As promised for Olivier's 25, I offered him, and to myself at the same time, a session of karting in London!
Sadly, there is not a lot of tracks around this city. But I found one in Mile End, east-London. We eventually went karting last Saturday. We arrived: the tracks seemed to be a bit wet at some points despite the good weather from the begining of the day. The track didn't look very quick at a first view: only one straight line.
The briefing was given by a very cool old marshal!
Then we discovered the machines: electric go-karts!
It was the first time I tried this! Of course, we did not know there were electric when we booked the session. I have always been sceptical about electric go-kart before, thinking it was for sure not as fun, not as quick and not noise, no smells!!
Well I was wrong because these go-karts were just amazing! The feeling of speed, and power is very good! I would add that the acceleration even seemed to be more powerful! The noise: no problem when you are in, you forget there is no noise of the engine as you can hear the wind, the tyres. The main problem is that you hear less your competitors... Anyway, they were far far behind me! I may just have afraid some by overtaking them quickly without the time for them to see me arriving :=))
Sadly, there is not a lot of tracks around this city. But I found one in Mile End, east-London. We eventually went karting last Saturday. We arrived: the tracks seemed to be a bit wet at some points despite the good weather from the begining of the day. The track didn't look very quick at a first view: only one straight line.
The briefing was given by a very cool old marshal!Then we discovered the machines: electric go-karts!
It was the first time I tried this! Of course, we did not know there were electric when we booked the session. I have always been sceptical about electric go-kart before, thinking it was for sure not as fun, not as quick and not noise, no smells!!Well I was wrong because these go-karts were just amazing! The feeling of speed, and power is very good! I would add that the acceleration even seemed to be more powerful! The noise: no problem when you are in, you forget there is no noise of the engine as you can hear the wind, the tyres. The main problem is that you hear less your competitors... Anyway, they were far far behind me! I may just have afraid some by overtaking them quickly without the time for them to see me arriving :=))
Oh dear...A very good fun so! I am looking forward to see electric motors going more and more in cars now, and even motorsport!
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