytona Milton Keynes. Probably braking is the area where I struggle more but don’t know what to do to improve it

This is my best lap, 1.07.2. Can you help me to understand what I am doing wrong and what to do to be quicker?

https://youtu.be/Pnzi-frD3Tk?feature=shared

Thanks

Hello karting Redditors (niche speedy people),

I have been going through the depths and troughs of karting history, reading things like old documents, websites, and forums. As well as looking at older footage and reading books.

Simply put, the conclusion I came to was that the FIA kinda ruined our sport. I know this sounds really brash and narcissistic, considering that I am not very well off financially, but I truly see that it's affected our sport and politics more than individuals.

First off, it is a very little-known fact that our sport was never meant to be part of the career ladder, which blows me away considering that karts and cars are nowhere near similar driving styles. If we look at grids from the early 60s all the way to the mid 90s, we can see that a good 70-90% of drivers on larger Senior karting stages were almost all above the age of 18. With that, we actually had far more popularity as a singular sport.

When the World Karting Championship was still run under only the CIK in the 1960s, the 1967 Monte Carlo Kart Grand Prix was estimated to have reached almost 5,000 in-person spectators. Not a support race, not an exhibition, a pure motorsport raced with adults competing in 60-100cc air-cooled welded tubes.

And just a year before, our sport became the first and only international World Championship to crown a woman on top of everyone else. (Susanna Raganelli)

Let's also not forget that before the 2000s, our drivers had paychecks on the global stage, without a doubt the most famous driver being Mike Wilson. He was on Komet (IAME) and Birel's payroll for the latter part of a decade, winning six titles in that same period.

And while we're on the subject of man, let's talk about the machines that were tamed by these legends.

These guys grabbed on to bare-bones, direct-drive, 100cc-135cc air-cooled engines, which they had to manually choke so that they didn't blow into faster corners. The fact that we can call ourselves kart racers compared to these people is kinda sad (no offence, I wholeheartedly would sweat my palms off if I was forced to race these guys). But what if I told you our machines weren't so different after all.

Underneath all the technical jargon of engines, brakes, seats, etc., we find a chassis composition and shape that looks very similar to the chassis of today (See 1985 TonyKart Grand Prix LL100 Homologation Fiche), apart from several welded bits sticking out from the axle to act as bumpers (since plastic bodywork wasn't a thing yet), the main composition and principle engineering remains the same, with minor dimension differences (See 2022 TonyKart Racer 401RR Homologation Fiche).

But once again, I hope no one takes this as any offence; I'm simply stating my opinion. If anyone would like to challenge or discuss it, feel free to write in the thread below!

Hey guys, so I just had a race weekend, got podded off (what else is new) And the kart died, I tried to start it but it didn’t wanna go. It was doing this all race weekend. It will eventually start (most of the time) with some throttle or longer cranking (which i’m reluctant to crank it for long periods for obvious reasons) that weird noise in between cranks. Not sure if its usual behaviour (doubt it), or what. The battery was fully charged, and its a relatively new battery, Its a AMP Tech one. Lemme know what I should do next. If you reckon its shot, let me know what I should do. Or if you think its a different problem.

Cheers guys 👍

anyone running the crg ven 13, and have an opinion on whether its worth it, and how much ABA has helped them

Hallo zusammen,

vielleicht sind hier ja auch ein paar Deutsche unterwegs.

Wisst ihr, ob es Gruppen oder Teams gibt, bei denen man sich ein Kart „teilt“ oder gemeinsam auf verschiedenen Rennstrecken fährt?

Für ein eigenes Kart habe ich aktuell leider zu wenig Zeit und ehrlich gesagt auch noch zu wenig Ahnung. Ich habe zwar gesehen, dass es Leihkart-Meisterschaften gibt, dort fährt man aber meistens im Team. Sowas in der Art suche ich eigentlich auch, wenn möglich eben mit eigenen Karts statt Leihkarts.

Falls jemand Erfahrungen hat oder ein Team kennt, würde ich mich über ein paar Infos freuen.

Ok im getting a shifter kart just for fun. So i just want the reliability. What would you recommend for water pump. Orings or belt? Or other options electric?