Built by a Data Scientist. Engineered to find tenths.
Race Ninja turns GoPro and DJI footage into the kind of data that used to require a race engineer. Lap times, racing lines, sector splits, AI coaching. Built for club racers and karting families who already record everything but never had a way to use it.
The Pit Lane Inspiration
December 2024. Cold pit lane. My son was racing Junior Rotax, and like every parent, I had a GoPro mounted to his kart. Hours of footage. Gigabytes of data. And absolutely no idea what to do with it.
Most GoPro footage from race days gets watched once and forgotten. But the camera is recording GPS, accelerometer, and speed data the entire time. Race Ninja reads that data and turns it into something useful.
Since then, Race Ninja has added support for DJI cameras: the Action 4, 5, and 6 with GPS Remote, and the Osmo 360 with full 360° video playback. Same telemetry extraction, different camera.
Data meets race craft.
20 years in computer science, data and technology. Ran the data team for the business arm of Currys Limited, and now shapes data strategy for a rapidly growing international logistics company. Built Race Ninja from the pit lane after watching his son Roman race Junior Rotax and realising nobody was using the data their cameras already record.
Race Ninja is his give-back to karting for everything the sport has already given his family. None of it would have started without Motion Control Products, who back Roman's racing and make the lab worth building. The platform only ever compares you to yourself. It never asks you to do something it hasn't already seen you do. Your best sectors. Your racing lines. Your data. Get faster, get more consistent, and eventually you rise to that position on your own.
Between race weekends, the lab keeps running. Computer vision. Segmentation. Perception and depth models trained from the ground up. Multi-step AI pipelines. Custom evaluation harnesses. The bench includes Gemini, Claude, Vertex AI, Ollama, Gemma 4, Qwen Vision, OpenCV, and a growing set of custom-trained vision models. Most of what gets tried fails. Some of it ships. The bits that ship come back to make Race Ninja sharper.
"The journey matters as much as the destination. It will be hard and it will mean doing things that feel uncomfortable. But we've proven we can make drivers faster with just their own footage. And when you get there, when you stand on that podium for the first time, there's nothing like it."
Professional racing driver. 30 years behind the wheel, from Comer Cadets at Forest Edge in 1995 to the Nurburgring 24 Hours and the British Touring Car Championship with Power Maxed Racing. Two-time VLN champion, Toyota MR2 Challenge winner, Red Bull Kart Fight champion, and the man who beat Sebastian Vettel at the Race of Champions.
Founded the British Rental Kart Championship in 2011 to make competitive racing accessible. Built a YouTube channel from zero to over 30,000 subscribers by doing something most drivers at his level don't: sharing exactly what he's thinking on track, corner by corner, in real time. Where he brakes, how he reads the grip, when he commits. That willingness to open up the thought process behind fast driving is what makes him the right person to shape a platform built around helping drivers improve.
Now brings that same approach to Race Ninja, making sure every feature, every metric, and every coaching insight actually makes sense to a driver sitting in the seat.
Anwar's been in the karting paddock for the best part of 30 years. He started at 11 in rentals, no budget and no connections, just seat time and the will to get quicker. Since then he's raced pretty much everywhere: Dubai, Spain, Brazil, the States, Portugal, Romania. Rotax, TKM and Biland along the way too. But the rental scene is where he made his name, and Club100 is where he really left a mark. Close to 200 podiums, five SP60 titles and a hat-trick of Sprint championships.
Then 2025 happened. Valencia. The Tillotson T4 Senior 168 Worlds, and he came home a world champion. Earned the hard way, against grids with far bigger budgets than his.
Here's the thing about Anwar. He's never been precious about what he knows. Ask him where he's finding time and he'll walk you through it, corner by corner, because he reckons everyone gets quicker when the knowledge gets shared. Himself included. And he's adamant karting shouldn't come down to who's got the deepest pockets. Which is exactly why he fits here. Race Ninja gives every driver the same data and the same shot, whatever they're spending.
The Processing Engine
Four analysis systems run at the same time. By the time the video is transcoded, the coaching report is already written.
GoPro or DJI + GPS telemetry
Track detection, racing line analysis, visual landmarks
Engine RPM, braking, gear shifts, tyre squeal
Telemetry patterns, sector times, performance trends
GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope, orientation
Combines all analysis streams into corner-by-corner coaching
Session-aware analysis retains context across laps
Retrieval-augmented generation for track-specific coaching
GoPro or DJI + GPS telemetry
Track detection, racing lines
Engine RPM, braking
Patterns, sector times
GPS, accel, gyroscope
Corner-by-corner AI coaching
Your Dashboard, Our Engine
If you run an Alfano, AiM, or other kart dashboard, upload the session file alongside your video. Race Ninja time-syncs the two using speed-profile matching and GPS position scoring, even when the devices use different lap triggers and sample rates.
The result is RPM, EGT, and hardware speed overlaid on your video, matched lap by lap.
Parallel Processing Power
Telemetry extraction, sector detection, video transcoding, and AI coaching all run at once. A full session processes in about 10 minutes.
Backed by Google Cloud
We've been part of the Google Cloud for Startups program since late 2025. That's not just a logo on the page. It means Google looked at what we're building and decided it was worth backing.
That means your session gets processed fast, even on a Sunday night when half the country is uploading at the same time. Videos play back instantly on your phone at the track or on your laptop at home. And the platform is ready to scale to millions of users without skipping a beat.
This isn't going anywhere. It's built on infrastructure that grows with the community, backed by a company that doesn't do things by halves.
A Living Platform
Race Ninja is built by a driver, for drivers. Features come from real conversations at the track and direct feedback from users. If something is missing, you can tell us and it goes on the list.
Compare your times against other drivers at the same track. See where tenths are being lost.
Feature requests go straight to the roadmap. No ticket queue, no waiting months.
New features and fixes ship every week based on what users are actually asking for.