22/35. Following my revisit of Crawley on my way to Goodwood 79th Members Meeting I made it down to TeamSport Brighton. Now you may notice this was quite a while back already and I'm not going to lie, this particular experience karting wasn't that great and it had an impact on me feeling like editing the video and also writing about it. The track was great, the staff were great, the karts were great but unfortunately another driver decided to behave very oddly on the last session.

The Brighton track initially looks like it's going to be the same as every other polished concrete track, no grip and a very careful style of driving required, much like driving in the wet. This was not the case though as the track has been in use for so many years now that the whole circuit is deceptively grippy. This made for a lot of fun personally as grip is very much my friend. The track also has a unique bridge that banks from side to side as you'll see in the video and you can even see from the pit lane.

I won both the first sessions with a best time of 32.676s and 32.504s respectively but then on the third session I got the "slow" kart and couldn't improve on my best time so I finished 2nd with a 32.558s while a regular at the track took his rightful place at the top. Whether being quick at this track and on my own played a part in upsetting (one or very few) others on the track I do not know but I have experienced this in the past where people that usually ride dirt bikes or do other sport get rather upset when you pass them very easily at karting. Either way the behaviour of an individual on track got very weird in the last session, they were ramming karts and aggressively blocking myself as you'll see in the video. The individual was black flagged but allowed back on track where they immediately carried on with the strange behaviour but the session ended not long after.

The track is or may have already undergone some major changes. At the time I visited they had just made the pit lane bigger as they're going fully electric which may have happened by now as it was scheduled for May. Therefore I may have been one of the last to drive a petrol kart at TeamSport Brighton. I'll try to revisit in the future as electric karts have so much torque they only suit a grippy track, Brighton may be one of the few tracks they very much suit and I'd very much like to find out.

To summarise another great location, well run as you'd expect from TeamSport, bags of grip which is my personal preference so if you visit have plenty of confidence in the track and you'll do great.

If anyone at TeamSport is reading and sees how bad the behaviour of kart 13 is in the video then please feel free to ban them. The session was 8th April 21:41.

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