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Race Ninja engine performance summary showing an apex-to-peak pull from camera GPS with Alfano RPM on the same lap
Product Updates Karting Telemetry

The engine wasn't giving him the kick

Roman was driving well. The engine wasn't. We borrowed one and broke into the 39s. Engine insights now sit on the same lap as the camera so you can see a drop-off instead of guessing.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Onboard kart video at Daytona Milton Keynes with a Race Ninja watermark and HUD overlay gauges: speed donuts, LED ladders, G-force bars and speed bars
Karting Telemetry GoPro

Pick a HUD look. Then burn it onto the lap

The Video Editor now has extra looks for the HUD you burn onto a lap. Donut gauges, LED ladders and speed overlays, with font, colour, background and size you set yourself from the GPS your camera already logged.

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Antony Vickery
· · 3 min
Race Ninja desktop uploader showing two large DJI recording files grouped as Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 and linked together automatically before upload
DJI GoPro Karting

Your whole DJI session now counts, every chapter

DJI splits long recordings into chapters, and until now only the first one kept its telemetry. Now the whole session uploads, chapters linked automatically and every lap timed.

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Antony Vickery
· · 3 min
Race Ninja engine table showing max, average and minimum RPM plus temperatures for each lap of a kart session, with the fastest lap highlighted
Karting Telemetry GoPro

Your Alfano knows your RPM. Your GoPro video can too

Upload your Alfano session next to your GoPro footage and Race Ninja puts engine RPM and temperatures against every lap you drove. No cables, no desktop software, nothing to line up by hand.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
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
· · 2 min
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
A racing line drawn from GoPro GPS data on a kart track map with two laps compared
Tips & Guides Telemetry Karting

How to read a racing line from your GoPro footage

Everyone talks about the racing line. Far fewer people actually look at their own. The footage on your GoPro already holds it, you just need to draw it out. Because GPS records where you were several times a second, your exact path around the track is sitting in the video file. N...

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
A GoPro on a kart alongside a MyChron data logger, comparing lap timing options
Karting Telemetry Tips & Guides

GoPro vs a data logger (AiM/MyChron) for karting: do you still need the hardware?

A MyChron on the steering wheel is almost a rite of passage in karting. But cameras got GPS, software got smart, and a fair question now is whether you still need to buy the logger at all. The honest answer: it depends what you're doing. Here's a straight comparison. What a data...

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Brad Philpot in an OTK KZ shifter kart breaking the Sutton Circuit lap record with Race Ninja data
Karting Grassroots Racing Telemetry

Brad Philpot breaks the 17-year Sutton Circuit lap record (and we proved his real time)

We don't often get to say this, so we'll enjoy it. One of our own has just rewritten the record books. Brad Philpot, racing driver and a Racing Director here at Race Ninja, has broken the lap record at Sutton Circuit in Leicester. A record that had stood for seventeen years. And...

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Antony Vickery
· · 3 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
Kart racer on track with GoPro camera mounted
Privacy & Security GoPro Karting

Can You Trust a Karting Analytics Platform with Your GoPro Data?

You're uploading GoPro footage with GPS data in it. It knows where you were, when, and how fast. So who's looking at it? Short answer. Nobody but you.

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Antony Vickery
· · 4 min
Race Ninja pricing page showing Subscribe and Pay As You Go options
Pricing Karting Grassroots Racing

F1-Grade Analytics for Grassroots Motorsport. Here's How We Price It.

The goal from day one has been simple. F1-grade analytics for grassroots motorsport. Built for club racers, karting families, and track day drivers. From a single GoPro. Here's how pricing works and why.

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Antony Vickery
· · 4 min