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Hi,

I'm a bit confused about which way to lean in a kart when cornering.

Say your taking a right hand bend,do you....

1. lean to the right, trying to level the kart out
2. lean to the left, putting more weight on the laoded wheels and not caring about the inside?

Thanks for any advice because I think its option 1, but its possible Senna used option 2???

Fred

I know this is a couple weeks old, but. Why lean to the outside? You want more load transfer to the inside front/rear wheel, creating more of a moment on the outside. I think your analysis is wrong.

fastback, whatever you learned for cars is most likely useless to kartings.


Kartings have no differential, no suspension(only chassis torsion, which may be "a lot"), no front brakes.


As said, you want to raise the inner rear wheel to prevent drag from that wheel when cornering. To do that you need to transfer weight to the outer tire, hence, leaning outwards.

That's why you dont place ballast as low as you can on kartings.

I wish I knew this ages ago when I went carting with my son. My instint was to lean into the bend not away from it
I'll know this for next time though... thanks

Caito wrote:fastback, whatever you learned for cars is most likely useless to kartings.


Kartings have no differential, no suspension(only chassis torsion, which may be "a lot"), no front brakes.


As said, you want to raise the inner rear wheel to prevent drag from that wheel when cornering. To do that you need to transfer weight to the outer tire, hence, leaning outwards.

That's why you dont place ballast as low as you can on kartings.

I know this is old, but I want to come back to this.

You are totally correct caito, leaning outwards increases the moment arm. for some reason I was thinking the opposite that day of the post. good catch! =D>

So every bend, fast or slow lean outwards?