K1 Speed Mokena 2024 Challenge GP - March 3rd

All three sessions of the March 2024 Challenge GP race at Mokena IL. Starting grid determined by two rounds of qualifying, with the same drivers per qualifying heat randomly assigned karts. The quicker of your two fastest qualifying laps determines your place on the grid for the final race. Both qualifying sessions were 12 laps, and the final race was 14 laps, with a full lap in each qualifying session in speed 3 before ramping up to speed 4.
Really feeling the rust on this one - had a great kart in the first qualifying session and got on pole position with it, but had difficulties adjusting to the other karts I raced in. Also my GoPro cut out footage of the last two laps of the race, but nothing happened and I finished in 3rd place out of 10 racers.
Chapters:
00:00 First qualifying
02:41 Yellow flag
03:09 Fastest lap
03:34 On provisional pole
04:39 Qualifying 1 over
05:57 Second qualifying
06:25 Not improving on my Q1 time
07:11 Making sure I'm not in the way
10:01 Qualifying 2 over
10:37 Final race start
10:53 I'm holding up the field already
11:29 Cruisin'
12:52 Yellow flag
13:18 Green flag
15:04 GoPro cuts out
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[@urboialejandro]

nice race i will bring have my league race today i will have it posted by 10👍

[@tomiperityjr8271]

Man, how I wish K1 never touched Mokena. Would have done the winter league there, but I guess I'll see you at Autobahn!

[@AlexDevineKartRacing]

And the last endurance event got cancelled once K1 bought them out - the only events they are allowed to run are these monthly league nights. I'm already signed up for the Spring league and lightweight Ironman seasons. Can't wait! 😻

[@EricTekien]

That was some good racing and you were putting good lap times. Congrats on finishing 3rd in your race. Are you going to be running the GP races at Mokena now for the season? Best of luck to you on your 2024 Season! All the best!

[@AlexDevineKartRacing]

Thanks Eric! Yeah I will be running this year's Challenge GP at Mokena all season. I was out of state for both the January and February rounds, so Mokena to me is the best chance I have to qualify for 2024 IL State. How's the season at Addison going?

[@EricTekien]

Understandable. My season at Addison has been going very well. I finished P2 out of 23 drivers overall in the March GP race. I am currently sitting 3rd overall in terms of championship points for the season. We had a lot of new and existing drivers showed up to race than we had last season. We had around 23-25 drivers showed up for the first 3 months in to the season. I was informed by management that they are having a major track layout change on Track 1 in an about few weeks. The track will be a little longer with more turns as I was being told. It will not be a 18-19 second lap time anymore. Most likely, it will be a 20-21 second lap time. This is going to be a learning experience for me to learn the new track and finding the right racing lines. Have fun racing at the new K1 location. Hopefully we’ll race together at Addison anytime soon.

[@PhillipMcGhieKartRacing]

Good Race Alex, see you when ever you come back to K1 in Buffalo Grove, but I will still be watching all you races at this new location in Mokena, have fun racing at the new K1 location.

[@AlexDevineKartRacing]

Cheers Phillip! Hope the season goes well for you at Buffalo Grove :)

[@PhillipMcGhieKartRacing]

@@AlexDevineKartRacing me to

[@W4ltzzzz]

Nice video! I was wondering how long is the entire session, (qual sessions and race included). Thanks

[@matthathaway5015]

I can’t speak for this one exactly, as I don’t know if they change from location to location, by the one near me is two qualifying races of 14 laps each, and a final race of 16 laps

[@AlexDevineKartRacing]

That's how these K1 GP events should be: a pair of 14 lap qualifiers (fastest laptime, not position) and then a 16 lap position race. This location just got bought by K1, so they ran the qualifiers exactly like a public session: 12 laps total, a few warmup laps at speed 3 before turning on speed 4.

[@W4ltzzzz]

Alright thanks! I was wondering does the 10 minutes that K1 speed says a race is include the qual sessions? Or is the race 10 minutes and than you have like another 10 minutes of qualifing? Also if I buy the nomal race do I not have any qualifying? Sorry for the questions@@AlexDevineKartRacing

[@AlexDevineKartRacing]

No problem! These monthly league nights are a bundle deal for three races total - you pay $65 for two qualifying races and one position race. One public race is 12 laps. Only your laptimes are tracked for these races - position doesn't really matter. So it's like a league qualifying race in that sense. Sidenote: their website does a bit of exaggerating about "10 minute races". If the track is long enough, then 12 laps could take 10 minutes to complete. But any of the K1 locations I've raced at have been ~20 second laps and thus 5-6 minute public races. Just like how they say the karts get "up to 40mph"...yeah in theory they might, but not in a tight windy track like most K1 locations. Hope that makes sense!

[@matthathaway5015]

@@AlexDevineKartRacing Same here haha. My PR is a 19.350, but I've seen people get low 18s, so we're closer to a 4-minute race.