In Italy, where I’ve been racing, it’s quite strict.Įspecially now with the front bumpers, there’s basically very little tolerance.

So, it depends, again, on the championships and where you’re racing. It really depends also from the stewards, sometimes the stewards allow you to be a bit more aggressive.īut sometimes they are very, very strict. So oftentimes, as I said, is maybe due to the fact that you have bumped into somebody, or maybe have been defending too aggressively. So, let’s keep going with the black and white flag. They give you this white and black flag and if you keep repeating what you did, you’re gonna get a black flag.Īnd as we will see later, a black flag is really like a disqualification from the race. This flag is shown to you if you have been misbehaving, if you have perhaps crashed into another guy or if you have bumped him, whatever you did was not according to rules. The second most important flag is the black and white flag. So, it depends on the specific rules of each and every championship. And you’re going to get the time penalty and sometimes a disqualification. It’s important because if you overtake during a race, you’re going to get penalized. So, please be aware, anytime that you see a yellow flag, you’re not allowed to overtake and you should be reducing a little bit your speed.īecause if the crashes in front of you, if there is marshals on tracks, you’re not going to want to hit them. There could be Marshal that are trying to remove the broken kart or just helping to fix the situation. No overtaking is allowed therefore you have to just keep up your speed and reduce it by a little bit in that specific area where the crashes happened to make sure that you’re not going to get involved in the crash. The yellow flag means that there’s a crash hence you should not overtake. Here’s the list of the five most important go k art flags:Īnd let’s get started with the first flag which is the yellow flag. So, it’s really important for you to understand that because some of those flags can impact the result of your race most of the times in a negative way if you don’t know what they mean. And you will need to have a clear idea of what these flags mean. If you’re a go kart beginner, you will have probably realized that there are plenty of flags, and each of these flags will have different meaning.

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