Velocity Go-Kart

There's a new activity in town for speed junkies; paid the newly opened Velocity Indoor Go-Kart for a visit yesterday afternoon ~ I need my speed fix; hadn't had any since i dropped my car at the paint shop earlier last week. Business starts from the afternoon, with the happy hour rate ~ RM20 for a 10 minute session, from 1pm ~ 5pm; & RM24 from then onwards. 10 minutes may sound like too short a duration but trust me, by the end of the session you'll look like you've just stepped out of a sauna & feel drained like you've just completed a gym workout... 600s of hard driving, constant battling with the steering wheel for control, sustained scrapes & bruises here & there from crashing out really puts a toll on your body... is no joke... but for the thrill of it, i can't wait to get on another cart & put it through the paces again! =D
The course itself is quite small in size, with multiple of sharp corners & a couple of U-turns, which makes it a low speed course; so much that the circuit layout actually looks like a D1 drift course. Overall, it's a fun & twisty circuit to tackle where you can throttle all the way & just occasionally modulate the brake to throw the cart into a drift to pull it around & through the bend.... the pull of the G-force & the raw yet responsive steering feel & handling of the ultra low riding cart.... so this is what grassroot drifting feels like... i like =)
It's also got an online laptime tracking system... only managed a best of 20.25s, which is almost 3 seconds of the record laptime....i'll gun for a sub-20s next time. Poor laptime = too much drifting or spin-outs & crashes... ouch! my consolation prize was a bruised thigh from yesterdays session; from crashing right on into the barricade wall after understeering when powering out of a corner... hehe... & i can't wait to do it again! =D