Heard you yell at him early on into the race about giving space hence what prompted my complaints about him lol

So that was me, and I did not intend to lmao. My brake pedal in that kart didnt work on first press half the time. So I braked, and would've stopped in time, but I had no brakes :( apologized to him after the race tho!!

From 18:11 to 18:42 we all just turned into bumper karts 😭

Yeah there's a couple of karts that need a double-tap of the pedal for the brakes to kick in. Too bad it's happening to these new karts again... It used to be a reminder in the driver's meetings to check your brakes when exiting and entering the pit lane. It's the "Easy E" remember cause that's who had their brakes completely cut out - he sped through the pits at 30mph!

No :( Did you guys get out there?

@@AlexDevineKartRacingcouldn’t make it! Probably next Friday!

Ah. Don't think I'll be able to make it ( it's harvest season out here ) but absolutely go with friend(s) if you can 😁

Thanks Philip! You guys at Buffalo Grove have had 2 to 3 times as many people each month

A variant on the ol' downhill switcheroo! I pull it off again at 20:53

Thanks Evan! There's a chance I'll be back to Buffalo Grove for a GP or two this year before State

@@AlexDevineKartRacing Awesome! Looking forward to it!

Everyone gets points based on how many people participate, and the standings for the Challenge GP at each location are on the K1 website under the 'Leagues' section. I'd recommend getting a few races in before jumping into a league night, just to get a feel for racing IRL and how the karts feel while braking/turning/accelerating etc. Knowing the racing line is only useful if you're also able to adjust your driving to hit said line.

Thanks for the tips! I have raced at the k1 track a few times Im just trying to figure out all the small things I could do to get a faster lap time love watching your videos! You always motivate me haha

One more thing: the karts are turned up a notch for league night compared to the setting they run for the public.

Oh, thanks for the warning, does that technically mean if I get like a low 20 sec lap time on the slow kart it could possibly be a 19 sec lap time in the faster karts?

With the newer model karts at Mokena, there's a display that shows which speed it's in. You can barely see it in the visor cam view, but it says "Model 4". I know that Mode 3 is slower, but I can't remember by how much.. We've only run the league on the LeMans track, and my best time this year is a 21.089. In past years I've got a 20.966 at LeMans and a 19.810 at Monaco.

I don't think so, check their website (no spaces obviously): kart circuit autobahn .com

It's an Insta360 Go 3s model camera - the lens itself has magnets that snap into a GoPro sized base. So I added a metal plate inside my helmet, behind the visor, against the hard shell, and the lens magnets keep it in place during the race.

Probably some, as there aren't any weight restrictions or ballasts to even things out that way. How much weight does it take to slow you down a tenth per lap, all else being equal? I don't know that

@@AlexDevineKartRacingyeah, we’re definitely like 50lb+ heavier than some of the league racers.

Thanks for watching! There are two different tracks under one roof here, and last year as Accelerate they would run events and leagues on both tracks. Since they got bought out by K1 in January, they've switched to a once-per-month league night, and that has only used the Le Mans track.

@@AlexDevineKartRacing awesome! Hoping to hit autobahn and Mokena soon. Been karting in Buffalo grove and Addison

"It was at this moment he knew, he f*cked up"

@AlexDevineKartRacing I AM reading that in the voice too lmao can't wait for Wednesday 🫡🙏💯

The chaos was instigated for me this time :3

7:46 1st and 2nd place are side-by-side out of turn 1, which is where the mud gets on track at 7:50. Yes, but I found out the hard way that the brakes on this kart needed a double-tap to work 100%.

Absolutely with you on that, I kept messing up turn 4 down the hill once Jack and Alex paired up and passed us.

If you mean 29:45, then if anything I was too cautious and bunched us up. Shit happens, no hard feelings at all. You did well to follow Jack's move at 37:14, and from what I could tell you stuck with him for the rest of the race (20 laps?) while building a gap to DJ and I in fourth - despite our best efforts from 38:35 onwards :)

No, these are the newer model from OTL called the Superleggero. We got them in March 2023. The ones you are running are the older Storm model - Buffalo Grove IL still has them as well.

Cheers Ross! These Ironmans always start out chaotic, but there's plenty of real estate to cleanly race side-by-side

Yeah Mike getting #18 in quali and the first race was really good for him. The second race showed how much faster the engines in #2 and #19 are

Absolutely! 💯 The karts are still in pretty good shape, and are such a good step up from an indoor kart

Yeah, Hunter and I must have been gaining close to a second a lap around 20:30 / lap 5... then we catch Jose at 24:25 at the end of lap 9

Thanks! There was an endurance event at Autobahn yesterday? Or somewhere else?

@@AlexDevineKartRacing Was at the Autobahn, SSHBA (Southwest Suburban Home Builders Association) hosts it every year. Plan on uploading my POV tomorrow.

It feels like these newer model karts have better acceleration, so turn 1 here has an actual braking zone, and the esses at Mokena are comparable to Schumacher at Buffalo Grove. If Buffalo Grove upgraded their karts, then maybe Schumacher at speed 4 would need a hint of braking too....

@@AlexDevineKartRacing It's probably more of a lack of maintenance at BG, but I have found myself and some of the others using the brake a bit more often in Schumacher in order to get that forward weight shift. These ones at Mokena definitely look like they have a bit more pull (plus a pretty sweet steering wheel!)

Thanks Damien! You and Kreg were neck and neck in the final race, from what I could see.

I have my GoPro 8 setup to gather GPS data as it is recording. Then in editing, I use RaceRender3 to pull that GPS data from the files recorded by the GoPro, and I have a template in RaceRender that overlays that data as laptimes, speedometer, lateral Gs, and the track map.

Thanks Eric! It's a completely different than indoor karting, isn't it? The line for the last pair of right turns (#10 and #11) is one single smooth turn on full throttle, but it takes practice to get a quick and smooth turn-in without oversteer or understeer. Also leaning towards the outside tires while turning helps too, since the seatbelts are loose for you to slide your weight around.

OH YEAH I talked to Casey (red shirt white helmet) afterwards about that! Kart #5 just took the inside line through turn 6 way wide on the exit.

🙏💯 that's cool. You should have gotten driver of the day. But your mentality, you probably weren't satisfied, lol 😤🔥 you got that dawg in you.

At about the 16 minute mark in the video

I was turned into leading into me turning into you an accident

No worries about that, I was a bit impatient and forced the issue the one time I didn't stick behind someone and work together. At 15:55, we're in the middle of a line of four karts. I see those two karts ahead of that line side-by-side at turn 6, and immediately expect one to lose out and be slow through the next section. Then at 15:58 kart #17 ahead of you went to the left to pass the slower #13 kart, and I expected you to follow him to the left and make that pass. My mistake was not choosing a lane to follow behind at 16:01 - probably best to stick with you on the outside through the corners and try to keep some momentum.... EDIT: Oh and at 16:06 I know that #13 kart has been slow, but stick behind him and bump draft through the last corner and the main straight so you end up ahead of #17 and #7. Then someone behind us at 16:57 treats you like a wall to brake against - absolutely brutal man that sucks :(

Thanks! Carving through the field is one skill I really get to practice in these events, but taking on the last to first challenge is not the best way to win the feature race ;)

Thanks! It's the same GoPro I use for the monthly K1 Speed races, with the basic adhesive mount on top of the helmet. And yes, in the feature race I am ducking to try and tuck in with the front bumper. I jokingly call it 'Human DRS', because while it is technically faster, it's nowhere near as effective as actual DRS in Formula 1.

I just have the adhesive mount on the top of my helmet. If your helmet has a chin mounting option, I'd do that instead.

Thanks! 👍