Tomáš Plojhar
Software and motorsport, 20+ years. Built RaceM8 because he needed it himself.
20+ years racing everything — karts, cars, rally. Drivers, coaches, managers, engineers. RaceM8 is the software we wished we had when we started.
Started with gokarts in the nineties and motorsport hasn't let us go since. Cars, rally, karts again, some sim racing too. We've sat in every seat — behind the wheel, beside it, in the pit, in front of the data screen. When we had our own kids in karts, one thing became obvious: the telemetry standards that move F1 teams forward by tenths basically don't exist in karting. Notebooks in the pit, Alfano printouts. So we built them ourselves.
Top motorsport teams build their analysis on software that costs tens of millions of dollars. Karting is their entry gate, but the data stays on paper in the pit. Our goal is to put high-end telemetry — the kind only pro pole sitters used to see — in the hands of anyone who takes karting seriously. Whether that's an 8-year-old girl learning to brake, a 14-year-old kid aiming for KZ2, or a fifty-year-old hobby driver who just wants to understand where the tenths are slipping away.
First half of the mission: bring modern data tools to karting. What we have or are aiming at:
After every stint, a draft from telemetry, signed off by your coach. Not a bot — coach + data.
We generate virtual laps from parameters so you can compare your real lap to the ideal one. Solver works on kart physics, not car physics.
Kart-specific. No F1 curves bent to fit karting. The solver knows when the kart grips and when it floats.
Our own hardware, tuned for karts. Telemetry plus onboard video in one compact unit.
All of this brings you closer to the data quality the Top 10 F1 has. Just cheaper, and for karting.
Second half: talents in karting are often invisible. Sponsors have a hard time finding them, managers can't coordinate everything by hand, parents have no idea what's reasonable. We want to:
RaceM8 isn't just a telemetry app. It's an ecosystem for anyone who takes karting seriously.
Software and motorsport, 20+ years. Built RaceM8 because he needed it himself.
Operations, team, processes. Makes everything fit together.
Words that work, stories worth sharing. A parent's view of karting without the fluff.
Racing KZ2, coaching juniors. He stress-tests what's in RaceM8 with practice and instinct.
Junior racer (track-record holder at SpeedBay PortCity, Sri Lanka). Tries every new feature first — if it works for Alex, it works for a kid.
We work with several experienced voices from the Czech karting and motorsport scene. We'll name them once arrangements are confirmed.
Want to try it? The free tier shows you what it does. You decide from there.