It took a bit for it to take a stance of sorts. I really did find it a bit too complimentary, too eager to please.
In absolute terms there is only one correct answer, what is faster? and do that, then.
Fed it laps and info:
Asked to refine less compromised laps
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Don’t worry @Terence_Dove you are waaaay better at this than AI! It is useful tho.
Firstly we had some new faces show up like Shiva and Michael and Adi!
We had a field of 12 teams of 2. We did 5 stops for the 2hrs: 4 30s stops and 1 2:00 fuel and kart switch stop (your discretion as to timing).
Cruz and I had a medium kart an drove th wheels off it. Personally I felt I drove well and charged pretty good. I thought Cruz did a bang-up job for his first race there and his first time going reverse.
I was overall faster and more consistent but Cruz demonstrated that he has the pace by actually beating me for the best lap with a 22.001 to my 22.015!
However, unsurprisingly given my gazillion laps, my average was much higher. But that’s just track knowledge and refinement via laps.
Cruz raced well and didn’t seem to be hindered much in traffic and was confident/competent/reliable. His “range” was wider than mine but plenty tight given his laptime. 10/10 would race again!
Adi managed to plow into Michael in practice which is kind of funny since they were teammates! I share in this blame as I have been advising Adi.
I told him t1 is flat, but Micheal didn’t get the memo and chaos ensued! No harm done, however, and lessons were learned about drafting and passing.
I had one atypical incident where I got sick of someone’s aggressive driving and felt like re-educating them a tad. I reinforced the negative consequences of brute forcing passes. Since I was in meh kart, I was not too concerned about finish position. Could we have finished podium? Maybe, but not with a deliberate race slow down, that’s for sure!
There was a red in one of Cruz’s heats but the fella was ok and his team charged back up to finish 7th which was a nice accomplishment for them!
We raced hard and well, mostly, and had a good time, mostly. I think Matt, his folks, and the gang did a gr8 job as usual! Thank you!
Thanks to Cruz and the new folks as well for coming to check out our races!
@tjkoyen I thought of you when I saw this comment…
And my response…
This could be a rentals thing. The seat is not the same in terms of “suspension” in that it is not fitted and tight. It also rises way higher. The seat is less of a “structural” component relative to the chassis because you have less leverage an less impact trying to push on wheel to jam body into kart frame and influence.
When I influence kart frame it’s typically a full body wedge that lifts my butt out of the seat and I am applying big pressure across the kart from pedal to top of seat back. Imagine a big diagonal wedge with butt lifted.
I’d like to say that this quote is misunderstood, that it’s taken out of context… but it turns out it came out of him after he punted Prost and was clearly bullshit for the stewards. I do punt outrageously disrespectful drivers as well so I know the feeling.
Roughly a year after the incident, Senna admitted to lying about the circumstances and acknowledged the crash was an intentional move to settle a dispute regarding the previous year’s championship.
In any case, I wonder if he had any inkling of how his words would confuse multiple generations of noob racers.
Once again we race and once again I thought it was on Sunday not Saturday. I got a call from Randall at 8:30 asking where are you and are you planning on showing up? Oops!
I jumped in the car and sped over, and jumped in last place to start, and proceeded to do OK, I thought. I am a bit confused in that my position (p9) seems a bit sus in that other than getting passed a couple times, I mostly gained ground. My actual lap count appears to be off by a lap, where the race ends on my white flag lap, oddly. I also appear to be a large number of laps off the leader that didn’t make any sense either since he did not lap me 8 times.
In any case, despite the wonkiness it was a good race and I had a couple good karts. I did have one stinker that died on me, however. All in a days work tho, when it comes to rental racing.
We have another Ironman coming up in June and then the 4 hours in July. More to come!
I arrived on time and on the correct day and proceeded to get p3. Yay! We had a great race where quali/race were as close as one could hope: .5 - .7 spread. Most of us were bunched up within 3/10ths!
I drove well and kept out of trouble which ultimately benefited me, moving up to p3 due to penalties.
We race again in July for the 4hr race! Yay!
The double-kart is VERY heavy and turns strangely, which is not helped by the throttle seeming to respond in a somewhat leisurely and ambiguous manner. This was kart #61 so next time I will try the other one and report back. I weighed in at exactly 200lbs, FYI, and have no prior experience in the doubles. I did one heat only and the best lap was lap 15 of 18 with a 24.660. This compares to my best of day in kart 2 (warm tires) of 22.50.
Come take a crack at it and post your time! Let me know if you want an invite to the Discord for the League and Enduro chit-chat and memes!
and…
Prior to the double-kart shenanigans, I ran 4 heats in kart 2, solo. I walked the kart down to 22.5, which was quite good, apparently, for this very hot day. I stayed in the same kart to see how the extreme heat affected the tire’s evolution. I did keep improving my times and my fastest lap was a 22.509 in the final lap of the final heat.
Another exciting race! This time we had a full house, 12 teams, and we went at it for 4 hours. It was a terrific race with, once again, a very narrow spread. If you look at the fastest laps of each team, the spread from p1 to p12 was less than .5 seconds, which is really, really good for gx270s!
The format was 13 stops 3 of which are refuel and kart change. The regular stops were 40s and fuel was 3 minutes. This means we drove 4 different karts.
Cruz went first and quailed for us. We had a pretty good kart and were in the hunt for p1 for a good chunk of the race, ultimately finishing p3. Well done!
Chris brought his pal Pierce Krone who race directed for us. He had comms and handled strategy etc, which was very helpful! Thank you!
HQ racing was in the house represented by GM Boba Fett and his co-driver (did not get name). Well done on the win, gents!
We have a pause for the month of August and will return to the Ironman races in sept. Until then, ta!
Allow me to summarize: REBEL SCUM IS AWESOME
Strengths:
Manual timing for now:
I have to align the actual race data with the laps, which isn’t as easy as you think.
My process is as follows, if interested…
I get the data manually. Typically I use the info that @nikspeeds data mines from Clubspeed.
Then, I line up the laps with the footage. It is sometimes hard because of restarts, slow laps, crashes, etc.
In order to make sense of the data I typically have to manually time the laps and then align the data.
This video is manually timed and I have not aligned the lap data yet, as shown above.
What is interesting is that manually timing is accurate to within a few hundredths, once you get your groove going.
Anyways, I’ll align the data next but here’s round 1:
I feel like I am starting to have mastery of this track. Look at how I stay within the tire. It’s quiet and the fronts are making useful noises, generally. I am able to put down the pace, it seems. Generally I will find the top pace within a tenth or two from guys like Ben.
I teamed up with Cruz Vargas and Chris Rogers. We all drove well and I think avoided most problems. There was one incident on track that cost us a bit of time but them’s the breaks. I managed to stay out of trouble, personally, but I am very confident on this track and have many laps. Occasionally a newer driver gets frustrated with the narrow lanes and makes a send that won’t work out. I can usually see stuff coming and use the point by method to deal with over enthusiastic pass attempts.
Indoor Gas rental karting ( COUGH COUGH ! ) Not a great idea !! That’s where electric is better.. Leave gas for outdoor tracks… Could never have enough fans for that..
It can get a bit smoggy if ventilation and doors aren’t opened. We learned our lesson.
Still looks like a great place to race Dom !!!
Once you identify the start of the first lap (per video segment/stint) the end of the lap is the time code of the start + the lap duration, which also happens to be the start of every subsequent lap. I can just drop in the table of lap times and the rest is scripted.
DaVinci has scripting support, and (per Google, tho I have no experience with it since 2004) Premiere does too.
Any of the latest models from an AI provider should be able to accomplish this for you in one go and you’ll never have to do it again 
So far I haven’t found that to be the case. Here is the footage with correct data!
The ai doesn’t seem to be able to correctly identify stuff in the group race confusion. Also, stuff doesn’t act right, like for example, I did 568 laps but timesheet says 566. My white flag and checkered lap did not count. Pretty impossible challenge.
@tankyx what I have been doing with Ai is feeding it the data and asking it to analyze. It’s a bit complicated in that I don’t know exactly who did what laps and I work with the Ai to try to unwind it all.
I do have to provide additional info to get it directed appropriately. I’ll copy a discussion for your perusal.
The ai tends to be complimentary which is somewhat annoying. Feels like it’s trying too hard ti say nice things.
It’s programmed to give you the response you’re looking for. That’s why AI will just straight up lie to your face to appease you and where we get completely false data or statements from LLMs. Many times it just tells you what it thinks you want to hear.
On the darkest side of this, you see people being coached to commit crimes or do heinous things because some LLM chatbot advised them that they were completely in the right and were justified in their actions. It doesn’t always do that, but having watched a ton of podcasts and videos on AI stuff lately, there are obviously a ton of flaws.
As a reminder, AI does not know the right answer. It knows what the right answer would sound like. Those are often very different things.
