Explorer and tools

When the report isn't enough, dig in yourself

The Explorer shows every lap and every channel. Jump there from a report or go looking for insights yourself. Plus tools for tyres, circuits and the team in the garage.

Jump into the data

Click the numberIn the report, underlined numbers are links.
Land in the ExplorerYou see the laps used in the comparison and where the number comes from.
Look deeperCompare further channels next to the delta to get to the bottom of the number.

The Explorer

Pick a lap and a reference, and the charts are ready.

Speed with corner bands Main lap in blue, reference lap in red, the grey bands are the corners as in the report.

The time difference Green means the main lap gains, red means it loses, here almost 0.9 s by the line.

Throttle and brake Throttle as a line, brake as an area: who lifts earlier, who brakes longer.

Map and line comparison The dot follows the cursor, and “Compare lines” overlays both lines through the corner.

Ready-made views Driving, brakes and balance, tyres, suspension, drivetrain, plus views of your own.

Two lines on one mapBoth driven lines through a corner overlaid, with the gap in metres. Under two metres, PITLENS says the GPS isn't accurate enough to tell.

Onboard in syncVBOX video and logger data are synced through the GPS clock. The cursor in the chart and the video show the same point on track.

The Explorer names the corners that cost the most

Below the legend you find the key findings of the driver report: the corners where your best lap loses the most time and the corners where you lose the most on average. One click loads the matching laps and zooms in on the corner.

The arrows take you through the lap corner by corner. At each corner you see the time through it and the difference to the comparison lap.

Try it: pick a corner

Two real laps of Zandvoort. The numbers are calculated in your browser from the same data the Explorer uses.

Time in the corner

Minimum speed

Braking point

Largest line gap

New in PITLENS

Your ideal lap as onboard video

From all the laps PITLENS builds the perfect lap and plays the matching VBOX onboard, each sector from the lap that was fastest there. You see what the optimal way to drive this circuit would really be. As far as we know, no other analysis software does this yet.

Find the fastest sectorsFor every part of the track PITLENS finds the lap with the best time, from your laps or the team's.
Cut the onboard togetherThe matching pieces of the VBOX videos play one after another, and at each sector boundary the footage cuts to the next lap.
With the data alongsideBelow the video you see how many laps the sectors come from, the time they add up to, and which lap is playing right now.

New in PITLENS

Your onboard with your own HUD

PITLENS puts speed, gear, pedals, lap time and track map from the data file over your VBOX video and renders a file you can share. How the HUD looks is up to you.

Try it: pick a layout

The same section of the Nürburgring, rendered six times by PITLENS. In the app you switch the layout with one click, just like here.

Five of the layouts that ship with PITLENS and one we built ourselves in the clip below. In every frame the values come from the lap's data file.

Build your own layout

Start from a layoutSix layouts are included. You can move every element in the picture, drag it bigger or smaller, recolour it or remove it.
Write your own widgetIf something is missing, you write a widget in HTML and CSS. PITLENS fills placeholders for speed, gear and the other values from the data file in every frame.
Save and reuseYour widget goes into the library and can be inserted into any layout. You save the layout under your own name.

Further elements are the pedal trace with ABS and traction control, tyre and brake temperature per wheel, best and last lap and the speed through the corner. If you like, PITLENS renders two laps side by side into one file.

Projecting tyre wear

You enter four tread depths per tyre before and after the stint. From that PITLENS works out the wear per lap and per 100 km and shows how many laps the set has left.

Try it: pick a wheel

One set from the Norisring, 16 laps. Set how long the next stint will be and at which tread depth the tyre has to come off.

Planned stint Minimum tread

Wear per lap

Wear per 100 km

Laps to minimum tread

Tread left after the stint

Tools for the race weekend

Tyre pressures, wear, weather, corners, lap selection and the team in the garage: each has its own tool.

Cold pressures from the measured buildPITLENS takes the pressure build from the last run and gives you the cold pressure per wheel for the next stint's conditions. The warm-up curve shows which lap the tyre comes into its window.Tyre wear per setYou enter four tread depths per tyre before and after the stint. PITLENS tracks each set through the weekend and estimates how much is left.Your circuit, your cornersPITLENS proposes the corners from the data. You move boundaries and give names, and every report for the circuit follows.Which laps countThe lap cloud shows the whole session at a glance. Filter against the best lap or pick by hand.Rain radar at the trackThe Weather tab tells you when the rain reaches the track or stops, and shows the radar map with playback. It uses the radar of Deutscher Wetterdienst and needs internet for that.Every finished report on one boardThe event page lists every finished report by driver and session. The reports keep building when you close the window.On the tablet in the garageScan the QR code and open the report on a tablet or phone. Devices on the team Wi-Fi only see the current event.Also

Chat

Ask something like “Where am I losing time in T3?”. The chat uses the same calculations as the reports and shows what the answer is based on.

All as PDF

Every report from a session in one go, handy for drivers who've already gone home.

Drivers across seasons

PITLENS keeps each driver's history across circuits and seasons. The data stays on your machine.

Updates

PITLENS tells you about new versions and installs them on a click. Your data stays put.

What the rest of the team gets

For driversWhere am I losing time, and what can I improve?For engineers and coachesWhich channels and faults need my attention?For team principalsDoes every driver get proper feedback?

Join in: the beta starts this winter

PITLENS is built for drivers, engineers, coaches and teams. Start your free trial this off-season and secure one of the limited places now.

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TodayVersion 0.7.0 already has plenty of testing and race kilometres behind it.
Winter 2026/27Free beta for selected teams and drivers.
Season 2027PITLENS launches and is available as a licence. The most active testers and the people on the list hear first.
After thatPITLENS keeps growing with new features and stays your reliable partner at the track.