Paul
Here we go again.... Tracks don't need to by Oval to benefit asymmetry of the kart. The classic used to be Kimbolton as it was before you were born. Effectively, it had a SINGLE left corner of any importance. All the others were ‘rights’ or were a left 'swerves' that were preceded, directly, by slower right-handers. That meant those corners were not able to be taken at a speed where the kart was under any 'loading' when going left except once per lap.
In the winter, the HUGE difficulty was to get ANY heat into the front right tyre as you'd arrive at it with a STONE COLD tyre on the front right as it only got used once every 50 seconds or so.
That was the THE classic track in need of an asymmetric kart.
That's an extreme example BUT.... try ANY kart track. Set your kart totally symmetrical (as if you could... when we don’t sit in the centre): do 10 laps at speed and stop suddenly. Now check your tyre temperatures..... one side WILL be hotter than the other. Now.... to counteract that, you MIGHT adjust the left/right pressures accordingly BUT..... that is STILL an asymmetric set-up.... you've just limited your asymmetry to tyre pressures..... think it through and you'll see why you can SAFELY and beneficially use OTHER asymmetries on the kart on 99% of tracks.
However.... you won't accept ANY of this but I am taking other’s advice not to get into a long conversation with you. You set your chassis as you wish.... and continue to be slow!
Ian
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