As a teenager, I raced karts in Australia in the 1950s and early 60s. We started on dirt tracks on home-made machines with lawnmower engines and wheelbarrow wheels and tyres. We had huge fun at very low cost. Speeds were not high as the tracks wound among the trees. I don't remember any serious injuries. This is what gokarting was originally meant to be. As soon as people started buying commercially made karts and dedicated racing engines, and when tracks switched to asphalt, the sport became serious, more expensive and lost its fun and charm. Most participants dropped out. I switched to surfing. Competitive karting has become a costly, elite sport for the well-to-do.
The dirt karting scene in Australia is still a live and well and it's way more grassroots than bitumen/asphalt karting but it is still filled mostly with commercially made chassis and engines. But the great thing about dirt karting is the sense of friendship and family that i feel the road karts lack due to road karting being considered more "serious"
I started racing Karts back in the mid 60's, so I raced just about every era Kart you showed in this video, except for the very first Kart. Surprised you didn't test drive a 125cc or 250cc shifter kart, which you definitely need to do at some point! If you do get a chance to test a 250cc shifter, make sure you bring a fresh pair of underpants. 😀
Great work Guys! That looked like amazing fun! As soon as the tyres got better in the late 70's Karting really improved. Senna was our favourite. He drove DAP's mainly from the late 70's and throughout 80's competing against Terry Fullerton and Mike Wilson. We've got the LN X30 in ACKarting and plan to do vintage this year. We're thinking of doing the Birel and the DAP 80's karts. We plan to do the 80's and 90's tracks too...
I work on a karting team and one day the track our shop is located at held a vintage karting race. Its was the most wild thing ive ever seen. these guys were pushing those 50's karts to there max. like if you go into a barrier or something your feet are going to be gone cause when full throttle or brake they extend past the front hoop
Forget the legs, the crown jewels would b 1st with those bus steering wheels, ouch! Bet the wags were instrumental in ensuring their partner would either get into another class of racing or change sport altogether😉😂😅
Great video gents , I’m lucky enough ( and old enough ) to have owned and raced a red Tecno in the sixties , a blue Birel in the seventies then a few Zip chassis in the Eighties and finally in my forties a Tonykart Formula / Sirio which could rev way past 18,000 rpm , that was the best imho , your video virtually my kart ownership but I stopped before the year 2000 so have not driven one of those 👍👍🇯🇪
Great video, I have so many awesome memories of buckmore park and the iron man series during the late 90’s early 2000’s, thank you for bringing them back ❤
Kinda amazing yall found all these vintage proper racing Karts. I don’t feel like I’ve seen too many floating around out there. Too bad your microphones are from 1924
3:41 just being honest here this is basically the only style of go kart I’ve ever really driven besides a few of the like walmart made murray brand ones back in the day.. but all the ones I’ve had were like this.. super low, super open, and not much to it besides steering, 4 wheels, and an engine 😂 I never really was scared on one..I think these modern karts just have you guys spoiled nowadays.. 😂 I absolutely loved the couple I had and would ride them til they either overheated or ran out of gas.. then I’d let them rest and then right back at it.. I’m sure my neighbors loved me 😂😂😂 but really I thought this was just the standard go kart style when I was growing up 🤷🏼♂️
I’ve seen plenty of 70s style karts at the Quincy Grand Prix in Quincy, Illinois. It’s so nice to see them rip across the park and dash across the trees of the park. So much fun to see!
My grandpa droved the 1960 cart at world Championship and European Championship, but it was one of the last ones that they calles zip cart in 1966-1969
In '71 a school mate's dad had a racing kart that was apparently called an 'enduro class'. Unlike all karts I've seen since, the driving position was much more reclined, the kart longer and power was two McCulloch chainsaw engines of 99cc each - a 200cc class limit? It looked and sounded fantastic. We went to a race meeting at Oran Park SW of Sydney, in the middle of nowhere then, now urban sprawl with streets named after motor racing legends. The karts used the same road course as used by the touring cars for the ATCC and Bathurst 500 on TV (miles, before it became 1000km). The mate's old man's kart was apparently good for 109mph (bloody hell, 175 kph!). We went metric in '73 so the old numbers didn't mean that much. I may have just answered the question 'where did those karts go?' (Same place as Group B rally cars perhaps?)
Why do they have steering wheels on upside down? Flat -> bottom.. if your pulling hand slips in a turn you hit the more strait part. Upside down and same happens with force; you break thumbs... wrists...ect...
1:28 that track is so slippery.. if this 50s one is already losing traction and sliding out are the others even gonna be able to go? 😂 why not do it on a dry track to get some better and more accurate results?
hard to be that accurate with starting with a wet track and moving to a mostly dry track i would redo this to get "dry" times. this all looked like a blast to film.
"Why did they make the steering so big?" Followed by "Oh my God, my arms are done after one lap" That's why they had a big steering wheel, to help avoid arm fatigue.
Back in the 90s, a buddy of mine ended up with a championship cart from 80 or 81. I almost died many times. The motor had more than enough power to kill you, but the cart had absolutely nothing in regards to human safety or protection.
I had a 50s go cart as a kid it had vespa split rims on it with knobblie tyres it went thru many different engines from a villers midget to a suzuki 250 it was great fun over the feilds .
Doing this with half the track wet, on slicks and with Will driving was a real gamble 😂
worth it
button it reuben
Us Geordies only know driving in winter conditions
I was kinda impressed how well Will drove
Alot of free wheeling ,girls....
That first kart actually looks like a blast
For real
Real
Yeah it looked it
Hey Cameron! love your videos
Yeah vintage karts came to our home track in aus and hi Cameron
Great to be a part of this. Glad you enjoyed my 90’s kart🫡
Steering wheel is on upside down no?
Your kart is Beautiful 🤩
@@henrikjohansson6629 no that’s right. Flat was always at the top for better visibility.
@@Gvdb1995 thank you🫡
It is by far the best kart of them all !!!
As a teenager, I raced karts in Australia in the 1950s and early 60s. We started on dirt tracks on home-made machines with lawnmower engines and wheelbarrow wheels and tyres. We had huge fun at very low cost. Speeds were not high as the tracks wound among the trees. I don't remember any serious injuries. This is what gokarting was originally meant to be.
As soon as people started buying commercially made karts and dedicated racing engines, and when tracks switched to asphalt, the sport became serious, more expensive and lost its fun and charm. Most participants dropped out. I switched to surfing. Competitive karting has become a costly, elite sport for the well-to-do.
The dirt karting scene in Australia is still a live and well and it's way more grassroots than bitumen/asphalt karting but it is still filled mostly with commercially made chassis and engines. But the great thing about dirt karting is the sense of friendship and family that i feel the road karts lack due to road karting being considered more "serious"
so your 80?
@clutxx7545 80 year olds can also use the internet
Sadly there isn't as much grassroots support like other motorsports
@clutxx7545 In May.
100 years, the math ain't mathing if starting in 1950s
yeah well 100 years sounds better than 80 years doesnt it
@@caleym9 70 years actually sounds pretty nice 😌
75 if you wait a few days (from Dec 15th 2024) and 75th is a legitimate anniversary stage... 100. Where's the 1920s karts?
and I miss some wrap up after that at least some time scoring could be shown
@@mattbowden7690Yeah, the 1920s Auto Red Bug wasn't really represented. Maybe because they wanted to live.
I love that max is racing in Air Force 1s😭
FIA approved 😅
Dude wearing pearls and it's the forces you eye uo.?
quadrant be making us go through history cant wait to see what comes after
probably the future
well..............FIA is making wheelguards
Definitely not math lesson because they thought it’s the year 2050
@NathanielSwedishHomie i never talked abt maths ?
@@Aksaga_GT7 cant wait
Love to see Quadrant is back posting videos. They’re always so fun to watch
Props to the FPV pilot for the nice flying, really added alot to the video!
poor max not being able to reach the pedals 🤏
I started racing Karts back in the mid 60's, so I raced just about every era Kart you showed in this video, except for the very first Kart. Surprised you didn't test drive a 125cc or 250cc shifter kart, which you definitely need to do at some point! If you do get a chance to test a 250cc shifter, make sure you bring a fresh pair of underpants. 😀
Lol
early 2000s is the peak of karting in my opinion. That was when I loved it most. Screaming 20 000rpm engines. It was so good!!
And I always say that hearing a 100cc kart screaming at 18000 RPM is the same feeling as hearing the F1 V10 engines at Monza
Will looks like Waluigi in Mario Kart with the way he's sitting in these karts lmao.
Very cool guys!
Apart from the 50's, that thing's F***ed up! 😂😂😂😂
I feel like an endurance race with different year regulations as the different classes would be really cool
the drift on the 1950 kart was insane!!!
Good content. Enjoyed watching it! Max is kinda decent behind a wheel of those, isn’t he?
He actually knows how to steer with the throttle. Makes a huge difference.
Will looks like a daddy long legs spider in these lol
Seriously that first sketchy yellow one looks like it needs a modern racing series.
Great work Guys! That looked like amazing fun! As soon as the tyres got better in the late 70's Karting really improved. Senna was our favourite. He drove DAP's mainly from the late 70's and throughout 80's competing against Terry Fullerton and Mike Wilson. We've got the LN X30 in ACKarting and plan to do vintage this year. We're thinking of doing the Birel and the DAP 80's karts. We plan to do the 80's and 90's tracks too...
Ohhhh so that’s why matty wanted the clips of young LN and MF
Quadrant wednesday is back 🔥🔥🔥🔥💚
I work on a karting team and one day the track our shop is located at held a vintage karting race. Its was the most wild thing ive ever seen. these guys were pushing those 50's karts to there max. like if you go into a barrier or something your feet are going to be gone cause when full throttle or brake they extend past the front hoop
Forget the legs, the crown jewels would b 1st with those bus steering wheels, ouch! Bet the wags were instrumental in ensuring their partner would either get into another class of racing or change sport altogether😉😂😅
Looking at the first go kart, I can tell why is called like that: just a chair, 4 wheels an engine and your coffin awaiting at the side of the track
Quadrant is BACK YES
Great video gents , I’m lucky enough ( and old enough ) to have owned and raced a red Tecno in the sixties , a blue Birel in the seventies then a few Zip chassis in the Eighties and finally in my forties a Tonykart Formula / Sirio which could rev way past 18,000 rpm , that was the best imho , your video virtually my kart ownership but I stopped before the year 2000 so have not driven one of those 👍👍🇯🇪
I love this! Good to see you back Quadrant!
never have i heard willne sound more southern than 3:31
Great video, I have so many awesome memories of buckmore park and the iron man series during the late 90’s early 2000’s, thank you for bringing them back ❤
I used to race 250 Gearbox. You should give them a go! It's a different driving style but the acceleration is epic.
That first one looks like something you'd build in a garage
6:44 Ladies and gentlemen, the Sausage Curb of Death. Holy moly O_O
no matter what i expected, i definitely didn't expect that lmao, that's a bloody concrete wall
Oh I miss you so much ❤️❤️❤️ it’s pure joy to see you and your totally unsafe adventures 😆
This was hugely fun to watch and see :D
All ive done in smile trough the whole video ! :D
Amazing video very entertaining! ❤
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO 🧡🧡
Kinda amazing yall found all these vintage proper racing Karts. I don’t feel like I’ve seen too many floating around out there. Too bad your microphones are from 1924
amazing karts and amazing drivers too🧡
Early to a quadrant video!! Love that you guys are back to posting 🤍🏁🧡
I desperately want to see these guys driving KZs and eventually Div 1 Superkarts
Great vid 👍
Quadrant makes the best content! Great job on this love it!❤🔥
Absolutely loved watching this - looked like so much fun!
Would like to see Max vs Steve SuperGT compete against each others in Karts. That would be interesting.
Great video! I'll take the first kart. Imagine 20-30 of those going wheel to wheel.
6:16 will is becoming a 2 stroke guy 😂
3:41 just being honest here this is basically the only style of go kart I’ve ever really driven besides a few of the like walmart made murray brand ones back in the day.. but all the ones I’ve had were like this.. super low, super open, and not much to it besides steering, 4 wheels, and an engine 😂 I never really was scared on one..I think these modern karts just have you guys spoiled nowadays.. 😂 I absolutely loved the couple I had and would ride them til they either overheated or ran out of gas.. then I’d let them rest and then right back at it.. I’m sure my neighbors loved me 😂😂😂 but really I thought this was just the standard go kart style when I was growing up 🤷🏼♂️
Balls of steel to drive the old machines. This whole video looks so fun.
This is probably the best karting video of 2024 ! Really awesome
I’ve seen plenty of 70s style karts at the Quincy Grand Prix in Quincy, Illinois. It’s so nice to see them rip across the park and dash across the trees of the park. So much fun to see!
Sick video! Can you guys please do more karting videos 🙏
Imagine that first one and you have a head on crash. The steering column is going straight through your heart 😂
slicks on the damp track had me NERVOUS but love this
Quadrant is back!🖤🧡
absolute bang up video lads
90s - 2000s will forever be the best
that track looks absolutley fun
Iconic track, 10 minutes down the road from me!
That 1970's cart screams understear as soon as you see it. And it does exactly that lol.
love how all this little beautiful machines where made in good old italy 💚🤍❤
Looks fun how that first kart drifts everywhere
Great video! I like the different styles of Kart. But the audio was really bad when you were in the karts
Amazing video!
70’s kart sounds better than the f1 karts nowadays
in the mid 2000s i raced italkart. always loved how the kosmic karts looked.
The race looks really intense
I had a chance to race Formula A type karts in the 2000s… mental! Tech has improved but the old direct drive karts… still my favorite go karts ever.
Wll belongs on Quadrant. Love this vid
My grandpa droved the 1960 cart at world Championship and European Championship, but it was one of the last ones that they calles zip cart in 1966-1969
Zip carts where great 👍
Get yourselves down to a cycle kart event! Pre-war race car bodies bolted to gokart frames. It's honestly wicked!
This is a fantastic track!
In '71 a school mate's dad had a racing kart that was apparently called an 'enduro class'. Unlike all karts I've seen since, the driving position was much more reclined, the kart longer and power was two McCulloch chainsaw engines of 99cc each - a 200cc class limit? It looked and sounded fantastic. We went to a race meeting at Oran Park SW of Sydney, in the middle of nowhere then, now urban sprawl with streets named after motor racing legends.
The karts used the same road course as used by the touring cars for the ATCC and Bathurst 500 on TV (miles, before it became 1000km).
The mate's old man's kart was apparently good for 109mph (bloody hell, 175 kph!). We went metric in '73 so the old numbers didn't mean that much. I may have just answered the question 'where did those karts go?' (Same place as Group B rally cars perhaps?)
well done to alex spinks on the work he done on the lewis kart
You guys are both awesome drivers
I raced in the 90's and I really miss those days.
I guess math isn’t your strong suit… 100 years of go karts starting in 1950?
Why do they have steering wheels on upside down?
Flat -> bottom.. if your pulling hand slips in a turn you hit the more strait part.
Upside down and same happens with force; you break thumbs... wrists...ect...
something about max karting in Air Forces is so funny to me
1:28 that track is so slippery.. if this 50s one is already losing traction and sliding out are the others even gonna be able to go? 😂 why not do it on a dry track to get some better and more accurate results?
hard to be that accurate with starting with a wet track and moving to a mostly dry track i would redo this to get "dry" times. this all looked like a blast to film.
Bro used a Johnny Moore kart from the 1980’s THATS MY TEAM NOW
Great content! Get Max in a shifter Kart next
that was crazy with slicks !!!!
Great video, good vibe
Fellas i think the brakes could have used a service on that first one, assuming you could still even buy something to service them with
max you are an icon
Willne commentary is elite like he is on teli
YOUR THE 100TH COMMENT 🎉🎉🎉🎉
This will be some valuable information!
"Why did they make the steering so big?" Followed by "Oh my God, my arms are done after one lap" That's why they had a big steering wheel, to help avoid arm fatigue.
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS🎉🎉🎉
That corner on the 1990s one the second guy was. Millimitre away from that corner writing him off 😂
Back in the 90s, a buddy of mine ended up with a championship cart from 80 or 81. I almost died many times. The motor had more than enough power to kill you, but the cart had absolutely nothing in regards to human safety or protection.
next step would be testing a turbo Hayabusa go kart
Amazing video!! So fun!
halfway through the video, still confused which one is supposed to know how to drive LOL
10:55
“AND THE USA GRAND PRIX US UNDERWAY! MAX VERSTAPPEN DRS KICKING IN AT TURN 1, AN AMAZING DAY AT THE US GRAND PRIX!
I had a 50s go cart as a kid it had vespa split rims on it with knobblie tyres it went thru many different engines from a villers midget to a suzuki 250 it was great fun over the feilds .