(Weekly) KartPulse Racer Videos Thread

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Regarding the laydowns, I cannot offer much. They can go pretty fast in a straight line, but at first contact with a corner I would blow past them in my ol’ KT100. I would suspect that I get some boost if I draft them, but all of the bad incidents I have been close to, or involved in, were caused by laydowns so I do my best to avoid them :slight_smile:

For the pass, it worked for me here but in many of the road-races I did, the fast guys take a different line than what would be the textbook racing line. Here at ORP, my line generally worked for me when it came to making gains on my opponent.

The biggest thing that will throw you at ORP is hard to see from the camera footage, but they have one corner with a negative camber to cause you to drift outside. It isn’t severe, but it’s a noticeable effect.

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Thanks for sharing. Its a really neat place. Has an idube vibe to it.

I bet the laydowns can get going good in a straight line and I could see how their differences make running together an interesting challenge.

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If you will recall I posted about an indoor race at GPNY. The fellas (Alec and Matteo) who put together the series have the schedule up:

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KA100 Sr. Final from this past weekend at New Castle. First dry race we’ve had this year, glad to get a weekend in, pretty disappointed in myself on multiple fronts. It’s been pretty mild in the midwest all year but this past weekend was near 90 degrees both days, my fitness level is clearly not where it needs to be yet. I was 18 lbs over min weight on the scales and after a full day of practice on Saturday and race day on Sunday I was just trying to survive in the end which is likely what caused the mistake with 2 to go putting me back to P6. As I continue to age (43 yrs old) I’m going to have to try to find ways to keep fresh to keep up with these kids…I’ve actually run in the heat of the day the last 2 days to try to start working on that.

Despite all the issues I qualified on pole, and finished P2 in the pre-final. I was 6 teeth different in gearing from the guy who won the pre-final and cut that difference in half for the final and managed to pick up .4 from the changes I made but made enough mistakes that the pace didn’t matter. I’ll give it to the guys that finished P1 and P2, They bested me by just under .2 which was like .6 better than they ran in the pre-final, I don’t think I had anything for them yesterday but feel like I missed out on what could have still been 3rd.

In reviewing footage I’m disappointed for not making an attempt to go back past the 97 for 4th…I think I could have made a run at 3rd place had I cleared him with 4 to go but I just never made the move and not sure why…poor race craft and not taking any risks when tired I guess.

No clue what to think about pressures. I feel like they were off, my fast lap was on lap 8 but I feel like I was actually higher than I wanted to be given the weather conditions so again could have just been poor driving until I settled down on lap 8???

Live and Learn and onto the next one I guess.

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Hard to gauge on the correct pressure when you’re making mistakes and wore out. You might just put together the lap on lap 8 like you said.

Lots of wheel inputs in that video. It looked like you were barely holding onto the thing. I’d be tired too if I did a weekend’s worth of steering in one race. :wink: :beers:

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Andy, I have found that using hydration supplements helps a ton. They sell these packets you add to a bottle of water that work wonders. I find that despite being physically ok, as I age I am more prone to bonking from lack of electrolytes or what have you.

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163 aggressively squeezes you to far edge right off bat. Darn it. 384 follows him through.

But, he makes a small mistake and you get him on the outside. Back to work.

I am impressed with your throttle patience through complex 1:54-2:03. You let it rotate nicely and catch the throttle back beautifully on 2nd turn in.

At 3:40, did he appear out of nowhere or did you hear him behind? Seems like it may have been a surprise.

Around 4:35 all hell breaks loose and you get swamped. What happened here? Curious to know what you think went down.

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you feel like my hands were too quick (eyes too slow :slight_smile: ) causing issues or you think I needed more rear grip?

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3:40 I saw him and heard him…

4:35 he lunged late but made it clean, but him holding up my exit is what allowed the next guy to come through somewhat unexpected and again pretty late and he was committed enough there was going to be contact if I didn’t let it happen.

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I did catch a sense of the physical here, in general. While the driving and line looked generally correct, it does seem that you are “working” hard. To your point, I see a lot of physicality in the driving of the kart, waist up. You do keep the kart on boil nicely tho.

I am not sure if that’s because I am primed to see it from the description.

That one corner sees repeated passes. Is this a case of needing to change brake point or a case of needing to defend? Or, neither and something else?

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2:15 Aaaaaah! Nice save!

2:38 much much better version of this turn than previous laps. Flat out, no squealing tires. Good line.

I get the impression here that once you are alone, after he spins off, you drive more “you” than when you are trying to chase the guys ahead. Things calm down a bit and smooth out.

5:22 it’s a tall order but you probably should have kept foot down and gone inside for pass. Borderline but doable I think, given the momentum you had relative to him. He dropped a lot of momentum to undercut you through previous turn and was paying huge price.

Turns out to be irrelevant because he drives off track next turn, alas for him.

8:28: he’s back! Way to hold the throttle down, go inside, hold him left and take the apex. (See 5:22).

Well done sir. I would say pay attention to apexes and kerbing. You are wide sometimes. Also, some of the kerbs want to rotate you the wrong way, although I only saw this once at start.

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Could be a combination, but even if the kart is a little oversteery, there still shouldn’t be that many corrections per turn. I also saw a lot of “oops hit the curb too hard here and completely threw the kart” or “too wide on this exit and now I’m comprised and behind the kart for the next two corners”. Looks like you’re driving slightly reactionary rather than being ahead of the kart.

In those fast 90s by the grid (where I notice it most), even if it’s oversteering, it should be a slight correction and a hold, not input, input, input, input. Correcting an oversteer should be the same as your initial turn-in input; that’s to say, you turn in with one input, get the kart to max load, and hold it so you don’t go over that tire limit. When you correct a slide, same thing applies; you input just enough to keep the kart in check, not so much that the kart flops the other direction and you need to save it again. I used to tell my drivers, it’s better to hold steady with a slightly imperfect line/angle/trajectory and keep the kart stable and rolling with one/minimal steering input, rather than make 5 small corrections through the corner if you get the turn-in point slightly wrong.

It also looks like you are being affected heavily by track imperfections. Like when you hit a curb or bump, your whole body moves and you can see the kart flopping around and getting upset off that. If you’re able to physically get stronger in your core/upper body, you should be able to brace yourself better against those external forces and keep the kart from bouncing so hard when you grab some curb. And like I mentioned with driving reactionary rather than anticipatory, if you see you’re heading toward a curb too harshly, make sure you’re bracing yourself for that curb strike to keep the kart steady instead of reacting to how the kart behaves after you hit the curb. Much like locking up the brakes; once you get good at controlling a slight lock-up, you start anticipating where the kart is going to dance when it happens, and you start instinctually making slight corrections in steering before the lock-up even occurs, keeping the kart in-line at all times.

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I’ve played with this a bunch in sim. You mean kinda like jogging smoothly right then back left to take a right sweeper?

I think if you time the flow of that correctly you can pre-load the kart effectively, on a fast sweeper (ie turn 1 at AMP).

Sorry meant to be a reply to @E13 not TJ

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Hey Everyone,

thought id shade the youtube page of the company that has been living stream most of the state series racing in Western Australia for anyone that is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/user/4stylemedia/videos

last meeting i raced in is below

my prefinal starts at 1:17:30 for anyone intrested Kart 40 (KA#3 Light) final can be found on the yourtube page (wont talk about that got caught out not having new wets to put on :frowning: )

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I’m racing at this track for the first time in a while so I thought I’d post an old video and see if anyone has any line ideas or advice. Don’t mind my race craft and things like that as I’ve improved a bunch (I hope)

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Pavle defends!

@Stacker

2:35 you overcook a corner entry pushing too hard in, slightly. Up till now, you have been the picture of restraint.

2nd apex kerb catches you so you aren’t wide for the final part. You did lose speed, though and then had to defend on straight between corners. Nice job hanging on.

3:25 same corner next lap. Big understeer, again coming to rest on far apex. This appears to be your weakness here.

After this 2nd understeer moment, you calm down and back off on the aggression. You get smoother and less hurried.

4:08 he’s on your butt, you know this, but you also have command of the width of track. Why do you narrow entry? Were you thinking he had the outside fully? This compromises turn and you understeer into this a bit again, resting up on 2nd apex.

4:29 Nice defense.

4:58 again you have command of track width. You enter narrow again. Are you feeling pressured by guy behind? Think he will go under?

Next couple minutes are you defending the heck out of your position. You are pushing hard so make a visible slight overcook but overall do very well and hold him off!

7:20 the levee breaks. However, he pushes too hard into same corner and you nearly take it back. Color me intrigued. Will Pavle take it back? I think so!

7:45 now that’s how you get all of the grip on sweeper!

7:54 Pavle shows patience and carefully pressures. I think you could have had a slightly better outcome here if you had backed it up a touch more just before apex, opening up the turn down slightly more. I am picking nits, here.

8:05 Au revoir, mon ami. You simply out-drove him here with greater efficiency.

8:33 brain fart? You go wide exiting sweeper and open up the pass for the other guy. :joy:.

And WHAT A FINISH!

Haha, great race Pavle!

Man, you have improved!

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3:23 and 3:26 nice double save.

3:45 you seem to have faster line through here than guy ahead. More to come?

4:45 I think you were ok here. That looked like a reasonable thing to do and the guy to your right just wasn’t ready for it and turned into you.

Your flow gets better with clear track. It seems to me that you do push a bit too hard into some turns and scritch a bit on way out here and there. Maybe strive more for exit speed. With clear track, you seem to be less aggressive and smoother through the chicanes.

Let’s see this year next!

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Thanks! I was .8 off the fastest lap that time, so not great. Hopefully this year ill be closer. that kart that turned into me has had… several altercations with me and others before that, and after. He caused a lap 1 wreck in my pre final, and final last race