Creating Your Profile
How Braking Lab builds your Driver Profile from your Capture sessions, how long it takes, and which sessions and laps count.
Your profile comes from the sessions that Capture records. You do not drive anything special for it.
Create It Once
- Install Capture and race as usual in iRacing or Le Mans Ultimate.
- Open Driver Profile in the app.
- Press Create my profile.
Braking Lab then analyzes your sessions, newest first. The screen shows the card taking shape, the number of sessions analyzed and what each field of the card measures. You can close the page: your sessions keep being analyzed.
How Long It Takes
- Up to 30 sessions: your profile is ready in a few minutes.
- More than 30: your profile shows up in a few minutes, starting with your most recent sessions. The rest joins later and sharpens it.
When every session is in, the app sends you a notification: Your driver profile is ready.
After That, Every Session Goes In On Its Own
Each new session that Capture uploads joins your profile about 10 minutes after its last lap arrives. The profile page updates by itself.
If you had sessions before your profile existed and some are not in yet, the profile shows how many and an Add them button.
What Counts
Sims. iRacing and Le Mans Ultimate.
Session types. Each attribute reads the sessions that tell something about it:
| Attribute | Sessions that count |
|---|---|
| Braking, Pace | Practice, qualifying and races. Practice and qualifying weigh more than races, where traffic moves your braking. |
| Control | Qualifying and races. Practice does not count: going off there is part of finding the limit. |
| Racecraft, Experience | Races against people. |
| Speed | Races against people with a qualifying grid, in a class of 8 cars or more. |
People, not the AI. A race counts as a race against people when it carries a real iRacing rating. Races against the AI never count for Racecraft, Speed or Experience.
Laps. For Braking and Pace, a lap counts when it is valid and timed, it is not an out lap or an in lap, and it is within 107% of the session’s best lap. Traffic laps and mistakes stay out this way. A session needs 5 counted laps for these lap-time measures. Control, on the other hand, reads every lap but the pit laps: a lap with an off is what it measures. It also needs 5 such laps in the session.
When You See Scores
- Each attribute needs 3 sessions with data.
- Your Overall appears once 3 attributes have a score.
- The profile uses your 500 most recent sessions.
An attribute without enough data shows the reason, for example “Needs 3 sessions with data. You have 1.” It never shows as a zero.