While I didn't get a chance to do as many laps as I was hoping on my "working but doing the fun part of my job" day at the Nurburgring, I was smart enough to bring the VBox HD mini along with me. I've got four laps of data from inside a Ringfreaks B48-powered BMW F30 3-Series, and I'm itching to do something with it.
Obviously I'll sit down and look over the data and find some interesting angle to analyze it from for a print story or a video or something, but I'd love to know what tidbits YOU'D like to know from a nine-minute squiggle and in-car video.
At this point—after a decade and a half of trips here—I feel like I have a pretty good handle on the basic flow of the track. Particularly after some excellent right-seating from Rent4Ring's Dale Lomas last year, I feel like there's very little here that surprises me anymore. Unfortunately, that's just the beginning at this place, because the institutional knowledge of the intricacies of the undulations of the surface and the elevation changes and pavement polishing is a HUGE component of a solid lap here. Right now I feel like I could do an actual race here and be perfectly comfortable and not get yelled at by the stewards, but actually being competitive for the entirety of a lap is probably more of a reality for future me than present me. I'm curious what a dive into the data shows me about how I'm actually ddriving vs. how I feel like I'm driving here.
But what do you want to see from the squiggles?
