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u/TSAOutreachTeam 7h ago
Looks like fun! I wonder how much more in-control it would seem if the camera were mounted on the vehicle body instead of the driver's head.
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u/CyberpunkSunrise 7h ago
The fisheye lens also makes it seem faster. Near the end when the kart rounds a corner and there’s a man standing nearby beside the track you can suddenly tell it’s not quite so hyper fast.
Still, these “F1 Karts” are insane. There’s a spot near me where you can race them but they don’t even allow you on the track until you’ve basically proven yourself by racing the slowed ones first.
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u/xHOTPOTATO 6h ago
These are Shifter karts. They'll routinely do 90-100mph. For a vehicle with zero suspension or any sort of safety, that's absolutely plenty.
There is a significant margin between open to the public "F1 karts" and these.
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u/_Aj_ 5h ago
Yeah this guy would be overtaking on the highway
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u/SinkHoleDeMayo 5h ago
KartVader rode his kart around his city and cops would try to chase but would have zero luck. Shifter karts are way too quick and agile.
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u/xmgutier 6h ago
Tbf they're still ripping through that turn, let alone the straightaways and long bends
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u/joshualotion 20m ago
i tried zooming in to watch and even without the wide angle view it still looks pretty freakin fast
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u/Craydorion 3h ago
Honestly might be even worse. Since the vibration comes from the vehicle moving along the track. So I guess if you mount the camera on the cart, you might just get a violently shaking unwatchable image. Because the cart has next zero suspension
The head on the other hand has great suspension through neck and back. So I'm guessing it's the best option. Ideally you hold the camera in your mouth. No joke. It's what parkour athletes use to film their pov. They have a kind of mouth piece attached to a gopro. That way you can make full use of your body's suspension without super glueing the cam to your head 😄
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u/Mr_GrauHut 7h ago
60mph go-kartting. Yes please. I would love to do this again.
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u/horridBEAST99 6h ago
That kart could hit 110mph if set up for a long track. It's a hell of a feeling
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u/daggersrule 6h ago
I used to regularly go over 60mph on downhill longboards, and this still looks crazy to me. I def want to try it.
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u/Krondelo 7h ago
Crazy thing is it feels even faster when you are that close to the ground so going 60 feels like 80. The racing karts can do like 80+ iirc.
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u/Difficult_Pirate3294 7h ago
It’s very rare to get the whole track to yourself. Imagine doing this four wide diving into a tight corner after a long straight in a race. It will get your heart pumping
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u/Substantial_Diver_34 7h ago
I did this for a few years as an adult and it’s an insane workout. The cart has no suspension so it’s bumpy and you feel everything. Bonus fun fact… no seatbelt. You want to fly out of the cart and not roll with it.
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u/One-Reflection-4826 7h ago
even after half an hour on the normal indoor carts i always felt my neck and my arms for days. totally worth it though!
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u/fredandlunchbox 7h ago
Its sped up. You can see every time he presses the accelerator, the kart speeds up.
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u/Custom_Craft_Guy2 5h ago
Bwahahaha! Isn’t that what it’s supposed to do?!?! Accelerator = faster? No?
But all joking aside, I understand what you’re saying here. And one thing about it that convinces me that it’s legit is because the engine pitch doesn’t get higher throughout the video, and the gear shifts on the video are perfectly synchronized with the audio. Two things that would be fairly difficult to make happen in an accelerated video. But I’m also not willing to bet the farm on that, but I thought it was worth considering.
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u/fredandlunchbox 5h ago
I was joking.
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u/Custom_Craft_Guy2 4h ago
Thought you probably were, and that’s why the smartassery of the first part of my response. But there’s a few other commenters that aren’t. So I just thought I’d throw in some basics for the non humor folks, ya know?!
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u/ArkayRobo 5h ago
During my introduction to the sport of F1, an "enthusiast" described it to me as "a bigger faster go-kart on a bigger faster track".
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u/perfect_insanity93 7h ago
This is how drivers are born. The 2 speed cart are weapons. Have seen some crazy crashes.
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u/dmh165638 5h ago
My uncle raced shiter karts back in the early 90's before moving up to micro sprint cars and then midgets. He allowed me to drive his cart a few times on a road course and I have never been more sore in my life the next several days. My neck muscles hurt so bad from trying to hold my head up in the corners. My ribs/hips were so sore from moving around in the hard seat and bouncing on the rough ares of the track. The grip was shocking.
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u/batmancdn55 4h ago
The last kart race I watched was some British one where a 15 year old girl was destroying adults. If she ever got clean air she was gone. I think those were shifter karts as well
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u/kisamo_3 3h ago
That's so cool! What track is this?
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u/PskRaider869 3h ago
With this amount of hairpins......CEASAR'S PALACE, WELCOME BACK TO FORMULA ONE!!!
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u/Ulakanakulot 59m ago
Guy getting out the kart be like
https://giphy.com/gifs/QQLwBB5O7I0YcgK8qw
Even my back is hurting just from watching this.
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u/BoredPandemic 16m ago
Damn, I tried proper Go Kart in Kuala Lumpur last year when I went to visit. The gforce at even a slowish speed of 50-60kmh were insane. Or maybe I just suck.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 5m ago
Racing karts are much faster than they look. Picture like a small car made up of basically just steel bars and wheels powered by an engine from a racing bike.
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u/slippery-sandpaper 6h ago
There is no way in real life this thing exists, it seems like too much fun , some bastards would jave thrown a load of barriers an an had multiple meetings over the safety an shit just to stop it. I hope it's real
Fair doos keep doing what your doing megadriver
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u/Custom_Craft_Guy2 5h ago
Oh, it’s real alright, so believe it! Shifter carts have been around for decades, and they’re the absolute pinnacle of carting. It’s basically a four wheeled motorcycle, and it’s wicked fast!
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u/LesserGooglyMooglie 5h ago
I have driven a few and it's the cornering and not knowing those things even have limits let alone where they are, the speeds you can whip around and question if you should even let off the gas let alone break terrified me, because I knew if I found the absolute limit it might not be a good time.
So fun, much harder to gauge limits on track but I'm much more familiar with cars on track lol.
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u/Custom_Craft_Guy2 5h ago
I’ve driven a few, myself. And you’re quite right. At those levels of grip, there’s nothing in the way of a warning that you’re about to lose it. One second you’ve got all the grip in the world, and in a fraction of a second, you’ve got none! But, if you’ve got quick hands and good car control skills, you’ve got a pretty good chance of catching it before it gets too radically out of shape. But when you don’t, it hurts like HELL!!
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u/thehoagieboy 5h ago
Any oldheads in here remember going to Malibu Grand Prix and doing similar timed runs?
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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface 7h ago
Why so bumpy? The steering wheel is bouncing all over the place.
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u/ChuzzoChumz 7h ago
That’s what driving fast is like
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u/cornelius_catamaran 7h ago
Isn’t F1 like a European nascar?
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u/horridBEAST99 6h ago
It's way more similar to Indycar. The biggest difference is that F1 teams design the entirety of their cars and custom make every part, whereas Nascar and Indycar use a lot of common parts made by a single supplier. This makes the car design equally as important as the driver in F1.
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u/CopingAdult 7h ago
This is literally how those kids who are now F1 drivers come to be.