How to use PaceBoss to improve at a specific track

Free practice without a goal is wasted seat time. PaceBoss's /me view turns your career into a per-track priority list: which tracks are you competitive at, which are bleeding you time, and which you're trending the wrong direction on.

1. Claim your driver

If you haven't already, open any session, find your row, click Claim. PaceBoss now recognises you across imports — your name on Entry.drivers matches case-insensitively, so the same name in another league import or an older CSV gets aggregated automatically.

2. Open your career page

Visit /me. The hero shows your career headline numbers (Races, Podiums, Wins) with the date range across all imports. Below that, the Best lap by track grid is the focus.

3. Read the chip tints

Each track chip is tinted with a pace-band colour based on how close your best lap is to the fastest lap recorded by anyone at that track in your imports. The five-band thresholds (from getTrackGapBand in MePage.tsx):

• Excellent (≤0.5% off) — matched the front. You're at the field's PB or within half a percent of it.
• Good (≤1% off) — competitive. Front-running pace, a few tenths off the absolute front.
• OK (≤2% off) — mid-pack. Room to find a couple of tenths.
• Bad (≤4% off) — work to do. Likely a setup or technique gap, or a track you don't know yet.
• Terrible (>4% off) — far off. Usually unfamiliar track, wrong car for the class, or a setup that needs help.

The chip footer states the gap explicitly: 0.943s off field or field PB if you own the record. The 1% threshold maps to roughly 0.9s on a 90-second lap — useful to keep in mind when reading the gap.

4. Read the sparkline shape

The chip's background sparkline plots every session you've raced at that track over time, Y normalised so 100% (= field PB) is pinned at the top:

• Line hugging the top — consistently near the front. Don't waste training time here unless this is a championship priority.
• Line trending up — improving. Keep doing what you're doing.
• Line trending down — regressing. Setup change? Worn habit creeping in?
• Line sitting low + flat — stuck. Highest-leverage track to attack next.

5. Click into the chip's session

Each chip click opens the session that owns your PB at that track. From there, follow the Find your pace deficit workflow to isolate which sector to focus practice on.

6. Plan a session

The combination of tint band (where you stand) + sparkline shape (which way you're heading) gives you a triage: pick the worst-tinted track with a flat-or-falling line. That's the highest-leverage track to spend an hour on.

What you walk away with: a one-track training plan grounded in your own data, not in vague "I think I'm slow at Spa".

Related reading

• Find your pace deficit — once you've picked a track, this is the workflow to figure out which sector to focus on.
• Pace bands explained — what the chip-tint thresholds mean (≤1% green, ≤2% yellow, etc.).
• Learn a new track — the 5-stage protocol when a chip is red and the track is unfamiliar.
• Practice session protocol — once you've picked the track, the structured-session protocol for the practice itself.
• Bracket-relative learning — picking the right reference driver to study at your chosen track.
• Glossary: claim a driver — the identity model that makes the /me view possible.
• Glossary: field benchmark — the right-edge anchor on the per-track sparklines.