Guide · 6 min read
Your circuit is not in the database. Add it from your phone or a browser.
A layout is a start line, a finish line and the sector lines between them. You draw them on a satellite map, in the app or on the web, and the next person who records there gets your layout.
Laps and sectors are timed where your GPS trace crosses a line, so a layout is all a lap timer needs. It works for a Grand Prix circuit, a karting track, a hill climb or an autocross course, and it takes about ten minutes.
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Watch it first
The whole layout, start to save.
Standing at the circuit with nothing to record on, or at a desk where the bigger map makes each line easier to place. Every step below works in both; the one extra only the web editor has, copying a layout, is marked where it comes up.
Step 1
Check before you add.
Search the track list first. The circuit may be there under a different name: the sponsor's name, the town, or the local spelling. Someone may also have added the layout you drive already.
If the track exists but your configuration does not, skip to step 3 and add a layout to it. If a layout is close but not right, copy it in the web editor instead of starting from an empty map.
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Track
The place: its name, location, address and contacts. One per venue.
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Layout
One way of driving it: the full circuit, the short loop, the version with the chicane. A track can have as many as it needs, and each has its own leaderboard.
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Lines
What a layout is made of: start/finish, or a separate start and finish, plus sector lines.
Step 2
Add the track, if it is missing.
Give the venue its name and drop its pin on the map. Contact details and social links are optional and can be filled in later.
Saving the track opens the layout editor straight away, and for a reason: a session can only be assigned to a track that has at least one layout. A track with no lines is a pin on a map, nothing more.
Track added
Now draw its first layout. Sessions can only be assigned to a track that has one.
Step 3
Say how the track runs: closed loop or point to point.
The editor asks before the first click on the map, because the answer decides which lines there are to draw. There is no default.
A closed loop starts and finishes on the same line, and laps repeat around it. A point-to-point layout, a hill climb or a sprint, has a separate start and finish with sectors in between, and every pass is one run.
Choose the layout type
- Layout type Closed loop · in the app, locked once the start line exists
- Start/finish line One line, crossed every lap
- Sectors · optional Split the lap for sector times
- Name and save 3 to 180 characters
- Layout type Point to point · in the app, locked once the start line exists
- Start line Where the run begins
- Finish line Before or after the sectors
- Sectors · optional Split the lap for sector times
- Name and save 3 to 180 characters
Step 4
Draw the start and finish across the full width of the track.
Tap or click one side of the track to start a line, then the other side to finish it. The bar at the bottom of the map always shows which line you are drawing. Drag either end to adjust it; on the web, Esc drops a line you started by mistake.
Put the line where the official one is, if the circuit has one, so your lap times line up with the timing screens. On a point-to-point course the finish can be drawn before or after the sectors.
40 m, the default
Wide enough to catch a car running wide or leaving the pit lane, so two laps are never glued into one.
Step 5 · optional
Add sector lines where the lap changes character.
Sectors split the lap into parts you can compare against official timing and are what a sector table is read from. Draw them the same way as the start line; they are numbered S1, S2 and so on in track order, and you can rename each one.
If the circuit publishes official sector points, use those. If not, three sectors of roughly equal time is the convention, with each line on a straight rather than in a braking zone, where cars cross it at very different speeds.
Sectors are yours
You decide where they go and what they are called. They never move unless someone edits a copy of the layout.
Zones are automatic
Once enough laps have been driven on the layout, Vetkuro works out the corner-by-corner zones on its own. You do not draw them.
How zones are built →Step 6
Name it, check it, save it.
Name the layout the way drivers there would: "Full circuit", "Short loop", "GP with chicane". Between 3 and 180 characters; the field counts down what is left.
Add the official track length in meters if you know it, so lap distances line up with reality. It is optional. Then zoom out and look at every line once more on the map before you press Save layout.
If the connection drops while saving, your lines stay in the editor. Save again when you are back online.
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Step 7
After it exists, it belongs to everyone who drives there.
Your layout is a community layout. It carries your name and the date it was made, and the next driver who records at that track can time their laps on it.
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Copy, don't overwrite
Anyone can copy a layout as a starting point for their own. Saving a copy creates a new layout under a new name; the original stays unchanged, so nobody's lap times move under them.
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Delete while unused
You can delete your own layout as long as no session has used it yet. Once someone has driven on it, it stays.
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Move older sessions onto it
Recorded there before the layout existed? Reassign that session to the new layout and its laps are timed on your lines.
Your circuit, your lines.
Draw it on the phone at the track, or on the web from your desk. Free, no lap limit.
