Data coaching for HPDE instructors

Stop wrestling with clunky software. Get straight to what's worth fixing.

Other data software gives you all the data and none of the insights. Track Data Coach reads the export from your data acquisition tool, compares the lap against a baseline — or against the last session — and hands you the two or three things actually worth working on, before the next run group rolls out.

Reads AiM Solo CSV exports today, more loggers on the way · No OBD-II or extra sensors required · Free while in beta

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Between-session turnaround
Upload, read the delta, be ready before the next run group goes out.
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The math, already done
Braking point, apex minimum speed, corner exit rate, time gained or lost by section.
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Traffic-aware lap picking
Analyses the fastest clean lap — not the one where somebody was in the way.
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Scored against their car
Every corner graded against that car's own demonstrated grip ceiling, not yours.

The data is already there. Turning it into coaching is the slow part.

Your logging software will happily show you a trace. It won't tell you that your student is releasing the brake three car lengths too early in Turn 5, and it won't have that ready before the next session. Between run groups you get maybe fifteen minutes — and how much of it turns into useful coaching depends entirely on how fast one human can read a squiggle.

❌ A typical coaching day

  • Squint at overlaid traces on a laptop in the paddock
  • Feedback quality varies by how tired you are at 3pm
  • Different coaches spot different things — nothing is standardised
  • Nothing to send the student afterwards except your memory of it
  • Traffic-ruined laps quietly poison the comparison

✅ With Track Data Coach

  • Upload the export, get the corner-by-corner delta in seconds
  • The same analysis at 8am and at 4pm, session after session
  • Checks whether last session's feedback actually got applied
  • An end-of-day summary the student can take home and act on
  • Clean laps chosen automatically; traffic flagged, not averaged in

Green isn't always the faster line. That's the whole point.

Overlays are colour-coded the way a coach actually thinks: fluorescent green is the more technically correct line, bright red is the one worth changing. Sometimes the red line is quicker through that corner and still the wrong choice — so every comparison says which line is better and why, in words, instead of leaving a student to assume faster equals right.

brake released early, then re-applied SPEED DISTANCE
The more refined line The line worth changing

No throttle, brake, or steering channel? Doesn't matter. Everything above is derived from speed and distance alone — rate of deceleration, where braking actually starts, the minimum speed and where it lands, how quickly speed rebuilds on exit, and the running time delta down the lap.

Example. The red line carries more speed to the apex and is two tenths quicker through the corner — and it's still the one to fix, because the early brake release costs six tenths on the straight that follows. The overlay says so in plain English, so nobody walks away with the wrong lesson.

Three steps, and you're coaching off data by the second session.

Set up takes about as long as a sighting lap.

1

Set your baseline lap

Upload a reference lap — one of yours, or a known-good lap in a comparable car. Everything gets measured against it.

2

Add the day's students

Build the roster once in the morning. Each student keeps their own session history, day to day and event to event.

3

Upload each session

Drop in the export between run groups. Get the corner-by-corner delta against the baseline and against their own last session — plus an end-of-day summary to send home.

Built for coaches first. Solo drivers next.

You pick which one you are right after you sign in, and you can change it any time from your account menu.

Solo drivers · Coming soon

You're at the track without a coach.

The same analysis pointed at your own laps, with a default baseline if you don't have one of your own — plus before-and-after comparison across a setup or hardware change, so you can see what that suspension upgrade actually bought you. Sign in and join the list; you'll be first to know.

"Two experienced coaches watching the same trace will catch different things. The data shouldn't depend on which one of us is standing there — or on how much is left in the tank at the end of a long day."

— Why we built Track Data Coach

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