Minimum lap time
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:02 pm
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
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