Next year i will be kinda padeling around from senior to kz so maby 2025 season i will be all kz
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Not bad for your first time! Next time let that puppy rev and youâll feel the real power. You did a nice job of hitting your marks, so it will come to you pretty quickly as you continue to run more laps. Eventually youâll train your ear to recognize where the revs need to be, which will act as a cue to downshift into the power band. Probably more one-handed driving than youâre used to 
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Yeah i heard and felt that if the engine was under like 7000rpm i had bad ac but when it got over 8000 ohh boy it was flying like a fighter jet
Once you get up to speed youâll want to keep above 10k RPM, and shift at 14,000-14,500 depending on the track/engine youâre running.
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It looks like itâs like getting electrocuted by excitement when that thing is in the powerband. You are just two years off from Uni, hopefully you can do a season before life calls.
Found the last race I did back in 2013 on my channel while poking aroundâŚ.
List of excuses includes inop front brakes, very worn (but free) wets and literally just jumped in the kart for the race.
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I wonder if you are the rain God. It seems that itâs always wet when you need to put down some powah.
My favorite is the tight left followed by the 100% throttle at around 1:10. That took some work to keep it straight. This looks thrilling, but exhausting.
Oooh, things get spicy at 2:23. James sees the oppty and goes for it.
Crap at 4:00 you have to run wide into apron to avoid his rear. What happens shortly thereafter? It looks like the front end twisted and lifted. 4:07.
Interesting. 4:20 This time around you stay on apex all the way through and then shoot it down the outside edge, in the rough bit (which is dryer) and this opens up a faster line for you through the next right, it seems.
Worth noting the guy in front of me owned the kart Iâm driving 
Nowhere near a rain god but I do love driving in it.
Iâm trying all kinds of things but mostly trying to hang on, smooth things a little and figure out what might work.
Extra memory that came backâŚ. I started the day on a CR250 which promptly blew up on the stand. Thatâs how I ended up in the KZ.
Looks like a darn good time!
Whatâs interesting to me is how you seek grip on the outside of track, sorta standard rain behavior, but you take it down to apex in rubber, at the slipperiest point, basically. I am guessing that the more V nature of the shifter line makes this so?
Im in 9th grade rn⌠then i have like 3 years high school but i can go to work after this year⌠then after the 3 years i can go to university wich im going to do⌠so i have like maby 5 years
Ok for some reason I thought you were a sophomore (10th grade).
yeah its pretty odd. im 15 and im in 9th after that im free to go and school starts from when you are 6. then im planing the university and from 9th to university i will be like 19 when i stop studiyngâŚ
soi have some time!
Round 5 of the Patâs Acres Super Series Rental League! This took place three weeks ago but I was on vacation since then and forgot to make this video public. Overall, another great afternoon racing at Patâs. Qualified P5 in the open class with a decent kart. Heat 1 was terrible as I got a kart that could not turn right (annoyingly common at Patâs). Fell back to P8 where I started the Final. Had tight close quarters racing almost the entire race with the championship leader and a driver in the âproâ class (competed nationally in karting is the distinction). Final corner cheeky pass had me finishing P5 in front of the Pro driver. Unfortunately, I still finished behind my rival in the Open Class championship this season. Final race is tonight!
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Good luck tonight! Iâll watch this and give my usual semi constructive feedback.
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Thanks! I am 2nd in the season championship going in to tonight but it is close in the top 5-6! Hopefully things go my way tonight!
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The turn at EOS at 4:38
Spencer pace seems ok but I canât get past the sound. I feel like this is too much but he doesnât lose pace relative to the guys ahead. But, it feels off. What am I trying to point out?
Itâs too fast an entry right? If it were more balanced heâd have better grip? Or am I ascribing too much on sound, here.
(Footage looks fab, btw @Spenny)
Yeah turn 1 and 2 always screech to be honest. I am not sure if it is the severe banking on those turns or what. The reality of the situation at Patâs is that the karts are in absolute disrepair and the majority of them are so bent and messed up that they either donât turn left or donât turn right. We have also had a bunch of karts with flat or low tire pressure in one of the tires. So unfortunately, Iâve never driven a kart there that actually had a decent amount of grip.
If I remember correctly, my kart in the final struggled to get any front grip in the left turns. I agree that it was exceptionally screechy though.
Yah, I remember that from last time. Thatâs sort of why I invoked Warren. I canât tell.
I do see you pushing wide a lot, however, on the turn before the straight. It seems to me you frequently take that a bit faster than it likes and ending up well on the apron, sometimes having missed the apex by a foot.
But the racing and driving looks good overall. It seems to me that you are getting better each race. More to watch.
8:04 âHow about that sunset?â Agreed, very fine.
However, Iâm not sure if Spencer was defending the inside at 4:38 by entering the corner kind of mid track, but, with a shallow entry like that, the energy to the front tires is on a very straight âvectorâ if you will. So, as the cornering forces build there is very little rotational energy built during the entry phase of the turn, which means the front tires are having to work extra hard near the apex to get the kart to rotate, so I think thatâs why you hear the tires complain.
Taking a wider entry (from the far-right edge of the track) would help build rotational momentum earlier in the corner, which might make the front tires happier
I guess the bottom line is âwhatever worksâ. There could be other factors related to the track condition or profile for that turn that makes a shallower entry advantageous or at least comparable lap time wise to a rounder entry.
Just my $0.02 (30 day refund policy).
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Thabks for the thotts. Yeah Iâm a bit confused here in that the audio suggests a whole lot of fronts pushing. And yet, the fella ahead who is series leader seems to have same pace.
@speedcraft what do you think of the turn onto straight?
Spencer seems to say âIâm not wide, just using all the widthâŚâ
Am I correct in disabusing him of this notion?
Itâs inescapably longer travel to be wide of that apex and almost definitely adding time?