360 but not widescreen:
The not widescreen may be less nauseating. Am down on power, relatively, and play in traffic. @nikspeeds finds redemption in a better kart this heat and lands 2nd with a 50.235. I am 6th with 50.67, sneaking in a couple clean ones at end.
Why so few laps? @nikspeeds
Here I’m just trying to let the 5 other guys with more pace do their thing whilst I do mine. Much fun. Cold cold cold track. Wheee!
I’ve taken to naming my videos. This is undoubtedly a big brain move.
The kart stopped posting times lol. I told them after and they offered me a redo but since I was P2 there and it’s just quali I said No don’t worry about it but remember this during the real races bc I don’t want to have something actually go wrong and they act like I’m making shit up again lol.
I’m an idiot tho, I should have just taken the free race regardless 
I am on a roll: Week 3, 2nd place
So far, 2,1,2
I am getting pretty consistent… @tjkoyen you once asked me how I was determining if I was improving. I still don’t know for sure but heres what I look for… consistency. It seems to me that these kinds of results combined with feedback (I feel like I’m doing well and improving) are what I have to work with. I take the consistency and ability to walk a time down as progress.
Last week I got a Hot kart and won by a mile
The Tuesday Nite Massacre (speed 5?)… 2024 Supercharged League 1: Round 2/2, Week 2 - Dom Callan
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Hey @nikspeeds
Check this weird little gem out, it makes speed 3 fast. It can’t possibly be a 360 karting design, can it? It so… primitive.
But yet this is so very, very cool. It’s technical and makes a small space interesting. Also, because it’s so short and technical, it doesn’t require big speed. It looks like this fella is at speed 3 and they put the general public he passes out at speed 2?
At speed 4, this would be a hoot. Although that chicane bit has a dangerous nose. The peripheral barriers seem pretty mangled in some spots. That layout must work the noobs, hard. I’m guessing that’s why they have such slow karts out there, toodling around at speed 2.
Oh btw I figured out your Rebel Scum persona… if you want to play along. You are our combat friar. A man of the cloth,… except the cloth is the checkered flag and your staff is the kart.
Elias: hes currently still a fugitive. When he’s not on the lam he’s either working with doctors without frontiers or is robbing a nail salon at gunpoint.
Marc: he’s our Stig. Doesn’t say anything, shows up with pink helmet on visor down, and gets to business.
Andre: the face and voice of rebel scum public relations… the handsome young pro who puts us on the podium and distracts the race officials while Marc gives our kart the ol’ Liverpool Special.
Tanguy: our consultant. He reminds us that we are shit.
Me: I’m just the camera van. 
Meanwhile, at an alternate Supercharged, a worthy aspirant qualifies…
I like the look of this layout. Video is entertaining and well done.
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So we race again tomorrow…
I’ve been on a tear and expect it all to run into some sort of roadblock.
But that’s what I expected last week and it went off very well indeed. I think one must accept the hand of fate as an inevitable player in the game, embrace it. Worrying about it is pointless. The thinking will stop when the visor goes down.
@nikspeeds how you feeling? It looks to me like you’ve gotten repeatedly screwed on karts this season. Nose down or panik?
Trackhouse got a new fleet of CRG rentals.
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360 only lists MA (2019) and NJ (2022) on their portfolio. CT was around longer before they rebranded from Naskart to SuperCharged ~2017.
But yeah looks like a fun place 
Last week was mostly me screwing up, unfortunately. I’m going to go to sleep soon and hope that helps 
. I’ve been going to sleep around 3am most days for months. I could feel it out there.
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Yah, get rested and come kick some butt. You can be up here in the top 3. I was thinking I’d be chasing you this time around. I’m fairly confident we won’t be beating Ben much, since he’s younger and faster than us. Looks like you me and Phillip can occupy the 2-4 spots most likely.
Pinball is the best arcade game
@nikspeeds
lol that’s a lot of mulligans for heat 1…
Nick had a really fun 2nd heat and had a nice long battle. I’m glad because he’s heading back to school and this was his last race for a while.
Considering that Nick has only been on track 1 once before, he did really well, hugely improving between h1 and h2. He sorta got dropped into D1 by Will since he’s mah boy and has done just fine, mainly mid-pack, on a track that’s new to him with zero laps.
A wild Andre appears and provides driving help
I was having fun going back and forth with Ben in H1. While we weren’t the fastest, and looks like we both dropped our h1 times, it was a fun heat and was more engaging than h2 (which was faster).
Me and Ben drive pretty on cold track
Congrats to Yosef on his H1 win! Despite his fabulous drive, he was considerably slower than K-Dawg (who must have figured out cold fusion and set this time in a broken public session…)
So I mixed it up with my GoPro this time. Instead of 16:9 4k 30, I did 4:3 4k 60.
So the files are MUCH bigger. 4000x3000 pixels. I think at 60fps the frames get darker. I may try again at 30. The headlamp makes a pretty huge difference with the darker 60fps.
@nikspeeds I am disappointed that you have gotten such crap luck as I was hoping you and I would get a ton of battles. But, you keep getting the flat tire kart. It feels like the equipment needs a refresh. These guys do SO much business I hope they have a lease arrangement with periodic kart refresh. The fleet now has hot and cold karts, which is no good. I hope things turn around for the last couple races.
H1 was slippery and many of us used mulligan
Track was better and Nick had a fun race
Interesting. I wouldn’t have thought the file size would change much given the same bitrate here but I guess that means GoPro 16:9 is actually a crop. So if 4:3 is using more of the sensor then that makes sense. Wonder where 8:7 fits in though 
. I’ll have to look into this more! I wasn’t thinking of it that way.
Yeahhhh… Is what it is. Still having fun out there. A little disappointing to watch back the videos and not have anything new to learn from a run 
. Just wish they would bring back practices.
BTW tentative new league dates from Will are March 27, June 12, and August 28. So they will pretty much be back to back. Also next time might be Wednesday Thursday instead of Tuesday Wednesday because of some scheduling issues.
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Also its 60fps which doubles frames
Interestingly the bitrate max of the 4:3 is like 240 whereas the 16x9 is 160.
@nikspeeds My hero 360 footage decided to start acting strange I’m middle of heat 2. Suddenly it got rather unsmooth.
I looked up online why the hero might suddenly get shaky and this fella has some thoughts.
Basically the camera is fixed aperture and has minimum shutter of 1/30th. Apparently low light conditions cause the hypersmooth to go nuts.
He puts a link to beta software that allows you to adjust shutter angle. Worth a look.
Example of odd shakiness
Strangely only issue was with hero 360 and it was only part of the heat.
Yeah that’s weird. It’s shaking even in the best lit part of the track though, and there’s no ghosting or anything. It just looks like stabilization is turned off. I wonder if it could be [partial] thermal shutdown (either high or low temp scenario?). Low temp feels farfetched being indoors, although it is a little cold out there but not that cold.
Out of curiosity, running with that thought, I see this on a quick search about cold temps. I don’t see anything obvious about high temps other than just shutting down / stop recording. Interesting to see the older cams were programmed to behave differently based on temperature.
It gets weirder…
Here’s the actual footage and it’s fine. Somehow the shaky short happened in premier.
(Last few laps I think)
Weird… here’s the 2nd heat… at 7:27 it starts to shake
In my experience which was considerable with cameras in cold weather… yeah but, you need really cold temps to have battery failures… Like you’re collecting ice cores in Antarctica cold. Despite doing considerable snowboarding photography for Thrasher, never needed external battery pack. But, I did have cold enough temps ONCE in NJ. Interestingly we snapped a tire iron changing a tire it was so cold (at the weld, just with human torque). And we had a flat tire because the rubber was brittle from the cold. (Wave to John Sheehan going back 40 years, lol… shit, times running out, need to get more laps in.)
@nikspeeds Has a thought…
"I wonder if we’re looking at the superkart (kart 83, Tuesday night massacre) all wrong. In “how does a kart get faster”, what if it’s tire pressure?
If you look at your lap times, they were faster but not ridiculous compared to last League, and if you look at the way you close in on some of the karts you pulled on, you’re right, it wasn’t as ridiculous like when someone hits the boost button.
Looking at my slow kart footage from Tuesday, where I know tire pressure was a factor, I went back and compared it with other laps I had similar times from early on supercharged when I was newer to the track and had worse lines. The runs with worse lines and missed apexes were still accelerating much faster than my most recent kart. Sure that could be aging equipment also, but what if it’s just tire pressure loss? Even slightly?
I wonder how much pressure they lose to ambient temperature changes. A normal car loses pressure to cold air over time, I’d imagine these have to be the same or worse. And I seriously doubt they’re checking everything before the races like they day, or we wouldn’t see so many problems.
Maybe your kart tires were slightly more inflated than the rest, letting you build traction faster and carry a higher top speed?
What you think? Am I on to something? 
"
I think maybe.
Pressure definitely would matter especially on the plywood.
I am not sure that the pressure would allow me to be faster down straights tho…
Certainly correct pressures would improve my cornering and therefore cornering speed
But…
The kart gets to limiter so quick we don’t get runs.
And I pulled on everyone everywhere in 83.
Its not like running a perfect corner and exit allows you to be revs up on the other guy
He’ll lose some distance due to a poor turn but won’t be punished for it down the line.
Look at me pull on Ben in 1, 2, 5. From this week h1. None of those pulls extend. Speed loss is limited to the error moment but then right back to 100.
It felt to me like I was faster everywhere in 83.
If I’m not mistaken, low pressure would exacerbate the crab-walking on plywood
