Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Villawood Kartatack.



Last week on Spreets there was this deal on $39 dollars for 30 mins of go karting at Kartatack in Sydney. Clifton being the sportivo car nut was quick on the gun and easily convinced a bunch of us to buy the coupons. As keen as we all were especially Cliffy we decided on the next coming Monday night!


Bam! And this is the super fun tight indoor track!
From when I start my lap from the last corner onto the straight, it's pedal to the medal and a long sweeping left hander, foot all the way down even up until the banked left hand corner, take the racing line or else you'll nudge the wall on the right. Keep the foot down though the tunnel, ease off the gas just a bit or else you would smash into the wall in the next left hander (it happened alot to the other guys). The next hairpin was quite tricky as there's loads of room and coming out of the tunnel it really never straightens up
, so take it as wide as you can then flat foot it through the next 2 right handers. Hard on the brakes tried not too lock up and took it as wide as I could but the tun as soo fast and sharp if you were too early on the gas you would spin out. After tha
t is a sweeping left and a hairpin left. Another right hander hairpin then bam! Right into another left hairpin, this section was tricky it was the only section of the track where I modulated the gas. Exit out of that corner and then back onto the straight!
Even thought we got a huge 50% off retail price we all still had to pay a $9 to get a licence for their company. Kind of a scam but at the same time it's for them to control the hoons and there was a pretty big board behind the counter with all the "Ban
ned" drivers, lol!

9 Drivers! 7 guys 2 girls.

Cause we got there relatively late we got 2 x 15minute sessions as opposed to 3 x 10minute sessions. Quite hilarious as the group behind us had this o
ne girl who was so super slow we all though she was trolling all of us, pretty sure the marshall could of walked the track at her speed (No joke).
Then when it came to our turn the marshall questioned whether they would be fast or not and just automatically assumed they would be super slow. Surprisingly Mavis, one girl was quite fast on the second session.
With all that said our first session was super dirty. Ray with no warm up lap, all the guys cutting everyone off, smashing into the back of people at every hairpin, oh the hilarity!
Still feeling the buzz from karting me and Will felt peckish and hit the oh so infamous viet bread roll shop in Cabramatta open 24/7. This place is so good, seriously where else can you get a pork roll from at 11pm.

PS. Quite enjoying long exposure shots. And you learn from all your mistakes!

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