Exiting well from a corner allows you to reach higher speed on straights and therefore increase your chances of overtaking the driver in front of you. In an ideal situation the driver ahead would leave enough room for you on the inside of a corner so that you can move alongside him, brake, take the corner and accelerate out ahead. But this happens only rarely. If the driver ahead is aware you are there, the chances are the driver will move to the inside of the corner to block your entry. This gives you two options:
1. Attempt to pass around the outside.
This can be done assuming you have a good run at the other driver and that the corner is wide enough. If you can nose ahead of the other driver before the corner, try easing him towards the middle of the corner, forcing him to slow down to get around it and therefore increase your chances of passing. Passing around the outside is definitely worth trying if the following corner bends in your favor, because if you can at least stay with your rival on the outside, you will take the inside for the next bend and get through.
2. Steal a faster exit.
This is particularly effective on tight corners. Because your rival has been forced to the inside of the corner, he will have to take an earlier apex and therefore spoil his corner exit. If you can keep your kart far on the outside of the corner at entry, and cut across sharply behind the driver again to take a later apex you can be on the power earlier and have an even better chance of passing next time.
Of course, your rival will almost certainly be ready for these methods, and so many battles for position can last for several laps, often culminating in either an excellent, opportunistic passing move or (more often) a clash. If you find yourself stuck behind a slower driver but cannot pass, take a lap to study how they drive the circuit, make a note of the corners at which they are particularly slower than you, and try to use this to begin an overtaking move.
1. Attempt to pass around the outside.
This can be done assuming you have a good run at the other driver and that the corner is wide enough. If you can nose ahead of the other driver before the corner, try easing him towards the middle of the corner, forcing him to slow down to get around it and therefore increase your chances of passing. Passing around the outside is definitely worth trying if the following corner bends in your favor, because if you can at least stay with your rival on the outside, you will take the inside for the next bend and get through.
2. Steal a faster exit.
This is particularly effective on tight corners. Because your rival has been forced to the inside of the corner, he will have to take an earlier apex and therefore spoil his corner exit. If you can keep your kart far on the outside of the corner at entry, and cut across sharply behind the driver again to take a later apex you can be on the power earlier and have an even better chance of passing next time.
Of course, your rival will almost certainly be ready for these methods, and so many battles for position can last for several laps, often culminating in either an excellent, opportunistic passing move or (more often) a clash. If you find yourself stuck behind a slower driver but cannot pass, take a lap to study how they drive the circuit, make a note of the corners at which they are particularly slower than you, and try to use this to begin an overtaking move.
