Sector Times

[krell]

Having a feature that broke the defined tracks into sectors would be great to allow greater insight into what portions of the track were fast and / or slow. Allowing the user to define those sectors would be ideal, but pre-configured ones would be great too.

A significantly more expensive track tool available has a feature called "predictive lapping" that takes the best times from all the sectors on track and sums them to tell you how fast your lap times could be. This would be helpful too.

[Harry]

Should be all available already. Sectors are created using 'split triggers' - defined in the same way as stop or go triggers. Once a lap is split up into sectors, you can both analyze sector times and get the so called virtually best:



In the picture above, the red is the all time best lap, and the blue is the virtually best by collecting the best sector times.

- Harry

[switcher]

Sorry, I'm confused, how can the sum of best sectors be slower than the fastest lap?

[Harry]

Smaller time = faster driven. The sum of best sectors should always be equal or better (smaller time / faster driven) than the best overall lap driven.

-Harry

[switcher]

Agreed. I have laps at a track without sectors defined. The calculated lap is slower than my fastest.

By the way, is there a way to add sectors and get the timings after the laps have been run?

[Harry]

Hi,

The only possible way you can get this effect (virtual best slower than best) is you have at least one lap with 2 more sectors. Please check this article on what happens if the sector number differs by lap and how to add splits 'after the fact'. It is not an easy one / automated...

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=514

- Harry

[hms]

Should be all available already. Sectors are created using 'split triggers' - defined in the same way as stop or go triggers. Once a lap is split up into sectors, you can both analyze sector times and get the so called virtually best:



In the picture above, the red is the all time best lap, and the blue is the virtually best by collecting the best sector times.

- Harry

Harry,
I'm confused on this also.
Leftmost column, in bright blue, is not the lap you are referring to as the virtual best, the virtual best is the blue/grey column, (Rightmost column.)
The red lap is the fastest lap, which also appears to be the best virtual lap as it had the fastest sectors, in all cases, so the red column is the same as the rightmost column?
Columns are in lap order, lap 1 being to the left, later laps to the right of that?
h

[Harry]

Yes, correct. LapTimer v15 comes with a little legend you get when tapping into the round 'i' button.
The intensive blue means sectors / laps that were the best at the time driven. Red means best sector / lap ever. So if you see a lot of blue first, then red, and then gray laps (like in this sample), you know you need another coach

Here is a better sample - taken from the sticky thread on recreation of split times:



Here you have a sample the first sector has been driven faster in the last lap driven (red sector, but a pretty slow overall lap). Look at the transparent blue bar () virtual best on the right - it is slightly better than bar #5 (the very red one).

- Harry