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You can now download your Perfect Lap as an MP4 from the Video Editor tab on any Race Ninja session, so you can keep it or share it. The Perfect Lap is built from your quickest sector times across a session, stitched into one lap. You can also play it side by side with a normal lap in Head to Head to see where your line, braking and corner speed differ. It works from ordinary GoPro or DJI footage, and you get one free analysis every month.

Perfect Lap and a normal lap playing side by side in Race Ninja's Head to Head view, with lap times of 40.450s and 40.748s

The Perfect Lap is the feature people tell us they love most. It's you at your best, every sector stitched together from the laps where you got it exactly right.

Now you can keep it.

How to download your Perfect Lap

Open the Video Editor on any session and your Perfect Lap is sitting there with your lap videos, ready to download and named so you'll still know what it is in six months. Send it to your engine builder, or stick it on the club WhatsApp group. It's yours.

This applies to sessions processed from now on. If you'd like your older Perfect Laps done too, send us a message on Discord and we'll sort it.

Compare the Perfect Lap with a normal lap

Head to Head has always been able to run your Perfect Lap against any other lap, and it's one of the sharpest tools in the app. Now it's front and centre, with a button that pairs the Perfect Lap against your typical lap in a single click.

Not your fastest lap. Your typical one. The gap between what you managed on your best lap and what you do most laps is where your next tenth is actually hiding.

Show and hide laps across every graph

The telemetry graphs let you show and hide individual laps, which is the quickest way to cut through a busy session. That control is now clearly labelled, and your choice carries across every graph at once. Click a lap in any legend and it updates everywhere.

Comparing eight laps over four graphs used to mean picking them out four times. Now it's one click, and the noise drops away.

Thanks to Niik on our Discord, who came in off his first session with us. He told us plenty about what was already working, then picked out details we'd walked straight past a hundred times. That's the good stuff. And because we're chasing perfection round here, we built all four the same week.

It all runs off ordinary GoPro or DJI footage. Spotted something you'd sharpen? You know where we are.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I download my Perfect Lap video?
Yes. Open your session, go to the Video Editor tab, and the Perfect Lap sits above your individual lap videos with a Download MP4 button. The file is named after your track and session date, so it still makes sense months later.
What is a Perfect Lap?
It's a composite lap built from your quickest time in each sector across a whole session, joined into one video. If your best first sector came on lap 4 and your best last sector came on lap 9, the Perfect Lap uses both. It shows what you are already capable of, rather than a lap you actually drove start to finish.
Why is there no download on my older sessions?
The downloadable file is created when a session is processed, so sessions from before this went live do not have one yet. Your Perfect Lap still plays as normal. Ask us on Discord and we will generate the file for your older sessions.
Can I watch the Perfect Lap next to a normal lap?
Yes, on the Head to Head tab. Pick the Perfect Lap in either dropdown, or use the button that pairs it against your typical lap in one click. Both videos play in sync, with sector times and racing lines beside them, so you can see exactly where the two differ.
Do I need a lap timer or data logger for this?
No. Race Ninja reads lap times, sectors and speed from the GPS already recorded in your GoPro or DJI footage. You just upload the video.

Step-by-Step Guide

  1. 1

    Upload your session

    Send up a normal GoPro or DJI session from your Race Ninja upload page. Lap timing and sectors are worked out for you.

  2. 2

    Open the Video Editor tab

    On your finished analysis, go to the Video Editor tab, where your lap videos live.

  3. 3

    Find the Perfect Lap card

    The Perfect Lap sits above your individual laps, marked with a star, once it has finished rendering.

  4. 4

    Hit Download MP4

    The video downloads named after your track and session date, ready to keep or share.

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