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Track maps

This section presents all common features of all track maps

Track Map Highlighting​

Cars that the user wants to pay particular attention to (such as team cars) can be highlighted to make them easier to find on track. Highlighting cars also allows ghosts to see where each car will come out on track relative to traffic after a pit stop and information about a wave by during a S/C period. Car #13 is highlighted in the example below which means it is coloured by its car colour and has an arrow following it. The car following settings are found in the backstage settings.

Car Colouring​

Cars in track maps are coloured by the class colour by default. Options for colouring cars on the track maps include:

  • By class colour
  • By car colour
  • By tyre manufacturer

Colouring cars by track tyre manufacturer can be helpful to make your cars stand out even more than using the car highlighting function in events with a large number of competitors such as VLN. Generally, by default cars are not assigned a tyre manufacturer (although this can be assigned manually in thecar options) this means all cars are shown in a single colour except for any cars set as being highlighted.

During Full Course Yellow, Safety Car and Virtual Safety Car​

During caution periods where the track status is FCY, Safety Car or VSC the track maps will flash with yellow as shown below.

Use Computer Time To Draw Positions​

By default, car positions are interpolated using the session time provided by the timing feed. When the timing feed has a slow update rate or noticeable latency, cars can appear to jump or stutter between positions rather than moving smoothly.

Enabling Use Computer Time To Draw Positions switches the interpolation to use the computer's local clock instead. Each time a car crosses a sector, the computer timestamp of that crossing is recorded. Between crossings, elapsed real-world time is used to animate the car along its expected path.

This results in visually smooth and continuous car movement regardless of how frequently the timing feed sends updates.

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This option is available in the ribbon bar of the Full Track Map and Circle Track Map.

Pit Lane List​

At the bottom of each track map a list of all the cars currently in pit lane is given.

Wave By List​

At the bottom of each track map any cars being highlighted (usually team cars) that are eligible for a wave by will be denoted.