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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    How to Become a Complete, Monstrous Racing Driver on the Cheap (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 19, 2026

    Comparing to Another Driver’s Data is Weakening Yourself (opens the original)

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    One of my favourite answers I heard in karting is this:Q: Mate, what gearing are you on?A: 15 test days, 5 sets of tyres, a lot of fuel and a lot of work....That’s what f****** gearing I’m on!Now, you can take that answer two ways. The way it was meant on the surface, which is: get lost…Or, the deeper message - go through the long process of rigorously working out your gearing for various conditions and you will learn not just the best gear ratio, but how to be a driver.<a class="button pr

  3. Issue · Sep 12, 2026

    How to Train Yourself to Ultimate Smoothness (opens the original)

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    Steering smoothly is the karting holy grail (if you can do it at the limit). Smooth is actually misleading though, because smooth implies movement.How about I say steering through corners without making any corrections? That’s a bit more like it. Without corrections means something a bit deeper than you might think.It means without doing anything at all, during or before a corner that requires an on-the-fly adjustment with the steering. But, part of the joy of driving is dancing at the limit, ad

  4. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Karting Overtaking Rules - What you Gunna do? (opens the original)

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    Karting is stuck in a perpetually self-reinforcing problem they can’t get out of. They keep adding squishy and huge bumpers all around karts that make contact driving less and less dangerous for the perpetrator. Then they say driving standards are falling.Adding plastic contact-compliant bumpers increases contact driving just as night follows day. That’s the nature of racing drivers and can’t be avoided.Next, somehow, officials have to combat the rise in incidents between drivers - and the only

  5. Issue · Aug 29, 2026

    Karting Has You for Life - There’s No Way Out so... (opens the original)

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    Two principles that make karting the ultimate path to making yourself great:Once you've tasted karting and discovered this is you, that's it for life.The more impossible and difficult karting gets, the better it is for you.It’s easy enough to agree with the first principle, we all know its true especially if you have been on a karting hiatus at some stage in life, you have experienced how it always drags you back in.But maybe the second principle doesn’t quite land, even though its easy enough t

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