New Traqmate user here. We just had our first race weekend so I've got data from 3 cars here to dicipher (no integrated video for any of us yet). I've split the track into segments based on numbered corners. Now I'm going through the manual page by page with data on my screen that I'm able to manipulate. Man are there alot of things to review.
My question to the seasoned TM users is: what feartures/maps/graphs/tables do you typically look at when comparing (best) laps of multiple drivers? How about all laps from a session for a single driver? What I'm looking for is somebody to tell me "you should be using this option in order to look at X first, then compare Y to learn this, then look at Z to figure out..." I'm sure many of the parameters that can be viewed aren't viewed very often because they don't tell much of a story and I want to eliminate those from my "to do" list if possible. Does looking at the dancing dot in the friction circle really tell you anything? Is it helpful to compare a theoretical best lap to current best lap? Should we be looking at the colored accel/braking maps along WITH the colored turn map feature turned on at the same time?
We want to figure out what a particular driver is doing DIFFERENTLY through his fastest portion of track compared to the other drives. "Why is this guy so fast through there when the rest of us aren't? Is he braking differently, turning in earlier/later, lifting mid-corner to get the car to rotate, taking a different line entering the corner?"
I'm hoping that this thread can be used as a "how to" for those new to Traqmate and data acq in general.
Traqmate data review
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Cy Peake
, 05-04-2011 11:12 AM
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Posted 05-04-2011 11:12 AM
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Posted 05-04-2011 12:21 PM
I use Velocity vs. Distance, it gives you the best comparison between drivers. The curves will show where your carrying more velocity or accelerating better. It showed me how bad my motor was vs. a good friend who was 3 seconds faster around the track than I was. We had Identical corner velocities, but his velocity slope was quite a bit better than mine down the straights.
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Posted 05-04-2011 12:39 PM
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