I tested Formula 1’s First KART Track (Does it suck?)

Formula 1 has built their FIRST rental KARTING track, and here is my experience. For $107 for 30 minutes of karting... it better be good! The karts themselves feature some incredible dashboard tech, and the added strategy element of ERS and DRS (albeit fake ones lol).The track surface is very grippy, with a fun layout on the Super Track config. The facilities off-track are incredible with simulators, food and beverage area, and even high quality (and clean) race suits. But of course, it all comes at a cost... But is it worth it?

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Facility
01:33 Karts
02:15 Quali
09:22 Yellows
09:52 Race
19:50 Worth it?

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[snail]

3 hour 40 min race (obviously team race, 4 drivers) at my local track costs 50% of this. And its a paved indoor 500m track with 15hp karts

[JoshAlfonso]

My local indoor track has 10 minute sessions at $14 per session. I participated in a 3 hour endurance race there for $40. Idk the $100 for 30 mins is really steep. Maybe its worth it just for the experience but you might as well just dip your toes into competitive karting for the amount of money you spend for your time.

[siddharthshukla]

The yellow flag on the last lap was literally abu dhabi 2021 but with inverted results.

[glidechampion]

to me it looks like it’s more like a gold class seat in movies. you’re paying for the experience rather than the actual movie or race

[Sepzisho]

Hey, I work at a karting track that (I assume) has the same type of system that F1 Kart has. Basically, the karts all have antennas that connect to a central server (AKA a router), and that router connects to a tablet or PC that controls the speed of the karts. For us it's a tablet and we control the speeds manually, I assume this track has a lot more going automatically. I think what was going on is the simple fact of their server speeds can't keep up with the demand of the information being sent to the karts (When it gets a command to speed up/slow down) so it isn't able to send the command to all the karts at the same time. Although I don't know for sure if that's the case here, we did have that issue a few months ago and remedied it by, instead of using a server rented to us by the company that ran the karting software, just made a local server that runs on our local network. Much faster that way!

[juanfluck]

It looks like the karts are configured to automatically slow down X seconds after the yellow flag and accelerate X seconds after green flag.

However, some karts seems off of sync, the time spent with the speed limiter is the same for all of you, but it happens in different moments, there's no an advanced system doing this.

You kart slows down like a second before P2's kart, on the other hand, your Kart returns to green flag a second before than him. Same applies to some other drivers if you notice it. Karts that are slowed down first, accelerate first.

Again, it's the same slow down time for all of you, but not rightly synced.

They should calibrate it better so all karts slow down and accelerate at the same time.

[jeroenleeuwerke]

Imagine working at that place. Every 12 minutes you'll hear David Crofty's recording of a race.

[henriquecrang]

You are paying for a F1 Experience and complaining about poor handling of Yellows and SC? They are delivering exactly what you paid for! :D

[josstownsend]

You should go to docklands again soon, they changed the track slightly and it's over a second quicker!

[schmaltzz]

the place where I go karting, you pay a yearly membership that is $149 CAD, then $75 per race, and the races are held outdoors on REAL GAS karts that go up to 100km/h. (it’s a league so you have to get in but it’s still cheaper than this.

[coreyjones]

The stare P2 gave that dummy in the middle of the track 19:07 pure gold hahahahahahahah 😂

[bonnyfas]

we have a indoor track here were you pay 50 for 30min and 75 for 1h. the cards are gas powered and you dont have a problem with yellow bc there is no speed restriction by the card but you will be called into the pit lane if you overtake or drive to fast

[eltiburon]

too much fancy nonsense going on there ... i prefere my 1.4km indoor/outdoor track in good old germany for 40€ per 30 minutes of racing...

[tmog-racing]

Hey! Great video, we kept talking about trying this place but tbh we won't bother until they fix these issues. I like the idea of the karts slowing down themselves on yellows, keeps it fair. IF they all slowed down /sped up at the SAME TIME. This is ridiculous

[Rahullll]

Great video! Footage looks great and loved the editing :D
I think this place is over priced for what it is but if you're able to get a full grid of competitive racers, I reckon it would be a good bit of fun. Interested to see how that played out in the next video.
The amount of yellows in public sessions just make it a really frustrating experience. Especially how the transition to green flag isn't consistent across karts. As you said, "this yellow flag system is clapped" 😂

[axelwtf]

I love the final part when the race ends and post race talk with the P2 like a real race of F1 on the Podium room

[daniel_dsouza_]

I was thinking of booking a session. Butt I can get 45 mins of racing for £50. Also I can get a race academy session which is 2 normal 15 min sessions. Teamsport is much better for price.

[WilliamBlakeYoutube]

(I’m NOT sponsored btw)! Sutton Karting Circuit in Leicestershire, where I live, is my favourite track because the karts, track, facility and workers are amazing and I didn’t know this but for £15 for a 15 minute practice session and a discount if you do another practice afterwards, it’s really cheap, as well as the fact that you can race Grand Prix and endurance races for great prices as a private group, public and invitational! You can also race in The Wednesday Championship which is my favourite championship in the country because of how competitive it is and it has such a fantastic standard of driving, unlike this video! Anyway, amazing video Cam! 🔥 🥇 👌

[vickramos]

Man I wish rental karting places where I live had tracks this big all the places here have really short tracks

[capoman]

Lame narrow track. You pay for all the flash. I didn't see you hit 30mph.