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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
· · 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
Race Ninja Head to Head feature showing two kart laps side by side with synchronised video and racing line map
Head to Head Telemetry Karting

Head to Head. Two Laps. Side by Side. Every Difference Exposed

Pick any two laps from your session. Head to Head plays them side by side with synchronised video and telemetry. You see exactly where one lap gained over the other. Where you braked earlier. Where you carried more speed. Where that tenth was hiding.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Reviewing Race Ninja telemetry data on a tablet trackside between sessions
Race Day Telemetry Karting

Between Sessions. Uploaded, Analysed, Reviewed, and Posted to Socials

The session ends, the footage gets uploaded, and by the time the kart is checked over the analysis is ready. Every lap cut, telemetry organised, Perfect Lap stitched together. Reviewed, debriefed, and posted to socials. All before the next session started.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Father and son reviewing karting telemetry data on a phone trackside at RKC Racing
Karting Telemetry Perfect Lap

One Season of Data-Driven Karting. The Numbers.

32 seconds behind last in his first race. By end of season, collecting trophies. Here's what tracking every session with GoPro telemetry looked like.

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Antony Vickery
· · 5 min
Kart racer number 24 leading the pack with a GoPro mounted on the fairing
Telemetry GoPro Track Days

You Don't Need Expensive Hardware for Track Day Data

A Garmin Catalyst costs £800-900. An AiM Solo 2 DL, £500+. But the GoPro on your kart is already recording telemetry every session. GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope. You're just not using it.

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Antony Vickery
· · 4 min