In this article we look at just one corner to find 3 tenths. This process took me a matter of minutes at the track and you can do it easily yourself.

Equipment:

Mychron4 + GPS

Heres what I did:

Download your data into race studio analyser and activate your speed channels and plot measures in a graph (ctrl F2). Leave your fastest lap up and find the next best lap, hopefully you should have a second lap between one tenth and three tenths down on the fastest.

Now, the fantastic thing about Race Studio is that it shows you exactly where on the track you are losing time and gaining time, when you have the x axis assigned with distance. They call it distance mode and you can toggle between time and distance mode with this button:-

You'll know you are in distance mode when you can see that the track distance is displayed on the x-axis, in meters rather than time in seconds.

Ok, in distance mode you will also notice something magical...... below your speed trace race studio shows you where your second fastest lap is gaining and losing time versus the fastest lap.

So, the fastest lap is represented by the blue line, which is a staight line. The green line is the second fastest lap compared to the fastest, so you can see in the example how the green line dips below the blue line, then climbs up and then shoots above the blue line and then levels off.

The important thing is that when the green line goes below the blue line, it shows we are AHEAD of our fastest lap! And we were ahead by three tenths of a second at one point. Then the green line shoots back up and levels with the blue line, showing how we lost those three tenths again.

Now if you tell a driver that he was four tenths up on his fastest lap at one point, suddenly he becomes very interested in getting back out and finding that time.