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Antony Vickery

Data Analyst, kart dad, and the person behind Race Ninja. Building accessible motorsport analysis tools for grassroots racers.

Race Ninja Windows uploader card on the downloads page showing hardware-accelerated GoPro and DJI uploads
Product Updates

A faster Windows uploader, and a home for every Race Ninja app

You finish a session, pull the kart in, and the change you just made is still fresh in your head. That's exactly when you want to know whether it worked. Not three hours later on the drive home. The rebuilt Windows uploader is built for that moment. What the uploader does now Dra...

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
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Product Updates

Chasing tenths on the platform too

We chase tenths on track, so we chase them on the platform too. Long overlay renders are now four times faster, and uploads process about 15% quicker.

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Antony Vickery
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Comparisons GoPro

RaceChrono vs Harry's LapTimer vs Race Ninja: Which Karting App is Right for You?

Three popular karting apps, three very different approaches. An honest side-by-side comparison of RaceChrono, Harry's LapTimer and Race Ninja for kart racers.

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Antony Vickery
· · 5 min
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Product Updates

Your fastest lap could be on our homepage

This week a Junior Rotax lap at Llandow Kart Circuit came up on the Race Ninja homepage. Then a session from Daytona Sandown Park took over for a few visits. Then somebody at Kartomania International Circuit in India. We've started using real drivers as our heroes. Literally on...

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
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Tips & Guides Data Analysis

How to Improve Your Lap Times with Data Analysis

Feel is unreliable. Data isn't. Here's how to use sector analysis, racing line comparison and AI coaching to find the tenths you're leaving on track.

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Antony Vickery
· · 5 min
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GoPro Product Updates

Upload GoPro Videos via Cloud Share Link

Paste a GoPro Cloud share link and Race Ninja downloads the original video with full GPS telemetry directly from GoPro's servers. No phone download, no re-upload, no lost metadata.

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Antony Vickery
· · 3 min
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Product Updates GoPro

Fourteen Countries, Five Continents, Zero Manual Setup

Race Ninja now covers karting circuits in 14 countries across five continents. Every single track was auto-detected from racer uploads, not added manually. Here's how that happened.

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Antony Vickery
· · 4 min
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AI Coaching Tips & Guides

AI Karting Coach: How AI is Changing Grassroots Motorsport

AI coaching used to be an F1 luxury. Now it analyses your GoPro footage corner by corner and tells you where the time is. Here's what that actually looks like.

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Antony Vickery
· · 5 min
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Tips & Guides GoPro

Your GoPro Settings Are Probably Costing You Data

Most racers leave their GoPro on default settings and wonder why their GPS data looks wrong. Here's exactly what to change and the one habit that makes the biggest difference to your analysis.

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Antony Vickery
· · 5 min
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Product Updates

Race Ninja and Google Cloud for Startups

We have been part of the Google Cloud for Startups program for six months. Here is what that means for the platform and everyone using it.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Track map overlay showing a racing line with customised colours on a karting circuit
Product Updates

Your track map just got a proper upgrade

Full control over your track map overlay. Line thickness, dot size, start line, trace borders and real GPS trace preview from your fastest lap.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Lap time consistency chart showing stacked speed zone bars behind each lap with colour-coded legend
Product Updates Karting Telemetry

See where your speed drops at a glance

The lap time consistency chart on your Overview tab now shows colour-coded speed zone bars behind each lap, so you can spot patterns in your speed distribution without clicking into individual laps.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min