Indoor Karting Secrets from the Indoor Expert. Will Dendy Spills the Beans on How to Whoop Your Mates on Corporate Karts

Feature writer Will Dendy
mastered indoor karts before
moving on to race 2 strokes

I have written this in 3 sections, Basic, Intermediate and Expert.
Feel free to jump to the level you feel you are at, but I recommend you read them all

Whether you are looking for a career in motor sport, want to move to 2 stroke kart racing, or just want to have a laugh with your mates and WIN. EVERYONE needs to start with the basics to dealing with an indoor kart.

Getting in

Yes, beleive it or not you can get this wrong. Step in the seat with your right foot and place your right hand on the back of the seat, left hand on the top of the steering wheel. Now carefully lower yourself in, being sure to avoid kicking the track rods, crashing with no steering on your first lap out of the pits is a sure way to lower your confidence! Now lean back, almost ALL first time drivers lean over the steering wheel, because they think it improves aerodynamics. It doesn’t. it affects the handling of the kart, and makes you look like a novice.

How to hold the wheel

Most of you will think you already know, but you would be amazed at how many people I see holding the wheel completely wrong, which affects their performance, big time. Place your hands on the wheel at the quarter to 3 position, and keep them there don’t take your hands off the wheel, and hold the wheel loosely, not with a death-grip, or you will feel it in your forearms the next day! When you get to a more advanced level, you will find out that how you hold the steering wheel affects the physics of the kart, but lets leave that for today, shall we?

First lap out of the pits

If this is your first time ever in a kart, it might feel fairly fast, so just take your time, and feel the grip you have.

Once you are confident, you will naturally want to put your foot down, but remember even though sliding feels faster, it really isn’t. You will have to trust me on this one, all you have to do is just remember to be smooth with the steering, brakes and throttle. For a very basic rule, the more boring you look, the faster you will go. Just remember not to press both brake and throttle at the same time! Its very slow, and wont make the marshals very happy!

Now you can control the kart, and don’t look like a fool, we can move to the intermediate section!

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Will Dendy is our Indoor karting expert, he's one of those guys who works at the track and drives round too fast, and makes everyone feel bad....so listen to him!