Best Driver Lap Time Reports

We successfully tested a new automated report generator this past weekend at the IMSA Continental Tire 150 at the Glen.  Drivers can look at their lap time distributions and compare them relative to the session’s fastest driver. Below is a sample of the lap times from the GS class drivers in the Continental Tire SportsCar…

Why We Race and Why We Code

Andrew Aquilante and Jeff Feit studying live P1TS information during practice. What is it that draws us to racing or creating software? After returning from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this past weekend with Phoenix American Motorsports, I reflected on this. Race Cars On magazine pages, websites, and in the paddock they are sleek, caged animals at rest.…

Apache Tomcat HTTP Compression of P1TS JSON Web Services

Overview The P1TS software system receives raw IMSA trackside timing and scoring data and transforms it to information assisting race teams with real-time race strategy. Recent enhancements to the (beta) software increased network traffic resulting in network time outs. This post describes the system and how it was resolved by configuring the web server with…

Formula 1 and Cloud Computing

Being both a motorsports fan and developer of cloud computing software, I was intrigued by Microsoft’s TV cloud computing advertisements for the Lotus F1 Team. I searched for articles about F1 and cloud computing and found Formula 1 is artificially restricting the use of cloud compute.     “One of the biggest challenges during an F1 race…

Comparing P1Lapchart’s JavaScript and Java Web Services

Background P1Lapchart is a web application that dynamically renders pretty, and sometimes interactive, lap chart data that plots each car’s race position (y axis) by lap (x axis).  It consists of a client component that does the rendering (the view in MVC) and a back end web service component that fetches the raw data from a separate web…

Welcome to the Engineering Pages

This Engineering section was created to discuss the various software engineering aspects of the P1Software.com applications. P1Software was created to express my intersecting interests in both motorsports and software. If you’re like minded, then you’ve come to the right place.