Those are very well done!
A canvas perhaps?
According to Instagram this facility is for sale and has been for a while. I see kart track. One could also send drag racing cars at high speed into a long radius turn, should one so desire, which is vaguely an artistic spin on things.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFY0SBEzxv0/?igsh=NWczNWRjZGcwdThq
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Famous for hosting CAN-AM and Formula Atlantic, this track was a special one for it’s layout and events. It sadly closed down in 1982 due to I believe being in a hot spot for real estate development. Nothing is left of the track, only a school and a bunch of copy and paste houses.
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I may be a weirdo but these could be framed and in the sim room along with my (not) thousands of trophies and racing posters.
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Well, there’s a Discord server full of those if you want to steal a bunch of them (I’m pretty sure they’re public domain.) and perhaps contribute if you wanted. RTD Track Database
They are all 4K images so it shouldn’t be blurry.
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This is not my art, this is Bryce Stevens’, but I won a giveaway and he made me a Kart Racing Pro helmet for free. He decided on the design aspect and I choose the colours. It was put on the SKM’s Stilo ST5.
First league race i’ll be running it in is the KartVirtual UK O Plate @ Three Sisters (Club Circuit)
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That’s is very very nice. That’s a great prize win!
Update:
I did pretty good for my first time back in ~9 months
Heat 1: Started last (p17 even though i qualified p15), nearly got a pushback from a wreck i tried to avoid after turn 1, but brought it home to p8.
Heat 2: Don’t remember exactly, as it wasnt broadcasted. I started mid field, but ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time and got wrecked. Brought it home in p9 or 10.
Final (we didn’t have time for pre-final): I didn’t need to do the knock out race luckily, starting p16. A lot of people wrecked out in the beginning so i was up to p7. Unfortunately ended up in the wrong spot at the wrong time twice. I got shoved off early by someone behind me in the last sector the next lap, trying to recover I made it up to p13. But I tried getting involved the battle in front of me, and ended up getting wrecked again at turn 1 (i think netcode kicked in we were that bunched up). I finished P9.
Consensus: To be fair, it was my first league race in ~9 months, and there was some Karting Champs and Formula 4 drivers on the grid, but for my first try at it again I did quite good. Especially for a privateer. Someones offering me a drive with them but i’m just making sure its not one of those teams that only last like one race and its actually established.
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For a second there I was like, holy heck this is gonna be an expensive weekend. What are they feeding them over there? Then I realized after the 7 guys ahead all crashed that it was sim. That or Euro pro tour karting.
Speaking of racing…. No track? No problem
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Gopro did a software thing
It would appear that they have finally updated some software! This suggests to me that their new 360 cam is imminent.
This adds quite a bit of functionality… tracking, effects, web-editing via cloud…
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They want $30 Million, I would bet it needs $10 Million work, if someone can net $4 plus million a year, maybe someone can save it.
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K1 Circuit again, maybe?
On my way back out to California… I am hopeful Nick and I can get in a more serious session at K1 Winchester. I’d like to try to push a bit and lap with intention. Maybe we can go at open and do 5 sessions or so.
League started back up with new faces in quali. A bit of a shitshow but good fun.
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My main man !! You look great on almost mello yello colours !!!
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My Dad was over telling me about a kid he saw out running around with a homemade set up with chains on the tires. He typically takes the worst pictures ever known. Somehow, I think he nailed this one.
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While not a kart, it’s kart-like
In other art news… Supercharger and OG kart racer @Tom_Hoff made something very, very clever for our league.
His early racin’ days
You know how rental racing struggles with kart parity? (Which worsens as fleet ages). Tom made a neat spreadsheet that uses the “Proskill” score to rank karts according to whether they typically gain or lose proskill when raced in the league sessions.
It is remarkably accurate and allows us to be able to communicate with Race Director Noah about what karts should be used/not used.
Here is his master work:
Tom, can you explain a bit better. It seems you have it plugged into the Clubspeed data feed somehow, using only league speed races and if I am also not mistaken, using d1 and d2 drivers who are able to extract most if not all of the karts performance?
I like to say that racing takes a village… one of the cool things about getting groups of us together is that we have diverse talents and folks are super clever when inspired. I photoshop race possums and guys like Tom do this. 
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Ha! That’s right Dom, I wish I had a fraction of your artistic talent… but I am all about the data!
You’re right about the clubspeed data… I have a separate VBA macro that, given a list of heat-ids that represent the league races I’m interested in, it grabs whatever data it can from the two public-facing clubspeed pages with all the race-results and driver-history. Then I mash that up into the racer-history sheet, which becomes the source for the grading summary sheet. That is the colorful one you posted in the picture above, which consists of a bunch of formulas and conditional formatting.
Like the note says, it’s not really meant to be predictive of future outcomes… sometimes a good kart gets a bad result, or a bad kart gets a good result. It’s only one factor next to driver skill, track conditions, traffic, etc… What this may do, however, is give you some consolation if you had an unexpectedly poor result, or it could also temper your pride for getting an unusually good result. It’s also interesting to see how kart grades change slightly over time. The tires wear out, the batteries age, they get beat up like bumper cars during pub sessions all day.
The race data I pull is only League Races and only the registered league racers (I skip the buddies on BAF practice nights) but I do include all divisions for both Wednesday and Thursday league nights at Supercharged Edison.
I’m glad to see (and a little surprised) that folks are enjoying this thing and finding it useful. It’s also interesting to look at the raw data with different sorts and filters. For example, sort by kart number to see how particular karts normally end up (class A karts usually get a single digit positions). Or you could filter by driver to see who gets class A karts all the time and who gets good results with class B or C karts. You can also look at best-lap-times per track and see how that average-per-night changes over time. All kinds of juicy data-stuff here.
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