Day 63: Karting again

Went to Disc Kart with Jeanne again this past week­end. Three peo­ple flaked, which turned out to be a good thing be­cause I learned that there are only two or three karts that run well. The karts there aren’t main­tained to all have the same level of performance.

I drove four ses­sions this time. The first kart couldn’t re­ally brake. The sec­ond one was faster and braked well but kept pulling to the side. Third one had un­be­liev­ably slow ac­cel­er­a­tion and shouldn’t even be on the track. Fourth one was per­fect and I fi­nally placed first with it, but it doesn’t mean any­thing since the karts all per­form differently.

And it’s no won­der they’re so messed up. Look at the way peo­ple drive there. Straight into the bar­ri­ers! And in the two hours I was there, I saw two dif­fer­ent karts drive onto an­other kart. Luckily no one was hurt. The track of­fi­cials just lifted the kart off each time and let them keep driving.

At one point, af­ter a track of­fi­cial helped a kart get un­stuck, he nearly got hit by three karts en­ter­ing a cor­ner at the same time. He had to jump away to avoid get­ting hit. They didn’t even slow down for him!

I have to ad­mit though, be­ing able to crash into other karts while try­ing to over­take them is kinda fun. No black flag for be­ing an ass. This is some­thing you’d nor­mally only be able to do in video games like Gran Turismo, but it’s to­tally al­lowed at Disc Kart. Just don’t be sur­prised when some­one slams into you in revenge!