Understeer

Underster - I hate it! For those in the know I appologise - Understeer is where you turn the steering wheel but the vehicle in question, in this case a kart, doesn't deviate from it's forward trajectory and goes straight ahead. In a kart, turning the wheel is a kind of braking, so eventualy and unpredictibaly, the kart suddenly turns.
Today at Crail raceway, we had an understeering kart - We tried increasing castor, reducing tyre pressures and all sorts of other things to no avail! - We were still reasonably quick and for once at Crail, we mostly stayed out of trouble giving us finishes of second, fourth and fith in the 3x1Hour races. This put us second overall on the day, easily our best finish at Crail, but it left us wondering how much quicker we would have been with a kart that handled well. Ros is going to do a day's test later in the month, which should help us figure out what went wrong. Next month should be better :-)