bulls23 wrote:Since your main point is the bar. is 't the Racer's view more what you are looking for? The biggest info there is the red race car in comparison to the reference lap, either being slower or faster.
Hey bulls,
In the racer view with the car, you only have delta between you and reference lap, only the slider, but no instantaneous speed difference. Check out the video to see how the slider I am thinking of works. You get both references by changing the color of the slider bar to represent the speed difference, and the location of the slider bar to represent your difference in time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAZcwfXe ... page#t=308 The slider description starts at 5:08
This is useful for me to have both measurements, because for example, you enter a corner faster than your last lap, your slider goes to the right, showing you are ahead of your fast lap, and green because you entered faster but because of your faster entry, maybe your exit speed is slower. So as you are exiting the corner , the bar is still to the right, showing that you are still ahead of your fast time, but the color changes over to red, showing you are slower, then as you continue down the straight, the red slider transitions from the right side(- faster time) to the left side of the slider, showing you are slower than your fast lap at the end of the straight due to your poor corner entry. The slider and the instant color work together to give you the whole picture. Next lap you know to slow your entry to get a better run on the exit and a better time on the straight for a faster lap.
They especially are helpful together when you do that same entry but going into the corner your time is either 1 or 2 seconds faster or slower than your fast lap, so instead of starting in the middle with the slider, the slider is starting on the right or left, but you still have the change in slider position plus the color of your speed difference to let you know how you are doing on that corner.
Also with the racers view, still too small for me to see easily out of the corner of my eye, at speed, in traffic. A large slider would be much easier to see then looking at the cars. (for me) If I had to choose between the instantaneous speed difference or the racer view with the slider I would choose the portrait view with the instantaneous speed difference, and look at the lap delta to get what I would get out of the slider, but it is too small currently to be easy to see.
I appreciate your recommendation though. I haven't used racers view a lot so I will give it another look to make sure I am not missing anything.
-Chris