Nick and I noticed. You can’t hear the karts at GoPro from the observation platform when they are on the far end of the track. Very effective.
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Having been to gopro and having done this turn I can understand it better now. This is a nice move you did here. It’s a little sneaky in that the last third of the big turn 4 wants to spit you left if you push too hard into the final third. You just helped him make that error by “forcing” it by keeping his speed up and pushing him until he broke. It’s subtle but your pushing is what broke traction at end, not the other drivers choice.
I’m not sure it’s kosher, though. Maybe I am old fashioned but I think I’d punt you next lap. I doubt the race director would have eyes on well enough to call it (your push). He’d probably kick me for punting you, though. 
So this was done to me in my best race ever in a similar turn at e town by a faster driver who couldn’t get by me cleanly. I wasn’t too pissed at the time because I held him off really well and was running on hopes, dreams and fairy dust by that point.
But, he did come by at the end and apologize. I did say no worries man, you were patient and that was ok. He wanted to go play with John Bonanno and the Cangliosi brothers and I was ruining his fun. That was a heck of a p5 so I wasn’t upset.
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Super useful. Looking forward to seeing you around (hopefully) at Dousman. Just picked up an old kid kart for my almost-six-year-old who is stoked to get on the track. We will probably need your services before long!
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Here’s my run in Sunday’s KA100 Sr LCQ at USPKS a couple weeks ago. The weekend overall was pretty disappointing and riddled with bad luck, but still had some fun in this one making enough moves to at least transfer into the Sunday final.
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Nice start! Got a nice opportunity from that and ran with it. Followed it up with a pass on green guy and clear track to next group. You then made up a ton of time it seems in the next few corners and are on the next group within half a lap, basically. Nice!
Oof. Poor 937 gets made short work of. You have the pace. It would also appear that you have significantly more pace than the next two as they are now in your way.
Something go sideways in quali? You are much faster than those we have encountered so far.
936 and 905 are getting killed under braking here. There goes 936…
While trying to get around 905… the next two come back to you guys. Thanks fellas for fighting each other?
I like how you drive. You are patient. You took 905 easy and on your terms. Nice.
5:57: that looked like a gift for a second there but turned into potentially 3 wide. Wise move imho not jamming through. 935 passes 905 and you let them get their act together and slot in.
Hehe, same patient pass at same spot for 905. Bravo. And holy cow you just reduced 935 lead under braking in 2 turns to nothing.
You are braking later/better. You are on it earlier. You are significantly faster than these guys so far. I am confused as to your start position.
935 is doing a better job of preventing you from getting by at big turn EOS. I think you will get him, though. Race is getting on, tho. And… there’s the under/over. Bravo!
Overall really nice race. Good decisions as well as driving. You made the passes easy when you didn’t need them to be hard. I guessing you had a thing happen in quali or something because it looked like you had much more pace and local knowledge.
A drive to be proud of, I would be at least.
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Haha love the commentary, Dom. Qualifying on Sunday wasn’t great but not awful. This was my first race weekend down in Ocala so I definitely wasn’t bringing any local knowledge to the party, just a whole lot of bad prefinal luck. I lost a chain in Saturday’s prefinal and in Sunday’s I just got roughed up, forced off track, and eventually wound up backwards in T4. Still didn’t quite have front running pace, but probably could’ve been mixing it up with the top 20 guys in the field of 60 if it wasn’t for the rough prefinals. Just how it goes sometimes.
Well you looked on it to me. That was some nice and controlled driving. I didn’t see you put a foot seriously wrong, once.
I did. We’ll talk about it in a couple weeks Jake. 
Just kidding. Good opening lap staying out of trouble when you were firmly in the blender.
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How long you been driving, Jake?
Something like 10 years mostly through the 2000’s when I was roughly 10-20 years old. This is my 2nd season getting back in the swing of things after taking about 10 years off. Fun fact, TJ and I actually both started in Dousman at around the same time, he just kinda kept going while I ran out of both money and talent lol
Well your driving is definitely mature. Looks great. You were too thoughtful for that to have been accidental.
Did anyone see Austin Osborne’s video of this same race that EKN posted?
That one was from the Saturday LCQ, which I was also in unfortunately. I actually make an early cameo in that video before and on lap 1 before he flies away from me. It’s a very impressive drive through the field, I’ve included it below if anyone else is interested.
Yeah, we raced, or actually was on track, with him this past weekend.
I bought my kart off him, or rather his dad. Heard is is quite a driver, though I think he is a bit rough on his equipment. Not really that surprising given the level of competition he runs in.
BTW @jfeder , that was a nice drive. I especially liked how you used the driver in front of you to draft and catch the next pack then make short work to pass and move on to the next driver. Well done!!! Also great work avoiding the Malay on the opener! Had you got caught up in that, your weekend might have been over. All in all, it was a great run.
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Hehe, someone needs to get Austin a viewer friendly gopro mounting position. His faring is lovely but…
It does make him seem like an unstoppable faring, plowing relentlessly forwards. It is cool seeing his feet do the tippy taps.
This is common with the guys at Iron Rock. Several of them mount them down there. It allows them to see their feet with braking and throttle during review to help with coaching. SKUSA doesn’t allow the throttle and brake sensors to be hooked up, so this is another way to get around that, and it’s cheaper.
Yeah, I was half joking. Figured it was more for training than our enjoyment.
At first, I actually thought you were talking about a mount that didn’t break and have us looking at a cone.
Ryan brings the goods. He’s also piloting a new mustache.
Mustache
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- Too much drag, lose it.
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