Using the RacerSense app
Everything the app does, in the order you will use it on a race day. New to it? Start with your first race day - three short clips that cover most of it.
First time you open it
The app opens on Welcome to RacerSense with three steps. Tap each one, fill it in and save:
- Add a Driver - first and last name are required; preferred name, date of birth and notes are optional.
- Add a Vehicle - a name, and the type (Kart, Race Car, Formula Car and so on). Chassis, engine and class are optional.
- Add a Track - a name, and optionally a Baseline Setup: the reference settings you start from there.
When all three show a tick, tap Let's Go - Create My First Event.
Just looking? Tap Load Demo Data to explore with sample drivers, karts and race days. Already use RacerSense Cloud on another device? Tap Sign In & Restore My Data instead.
Getting around
The bar across the top is the same on every screen:
- Menu (the three lines) - everything else: Pending Feedback, the Feedback Log, Setup Changes, Tyres & Weather, your Drivers, Vehicles and Tracks, and Settings.
- Your plan - shows Free, your trial days left, or Pro. Tap it to see plans.
- Back, Home (the Dashboard) and the trophy for Events.
- Cloud - sync status, and where you sign in.
The Dashboard shows your open events, how many sessions still need feedback, and a Needs Action list of sessions waiting for you. Every tile can be tapped.
Events
An event is a race meeting, test day or practice day: one track, one date, one or more drivers.
- Tap New Event on the Dashboard or the Events page.
- Give it a name, check the date (today by default), pick the Event Type - Race Meeting, Test Day, Practice or Club Day - and the Track. A track you haven't added yet: + New track.
- Tap Next: Add Drivers. Pick the Driver and Vehicle, and add a class and the driver's goals for the day if you like, then Add Driver.
- Tap Create Event. You go straight to the event.
More than one driver at the event? Add each before Create Event, or later from the event's ⋮ menu › Add another driver (Pro). The event then opens on Who are you looking at? - one card per driver.
Goals, notes and finishing the day
Goals & notes on the event holds the goals for today, How did it go? - with a goal progress score from Not achieved to Goal achieved well - and any notes. On a multi-driver event they are kept per driver.
At the end of the day, tap Mark event complete. If some sessions have no feedback, it asks first; Complete Without Feedback marks them skipped. Reopen event undoes it.
The Events page lists them all, with a search box and an Open / Completed filter.
Sessions
- On the event, tap Add session.
- Pick the Session Type - Practice, Qualifying, Heat, Pre-Final, Final or Test. The number, date and time are filled in for you, and the session is named for you, like "Practice 2".
- Tap Create Session.
The session has four tiles - Result, Feedback, Setup and Tyres - and one big button that always shows the next thing to do: Add driver feedback, then Add lap time & position, then Mark session complete.
Lap time & position takes the best lap as 1:02.345 or 62.345. To change anything later, use the session's ⋮ menu › Edit session.
Driver feedback
The most important minute of the day. Tap Add driver feedback on the session:
- Under How did it feel?, rate Confidence, Turn-in, Mid-corner and Exit drive from Poor to Strong. Skip any the driver isn't sure about; tap a rating again to clear it.
- What did you feel? - in their words. Tap the mic on the keyboard and just say it.
- What would make it faster?
- Optional: More - changes tried, traffic, weight holds what they tried differently, tow or traffic, and Driver weight, handy when chasing minimum weight.
- Tap Save.
Sessions still waiting are in Pending Feedback in the menu, and every note ever written is in the Feedback Log, which you can filter by driver, track or confidence.
Setup changes
- On the session, tap Setup.
- Under What did you change?, tap a setting. The quick list starts with what you have changed on this vehicle lately; More settings... shows the rest, grouped (tyres, widths, geometry, axle and drive, engine and so on).
- Before is filled in with the last value you recorded for that vehicle. Type the After value.
- Tap + why to note the reason - "pushing on turn-in".
- Change something else too? Tap another setting. Then Save.
Every change is in Setup Changes in the menu, filterable by event, driver, track and setting. Tyre pressures go under Tyres, not here.
Tyres and weather
Tap Tyres on the session:
- Weather - Fetch from GPS fills in the air temperature, conditions, sky, humidity and pressure. Add the Track Temp from your temp gun.
- Cold Pressures before going out, and Hot Pressures after coming in, for each corner.
The session then shows the rise at each corner from cold to hot, against a target of +1.0 to 1.5. Every session's pressures and conditions are in Tyres & Weather in the menu.
Compare and trends
Once an event has two or more sessions, it shows Compare and Trends.
- Compare: pick a Base Session and a Compare Session - from any driver at the event. They sit one above the other: lap, position, weight, every rating, the driver's notes and the setup changes, with everything that differs picked out in orange.
- Trends: each session's lap time against the day's fastest, and a breakdown table of every session. On a multi-driver event, filter by driver.
Reports and PDFs
From the event's ⋮ menu:
- Save PDF report - on a phone this opens the share sheet with the PDF, ready to send to the driver and the family. On Windows it saves the file and offers to open it.
- Share report - on a phone, a short text summary; on Windows, the PDF.
On an event with several drivers, it asks which driver the report is for.
Back at a track
Open Tracks from the menu and tap the track. Last Known Settings lists the most recent value of every setting you ran there, the value before it, and which session it came from - what you ran last time, at a glance. The Baseline Setup, your track notes and every event there are on the same page.
Each driver page shows their performance over recent sessions and any patterns in where they struggle - entry, mid-corner or exit. Each vehicle page has its own Last Known Settings.
Cloud and a new phone
Without Cloud, everything stays on your device. With Cloud (a monthly add-on for Pro), it syncs to your other devices and is backed up.
- Tap the cloud icon in the top bar and Sign In.
- It syncs on its own; Sync Now does it straight away, and shows when it last synced.
- On a new phone or PC: install RacerSense, and on the welcome screen tap Sign In & Restore My Data.
Deleted something by mistake? Signed in, open Recently deleted on the Cloud page and tap Restore. It comes back on your other devices too.
Plans
- Free - one driver, one vehicle, and up to 3 events of 8 sessions each, stored on the device.
- 14-day trial - everything unlocked, once, with no card. Start it from the plans page.
- Pro - a one-time purchase: unlimited drivers, vehicles, events and sessions, and several drivers at one event. It never expires.
- Cloud - monthly, on top of Pro: sync across devices, automatic backup and restoring deleted records.
Tap your plan in the top bar to see what you are using and to upgrade. Changed phones? Restore Purchases is at the bottom of the plans page.
Demo data and settings
Settings (in the menu) has Load Demo to explore with sample events, and Clear Demo to remove them again without touching your own records. Demo data doesn't count towards your plan's limits. Settings also shows your version, which is useful when you contact us.