The platform — an exploration
An exploration of what a racing intelligence platform for grassroots and amateur teams could be. The idea: connect setup, telemetry, maintenance, tires, schedules, and driver feedback into a single system — organized around a shared spine of events, cars, and sessions. So a race weekend would leave the team smarter at the end than it was at the start.
The garage
Mockup — first pass
The garage is where the team's program would live — every car owned, every car being evaluated, build status, costs, and the next thing it needs. A first-pass concept of what that looks like.
Plan
Evaluate prospect cars side-by-side. Cost out the donor down to the last line item. Plan staged builds — HPDE, time trial, full Spec — each with deadlines, lead times, and labor estimates so the next car decision is never a guess.
Race
A race weekend produces durable knowledge, not scattered notes. Every event, every session, every car-driver-setup combination — captured in one place, queryable later when it actually matters.
Analyze
Import telemetry, attach it to the session that produced it, and compare across drivers, cars, tracks, and seasons. The data accumulates instead of evaporating — a body of work that compounds.
Manage
Per-tire life tracking with corner-by-corner wear. Maintenance history. Where the car lives, when it's moving, what it needs next. The operational layer beneath the racing.
Where it would start
We'd use it ourselves first — to plan our first car, lay out the staged build, schedule the season, and budget the whole thing honestly. Every feature would have to earn its place against a real race weekend before going anywhere else.
Whether this happens at all — and on what timeline — is a decision still ahead of us. If it does, other amateur teams (starting with Spec Corvette and Corvette Cup) would be next.