{"id":238,"date":"2006-01-16T11:14:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T03:14:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-24T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T06:13:11","slug":"tested-my-rotax-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/238\/","title":{"rendered":"Tested my Rotax 125"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Munib and I went to the USJ Elite kart circuit for a few rounds on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotax.com\/en\/Engine\/2004\/Kart\/\">Rotax Max<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can concluded 3 things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know much about karting technicals<\/li>\n<li>the track is very bumpy and physical (ouch!)<\/li>\n<li>need to improve my fitness *sigh*<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The chassis is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrowkarts.com.au\/index.html\">Arrow<\/a> 2004 ax5-125 chassis. Not sure whether that is correct. The handling was alright, although the bumpy USJ circuit did not help the relatively stiff chassis. A few times the bumps caused my foot to either fly off the pedals or on to it! Imagine going round one of the fast (&amp; bumpy) corners and having the left foot accidently hit the brakes&#8230; that was a bugger moment for me.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for me, the kart was set with a bit of toe-out (1mm), thus making the kart less likely to spin under braking. Still, I felt that it made cornering a bit less compliant. Perhaps a bit more neutral toe setting. May want to experiment with a bit of toe-in as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Munib and I went to the USJ Elite kart circuit for a few rounds on our Rotax Max. I can concluded 3 things: I don&#8217;t know much about karting technicals the track is very bumpy and physical (ouch!) need to improve my fitness *sigh* The chassis is an Arrow 2004 ax5-125 chassis. Not sure &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/238\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tested my Rotax 125&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[379,382],"tags":[1726,1711],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-racing","category-personal","tag-karting","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20033,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/20033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}