After a session · Topic

The Overview

Load a session and the Overview opens first: your whole session on one page. Each card answers one question with one number or one picture, and the detail is a click away.

Where: Overview, first in the menu on the left You need: a session loaded Reading time: 6 minutes
On this page
  1. The page at a glance
  2. Along the top
  3. Score and best lap
  4. Time still on the table
  5. Next session
  6. Where your time is
  7. What's working, and your tyres
  8. Lap times
  9. Your driving and grip
  10. The i on every card
  11. Arrange the cards
  12. Questions
The Overview in AB Racing Line after a session at Brands Hatch: score, best lap, time still on the table, next session, where your time is, what's working, tyres, lap times, driving style and grip
The Overview after an evening at Brands Hatch in the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO. Click any picture to see it full size.
In 30 seconds
  1. Load a session: the Overview is the first thing you see.
  2. Across the top: your score, your best lap, and how much time is still on the table.
  3. Next session is your engineer's top three: one thing about your driving, one change to the car, one number to keep an eye on.
  4. Every card has an i that explains it, and its links open the tab with the detail.

OverviewThe page at a glance

Ten cards, read from the session you loaded. The numbers match the list beside the picture.

The Overview's ten cards, numbered
  1. 1
    Session scoreOut of 100: how well you drive each corner, how consistent your laps are, how hard you work the car.
  2. 2
    Best lapYour fastest clean lap, which lap it was, and how many clean laps the session had.
  3. 3
    Time still on the tableThe lap time still in there, measured against your own laps.
  4. 4
    Next sessionYour engineer's top three for next time.
  5. 5
    Where your time isThe corners with the most time in them.
  6. 6
    What's workingWhat you're already doing well.
  7. 7
    TyresHow hot each tyre ran, and its tread after a pit stop.
  8. 8
    Lap timesEvery lap of the session.
  9. 9
    Your drivingYour style, across six traits.
  10. 10
    Grip in cornersHow much of your cornering is near the limit.

Along the topConditions, layout and your last visit

The top of the Overview: the conditions, Edit layout, and the return-visit line
  1. 1
    ConditionsAir and track temperature and humidity when you drove, and whether it was dry or wet, day or night.
  2. 2
    Edit layoutMove and resize the cards (see Arrange the cards).
  3. 3
    Return visitWhen you've driven this car and track before: when you were last here, and your best lap then.

A session with pit stops also gets a dropdown beside the title: the whole race, or one stint on its own. The cards then show just that stint.

How did it go?Score and best lap

Session score is out of 100. It blends how well you drive each corner, how consistent your laps are, and how hard you work the car. 75 and above is strong; below 55 there are basics worth sorting first. The words under it sum the session up.

Best lap is your fastest clean lap, the lap it was, and how many clean laps the analysis is built on. Laps with a spin or an off, pit laps and out-laps are left out of everything.

Session score: 75 out of 100, strong and consistent
Best lap: 1:25.656, lap 9, from 4 clean laps

How much is left?Time still on the table

Time still on the table: up to 1.0 s a lap, medium confidence, with the split between car setup and your driving
  1. 1
    Car setupTime from tyre pressures and the car's balance. Opens Your Car Setup.
  2. 2
    Your drivingTime from braking, apex speed, coasting and throttle. Opens Telemetry.

An estimate of the lap time still available, measured against your own laps: the best lap you could build from your own fastest sectors. It's never a target we invented. The two parts overlap a little, so the total is less than the two added together; the bar shows the split. The chip says how much clean data backs it. How it's worked out is in How we work out time gains.

What to do nextNext session

Next session: the summing-up quote, and three tiles for driving, setup and awareness
  1. 1
    DrivingThe corner to work on first, and how. See T5 opens it in Telemetry.
  2. 2
    SetupThe change numbered 1 on Your Car Setup: the one to make first.
  3. 3
    AwarenessOne number to keep an eye on, and Why.
  4. 4
    Read the full debriefYour engineer's whole write-up of the session.

The setup change and the number come from your PC, so they're there as soon as the file loads, even with no internet. The driving point and the line in quotes are your engineer's, written once the session has been reviewed, usually 10 to 20 seconds after the file loads. More in Your engineer's coaching.

CornersWhere your time is

Where your time is: the three lowest-scoring corners, each with a tip
  1. 1
    A cornerIts score out of 100 and your engineer's one-line tip. Click it to open that corner in Telemetry, with its advice beside the map.
  2. 2
    All corners in TelemetryEvery corner, on the map.

The rows are your lowest corner scores, from how precise your apex speed is and how consistent your braking. When a corner's exit has time in it that your own better laps prove is there, it comes first, in amber, with what carrying that speed out of it every lap is worth.

Good newsWhat's working, and your tyres

What's working lists what you're already doing well, read straight from your telemetry: consistent laps, very little coasting, lots of full throttle, working near the grip limit, smooth inputs. A line only appears when you clear a solid bar, so an empty card isn't a bad session: nothing stood out yet.

Tyres shows each tyre laid out like the car. The three bars are the outside, middle and inside of the tread, coloured by how hot that part ran in the corners: green is the working range, blue cold, red too hot. iRacing only reports tread wear at a pit stop, so after a session with no stop the bars are drawn faint and the big number is the tyre's temperature. After a stop, the bars show the tread left. It's the same card as on Race Strategy.

What's working: consistent laps and lots of full throttle
Tyres: each tyre's temperature across the tread, laid out like the car

Every lapLap times

Lap times: every lap in order, the best lap marked in pink, incident laps as hollow circles

Hover a lap for its time and its gap to your best.

Your styleYour driving, and grip in corners

Your driving is a fingerprint of how you drive, across six traits: braking, consistency, trail braking, throttle, smoothness and pace. There's no single right shape: it describes your style, and a dent flags a trait worth refining. Hover a dot for what that trait means.

Grip in corners is the share of your cornering time spent near the grip limit: at 80% or more of the most grip you used all session. Straights don't count. Top drivers sit around 85%. Slow and fast corners are split at a 150 km/h apex speed; a lower fast-corner figure usually means lifting more than the car needs.

Your driving: a radar of six traits
Grip in corners: 33% of cornering time near the limit, against about 85% for top drivers

ExplanationsThe i on every card

The side panel a card's i opens, explaining Time still on the table

Every card has a cyan i at its top right. It opens a panel on the right of the page that explains the card in plain English. Close it with ×, or click anywhere else.

Make it yoursArrange the cards

Press Edit layout

At the top right of the page. Each card gets a strip along its top and a grip in its corner.

Move and resize

Two cards in Edit layout: the strip to drag them by and the grip to resize them
  1. 1
    The stripDrag it to move the card.
  2. 2
    The gripDrag it to resize the card.

Press Done

Your layout is saved and comes back every time you open the app. Reset layout brings the original back.

QuestionsQuestions

The driving tile says the advice is on its way. Is something wrong?
No: your engineer's advice usually arrives 10 to 20 seconds after the file loads. It needs an internet connection. If it doesn't arrive, the card says why, and Try again asks again.
Why is my score lower than last time when my lap was faster?
The score is about how well and how consistently you drive each corner, not about the stopwatch. A fast lap among scattered ones can score lower than a steady session a little slower.
Why are some laps hollow circles on the lap chart?
They had an incident, like a spin or an off. They're shown so you can see them, but they're left out of everything the app works out.
Why no tread reading on the tyres card?
iRacing only reports tyre wear at a pit stop. Make a stop in your session, ideally after a full stint, and the card shows the tread left.

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