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Column glossary

A cross-panel reference for the columns you'll see in Leaderboard, Laps, Pits and Stints, Overtake, Fastest Laps, and the other data-grid panels - what each one means and how to read its highlighting. See each panel page for the full column list specific to it; this page covers the meanings and conventions shared across more than one.

Color conventions​

  • Purple - class best (the fastest value for this column among cars in the same class)
  • Green - the car's own best (this value beats that car's previous best)
  • Sparkline "Trend" columns (± to Green in Overtake) - blue = faster than the class's Green Lap Time, orange = slower, gray = a pit in/out lap, excluded from the calculation
  • Fastest Laps' Show Deltas to Hero heat map - green shading, deeper the bigger the gap, on sectors where a car beats the hero; cells equal to or slower than the hero aren't shaded

Where a column's values come from​

Hover a column header: its tooltip ends with a tag saying where every value in that column comes from, the same tags Strat Chat uses.

  • T&S - timing and scoring, as the series published it (Last Lap, Best Lap, sectors, positions).
  • P1 Calc - worked out by P1TS from the timing data (Int, Gap, ±Gap, Pace, Theor Tm).
  • P1 Est - a P1TS estimate, a projection rather than a measurement (Est Tm, +ETA).

A column with no tag mixes sources, or changes source as the race runs - pit lane time while a car is still in the lane, for example.

Position and identity​

  • P - overall position
  • CP - class position
  • C - car number
  • Class, Grp - car class and, where a series has one, class group
  • Veh - vehicle/manufacturer
  • Lic - driver's license rating
  • Stat - car status (running, in the pits, stopped, and so on)

Gaps and intervals​

Computed client-side from lap-crossing epochs (P1.GapData), not passed through from AKS V2's own gap fields - those degrade to a bare lap count as soon as a car is a lap down, exactly when the gap matters most. See Compare for why "authoritative rather than calculated" data matters here.

  • Int - on-track time interval to the car directly ahead
  • Gap - on-track time gap to the leader of the displayed set (not necessarily the overall leader, if the grid is filtered to a class)
  • ±Gap - signed time gap to the hero car: − ahead of the hero, + behind. Used in Leaderboard, Overtake, and the Hero Gap Chart (whose chart axis is inverted so "ahead" still draws visually higher, even though the underlying stored value is negative).
  • A car that's off track - in the pits or stopped - shows a status icon instead of a number in Int, Gap, and ±Gap, rather than a stale or misleading value.

Lap and sector times​

  • Last Lap Tm - the most recently completed lap time
  • Best Lap Tm - the car's fastest lap time this session; purple if it's also the class's fastest
  • Theor Tm - the car's theoretical best lap: the sum of its own best individual sector times, a lap it has never actually driven but could. Purple when it's the class's best theoretical.
  • Est Tm - the projected time for the lap currently in progress: sectors already completed this lap, plus the car's best-lap sectors for the parts not yet run. Green when it would beat the car's own best lap.
  • Per-track Sector (S1, S2, …) and Micro-Sector columns - purple when a sector time is the class's fastest, green when it's the car's own fastest; a sector's time also counts toward that car's Theor Tm when it's the car's personal-best for that sector. In Laps, orange marks the sector the car entered or left pit lane in, and an orange Lap Time with a P after the lap number marks a pit-in or pit-out lap.
  • Trap / Best Trap - current lap's trap (speed-trap) speed, and the car's best trap speed this session; purple = class's fastest, green = car's own fastest
  • TL - track limits. In Leaderboard it is how many track limits infractions the car has this session (blank when it has none). In Laps it marks the laps an infraction affected. Only some tracks report track limits, so at most events the column stays empty; in Leaderboard it is hidden until you turn it on in the columns menu.

Pit and stint columns​

  • #P - number of pit stops so far
  • Pit In / Pit Out - time of the car's most recent pit-in / pit-out
  • P Ln - time spent in pit lane, ticking up live while the car is in and freezing once it's back on track
  • L Stnt - laps completed in the current stint
  • In Lap - the lap number the car last pitted on
  • L-1 / L (Pits and Stints) - laps in the previous stint / laps in the current stint

Pace and prediction​

Used in Overtake:

  • Pace - the car's average lap time over the configured number of pace laps
  • ±Pace - how much faster (▲, bad for the hero) or slower (▼, good for the hero) a car's pace is, compared to the hero's own pace
  • +ETA (h:m:s) - a naive prediction of when an overtake happens, based on the current pace trend: for a car ahead, when the hero catches it if it's slower; for a car behind, when it catches the hero if it's faster
  • ± to Green - a sparkline trend relative to the class's configured Green Lap Time (see Pits and Stints settings); see the color conventions above

More detail per panel​

This page covers what's shared. For the columns unique to one panel - like Fastest Laps' Show Deltas to Hero mode or Track Order's optional rows - see that panel's own page.