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Notes on track day logging, telemetry imports and getting more out of your sessions.
FWD vs AWD on the same track: Golf GTI Edition 50 vs Golf R at Silesia Ring
Two Golfs, one track, one amateur driver, full telemetry on both. Lap times, tire pressures, wear and OBD data from the GTI Edition 50's first track day — next to a season of Golf R laps at Silesia Ring.
Turning your track data into an AI race engineer
Most AI telemetry tools read one lap. Connect an assistant to your whole logbook — sessions, setups, tire wear, costs — and ask the questions a single trace can't answer.
Syncing onboard video with track telemetry, in the browser
How to line up a YouTube onboard with RaceChrono or RaceBox telemetry — one sync point, then every lap plays with the track map and speed trace following the footage.
Reading OBD data from a track day: RPM, fuel and temperatures
How to record OBD-II channels alongside GPS in RaceChrono — what hardware works, which channels you get, and what a season logbook does with them after the import.
RaceBox Mini for track days: getting more from your data
What the RaceBox Mini records at a track day, how to export the CSV, and how to turn one session into a season-long logbook with lap times, telemetry and setup history.
Track day tire pressures: cold vs hot, and how to actually dial them in
What psi to run at a track day, why the hot pressure is the number that matters, how much pressure builds cold-to-hot, and the FWD vs AWD difference — with a simple loop to find your numbers.
What a track day season costs — and the one number worth tracking
Nobody agrees what a track day costs because everyone measures it differently. The fix isn't a bigger spreadsheet — it's one normalised number: cost per lap.
What to do with your RaceChrono data after the session
RaceChrono .rcz vs CSV v3 export, explained: when to use each, what they actually contain, and how one session's data becomes a season-long logbook.
How to keep a track day logbook (without spreadsheets)
A plain-English guide to a track day log book: what to capture per session, why spreadsheets break around session 8, and why a digital track day logbook app holds a whole season that Notes, Sheets and RaceChrono can't.