Minimum lap time

Request and discussion on new / to change features
Post Reply
smileyke
10 or more Posts ★
10 or more Posts ★
Posts: 10
Joined: Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:00 am
Contact:

Minimum lap time

Post by smileyke »

I was using HLT on Road America with ~3min laptimes, but for some reason, probably when we came in to the pit and stopped by the start finish for a minute, the laptimer recorded a laptime of 20 seconds.
I got in the car after this and the predictive lap stuff was useless because it was going off of a 20 second lap time. I had to manually set it to predict off of the last lap i did, which was pretty arbitray and not very useful for the rest of the time on the track.
For each track you should be able to set a minimum time either by absolute time, or have a feature that if a lap is under something 50% of the average of your laps you have done there it will not be used in the predictive timer, if you are using 'best lap' as a marker. It can still show up in the lap list afterwards, but should not be used as a benchmark.

You could use track records for where to set markers for minimum lap times, eg Road America had a LMP1 pole time of 1:46.935, so it would be safe to assume that nobody will will run a lap faster than 75% of that, which would give you ~1:20 for a safe Minimum Lap to count for the predictive lap timer best lap.
Obviously tracks with multiple configurations would be a little harder to find the minimum lap for, but I would think it would be fair to take the top 10% of laps for that configuration and take 50% of that for a good starting point.

Chris
Chris
Driver
Four Car Garage Motorsports E36 Chumpcar World Series
http://www.4cgm.com
User avatar
Harry
Site Admin
Site Admin
Posts: 10635
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 10:32 am
Location: Siegum, Germany
Contact:

Re: Minimum lap time

Post by Harry »

In LapTimer's Hall of Fame, there are filters for both matching times and overall distances are included (in case they are defined for the track). That would be a similar approach here. Over time, distance proved to be the better measure to use. I will add this to my list, thanks!

- Harry
Image Image Image Image
smileyke
10 or more Posts ★
10 or more Posts ★
Posts: 10
Joined: Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:00 am
Contact:

Re: Minimum lap time

Post by smileyke »

thanks Harry! Keep up the good work!
Chris
Driver
Four Car Garage Motorsports E36 Chumpcar World Series
http://www.4cgm.com
Post Reply