been competing in local multigp races for about 8 months now, gone from being consistently last to somewhere in the middle of the pack which felt great but the last 2 months my times havent moved at all. like almost exactly the same laptimes across different events and im not sure if its a me problem or a tune problem or what.

running a 5 inch stretched X, f7 stack, xing2 2207 motors, basically a pretty standard race build. rates are where theyre comfortable for me. the issue is i cant tell if im flying the same bad lines every lap and just getting consistent at them, or if my quad actually needs work, or if i just need more air time. dvr footage looks fine to me but im not a great judge of my own flying obviously.

anyone been through this plateau thing and figured out what actually broke them out of it? considering hiring a coach for a session but not sure if thats overkill at my level

the coach thing is not overkill at all, i wish i'd done it earlier. i spent like 6 months being medium at racing and then a guy at our club just watched my dvr for 20 minutes and pointed out i was consistently braking too early into one specific type of corner - like a habit i had no idea i'd built. fixed that one thing and dropped almost a second per lap. sometimes you just cant see your own patterns no matter how many times you rewatch.

also worth asking if anyone at your local events will swap quads with you for a few laps. flying someone elses tune on your track can be weirdly revealing about what your own setup is doing

im kind of in the same boat so following this thread. one thing someone told me was to deliberately fly slower for a few sessions and focus only on line choice, like dont even try to be fast just try to hit the perfect apex every single gate. supposedly it rewires how you approach gates and then when you bring the throttle back up the speed comes naturally. havent fully committed to trying it yet because slowing down on purpose feels wrong lol but apparently its a real technique