Coaching
Your fastest laps against a faster driver's, corner by corner: where the time goes, why, and what to try next time.
Get coached
Pick the car and track
The dashboard lists every car and track you've driven on Garage61 in the last 30 days.Add the other driver's laps
Choose a file with their laps at the same car and track, and press Coach me.Read the tips
The app takes your fastest clean lap this season in practice, in qualifying and in the race, and compares each with their fastest lap of the same kind. Each one gets its own tab.
Comparing like with like matters: race laps carry more fuel and traffic, qualifying laps fresh tyres. When their file has no lap of the same kind, their fastest lap is used and the page says so.
The other driver's laps
Any of these works:
- A Garage61 telemetry export:
- the CSV you download from a lap on Garage61. Driver, car, track and lap time come from the file name.
- A laps file (JSON):
- one or more laps with their session type, in the Garage61 channel names. Handy for practice, qualifying and race laps in one file.
- Your own laps:
- laps under your name are treated as your own: "your other lap" instead of a rival's.
Laps at another track, or whose length differs from yours by more than 3%, are refused, so you never get tips from a different layout.
What the result shows
- Summary:
- the gap to their lap and the corners with the biggest gains.
- Tips:
- one per corner, biggest time loss first: what the telemetry shows, and what to try.
- Habits:
- a mistake in several corners (like coasting between brake and throttle) is reported once, not in every tip.
- Trade-offs:
- corners where you're slower in but faster out (or the reverse), and whether the trade pays off.
- Strengths:
- corners where you're already faster.
- Telemetry:
- time gap, speed, throttle and brake for both laps, a corner strip and a track map. Everything zooms together.
Bruxelles: braking too late. Braking 11 m later, but 3 km/h slower at the apex. → Brake earlier, focus on a clean apex.
The kinds of tip
Each tip comes from comparing one corner of your lap with theirs. The main kinds:
| Tip | What it means | What it suggests |
|---|---|---|
| Braking too early | You brake 10 m or more before them and gain nothing for it | Brake later by about half the gap, then build up |
| Braking too late | You brake later but end up slower at the apex | Brake earlier, focus on a clean apex |
| Entry too fast | Faster at turn-in, paid for later in the corner | Turn in a little slower |
| Too much brake / braking too long | More brake pressure, or brake held longer, than they need | Ease the brake or release it sooner |
| Lifting too long | In a lift corner, your lift is longer or deeper | Lift later, keep it short |
| Too slow mid-corner | 3 km/h or more slower at the apex | Release the brake earlier, or carry more speed |
| Coasting | No pedal pressed between brake and throttle | Go straight from one pedal to the other |
| Late on the throttle | Back on the throttle 15 m or more after them | Get on the throttle earlier |
| Slow to full throttle | You get to full throttle more slowly | Roll on faster |
| Slow exit | Lower speed leaving the corner | Apex a bit later, power on sooner |
| Gear choice | A different gear at the apex | Try their gear |
| Time lost | The inputs look the same, so it's likely your line | Try a different turn-in or a later apex (see Your line) |
Your line
When both laps have position data, the app measures how far across the track your line sits from theirs in each corner: at turn-in, at the apex and on exit, towards the inside or the outside. Differences of a metre or more are added to the tips.
Line: you turn in 1.3 m wider; you're 1.4 m further from the apex.
This explains time lost where braking and throttle look the same. A Your line elsewhere list covers other corners where the line differs and you lose 0.1 s or more.
On the track map, click a corner to zoom in: both lines are drawn, you in blue and them in orange. At corner zoom a metre is about a pixel, so the gap between the lines is drawn 4× larger (sideways only, so the shape stays true). Untick the box for true scale.
Rate the tips
Every tip has 👍 and 👎. A 👎 asks why in one click: not what happened, already knew, can't do it or unclear. Votes add up by kind of tip (say, “braking too late”), so after two votes new tips of that kind say whether that advice has helped you before.
History › Which tips help you lists every kind you've rated, with the reasons.