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Telemetry Guide

RAGE MECHANICS · How to read data and go faster
Setup
Map & HUD
Laps
Sectors
Corners
Analysis
Going Faster
Loading a session

Drop a CSV log file from your race telemetry logger onto the landing screen, or click to browse. The file is parsed entirely in your browser. You can load multiple sessions by pressing Load file in the top bar once a file is already open. Each session appears as a colour-coded pill in the nav bar.

Drawing the Start/Finish line Required first step

Lap detection requires you to draw the S/F line once across the track. It saves permanently for that venue.

  1. 1Click the S/F button on the right edge of the map.
  2. 2Click a point on one side of the track at the start/finish location, ideally right on the GPS trace.
  3. 3Click a point on the opposite side. Laps are detected immediately.
How it works

The app finds every moment the GPS path crosses your line while the vehicle is above 20 km/h. A slow pit lane pass will not create a false lap. Timing is accurate to the GPS sample interval.

Sector lines Optional

Sectors split each lap into three timed segments. By default they are placed automatically at the two sharpest corners near the one third and two thirds points of the best lap. Use the S1 and S2 map buttons to override with your own placement using the same 2-click workflow. All lines save per track and restore on next load.

Placement tip

Always place sector splits on straights, not mid-corner. A split placed in a corner will shift time between sectors based on line variation rather than actual performance differences.

Reading the GPS trace colours

The track is coloured by speed by default. Press S on the map edge to colour by speed, or T to colour by throttle percentage. The scale runs blue (slow or off throttle) through green and yellow to red (fast or full throttle).

Speed vs throttle colour mode

Speed mode shows you where you are slow on track. Throttle mode shows you why: a blue section at high speed is coasting where you could be accelerating. A blue section at low speed is a legitimate braking zone. They tell different stories and both are useful.

Sector segments on the map

After sectors are set the active lap's trace is redrawn in three colours: cyan for S1, orange for S2, purple for S3. The sector label shows the time for that segment colour-coded by performance: purple is session best, green is personal best, yellow is slower than your own previous best.

HUD values
Speed km/h

Live speed during playback. Compare peak speed on the same straight lap to lap. A lower peak on a straight usually means a slower exit from the corner before it.

Throttle %

Should be either close to 0 or close to 100. Long periods in the middle (30 to 70%) mean hesitant progressive throttle. Clean fast laps have crisp on/off transitions with very little time in the middle range.

Delta vs ref

Green means ahead of the reference lap, red means behind. Measured at the same track distance position, not time, so corner entry and exit are directly comparable.

Ghost marker

The grey dot shows where the reference lap driver would be at the exact same track distance as you. When the orange dot leads the grey dot you are carrying more speed at that point of the track.

Reference lap and ghost

Set the reference lap using the vs dropdown at the bottom of the map, or by pressing on any lap in the Laps tab. The white dashed line overlaid on the map is the reference lap GPS trace, letting you see line differences through every corner.

Charts panel

The right half of the main view shows telemetry charts for the active lap. Toggle which channels appear using the buttons in the toolbar: Speed, Power and Throttle. An orange vertical cursor tracks the playback position across all charts. When a single lap is active, the reference lap is overlaid as a dashed line so you can see exactly where the traces diverge.

Playback

Play, pause and rewind with the controls in the bar at the bottom. Speed multipliers 10× control how fast playback runs. Green tick marks on the scrubber bar mark lap start positions. Click anywhere on the scrubber to jump to that moment.

Lap list

Every detected lap is listed with its time, sector colour badges, max speed and average speed. The green left border marks the best lap. The yellow delta next to each time shows exactly how much slower that lap was than the best. Click a row to open the detail panel and activate that lap on the map. Hover a row to reveal to jump to the main view or to set it as the reference lap.

Sector colour badges

The three sector chips per lap are the most information-dense part of the lap list. Read them across all laps chronologically:

  • PPurple: fastest time for that sector all session. Only one lap holds purple per sector at a time.
  • GGreen: your personal best at the time of this lap. Does not change retroactively when you later go faster.
  • YYellow: slower than your own previous best in this sector. You had already gone faster before this lap.
What to look for

If your best lap has a yellow sector, that sector is the gap between your best lap and your ideal lap. That is where your session time is. If all your S2 badges are yellow except one, S2 is where you are inconsistent. Focus practice there.

Lap detail panel

Selecting a lap shows max speed, average speed, peak power and individual sector times. Below that a Speed and Throttle chart gives a quick overview of the lap. The throttle trace shape is key: clean fast laps show sharp valleys at braking zones and flat tops at full throttle. A trace that sits at 30 to 60% continuously and never reaches 100% means you are not committing to full power on exits and straights.

Sector times table

Every non-outlap is listed with its S1, S2 and S3 times. Each cell also shows the delta to the session best for that sector in grey. Click any row to jump to that lap on the main view.

The Ideal Lap column

The vs Ideal column shows how far each lap's total time is from the theoretical best, which is the sum of the three individual sector bests even if they came from different laps. This tells you exactly how much time is available through better consistency alone, before any outright pace improvement is needed.

Example

If your best lap is 47.832s but your ideal lap is 47.201s, you have 0.631s available right now purely through consistency. That is your target before worrying about outright pace.

How to use sectors to find time

Sort laps by a single sector column to see which lap owned that part of the track. If your best overall lap is not the best in any individual sector, you have never strung your three best sectors together in one lap. The ideal lap gap tells you exactly what is available. Look at which sector you are most consistently slow in and open the Corners tab to drill into the specific turns that make up that sector.

Corner detection

Corners are detected automatically from the best lap's GPS trace using bearing-change analysis. Each local maximum in heading change above 15 degrees that is separated from neighbouring corners by sufficient distance is numbered T1, T2 and so on in lap order. Toggle their markers on the map with the C button. Colour codes from yellow (gentle) to red (sharp and slow). Click any marker or pill to open its analysis.

Reading the corner analysis chart

Selecting a corner shows three overlay charts spanning 80 metres before and after the apex across all laps: speed, throttle and power. All laps are plotted together so you can directly compare every attempt at that corner. The apex is at distance 0. The best lap is drawn with a heavier line.

Left of apex (before)

This is your braking zone and corner entry. Where each lap's speed trace starts dropping is your braking point. A trace that stays high longer means later braking. If minimum speed at the apex is the same or better, that later braking is working. If minimum speed drops, you carried too much speed in and compromised the exit.

Right of apex (after)

This is your exit and acceleration zone. The throttle trace should start climbing as soon as possible after the apex. A throttle trace that stays at zero for a long distance after the apex means you are hesitating on the exit and losing all the time you might have gained on the entry.

Minimum speed at apex

The per-lap minimum speed cards show the slowest point each lap took through that corner. Higher minimum speed means a better corner. On a technical circuit, minimum corner speed has a bigger effect on lap time than straight-line top speed because it directly sets your acceleration point and therefore your entry speed for the next corner.

The key principle

A 2 km/h higher minimum speed through a corner, held through the exit, adds straight-line time on the following section. You can recover a late braking point with bravery. Recovering a slow apex requires changing your entire line and technique through the corner.

Using trace spread to diagnose consistency

A tight cluster of speed lines means you are consistent at that corner and any time deficit is about absolute pace. A wide spread means inconsistency: you have done the corner well before but cannot repeat it. Inconsistent corners are easier to fix than corners where you are consistently slow, because the solution already exists in your data on the laps where the trace is better.

Lap Statistics table

A summary of every non-outlap. The key columns for pace analysis are lap time, distance, max speed, average speed, full throttle percentage (time above 95% throttle) and coasting time (throttle off while above 20 km/h). Click any row to jump to that lap on the map.

FT% Full throttle

Percentage of lap time spent above 95% throttle. Higher is generally better. Straight sections should be close to 100%. If FT% is low it means you are lifting or coasting where you should be at full power.

Coast

Seconds at throttle below 2% while above 20 km/h. This is time at speed with neither throttle nor braking. It is almost always wasted. Any coasting that is not an intentional line choice is time to recover.

Max speed

Peak speed this lap. Compare across laps on the same straights to see if you are reaching the same top speed. A lower peak on a straight usually traces back to a slower exit from the preceding corner.

Avg speed

Average speed across the whole lap. A useful single number for overall lap quality. Combined with lap time it shows whether a faster lap came from outright pace or from a more efficient line.

Speed Trace, Distance Aligned

Speed from multiple laps overlaid and aligned to track distance rather than time. This eliminates the offset between laps so braking points and corner apices sit at the same horizontal position regardless of when they occurred. Toggle which laps appear using the colour-coded chips above the chart.

The gaps between traces at specific distances are your time losses. A gap that opens at a braking point means you braked earlier. A gap that opens after the apex means you got to throttle later. The chart locates the problem; the Corners tab diagnoses it in detail.

How to use it

Add your best lap and a slower lap. Find the two or three points where the traces diverge most. Then open Corner Analysis for those specific corners to get the full 80-metre picture. Fix the biggest gap first.

Throttle Application, Distance Aligned

Same distance alignment but showing throttle percentage. The important thing to look for is the throttle pick-up point after each apex: the distance at which throttle rises from zero back toward 100%. An earlier pick-up on one lap means more acceleration time on the following straight. A trace that stays at zero for 30 to 50 metres after the apex then climbs slowly is a hesitant exit that is costing straight-line speed.

Sector Delta, Lap vs Lap

Select any two laps. The bars show the time difference in each sector. Green means the comparison lap was faster in that sector. Red means it was slower. This answers the question: a lap was 0.4s slower overall, which sector lost it?

Reading the pattern

If S1 is red but S2 and S3 are green, time is being lost in the opening part of the lap but recovered later. Often this means a slow first corner is being compensated for with a riskier braking point later. Fix S1 without relying on S2 and S3 heroics. If all three sectors are red by a similar margin, the issue is global pace rather than a specific corner.

Ideal Lap breakdown

Shows which lap each sector best was set on and what fraction of the ideal lap total each sector represents. The bar chart below ranks every lap by its gap to the ideal. A cluster of laps close to the ideal means consistent driving. A wide spread means you occasionally nail it but cannot repeat it.

The session analysis workflow
  1. 1Find the biggest loss. Open Analysis, Speed Trace. Add all laps. The point on track where the speed traces diverge most is your primary target.
  2. 2Diagnose the corner. Open Corners and select the corner at that distance. Check minimum speed at the apex. If it is lower on slower laps your entry is compromising exit speed. If it is the same, you are losing it on the following straight, which usually means a throttle pick-up problem.
  3. 3Check the throttle trace. In the corner analysis, look at where throttle returns after the apex. If it is 20 metres later on the slow lap versus the fast lap, you have a 20-metre head start on the straight available. You have already done it on the fast lap, so you know it is possible.
  4. 4Check your consistency. In the Sectors table, compare your best sector time to your average. If your best S2 is 14.2s but your average is 14.9s, you have 0.7s of consistency gain in S2 alone. Repeating what you already did on the good lap is lower-hanging fruit than finding new pace.
  5. 5Use the delta HUD during playback. Play back your best lap and a slower one side by side by switching laps. Watch the delta go green or red through each section. The moment it turns red is the moment you start losing time. Pause there and cross-reference with the corner analysis.
What coasting time tells you

Any time you are at speed with zero throttle and not braking is time on the table. High coasting time usually means one of two things: you are arriving at braking zones too early and bleeding speed before pressing the brakes, or you are lifting through a corner out of caution. The fix for the first is to brake later. The fix for the second is to trust the grip and carry more speed.

Exception

A brief lift before a tight hairpin or chicane is normal technique. The goal is to eliminate unintended coasting, not all coasting. Look at whether your coasting zones are at consistent points across laps or scattered, which reveals whether they are deliberate or accidental.

Full throttle percentage

Straight sections should be at 100% throttle. If FT% is low, look at the throttle chart and find where you are lifting before braking zones. Any throttle reduction that starts more than a few metres before the actual braking point is an early lift costing both speed into the corner and time on the straight.

Compare FT% across laps. If it is stable, your throttle management is consistent and any lap time difference comes from cornering. If it varies, some laps you are committing to throttle and some you are not, which will show up directly in sector times.

Braking point analysis

In the speed trace distance-aligned chart, find a braking zone where the traces separate. An earlier brake (speed drops sooner) costs time into the corner. But check the minimum speed at the apex in the corner analysis before concluding later braking is the answer. If the later-braking lap has a lower apex speed, you are overdriving the entry and losing more on the exit than you gain from the later brake. The combination of later braking and equal or better apex speed is what you are looking for.

Using the ideal lap as a session target

At the start of every session, note your ideal lap time from the previous session at the same track. That is your consistency target: the time that is already available from your existing skill level without needing to find new pace. Once you close the gap to the ideal, the next step is to push each individual sector best lower. The ideal lap then updates and gives you a new target.

Consistency before pace

Most lap time is found by closing the gap to the ideal rather than by finding outright new pace. If your best lap is 0.8s above your ideal, that 0.8s is available every single lap once you become consistent. New absolute pace might gain you 0.1s per sector at most. The maths strongly favour consistency first.