1/4 Mile time analysis software

[codemonkey]

Would anyone be interested in this?

Would anyone here use web based software to store their 1/4 mile times, 60' times, trap, etc, and perform analysis on it? Just curious if anyone here would be interested in something like this, if it were free, as a way to guage their mods and driving techniques.

 

[Tylerb59]

You know what would be cool..along side of line graphs for better visual clarity having realtime movements of cars side by side for comparison.

Unforunately things like velocity changes from mis shifts, running out of gear etc wouldn't be represented as well but overall having the timing at points would be 'neat' for comparison. Like a ghosting of two images ... either or something from the top.

All of this could be done in Flash as the renderer, even with better with X|\/|L variables ported from PHP/ mySQL database.

Hmm...

 

[codemonkey]

wow, never really thought about it from that angle.

I have never worked with swf manipulation, but I've done work with gdlibrary, I could do it with that, but I have a sneaking suspicion flash would be much better for this purpose.

I will be using php/mysql for the project. I've written up a data model for it, and roughly sketched out an architecture, but really havent put pen to paper yet.

If I decide to take on this project, it will be free to use, and I'll share the code with other developers if they want to add on modules and stuff. This could be a really fun and cool project for the winter time when we can't race!!

 

[stock50LX]

Interesting to me!

 

[codemonkey]

ok, well here is the plan. I will get to work on it, and have a rough version up this summer. I will keep all your data and guard it with my life and build a really good set of software this winter, and like I said, it will be free.

I should point out that by trade I am a software developer, and do mostly analytic software, so you know this stuff will be good. I will make it so we can analyze every bit of what we are doing, and if anything this will improve our tribal knowledge and put the stangs ahead of everyone else on the track.

As I said, this will be free. If I ever get a wild hair and decide to charge for this stuff, the initial stangnet members will always be free of charge, because I like to keep promises in that respect. But most likely this will evolve into a nice free service that will help to improve our times.

Imagine if we can see the effects of certain things, such as using the water box or not, engine temp, tire pressure, etc. Some people like jordan who have almost 300 time slips could really use this kind of thing to track and analyze what we're doing (like he needs help with times, but anyway) and we can graph it out and get technical.

I will get to work on this, and have a good beta version up that I will post here. I will make it as user-friendly as possible, so non computer nerds can benefit as well. Lets kick some ass!

 

[jordanvraptor]

306, but who's counting...

 

[redrumracing01]

this sounds like a good ider to me it could help me since ive only been drag racing for a year and a half.it might be the key to breaking 12s with my 4cyl rearend

 

[WaterPog]

this sounds like a good ider to me it could help me since ive only been drag racing for a year and a half.it might be the key to breaking my 4cyl rearend

Fixed that for ya

There are packages out there for bracket racers allready, but they aren't free. make sure you have entrys for Baro, air temp, track temp and humidity as well, they can have as big an impact on performance as any of the other items you mentioned. I would do the data entry as a tab based form if possible, one tab for the incrementals, one for the environment, one for procedure, etc.

 

[redrumracing01]

Fixed that for ya

There are packages out there for bracket racers allready, but they aren't free. make sure you have entrys for Baro, air temp, track temp and humidity as well, they can have as big an impact on performance as any of the other items you mentioned. I would do the data entry as a tab based form if possible, one tab for the incrementals, one for the environment, one for procedure, etc.

thanks for the info gonna have to look into that,but on the bright side the little 2.73geared 4cyl rearend dosent wanna break with some drs any one wanna loan me some slicks

 

[stanggt]

Sound like a good plan. I would give it a try too! I have over 3000...thats right 3000 time slips. I race almost every weekend and can get up to 20 or so a weekend so I have lots of data. I also use the Tag Systems weather station/ET predictor computer at the track which is fairly accurate. I am usually within 2 or 3 hundreths of my ET.
IMO weather conditions on a FI car don't really factor in because the computer adjusts for weather changes (unless heavilly modified). On carb'd cars weather can have a dramatic effect on ET.