Benchmarks

A lap worth chasing

Most of Tractivvity looks at laps you have driven. Benchmarks are the other direction: a lap somebody else drove, or one of your own you have set aside as the standard, kept so you can measure against it and study it.

There are two kinds and they behave differently, so it is worth knowing which you are looking at.

	Curated	Your own
Who drove it	The fastest drivers in the world	You
Where it comes from	We capture P1 replays off the Sport Mode daily race leaderboards, usually on a Monday	You record it yourself from a GT7 replay
Who can see it	Everyone, on the Benchmarks page	Only you
Leaderboards	Neither kind counts. A benchmark is a reference, not a result — it never touches records, personal bests or the weekly challenge

Curated benchmarks BASIC

These are the reference laps we go and get. Every week, the fastest lap from each daily race gets captured from the replay and published here, so you can open the telemetry of a lap that won a global daily and look at what the driver actually did with their hands and feet.

Filter by track and car to find the combination you are running, and the page tells you how many benchmarks exist, how many tracks they cover, and how many different drivers are represented.

Your own benchmarks BASIC

Chasing a world record is not always the useful exercise. A lap of your own from a good night — or a friend's lap, or a tidy lap in a car you are learning — is often the better reference, because the gap is small enough to be worth closing.

So you can mark any lap as a benchmark of your own. It stays private, it stays out of every leaderboard, and it becomes available everywhere a reference lap can be used: as a compare lap in Analyze, as the thing your live delta is measured against, and as the subject of the report below.

Recording one — it is called Replay Mode BASIC

Normally the agent only records while you are driving. Replay Mode lifts that rule so it will record while you watch a GT7 replay instead — and the laps it captures are saved as your own benchmarks.

It is available on the phone and in the desktop agent, in both cases as a switch you arm before recording. The agent's menu names it Replay Mode (capture as benchmark).

Benchmark Opportunities — the pre-flight read BASIC

This is the payoff, and it is the least like anything else in Tractivvity.

Every other Insights report looks at a lap you have driven and tells you what to fix. This one looks at a lap you are about to attack — and the driver it is written for has not turned a wheel yet. It reads the reference and hands you a plan.

It will not criticise the driver who set the lap — there is nothing to criticise, and you are not being compared to them yet. Instead it describes, in order:

Section	What it gives you
Lap signature	Track, car, time, and a one-line character sketch — where this driver is aggressive, where they hold speed, where they use the kerbs
Where the time is	The sections that consume the lap, with the share of lap time each one accounts for
What this driver does well	The specific thing being done that you would not guess from the map
Where to study	Corners worth planning before you go out
What to commit to memory	Brake points and throttle pickups that are not obvious
What might catch you	What a driver seeing this lap for the first time walks straight into

The observations are concrete because they come out of the telemetry, not out of general track knowledge. A real one reads: “commit to the inside kerb earlier at the left-hander — the benchmark waits until ~2.68 km to brake, later than the corner geometry suggests from the entry.” That is a thing to try on your next out-lap.

Pinning one for the drive BASIC

Everything above happens before the session or after it. This is the part that happens during it: a benchmark you have pinned becomes the lap the phone measures you against, corner by corner, while you are still on track.

Set SESSION INTENT to BENCHMARK, then pick the lap under COMPARE LAP. Choose the track and the car, then the shelf:

Source	What it offers
MINE	Your own ordinary laps	BASIC
COMMUNITY	Laps other drivers have made public	BASIC
BENCHMARKS	The curated P1 laps	BASIC
MY BENCHMARKS	The reference laps you recorded yourself in Replay Mode	BASIC

Each comes in a TRACK + CAR form and a TRACK form, so you can hold the car constant or open it up to anything that has been round this circuit.

Once a lap is pinned it follows you. An amber chip at the top of every board names it and carries its time, so what you are being measured against is on screen at all times rather than something you have to remember. CLEAR PIN takes it back off.

What changes once it is pinned

The live session is a row of swipeable boards. Four of them compare, and every comparison they make is against the lap you pinned. PACE is on every account; DASH, TECHNIQUE and LINE are Pro. The table at the end of this section lays out which is which.

Under the gap sit the three sector deltas, with the sector you are currently in picked out. Each one keeps last lap's number until you complete that sector again, so the row is always a full lap's worth of comparison rather than three blanks waiting to fill.

Then two planning cards, and this is where the benchmark stops being a scoreboard and starts being instruction. MAX BRAKE shows the peak brake pressure the reference used at the braking point you are approaching, and how long until you reach it from where you are now. UP 5 → 6 shows the speed the reference was carrying when it took the next upshift, and when. Both are counted from your actual position, which is why they say from here.

IDEAL LAP TIME is the lap you would have driven tonight if every sector's best run had happened on the same lap, and the figure beneath it is what that lap would be worth against the one you pinned. PACE HEATMAP lays out your last four laps sector by sector with the best of the four highlighted in each column — the fastest way to see whether a sector is improving or whether one good lap is flattering the rest.

NEXT BRK counts down to where the reference lap braked; ENTRY is the speed it was carrying as it lifted in, and PEAK is how hard it pressed the pedal, as a percentage of travel. The small s badge switches the countdown between seconds and metres. The LEAD slider sets how far ahead of yourself the trace reads — anywhere from a twentieth of a second to three seconds — so you can dial it to the point where the warning arrives in time to act on it.

LINE OFFSET is the one number here that is not projected: it is how far left or right of the reference line you are right now, in metres. Watch it through a corner and you can see exactly where the two lines part company and how long it takes you to get back.

Board	What the pinned lap does to it
SETTINGS	Where you pin it	BASIC
TRACE	Your position on the circuit — no comparison	BASIC
PACE	Gap, sector deltas, ideal lap, heatmap	BASIC
DASH	All of the above condensed, plus the next brake and the next upshift	PRO
TECHNIQUE	The brake look-ahead in full	PRO
LINE	Line against line, with the live offset	PRO
STINT	Tyres, fuel, grip and G — your car, not the comparison	PRO

Browsing them on the phone

Both collections are on the phone under Benchmarks, split by the same Curated and Mine tabs. Open any of them and you get the lap the way you would get your own: the map, the traces, the playback, and Insights.