Hard to see anything in either video. Need on-board.
Generally if you’re smooth but slow, you just not driving hard enough.
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By “hard” what do you mean? charging the corner hard enough, not carrying enough speed…?
I’m guessing he means basically that, either not carrying enough speed in, being a bit conservative in braking, etc.
Do you have any footage that shows you in races where your pace struggles in the dry? It would help to see your driving in relation to the field.
You may not have a Gopro or the like but it’s helpful to see from the driver perspective. Have you taken a look at footage from fast folks at your track to see if there’s anything that stands out as different from how you are approaching the lap?
What is your track called, what would be a series that folks might run in there that I can find onboard footage from?
Its called vojens motosport arena or just vojens gokartbane
And ive watched plenty of laps from tracks all around denmark and seems to me as im braking same as them and getting on the gas same as them
People run rotax mostly here
Im going to a race the 21. Jan i can get some video from there😁
A video from one of the fastest in denmark https://fb.watch/i0a5U0jTcH/
How far are you off the pace from the front guys in the dry?
When you’re running with the fast guys (in practice, or whenever), where are you losing time?
For example, everywhere, straights, certain turns, or certain types of turns.
And for the turns where you are losing time, where are you losing it?
For example, braking, entry, rotation/apex, exit?
Like the others, I don’t see any fundamental problems with your driving. Is your engine performing at a reasonable level?
I actually just got my engine back and engine dude said i should’ve got a bunch more bottom end now
And im approx 1.5s off in dry and 0.3 clear of everyone in wet
My dad and people say i loose a little on entry after braking phase to middle/apex
But we suspect the others to cheat with engines because we bought a cylinder from the biggest team here and it was very suspicious had to get it to importer in denmark to legalise it engine man thought it was illegal too…
Yeah it seemed to me his braking looked ok, didn’t seem too soft (you can see the kick a bit in slomo). He seems to be back to throttle ok. Exit seemed ok.
Can’t see inside wheel lift due to camera angle. Kart might be a bit flat but he doesn’t seem to be bogging.
1.5 is a big delta, so in competition, you’d definitely see them pull on you and where they get the time.
Without footage it could be a variety of things. Perhaps you have a fundamentally messed up corner or two where you lose time but 1.5 would be huge mistakes that would stand out. Perhaps there’s a chassis issue. I had a kart that felt way off (cracked frame) and was slow. But I couldn’t get the front end to work and it seems here that your driving looks ok and kart seems behaved.
Hmmm.
The cheating bit doesn’t explain the wet vs dry tho.
If you have tried carrying a bit more entry phase speed, what happens? How does that influence your line, how the kart rotates, and how early/aggressively you can accelerate.
In the video, your kart looks like it exhibits pretty quick (or ‘snappy’) rotation at apex… especially in the really tight turns. Maybe that’s what’s required to get around that track quickly, but I’m wondering if that could subconsciously causing you to limit your entry phase speed so you don’t end up at the apex with too much energy, which might cause the kart to aggressively over rotate.
Anyway, it’s just a thought; maybe on some test day, you could tweak the chassis so it rotates a little less aggressively, and then SEND IT on entry to see what happens & how it feels. 
A power advantage is much less useful in the wet. 
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Yeah they cant utilize the power the same way as in the dry, idk you probably know it better than me😂
That makes sense, didn’t think it through. 
If i carry too much speed i usually get a oversteer unless its over the crest or something abnormal
I have alway been driving with ackermann at its lowest position on the column does that have a role to play?
Elias, any chance you can buy/borrow a Gopro or other cam so we can have onboard perspective from a race?
I can try to borrow one the 21st jan and upload it
I dont think theres a fundamental problem with the driving thats why I’m so desperate i dont understand where the 1.5s is for example
When on the sim with this years danish champion and absolute fastest driver its a 0.1s diff
But on track its doomed
Well from that FB onboard and your video, we can see that you are later on the throttle than the dude on facebook. If it is an issue you have on every turn, it would be easy to figure out why you lose that 1.5 sec.
EDIT : To be fair I had somewhat the same issue. Very off pace on the dry while being on top of the field on the wet.
I had two issues :
- Lack of confidence due to the lack of training
- Poor chassis setup, or at least a chassis that didn’t suit me on the dry
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Well, it seems like you’re doing OK in two out of three situations (wet & sim vs dry), and based on what you said about how the kart feels (and how it looks)… and also based on @tankyx’s experience/advice, I would start by dialing some oversteer/rotation out of your chassis and see if that allows you to build confidence in the entry and rotation phase so you can carry more speed in, and get on the gas sooner.
I’m more of a ‘driving specialist’ than a chassis guy, so the thread below might be helpful. If you have other setup questions that are not covered there, I’m sure someone will jump in and help out.
Good luck!
Cool!!! Get us some footage to look from that race. I am curious.
But yah, check those welds. Sometimes a crack in weld is v small and hard to see.
I sympathize. If the kart isn’t working for you it can make you doubt yourself and abilities and is really not fun at all. Maybe it’s your driving but maybe it’s not. I suspect you feel in your bones it’s not your driving and that is a head spinner. I have been there.
Update
I went racing the 21st aaaaand
Without cam… but there was no need…
It was wet, and i won, even over an x30 jr. That drove the IWF and thats pretty impressive the track considered, and i were 1.5s a lap quicker than the other rotax jr and i could even match the x30s speed most of the straight until i hit 14/14.5k rpm were x30 just keeps pulling so i suspect it was just then engine that had 0 bottom end, but we’ll see when it dries up
Interesting. Try to get dry footage from your perspective in kart.