Porsche’s taking cues from the Chevrolet Corvette’s optional built-in racetrack data logger, but with a smartphone twist: A new Porsche app turns your Apple or Android pocket computer into a dash cam, lap timer, and telemetry recorder, so you can analyze your track day like Roger Penske.
-The newly-updated Porsche Track Precision app pairs with the optional Sport Chrono package in the Cayman GT4 and the 911 GT3 and GT3 RS to give you data-heavy insight into your lap times and racing lines, and video playback with telemetry, steering, and throttle/brake input, all on your tiny screen. About 60 racing circuits worldwide are preloaded; if the track you’re at isn’t one of them, an initial warm-up lap will teach the course to your phone’s GPS system. Then you just snap your phone into a dashboard or windshield mount with the camera aimed out the windshield, and you’re ready to record your lap.
-For even more of that hot data action, Sport Chrono–equipped Porsches come prewired for the installation of an optional lap trigger, a rear-side-window-mounted light sensor tripped by a device placed at the start/finish line of a circuit.
-Once your lap is recorded, you can play the video back with an overlay showing lap times, steering/throttle/brake input, speed, gear selection, rpm, g-force, and your position in front of or behind your previous lap’s ghost car. Here, let none other than Walter Röhrl demonstrate:
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All you need to get started is the app (available for both Apple and Android), and, well, a Porsche Cayman GT4 or 911 GT3 with the Sport Chrono package. Hey, at least the app is free!
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