Your Alfano knows your RPM. Your GoPro video can too

Your Alfano records RPM and temperatures all day. Your GoPro records the lap. Those two things usually live on separate screens, and joining them up means a laptop, a cable and a lot of squinting.

It doesn't have to. Upload your Alfano session to a Race Ninja analysis and the engine data lands on the laps you actually drove.

What you get

A row for every lap, with your engine's story sitting right next to your lap time. Peak revs, average revs, and the low point where you were slowest. Exhaust or head temperature, whichever probe you run.

Your quickest lap is highlighted, so you can see the temperature band your pace actually came in at. That's the useful bit. Most of us know our best lap time by heart. Far fewer of us know what the engine was doing when it happened.

Getting it there

Open the analysis, find the Logger Data slot, and drop in your Alfano session .zip exactly as the Alfano software saved it. That's the whole job.

One thing worth saying plainly, because it catches people out. Don't unzip it first. A single lap file on its own has no timing inside it, so there's nothing for us to line up against your video. Send the whole archive with everything left in.

The hard part is the matching, and we do that for you

Your camera and your logger never start at the same moment. They don't even agree on where a lap begins, because your Alfano triggers on its own start line and we cut laps on ours. On one real session those two points sat just under seven seconds apart.

So Race Ninja works the join out itself. It checks where each device says the kart was, and how fast each says it was going, and it only accepts the answer when the two agree on position to within fifteen metres. On that session they agreed to under three.

And when nothing agrees, you get no engine data instead of the wrong lap's engine data. We'd rather show you nothing than something confidently wrong.

Running a MyChron or something else?

Alfano isn't the only logger we read. RaceChrono, AiM (which is your MyChron or Solo), RaceBox, Racelogic and Dragy files all attach to a session from its review screen.

Two things worth being straight about. Only the Alfano and AiM formats carry engine channels, because RaceChrono, RaceBox and VBO log position and movement rather than what the motor was doing. And apart from Alfano and RaceChrono, those readers are marked beta in the app. That means we built them from the documented file structure and haven't yet run a real session from a real customer through them. Send us one and that changes quickly.

No logger at all? You still get lap times, sector splits and corner analysis from the footage on its own. The engine data is a bonus on top, not the price of entry.