Laptimer iOS Application

The VBOX Laptimer App works with your VBOX Sport unit. VBOX Sport uses a high-accuracy GNSS receiver to enhance the capabilities of your Apple device. When connected to a VBOX Sport, the Laptimer app can use its GNSS data stream transmitted via Bluetooth. 

Due to the update rate of VBOX Sport, you get a level of accuracy that is currently unheard of with iPhone and iPad apps. The VBOX Laptimer app uses the data from VBOX Sport to provide you with accurate lap times and predictive lap times.

You can use your Apple device to display live driver feedback, such as your current speed, your current lap time, your predicted lap time, or a list of previously logged lap times

The VBOX Laptimer App also works with the internal GNSS of your iPhone or iPad. When used standalone, the app will use 1 Hz GNSS data from the iOS device's internal GNSS engine.

You can download the VBOX Laptimer app for free from the App Store .

When the app has connected to your VBOX Sport, you need to wait for it to get a good satellite lock. The app will populate a list of detected circuits from the Racelogic database by using your current location. If you cannot find the circuit you are looking for in the database, you will need to use the Custom track option.

You can find a list of all the tracks in our database here. Please let us know if a track you need is missing.

Select a circuit layout by tapping on the relevant name.

In addition to the circuits in the Racelogic database, you can also create custom tracks on the Laptimer app. To create a custom track, select the ‘Create Custom Track’ option under the ‘user configurable’ section of the main track selection page. First, you need to add a start/finish point manually and the app will create a custom circuit map.

Note: The vehicle speed must be above 18 km/h before you can set the start line.

As soon as you cross the start/finish line, the map image will be displayed in the right-hand side of the screen. The map will also be saved for later selection through the ‘custom track’ section. You can rename or delete custom maps by pressing the arrow button to the right of the track name.

When you have selected a layout, the default screen will show the current position on the track and ‘waiting for s/f line’. As soon as you cross the start line for the first time, you will see the live time in the Live data section.

When you cross the start line again, split points created by maximum speed will appear on the map image, and the delta velocity will be shown at the top in a colour-coded bar graph. Swipe left or right to move between the different display options.

When you cross the start line for the first time, it will trigger a reference lap creation. When the start line is crossed again, the app will show you a live comparison time to the reference. At the end of each lap, the final lap time will be shown for the number of seconds set in the ‘Laptime display time’ section in the settings menu.

Note: Lap times faster than the reference will automatically be used as the new reference lap.

The results screen shows you the achieved lap and split times during a session. To make it easy to compare, the fastest lap (the reference lap) is highlighted in white while split times are colour-coded. Red is slower and green is faster than the same sections in the reference lap.

You can zoom in and out by pinching the screen over the results.

Note: New laps with a different number of sectors are ignored.

By default, this screen shows a current speed readout. You can toggle this to a maximum speed readout by using the Max speed button on the Functions page.

Connect your device to iTunes, click on the device and enter the Apps tab.

Click on the Laptimer app and select the exported results file (.csv) you want. Click on Save to and select a location on your computer to save and view the file.

The Settings are accessible from any display mode screen.

One shot mode is for use at sprint-style events.

1. Create a custom circuit
2. Enable ‘one shot mode’ in the main settings menu.
3. Define a finish point.

When you have set a finish point, the app will instruct you to ‘stop at start line’. When the vehicle is stationary, the app will start counting down from 10. When the countdown has been completed, the next detected movement will trigger the lap timing. When you cross the finish line for the first time, the app will store a new custom circuit for future use.