Wel you are faster than him so pocket that thought when he’s being not nice. Hmpf. Us old guys can be unreasonable and cranky.
His thotts:
First corner was horrible in that kart, no comment about my line there, I couldn’t find the sweet spot at all 
That corner is very demanding, you are going high speed but at the same time, even the slightest missjudgement can get you in trouble. That is why I always left ~90% of kart width on the outside, because I remember nj that I myself was in position to sneak on the outside there, forcing driver in front to take a narrower line. I didn’t want to risk pushing someone off if he somehow managed to place himself on the outside, maybe I should have simply got back on the racing line…though I found out going narrow does affect you, but driver behind is unable to use that advantage 90% of the time because if I park it on the apex, he has to brake as well and at that speed, no one is willing to risk that much. I did risk in race 2 exactly there, knowing perfectly what to do, so I managed to sneak some overtakes there.
No clue why did I do that. I should have gone narrower in first place. I was not keeping an eye on lap counter, I was so busy defending the entire race that I was unaware that was the final lap…but that corner is always on the edge of fair play when it comes to overtaking. I felt I got pushed out of the way 3 times during this race exactly there but after reviewing, I see the space open up but still…contact should not have been made by passing driver IMO, he used me as a brake instead of using it himself. What do you have to say about those overtake attempts there, when I open the inside in sweeping left? I don’t know, I feel that I have full right to cut across, esepcially if I leave enough space for him to even stay 100% on track or use a little kerb and he is the one who must avoid the contact, not me. I don’t know if I am missjudging this but I feel like I was getting bashed into all the time for no reason whatsoever.
Gap at the end was 0.086s 
Final by the way:
Congrats. You gave Australia a clinic on how to win decisively! Looks like the 2-4 positions had themselves a grand old time though, which makes them not beating you more palatable (presumably).
It’s very neat that your org puts on such a slick production. Is this a big series, like SKUSA, Australian style?
@Stacker I’ll ponder those questions. Is Nikolai K. your only competition? Anyone else to battle with?
Final: you lost the kart lottery. Badly. 
Ah, rental racing.
Hey Karters, I am new on this forum, my name is Bas, 28 years of age, from the Netherlands, racing sinds I was 7 years old. I want to discover the American Kart culture.
Btw, I have some video’s from how we race at the other and of the Ocean. I drive a Rotax DD2 and occasionly a Rotax Senior.
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Lovely pass @ 4:44.
Very consistent bunch!
Nice defense by kart 1 at 5:28. He has eyes in back of head.
By 10/20 youve reeled back in karts 2 and 3. Nice work! They had gotten a pretty big gap.
10:47 Not this time.
11:28 
this time!
Into 3rd we go. Or is that 2nd? Either way, 5 to go…
By lap 18 you were on him. Lap 20 was fantastic. I loved the attempt taken. Bold as heck and almost there.
That was a very nice race to watch!
What did it say at end?
All new names, but the scoring table is trash. Look at this:
There is exactly no reward for finishing better than someone else. It’s a 1 point difference bewteen each position, so scoring is kind of irrelevant.
Kart lottery, ah yes, the great part of rental leagues 
Hmmm. What system was used last year?
Let me write it down, it’s a bit messy to crop and translate in paint:
So we had qualy race - semi final (same for all 3 groups)
P1 - 6p
P2 - 4p
P3 - 3p
P4 - 2p
P5 - 1p
P6-P8 - zero
Final was like this:
(A) 24,21,18,15,12,10
(B) 15,12,10,8,6,4
(C) 8,6,4,3,2,1
Note that the organizer is completely different but the organizers of this copied championship did this for money, so people end up being closer to each other and then they expect them to practice more, tighter championship, while in reailty, better drivers are leveled with less skilled ones. Notice the same value of qualy races and (A) Final. In older system, there was reward for ending in P1 in any race and a chance to redeem yourself if you ended up in lower category of the final race. They practicaly devalue the Final by giving more points in Semi-final. Point? No idea why, better Final should give more points becuase you fight with better drivers while random (or qualy based, but qualy is still random because of karts) semi-final race is kind of irrelevant.
So in finals, points are close, basically 1 difference.
But it looks like in semis the spread for points is much wider?
Or got that backwards. They create greater spread in semis and final is tighter.
I mean, the entire system is based on 1p difference between each position, plus the semi finals are unnecessarily rewarding in comparing to finals where drivers are sorted by positions in those semi’s, therefore competition is tougher and you recieve the same amount of points (for a final) which is, again, not logical because competition is tougher. F1 system is a great example and good comparison.
F1 system goes: 1,2,4,6,8,10,12,15,18,25
You get rewarded for podium by 1 extra point per gained position (it was 2 points per gained position until then, podium is 3 ppgp.) and you get whopping 5 extra point ppgp. for P1. And on the other hand you get only one point ppgp. at P10 and P9. They created values for positions, you have (P20-P11) 0pts PGP, (P10-P9) +1pts PGP, (P8-P4) +2pts PGP, (P3-P2) +3pts PGP and (P1) +5pts PerGainedPosition. So in F1, you are not rewarded purely by finishing position, but also by position relevance. And there is no relevance in our scoring system, all finishing positions are leveled for no reason. It makes no sense to not reward podium finishers more per each gained position than like P9 finisher.
So lemme get this straight:
In pre-final, top 5 get points only.
Then in finals, all 15 drivers get points. Top 5 get more than next 5 and so on.
It still seems that the stronger drivers will dominate?
Pretty sure he’s my age. Also, RAIN RACE BABY!!! My first rain race is coming up this weekend!!! Any advice would be great
@tankyx got any good rain footage? The kind that shows how you are aggressive with getting kart pointed in wet.
@E13 i figured it was same guy who threatened to fight you and your dad after he punted you into the barrier.
Ha! Surprisingly not, that guy just dislikes me, but he’s normally not a crash causer. You kinda start to profile people and learn how to race them and what to be careful of pretty quickly.
- stay off the rubber, wide on corner entry, ride the rim of the outside of the track, then cross over the rubber straight on the exit
- widen the front end to max, narrow the rear to minimum, add caster, raise seat (or sit on something) basically anything to increase weight jacking
- don’t spin
Use your body to transfer the weight. Crank on the steering and shock the kart into turning in. Then manage the throttle through the exit to eliminate wheel spin.
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There are times where I’m up leaning past the steering wheel to the outside in the rain.
Unfortunately I dont
This is the same track you reviewed earlier, did you think that was rubbered enough to avoid it? What kind of steering inputs are best for sharp turns?
Here is another, this one a bit more action.
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