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Antony Vickery

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

The Perfect Lap tab on a Race Ninja analysis showing the Unlock with Pro PAYG button for £1.99
Product Updates

Some sessions deserve Pro. Now you can unlock just those

Pick the session that matters and turn on the full Pro toolkit for it, no monthly plan. Unlock a free analysis for £1.99, or pay the 40p difference on one you already funded with Clubman.

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Antony Vickery
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Race Ninja community artwork with the Discord logo on a dark racing background
Product Updates

Got a question or a lap to show off? Find us on Discord

We've opened a Discord server for Race Ninja. It's where you share your sessions and get help from drivers who actually race.

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Antony Vickery
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Race Ninja dashboard shown in a racer's own custom brand colour
Product Updates

Your Race Ninja, your way

Race Ninja is your platform, so now it can look like yours. Pick a brand colour in your profile and the whole site wears it, from your dashboard to your lap charts.

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Antony Vickery
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A Race Ninja lap-by-lap graph showing kart engine pull and grip baseline fading across a session
Product Updates Telemetry

Your kart fades near the end of a session. Now you can see exactly why

Your kart is rarely as fast on lap 12 as it was on lap 3. Race Ninja's new lap-by-lap performance graph shows whether it's the engine, the tyres or the track losing grip, so you can stop guessing and start tuning.

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Antony Vickery
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A kart's GPS trace on a satellite map of the circuit with the start finish line drawn across the start straight
Product Updates

Your track's not on the list? Add it yourself, free

Race at a track we don't have yet? Add it yourself from your GoPro or DJI footage, no logger required, and your first analysis is free.

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Antony Vickery
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Race Ninja karting analysis with lap times and sector splits from GoPro footage, free on the Rookie plan
Karting GoPro Pricing

Free kart analysis, no data logger and no catch

Kart telemetry doesn't have to start with a few-hundred-quid receipt. Get a free analysis every month, more when you add tracks or share a session, all from your GoPro or DJI footage.

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Antony Vickery
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A blue Daytona DMAX kart number 119 leads a pack out of a corner on an outdoor circuit, the driver wearing a helmet-mounted GoPro
Product Updates Leaderboards

Daytona DMAX, Sodi and N35 are on the Race Ninja leaderboards

Daytona DMAX, Sodi and N35 just became race classes on Race Ninja. If you race Daytona's karts, your fastest verified lap can now go on the leaderboard for your track and class.

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Antony Vickery
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Race Ninja Corner Analysis tab showing a corner-by-lap grid of speeds and times above a track map with each lap's racing line through a corner
Product Updates

Find the lap time hiding in your corners

Every corner on every lap now shows your entry speed, exit speed, average speed and the time you spent in it. So you can see where you're slow, try a change and measure whether it actually worked.

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Antony Vickery
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Race Ninja sector analysis showing where a driver is losing lap time around a kart track
Tips & Guides Karting Telemetry

Where am I losing time? How to find the corners that cost you

Every guide says brake later and hit the apex. None of them tell you which corner is actually costing you. Your own footage does. Here's how to read it and find your next few tenths.

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Antony Vickery
· · 4 min
Race Ninja track page showing the Track Champions section with a class record holder, lap time and kart
Product Updates

Every track has a champion now. Think it should be you?

Track Champions are live: the fastest verified lap in every class, on every track page, straight from onboard footage. Your footage stays private. Your time goes public.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
GoPro Hero 11 GPS data turned into lap times and a racing line for karting
GoPro Tips & Guides Telemetry

GoPro Hero 11 GPS for racing: the value pick for telemetry

If you want one camera for racing telemetry without spending a lot, the GoPro Hero 11 Black is hard to beat. It has GPS, the data it records is genuinely good, and now that it's a couple of models old you can find it cheap. What GPS the Hero 11 has The Hero 11 introduced a newer...

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Antony Vickery
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GoPro Hero 12 shown without GPS telemetry, with the Hero 11 and 13 as alternatives
GoPro Tips & Guides Telemetry

Does the GoPro Hero 12 have GPS? (and what to do about it)

Straight answer: no. The GoPro Hero 12 Black has no GPS. And unlike a setting you forgot to switch on, there's nothing you can do about it. GoPro took the hardware out. This catches a lot of racers off guard. You upgrade from a Hero 11 expecting more of everything, and your telem...

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Antony Vickery
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