Nedir Bu "Karting"?
Karting is a discipline of motor sports, even 'kindergarten'. Pilots compete on national/international approved scaled-down car race tracks with 4 open-wheel race karts. Kart racing is also used as a school for pilots who want to get into motorsports because of their lower cost compared to other racing disciplines. Each of the pilots who have reached the peak of Formula 1 and have gone down in history has a karting period starting from the age of 6-7 in their career, and karting is the most preferred step for a pilot to adapt to a racing car. Big teams such as Ferrari, Mercedes-AMG and McLaren also attach importance to the fact that the drivers they train or will train in their academies have a place in their programs starting from their karting careers.
There is no age to start the competition, it is literally a sport that can be done from 7 to 70. In addition, of course, there are physical requirements to control high-performance racing vehicles. The power required to turn the steering wheel, the multi-directional accelerations of up to 3G acting on your body, the heat surrounding your entire body of the engine package operating at 15,000 rpm at 100-120°C, and the effort you will spend to keep the car on the track combined for every 1 hour you will spend behind the wheel. This is the reason why you will burn an average of 600 calories. In addition to the intense programs they follow to overcome physical difficulties, racing drivers have to be mentally strong, it is in the nature of motor sports, everything can develop in an instant. You can make very fast journeys from the last to the first, from the first to the last in decimals of a second.
The speed of race karts may differ according to the categories they compete in. In addition to the categories in which cars with 50 horsepower, which can reach 0 to 100 in under 3 seconds, compete, there are also categories where vehicles with small engines of 9 HP compete. The engines of race karts may not seem powerful, but considering that a racing kart weighs 160kg on average with its driver, these cars are extremely capable when it comes to accelerating and especially cornering.
Tolerance for defects is almost non-existent, a small mistake in maneuvers at speeds exceeding 100 kilometers per hour can push the driver and other drivers into undesirable accidents. The first lesson given in racing academies is always on safe driving and drivers who do not have the appropriate safety equipment (helmet, fireproof overalls & gloves) are not allowed on the track. In many tracks and organizations, the warning sign “Motor Sports are Dangerous" is easy to come across.
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