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...getting it all set up," says Smith. Depending on the weather or track conditions, mechanics will tinker with the transmission, or slide the wheels in or out along the axle to adjust a kart's handling. They can soften the ride with torsion bars, support the driver's seat to alter the load going into a corner, and switch between slick and treaded tires. Early exposure to those details "explains why people like [Hamilton] are that good," says Martin Hines, boss of the Hertfordshire-based Zip Kart Young Guns team, which backed Hamilton when he was 8 years...
...grid, minutes before the start of a British Grand Prix in August, the drivers' faces are grim with concentration. The pre-race interviews are over, and the glamour models in hotpants are tottering off the circuit. Fans are screaming from a packed grandstand. Squeezed into his driving seat, wearing a red, white and yellow jumpsuit and white helmet, Trevyn-Jay Nelson is pulling on a pair of tight black gloves. No question where he's expecting to finish: "First," he says before flicking down his gold visor. At the start signal, with a burst of engine noise, the drivers dart...
...current world champion Fernando Alonso, started out racing the mini machines too. In fact, almost all of today's Formula One drivers, as well as past greats like Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Germany's Michael Schumacher, owe a debt to the experience first gained in a small plastic bucket seat...
...more important, a decade of honing their race craft. "There is no better place to learn how to read your competitors, how to pressurize them at Turn 2 so that at Turn 4 they make a mistake," says Jason Plato, 39, the Seat team driver currently leading the British Touring Car Championship, and a kart racer from the age of 11. "All those subtle skills you learn in karting...
Harry Mattison, a member of the Harvard Allston Task Force appointed by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino in 2006, said that whoever eventually wins the council seat in the general election in November would give the community power that was sorely lacking in previous months...