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I wonder how they made this. My guess would be that they aren't using GPS data but checkpoint times.
by ensmotko 14y ago
I wonder how they made this. My guess would be that they aren't using GPS data but checkpoint times.
- __alexs 14y agoThat would explain all of the crazy rubber banding that always seems to start and stop at exactly the same spots.
- exDM69 14y agoAre you sure the "rubber banding" isn't just normal race behavior? In circuit racing, the cars tend to follow each other at pretty stable intervals. In other words, the time between two race cars stays constant. As the speed of the cars ranges from 50mph to 200mph+, the distance between two cars changes a lot as the time between the cars is relatively constant. So in slow corners, the cars pack close to each other (feet or sometimes even inches) and as they accelerate out of the corners at 2g+ the distance can increase to tens or hundreds of feet.
- ColinWright 14y agoYes, this is not normal race behavior, it is rubber-banding in places where the cars would never be accelerating and decelerating.
- alexkus 14y ago"Are you sure the "rubber banding" isn't just normal race behavior?" Yes (I'm sure it isn't), zoom in on the bottom right hand corner of the track (turn 4), in reality the cars go from 320kph to 100kph in the breaking zone of this corner, on the page they're doing that almost instantly as they hit that point.
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- mbesto 14y agohttp://lusob.com/2012/04/f1-live-timing-map/ http://lusob.com/2012/04/f1-live-timing-map/ Exactly. Which means they are simply interpolating the time and distance between the checkpoints. So it's not 100% "true". Very very ingenious hack though.