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Originally Posted by scollins
Loose weight won't help you, it will just slide around a lot more. Probably throw the handling off too. 
But if you LOSE weight, then yes, your times should improve, but hard to say by how much.
Quite a few karting places have lap times based on weight. For example, the local place (Sykart) has the following target lap times for qualifying in their 6.5HP karts:
1 lbs.-150lbs. = 35.000s
151lbs-200 lbs = 35.5000s
201lbs. and over = 36.000s
So clearly, they factor driver weight into their lap time expectations. Karts are generally pretty low horsepower, so any weight reduction you can achieve will be beneficial. 10kg is not insignificant either... |
We should hit up sky-kart during the summer
