Hi! My name's Adam Spence and I currently work
in a group focused on motorsports products
I've been with the company for 11 years and I'd like to talk to you today about Garmin Catalyst
After coming in off the track, one of the first things I like to look at myself are the Opportunities
This is one of my recent sessions, and here
you can see that the device has automatically
identified three areas I can work on
In this case, I can save over 2 seconds by
looking at the data
I can tell that by looking at the optimal
lap vs. the best lap
By selecting "Opportunities" I can go in and
understand what they are
On the overview, in this example, there is
no time to be saved from changing my line
in terms of the length of the line
On other opportunities, you'd definitely see
that
But, I can still save 0.2 seconds
Immediately, because I've been looking at
data for awhile, I can look at the Accel/Decel chart,
which effectively describes my braking, and start to get an initial clue as to what's wrong
Let's explore that
By selecting "Braking", I get an overview
that shows the difference in performance between
my average line and my optimal line
If I zoom in to make it easier to see, because
it's such a long segment, I can immediately
tell that for my optimal lap, I need to be
braking later
That's reflected in the data above
We've also introduced a convenient feature
that you can visualize that as a driver, and
that's in these thumbnails at the bottom
By themselves, being so small, you can't tell
very much
But, you can select them and get a larger
image of what those pictures have to tell you
Immediately, you can see from a driver's perspective the difference in my picture when I get to my braking point
On the left, you can see the pole on the right-hand side of the car is much closer than the image on the right
That helps me as a driver understand what
sight picture differences I'm looking for
when I begin braking
I can also see though, in the actual Accel/Decel
chart that I'm braking much harder, and that
shape is much more representative of what we generally want to see when we're doing threshold braking
From there, let's have a look at the apex
In this example, as we've seen in braking,
I definitely turned in later, but it's asking
me to take a slightly later apex
If I zoom in and look at the indicators for
the apex, I can see the purple triangle is
a little bit further down the track from the
white one, which helps me visualize how much
later I need to take that apex
When we look at these Opportunities pages,
we're telling a story
As a driver, I only have control over what I'm doing in terms of how I'm braking and how I'm turning
Those then result in the speeds that I'm carrying
through that turn
I'm going to zoom in to make it easier
You can see here that the turn in speed of my optimal line vs. my average line is only 1 MPH difference
You can also see that I was actually going
a little slower on my optimal line through
the turn, so just my line and my trajectory
meant that I had to be traveling just a little
bit slower to achieve my optimal line
I really hope you enjoy the product and that
it helps you find your line to faster time
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