STARTING THE RACE FROM THE PITLANE! | Daytona Milton Keynes SODI Karting Session 6th April 2024

Hello everyone and welcome to a new video. We're doing some Daytona

race

s. It's an open

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and we start from the pit lane. I did the qualifying and would have started in second place. I think it was a pretty terrible performance for me, but I had done it. decided before the

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hey, I'm going to start from the pits, so we'll be way back, we'll see how this goes, apologies, I have a bit of a cough too, let's wait everyone. To pass as the charming Jimmy Hendricks will keep us in the pit lane. Also, one of the car testers is Jimmy, a very fast driver and we came out of the pits, so the first lap in this 40 minute race needed to be long because well, there.

They were some fast drivers, that's why I couldn't get pole easily. This was also my first race on the C grass and there was already a big incident. We can't pass this guy, but it's a yellow flag. and he's going so slow that's probably why you rated last, but she, um, so yeah, we were like, what are we going to do? Let's just circle the outside of this person through the cor and you can see how far away everyone is. pull and when you stop from behind every moment matters so much, something like this that cost me about 5 seconds could be the difference between winning this race and well, not winning it, so you have to pass everyone as quickly as possible. as possible you can't hold back so while we're heading here I'm going to ride the sidewalk on the inside to turn8 um in case anyone is wondering what my experience is with the stroller if this is the first video you've seen on my YouTube Channel I am a very experienced Carter, technically semi-professional, but I compete in the 100 Championship club.

I race in the British Pro Kart Endurance Championship. I'm also doing a bit of car racing this season and I'm racing in the buggy. champion race me too, so I have a lot of experience in

karting

and relatively good, not so much in

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cars more in the two-stroke cards, but I thought I needed to try these four-stroke mobiles. We have a spinner through the Fenon chicane. I also do the commentary here at Dayton and Mil Keen, so I know the circuit pretty well, even if I don't know it very well driving it myself and we're going up the inside and we're actually on two wheels.

I don't know if you go back, you can actually see the car just fall because, yeah, and I actually got scared a couple of times when I did that because I actually thought I was going to knock over the cart, so next time I go to Melton, I'll do it. I will leave I'll try to knock the cart over, guys, see if I can break my collarbone. It would make for good content on Tik Tok and YouTube shorts, although to be honest, knowing my luck, it would probably only get around 100 views. so we are going down the hill, we are already on p28, we have gained some more places and now we can see a big train of cars.

I love trains, this is the railway line that you can see on the right side of on your screen there is a train line there so let's see if we can overtake as some guy on the right is trying to be a little cowboy Let's show him how we are, truly, cowboys, we're going to go around the outside of the brake that that guy turned, they're going to go out, so we're going in, we're not passing under yellow flags if we're going the wrong way past a turned car. , so again, this is just one of those things where you have to be super quick to think when you're in the cart and you pass the back markers or people have turned and you always have to think about what's the best way to do things, we send them inside.

I'm not Dilly wasting time a little. from an incomplete movement, I push out and send it in, we get completely to the side and at the apex we let the cut finish on the exit of the corner and we absolutely nail it, so again I'll keep working because I can. See the leaders. He had an idea who the leaders were. There were these two guys with white helmets. I was keeping an eye on where the white helmets were on the course and trying to visualize how much I was catching. We miss the Apex. through that left turn and now I'm thinking right.

I'm going to go up the inside of this person in turn eight, if I'm close enough, no, we're not going to sit behind him. I don't do it either. I want to get a black flag, so it's important to be quick to get across the field, but it's also important to know not to get black flags. However, this person is a little lighter than me, so you can see him moving away from me on the straight. We're just going to get behind. Also, if anyone was in this race because I know some people thought it was like a rocket, there is evidence that I don't have a rocket because I was behind that guy I have. a better start than him but since he is lighter he can move away so that is something else to take into account it is not a standardized weight there will be some people here who will weigh 90 kilos there will be people like me who will weigh 75 kilos there They will be Juniors who will weigh 55 kilos , so you have to be ready to deal with all that.

We'll send it inside one, we'll make sure we don't get on the other's back, and we still do it. We're going to get a decent run anyway, so let's send it to the inside with my favorite move, both wheels almost fall off, that guy's next to it and we get out ahead and can get back on the outside course. On the carousel, as I like to call it, there is a yellow flag, that's the other thing that was really frustrating. You get a lot of yellow flags in car racing, not as many when you know, you know team sports and all that crap, um, but you know.

We still have yellow flags and the difficult thing with yellow flags is that you have to go very slowly behind the person in front of you, so we just have to sit behind this guy and we come out of the corner onto the straight and we pass. him, but it's very frustrating because you know the leaders may be in the clear air, you're stuck behind a back marker losing time, so the leaders are going through the first turn right now, but I wasn't catching up to them significantly. Which was kind of worrying and you can see the gap there is at the moment between me and everyone else, so I'm not sure where I stand.

I think we're on p14, so we're not even at the top. 10 we've done four laps we've gone from 302nd to 14th it's taken us so long and I was getting worried I'm not going to lie I didn't qualify in the poll I didn't do a particularly good lap in qualifying because of how it is and I was still learning the car. I still haven't figured out how to drive these godforsaken Sodis. They are faster than the m35s but they handle like an absolute boat and I still hate them. Yeah, sorry, if anyone from Sodi is listening to this, change a cart so they handle like karts instead of boats.

Thanks anyway, let's be honest. No one in their 30s will see this. Let's have a little finger. Flex is always good on long runs, just to flex your fingers so they don't cramp up and you don't get a little stiff on that turn. I was commenting on some of the 30-year-old races earlier in the day. It was Saturday and I realized the fastest lap was 138 and I wanted to get there but I thought maybe I'm a little bit heavier so I'll be at 14, to be honest I wasn't much heavier because the light weight lower, or the weight limit for lightweight, is 70 kilos and I was probably about 75 kilos, so to be honest I should have been able to get into the low 14s, but my fastest lap was only 14.8, which strangely is not the case.

It's not this lap, although it's a pretty decent lap, so we'll just take a look at what it's like. I think one of the biggest problems I had with the cies is that when you throw the car into a corner, the rear end just shakes. because there's actually too much grip on the car, so there's too much grip on the rear, the rears have to be knocked down or the fronts, um, have to be knocked down. I don't remember how it works, but you need to remove the grip. so the wheel can go up is too heavy and as a result it sticks out, so I don't know if the quickest way is to throw it, which is what I was doing because that's what you do in Two Strokes or if it's just being a little softer so you don't slide as much, but again, the only way I can do it is to do a few more

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s and then just figure out where the pace is because I know on the old four-strokes at Dayton and Melon Keing I went really fast, but how can they See, we're catching up to this group of drivers and the leaders just entered turn one again, so we're about 15 seconds behind, we're not that far behind. but again, we're running out of time and I know we only have six lamps in this 32 lamp race, but I'm very aware that we're running out of time, we get a decent run and I'm thinking, can I? send him into turn one, absolutely can or sorry, turn two, that guy then goes wide despite having no speed in the corner, so we'll overtake him too, why not?

And you can see I'm having this little game with the steering. it rolls from time to time, so you see, I'll turn into the corner and then I'll just come out of the corner slightly to straighten the cart, keep it a little bit smooth so I can get there. power was reduced, particularly in turn two. I'll do it because I'm pretty much going full speed through that second corner, maybe a little bit to the left in the old N35 car, it was pretty flat, maybe a little bit to the left and now we're getting close. up to Mr.

Blue Suit or is it Mr. Blue Suit I'm not sure um and we're going to have a really good race we're going to get out the slipstream, move our butts forward and get a good ride up the hill there's a yellow flag. I don't think so, there's no yellow flag, so we're ahead and we go into Kuba Curve, as I like to call it, and every time I get close to a backmark, I'm just thinking well I'm going for a sin I'm going for some ridiculous overtake but I know I have to be fast I have to be efficient passing behind the markers I don't need to get penalized so we'll just stay behind For a couple of corners, this guy isn't too slow to be fair to them, but I know they're going to beat me hold here, so I'm going to post it late.

They leave me space. To be fair. I thought that guy would pull to the right before, but he doesn't and now I'm thinking, oh bloody, what am I going to do? I tried to go to the left, then I try to go to the center and then I enter his Again, he just opens wide, so we're going to go on the inside, but that's probably what I struggled the most with to pass someone in that race, yeah, again he had a bad race that caught me completely off guard and I just didn't do it. We didn't react in time or what to do so that you can see in the lap time 17.7 instead of what probably would have been 15.7, so we lost 2 seconds as a result of those 2 seconds, but now we are catching up . group coming up to I think it's fifth place, so p133 or p12, P1 to p8, we'll see what position we're in at the end of this lap and we're getting close, they turn and we "They're going to go outside, they don't know how to press the brake, that's a great tip for you guys, when you turn, hit the brake so you don't go across the circle like that and almost take someone out." I saw it coming so I left extra room, but it backed up a little further than I expected.

We're going to make a good shift back and in turn two we'll gain another position, so we start this lap in 11th place and I think we'll do it with that. I'll probably be in the eth position. I mean we'll see when we cross the line, but again it's been a relatively slow race and as I said, I'd never driven these vehicles before driving the m35s. I thought

sodi

es were going to be horrible, like the worst thing that's happened to me since mayonnaise was created, but they weren't as bad as I thought, they were faster in a straight line than I expected and because they handle like boats and handle like um, a dog throws up on cat poop, um as a result of that, I can see myself having fun battles with someone because none of us know how to drive these things because well, we're driving boats on asphalt, um next to the What the fuck , if you guys are here, I know I said you probably don't handle your cars like boats, could you fix them?

Anyway, let's go around the final corner. To be fair, I've had a few sodies that do it. handled quite well. I think when I was in an ambush they had sodies there and that was actually pretty fun, so maybe it's just a c-trap combination. um, I won't slander Sodi anymore. whatever these godforsaken things are, uh, it's not a Formula 1 car and the steering wheel, so when you have the steering wheels, the F1 star steering wheels, you need them to come out vertically, not diagonal or horizontal like a Lor um so it's really weird holding it like an open steering wheel but it's not in front of you because it's just wrong, it needs to be circular, it feels better and you can push and I don't know, I feel like it's a lot better, or maybe I need to.

Danty Dylan style anyway there's a big yellow flag, let's try to pass this guy,but then I realized that the yellow flag continues until the end of the straight, so we're going to have to sit behind. and this is the group that reaches fifth or fourth place, I don't think I remember which one, so we will have to sit in this train of cars. I'm waiting for the yellow flag to go away. The yellow flag is gone. Immediately we're going to go up the inside of a guy and now we can try to get to the top 10.

All these guys are being slow, so we're just going to send him to the inside, towards the inside where a person is going to enter. in the pits and now I see these guys fighting just a little bit, so that guy is going to try to stick his nose inside me. I don't care, everyone backs off too much under the yellow flag, we're past the incident, so, hey, I'm going to go around the guy inside me, Tred, on the outside, to complain, but we're either past the yellow or we're past the incident. , so we can go back to running at the power we are going and then this curve to the right.

I went from PA to P5 and now it's P4, so we're in the top five. It took us 11 laps, it took us almost 20 minutes, about 16 minutes, which is a good amount of time. It took us a long time to get to this point and I know the leaders are still quite far away but we don't really have to worry about overtaking many more cars as more drivers we have a terrible race at turn 8, just a bit too much. wide and it compromises me enormously, but we have made our way in the field. You can see the leaders coming into the last corner, so we caught them by about five or six seconds in the last few laps.

You can see on the left side of the screen, at some point you'll see those two white helmets flashing and that's you two leaders, so I was doing my best to keep an eye on where you were, it says we were in P4, we're actually in Q5. I didn't update this, he'll send it on the inside into the chicane and I'm thinking, okay, let's go watch the film, he'll go to the outside, we'll send him up. the inside we have to catch the slide so we don't have a good run, as a result he gets a shift, but I have the inside heading into this right hander and I don't have to go right up to the curb and you know, I almost flipped my car.

I thought I had a bad race so I just checked a little to make sure I couldn't go up the inside of the carousel and with that we are in fourth position and at the moment. Now it took me a long time to get to 3, so on lap 12 we are now we were in fourth place, we are going to move on to lap 18, I think, because this is my fastest lap of the race, so let's run through a zone hot. turn here in melon ke completely flat turn a car completely to the right practically flat a small lift in turn two then turn three completely flat pull the C to the right jump on the brakes try to turn the C before you reach the chicane so you can get all the power without having to turn any further into turn five.

You want to get the first Apex. You can see the car is shaking too much, so actually that costs us probably about 2 or 3. 10 going down the hill towards this rander, it's flat here, you can lift up a little bit because again you see the car shaking, so yeah It would have lifted a little bit, we probably could have carried more speed into the corner, it's one of those rare ones. things if you get off the car don't do it and jump, you carry more speed through turn 7, it's all about being smooth, flap all the way through this King and then slam on the brakes from the start, the power carries Speed ​​through the turn onto the back straight and then do the old butt Drag your butt forward, kick your butt forward or move your butt forward get nice and crouched take a little break before entering this turn n Cuba completely flat until turn nine, brake again, get to the tire bar Well and from the beginning, we can see where the lead is and now, one touch on The Brak, uses up all the concrete, you can take a wider line over there if you want and then, of course, let the car out.

Our next lap was Not particularly fast, but on lap 23 we finally reached third position, one of the white helmets and we can see on the left our two race leaders and I knew well, we have about 13 minutes left in this race , There's time. It's going to be really difficult, but there is time to catch up with the leaders. I need to gain more than half a second a lap on them, essentially, but first of all we have to go over 30. He takes a very wide line, so "We'll get a little more speed on the exit, but Lo loses a lot of time on the entry." into the corner again.

We're just catching that slide, not as smooth as the guy in front, but we take power earlier, so we're a little bit faster than the guy in front, but we're still fast, we make it. a really nice run coming out of turn eight and we do the old rear crawling forward, plus being a little bit lighter means we can get ahead of him before the yellow flag, so we're ahead of him before the yellow flag. , which means we can complete the overtake and there is a yellow flag, which means the leaders are far away, you can see the white helmets on the road.

I'm going up the inside to the last corner and suddenly I'm thinking: "You know what I can win in this race." Before I thought this was going to be very, very difficult because they were fine. I thought they were almost 10 seconds up. the road because of these yellow flags, we've really gotten close to them with less than 10 minutes left and I knew well, I've got them, I've got them. I can 100% win this race, that was a moment when those yellow flags came up. That lap and the leaders trapped behind them and allowing me to gain about five or maybe more than 5 seconds is a big factor, we're going to go up the inside, we're going to do three chest, we don't.

Be careful we're going to do another four cars or three cars in a corner I'll take that one and there's no one between us and the leaders so here we go and the other thing is that I don't think they know I'm catching them, so I'm catching them chasing and they don't realize that they are being chased. This guy makes a bad race coming out of turn eight. I have the slip. I know he's lighter than me, so I'm. thinking, come on, come on, you can see how much we were catching and now we're catching a lot less because that weight is coming into play, we can squeeze the nose on the inside, we'll take the lead, you just have to be careful. he doesn't try to send us to turn 10 10 he doesn't and with that we climb to second position not bad and a 15 Z despite overtaking four cars on that lap now we only have to hunt down the leader and I'm thinking well, how are we going to do this, where are we going to beat him, he gets trapped behind the back marker, he doesn't know I'm going to go, he's going to go to the outside, let's send him to the inside, he moves to the exit of the corner, we make the move work, the other guy runs at him, but we can cover him going into this right turn and now I'm thinking yes.

We've done it, we're in the lead, but now it's the most stressful part of this race because remember when I said I'm heavier than them, which means they're going to gain an advantage on me in the Straits. Coming out of the corners and they have slipstream, I really need to put my head down and pull away, but the other thing is that there are yellow flags that I need to raise for the yellow flags and they can use those yellow flags to make sure they catch up again. for me, so it's very important for me to make sure that each of the big eight has a great corner exit like that one in turn eight.

I can't let them get close to me, and when we get to the porch we'll take a short break. The way they put up the Dig Yousef P1 flag um, thank you very much for that, I think it was JP who put it up, but yeah, we're in Primera and at this point, just with our heads down, they were able to somehow stay with me and they stayed with me, it was very stressful knowing that I had caught up with them so quickly, overtaking them well, it wasn't that fast, but knowing that I caught up with them, I overtook them, but then they held their ground. me and I was thinking oh God oh God they are going to catch me like on the last lap of the race or something like that there is going to be a yellow flag I get stuck behind a rear marker and they take advantage of it to go to lap 28 there was a big group of rear markers and this is where I thought, "Well, this is where I can take a big lead on them and use my experience to pull away, so I'll pass them both into turn eight and try to use that to pass, but the other guy also passes them both and I don't think, hell, I wish you couldn't sit behind them for a moment so I could walk away, but luckily there are still a couple more markers to go, so I know he's still behind them. of me and this guy has a turn, but I know he's stuck in the barrier, so he can't go back, so I can get really close to him.

I'm thinking which one. How is this guy going to go on the inside? right now with those two behind me. I can't afford to wait to pass CU on the back bar. I don't think he can catch them at the start because if I try to make a change. They might send him in and even if they get a worse exit, they're lighter than me, so because they lie to me, even with the working exit, I might not be able to get past this guy again right now. . I'm thinking what he's going to do. We opted to go outside.

We go back and forth trying to get past everyone as fast as I can. I don't know what this guy is doing, he's going to open up, but me. I'm committed, I'm right, we have to go around the outside and I can see Mr. White Helmet, he's still there. I think it's Mr. Tom Ventus, who subscribed to the YouTube channel. Thanks Tom, um, and now we are. approaching two more back markers and again I'm thinking well, how am I going to pass it? decent race, pushes NOS on the inside, he's seen me, he's turned his head, he's seen me and there's a yellow flag so I can slow down, make a nice slow run into the corner, get out fast while I know Tom and uh I think it's Jonas, he's stuck behind the back markers, now three a chest coming into this left turn and everyone's stuck behind them and now I know, it's okay, we're over it, we're free. , they didn't tag us going into The Hairpin, now I can put my head down, now they won't have a slipstream on me and we can go and win this race with a few. laps remaining and that's exactly how it played out going into the last lap of the race we caught up to another set of back markers and normally I think maybe they'll pass me again but at this point we had a lead of about 5 seconds so let's go try our best, this guy really thought he could beat me, he goes inside, I go to the outside of the back marker, I'm just going to hang up, go around the outside a little bit of contact it's really my fault and then this guy turns and he had a big brown pants moment but we dive inward.

I figured I was going to roll backwards, but if he had caught me, it could have been. They took the lead from us on the last lap of the race in the penultimate corner, which wouldn't have been very good, but with that we took the win and yes, an exciting race. Also I just need to say that you know. I've said before that all good racing drivers need to get their excuses out of the way. Good driving is not based on how fast you are, but on how good your excuses are, so number one never drove a sodi before number two,

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from pit lane number three.

He was fasting, so I was starving and I can't think of a number four. Hey, we give a nice little fist bump to finish the race. Mr. Weird Sunglasses was a little unhappy about something, I don't know what. um he should get better okay so yeah I think he said I passed him on a straight or something twice, twice I passed him and then I passed him and then he blamed me for blocking. I'm like a brother. Like he's passing them, I'm not blocking them, uh, but anyway, maybe I did, maybe I didn't. I mean, you guys have seen the race.

I don't think he's ever done that to anyone. I did something bold. It dives on the inside but I don't think it was on a straight and then I ran into someone so hello there you go but thank you all so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this race. I'll try to make another one. one, if you liked this, let me know if you want me to do another sodi race or maybe even a dmax race, but we'll have some B coming up soon as well as some Club 100 in about a month, so I thought it was He been AG since I posted cart content um so here we go yeah make sure you like it.

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