I’m gonna have him autograph my helmet someday. Gotta be worth .5s.
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The RPG crew was at the Mac Track that Saturday morning for practice. I was there for OSKCS practice and it was insane what times those guys were doing out there! It was pretty cool to see Ryan drive in person!
Dalton felt bad I didn’t have many people to race. So he brought in some more x30s
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What’s his/her name plz
Is that a ka pipe? Here’s a racing business card for him.
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Lincoln. And he runs mini swift.
Magic! Easily corrected!
Do you also ride sport bikes?
Firstly that’s an awesome image! Thanks! In terms of current times, I’ve not really had the opportunity to be that involved in the MSA community for a while, mainly due to me being at university. A quick time back in the day when I was racing in MiniMax was about 1 minute. Anything under a minute and you were flying. Fastest time I got in a MiniMax was about a 59.7, or something close to that. But typical times were around the 1:01 mark when the weather was normal. Senior X30 and senior Rotax were always hovering around the 57 second mark. Seems like that’s still the pace nowadays…
Thanks for that. Iirc Louie did 56 and change in x30. I suspect OK-N will change that maybe.
I ask because I sim it a lot. In sim my alien buddy Tanguy got down to 53 and us mere mortals 54ish.
Interestingly same pattern with Marjin at AMP in KZ, a few secs slower than sim.
Just goes to show how kerb abuse can matter. Sim always seems to achieve a faster lap time than irl and the only thing I can think of is track limit stuff that would typically upset kart balance irl.
Some good snapshots from the recent 6hrs of NY
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Dom…sorry i didnt see your question until today. It was 2 days just me…48 hours total…has to be less than 50 hours…hence the 50cc. Coast to coast on 50 hours. I left charleston sc Thursday morning 3 am…1200 miles later stoped in Abilene Texas for a 4 hour sleep…and back on the bike…arrived San Diego California friday night. Next day had to ride to Las Vegas…330 more miles lol. BMW 1150 GS.
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Good lord. Me and a pal went from central Jersey across the country to the 4 corners non-stop and that required sleep shifts and was not easy! I can imagine that soloing it on a bike must have been brutal!
One thing that helped is, it was october…cooler…but is risky going over the rockies…and at the time i was riding more long distance than i do now. But it was tiring and fun at the same time…also i was hanging out with a few riders in the Ironbutt long distance riders group. Now I’m more a enjoying the journey…and i spend more time ride hard enduro and regular off road…ktm 300 2 stroke style…and sport bikes. I keep pushing the karting thing out a little because i spend so much time on bikes, but i’m really looking forward to karting!!
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Yeah although the sims are good fun and often pretty good for learning a track, I’m yet to find one that offers a truly realistic experience. Kerbs always seem to be quite forgiving on the sim so you can abuse them quite easily. Even so that’s a mighty impressive time!
I’m planning on going to Kartmasters this year for the first time in about 4 years, so I’ll get a pretty good idea of where everyone is at in terms of times hopefully!
Its fun but I think you’d find that breaking 56 in sim would be pretty easy. A driver of your level would probably be able to give Tanguy a run for his money so you’d likely find your way to 54ish pronto. Then, with some fine tuning you’d likely be able to catch the aliens.
I have raced on AMP in real life after having done many hours of laps there in ka-kz sim and the track itself was perfect. When I did my first lap I was amused by the seams in the concrete etc being exactly the same as in the game. However, the kerbing IRL at AMP would eat me alive if I were to do the straight line shenanigans I do in game.
It’s kind of like the track is exactly alike, but the kerbing are textures rather than giant solid things. It is an amazing way to learn the track, however, and my first lap was exactly as I expected it. Not much to adjust to other than braking IRL and the fact that elevation changes are more obvious IRL.
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You should consider Endurance Karting. I don’t know much about bikes, alas, but it sounds like you might enjoy the challenge of pushing yourself physically and mentally like that, on a kart, as well.
The physical bit is what I can’t speak to. But, anecdotally, longest race I have soloed was a 3hr non-stop. It was very doable and I could have gone 4, easy. That’s not to say it didn’t kick my ass, though. You go into it expecting to feel it the next couple of days. My plan is to do a 6, solo, next. I’ve been doing 6 hours as duos, generally.
Anyways, it’s fun racing thats competitive but low key. There’s a wide skill set and usually big fields. It’s not as gnarly as what you have been doing, generally, but can be. There’s folks that solo 24hr races. So, the opportunity to go full crazy is there. There’s the 24 of Daytona and also Machismo, and probably a bunch of other 12-24hr things. Also, there are really competitive and huge ones in Europe.
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You know I’ve never really gotten along with sims… I never seem to be able to get used to how they feel with turn in, braking etc. Maybe if I actually owned one instead of just using my mates occasionally I would be better 
I do love how detailed they are, even down to the trees and grandstands! If they managed to get the physics of the kerbs to at least somewhat match, then I think sims in general would become so much more valuable. They’re still a great resource though… I wish I had them around when I was racing!
You guys that are in your 20s seem to be the first real racer/simmer hybrid generation. Pretty much all the f1 guys (max, Charles, that age gang) are all accomplished sim racers. Romain runs a team. I think it might even be fashionable to be on a team!
The pandemic lockdown showed a pretty huge generational gap. When the pros had to sim for NASCAR and f1, it was interesting to see how the young guys were on it and how not some of the older guys were.
I would think going forwards that anyone coming up will be doing both.
Sim is a bit different while being the same and does require a good deal of adjustment. Mostly it’s about learning how to interpret kart behavior without the normal feedback you get irl. While equipment doesn’t make you faster it does matter, to me, in terms of understanding what’s going on with the tires/chassis. Well developed sim rigs aren’t as “numb” and you can adjust to the lack of seat of pants.
Me, I see huge value in sim. I view it as seat time that I wouldn’t get otherwise and treat it as such. I think sim is probably responsible for about 75% of my development as a driver, (which isn’t saying much but still). To me it’s quantifiable. I see the results on track in a variety of ways. Primarily in ability to run tight competitive lap time dispersions at drop of hat, cold, IRL, without actual seat time. For want of a better term, sim has made me very, very confident in my abilities and when I hop into a kart again, I have zero adjustment period needed. To me, driving sim or IRL are exactly the same.
Thats interesting! I knew karting some endurance races but didn’t realize 24 hour. There are some 24 in off road…mostly teams but there are what they call Iron man solo folks. I dont know why i’m in to torture. Lol. Im hoping to go to the former Gopro track next week and rent again.
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