The last OK class World Championship brought a non-problem to everyone’s attention that certainly needs to be faced: starting back up if the kart turns off. We all still have Joe Turney’s accident in the forefront of our minds, when he tried to restart after colliding with Gabriel Gomez. Turney tried to restart his kart by pushing it but, in that moment of great excitement, he went right into the trajectory of other racers and got hit by a kart arriving from behind. 20 years ago, during the era of the 100, this kind of situation would not have occurred because drivers were used to restarts during races, so push starting was an integral part of knowing how to drive a go-kart. Today, this habit has been lost and push starting a kart has become an “extra thing” that many drivers, even those who participate in the World Championship, as we have seen, don’t know how to do correctly.
LEARNING TO PUSH START