I think that that ARKS is just the biggest bull ever.
Drive!
Learn how a kart works!
Dont get a stupid license that you wont need and doesn't improve your driving!
Another piece of crap.
Sorry that I'm a bit hardon this but it doesn't make sense.
That boy needs to Race, Drive, Practice.
Not take stupid lessons. The best lesson is to go out there and explore the track and look for the limits!
Without a license he can't race... No matter how silly the system seems you have no option but to do the ARKS test if you want to race. Its the same with the ARDS, one of my mates told me it was piss easy.
I don't understand your logic... I know very few people who spent lots of time testing over racing. The only ones I have known of have either been too young or bought a kart to mess around with then caught the bug. I doubt he is looking at competing in the formula kart stars or any other major kart series in his first year.
I had about two hours in a hire kart and a further hour or two in my cadet before my first meeting. Didn't really harm me any, was always fighting with the top 3/4 in cadets at my local track.
If I was him I'd just get right in there and race at club level for the first year. Practicing is all well and good but you'll never quite know how you compare with the guys you'll actually be racing. At least if he races he'll have a benchmark, gain valuable racing experience (starts, race craft, general running of meetings etc) and also meet other racers to help him out.
Agree with Keiran on this one, my Cousin never really did a lot of testing before competing in karts, just did enough to pass his ARKS and then straight into racing. Didn’t do him that much harm either has he was reasonably successful as he learned most of what he knew racing. There’s only so much you learn by running around the track on your own.
Ill stop discussing here since you guys wont understand it.
In Holland I'm not going to race until end of this year or next year because I wanna train first so I'm in shape for a new season.
But if you guys wanna take an ARKS or whatever it is and get alot better by it then suit yourself!
He has to take his ARKS at one point or another to go MSA racing.
I agree focussing on practising and improving before you race is a good idea, but your first 5 races are as a novice at the back of the gruid anyway. So it doesn't matter a HUGE amount
I agree he should practise before racing but club racing isn't like International karting. The races only last 12 laps so unless he is consistently 3-4 seconds off the pace he isn't going to find himself being lapped all that often.
Also he has to start all his novice races at the back of the grid anyway to avoid such carnage.
