Will Glenn be able to run a camera on the kart?
Good luck! It’ll be a great experience in all events.
Let me know if you’d like for me to contact Dino Chiesa and ask for him to get in touch with you 
We speak on the daily and i’m sure he’ll be happy to provide 2 engines at a reasonable prize for this once in a lifetime endeavor.
In Free Practice and WarmUps. Banned from qualifying onwards.
Bah. I presume the org provides coverage for this?
We have our scheduled streaming starting from Friday all the way to Sunday’s final free and available on almost all OTT platforms, as for all of our events
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Woot! Thanks for the response.
This would be a good one to have a crew follow Glenn along and do a proper video of the effort. But that takes money and Alan and a bunch of friends, I suppose.
I watched Glenn practicing at Stretton and I have to say that the kart seems lovely. It’s very quick, makes nice noises, and seems like a beast. I’m not sure why @Alan_Dove says the new engine doiesnt sound great… I rather liked it. I am not familiar with the top race engines though. My point is it sounds pretty good to the untrained ear.
The paddock is available to everyone my friend !
Wow yes please Simone! I have been unable to get in contact directly so that would be amazing!
I got you buddy. Give me a couple of days and I’ll revert.
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Got out and did some more testing last Saturday and managed to film some stuff this time!
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I am jelly of your sprinter van. Also, as a foreign person, PFI seems like the Newcastle of the UK. Bucket list for me. Jeez this footage makes me miss kartkraft. Your line/driving brings back memories.
Since you have many laps there perhaps you’d know. Irl do you guys get kart across this nose? Right side in green? In sim you’d get a nice exit clipping that but it looks like the race dir minimizes this with that green block.
In sim you’d do the opposite with the kerb to left edge as you come down, to get the width to huck It across the nose.
This can result in sim flips into the wall so I’m guessing irl is more careful.
It’s actually a Luton van so has a tail lift which is a bit of a luxury for getting equipment in and out.
I’m glad! It is actually quite an aggressive kerb which unsettles the kart a lot in the dry. We do hit it in the wet as the other side has a lot more grip.
Getting nearer now! Progress is good! 160KG we weigh in at which is still 10KG over unfortunately.
Been having to readapt my driving to the most amount of grip I’ve driven on since Lonato 2016 and it is even a step above that.
Have also been practicing on some old Vortex engines I have so when I rented a TM off Machac motors I had to readjust all my driving again as it drives completely different.
What an experience though being on track with all this hustle and bustle. Some people have practically lived here in RVs for 2 months or landing in helicopters daily. Don’t think anyone has a bigger smile than I though when I come in off the track!
Enjoy some onboard!
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Congrats on the weight reduction and thanks for the update. I am indeed a bit jelly!
Beauty. So jealous Glenn. You looked pretty competitive in the mid-high speed stuff but you were getting yoinked pretty hard on the bottom end. You think that’s the weight? Or chassis, driving, gearing etc.?
If you’d be open to it, I would love to take a look at the data and offer any coaching/help/advice I possibly can free of charge. I don’t pretend to know PFi like you do of course, but an outsider perspective can be helpful sometime. PM me if you’re interested.
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TJ will give you great feedback.
Just watching the video, my opinion is your turning in too early for the hairpins. With the increased grip of the rubber (which will increase during the race weekend), you’ll need to retrain your brain on entry. You won’t want to be turning in later to get a good exit. You’ll be wanting to go in harder, start turning earlier (but at a lower angular velocity), load the kart up on three wheels, keep it on three wheels until you’re past the apex then accelerate out.
It’s a bit contrary to braking straight, turning in late and accelerating early. It’s often called “driving under the rubber” on this side of the pond.
@Alan_Dove or his brother, Terrence, used to have a video showing Ardigos technique round the first hairpin which highlighted this. But I can’t find it.
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That was hosted on Google Video, and Google got rid of it.
The footage would have been taken from this which is still available on Youtube
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Thanks @Alan_Dove
Around 1 minute you see Ardigo taking those two hairpins and you can visible see he’s turning in way earlier to you.