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E-Race v3
User Manual
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1. INSTALLATION.............................................................................................................. 4
1.1. DISTRIBUTION KIT ........................................................................................................ 4
1.2. DIRECTORIES .............................................................................................................. 5
1.3. FIRST USE .................................................................................................................. 5
2. DATA MANAGER........................................................................................................... 7
3. CHANNELS .................................................................................................................... 8
3.1. CHANNELS DISPLAY .................................................................................................... 8
3.2. CHANNELS PROPERTIES............................................................................................... 8
3.3. CHANNEL TOOLS (OPTIONAL)........................................................................................ 8
4. DATA ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................... 10
4.1. MAIN MENU .............................................................................................................. 10
4.2. DISPLAY INTERFACE .................................................................................................. 10
Channels table........................................................................................................... 10
Traced Channels ....................................................................................................... 10
Zoom.......................................................................................................................... 11
Time/Distance toggle ................................................................................................. 11
Floating Panels .......................................................................................................... 11
Screen configurations ................................................................................................ 11
Laps ........................................................................................................................... 12
Keyboard shortcuts .................................................................................................... 12
4.3. TABS ........................................................................................................................ 13
Overview.................................................................................................................... 13
Time/Distance Graphs ............................................................................................... 13
X/Y Graphs ................................................................................................................ 14
Statistics Graphs........................................................................................................ 14
5. MAPS............................................................................................................................ 15
5.1. OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................ 15
5.2. MAP OPTIONS ........................................................................................................... 15
6. LAPS ............................................................................................................................ 16
6.1. LAPS DISPLAY (OPTIONAL) ......................................................................................... 16
6.2. LAP TOOLS ............................................................................................................... 16
Split............................................................................................................................ 16
Merge......................................................................................................................... 16
Shift (track mode and 2 files only).............................................................................. 17
Restore ...................................................................................................................... 17
7. OPTIONS...................................................................................................................... 18
7.1. USER INTERFACE ...................................................................................................... 18
7.2. LANGUAGE ............................................................................................................... 18
7.3. GRAPHS ................................................................................................................... 18
8. SESSION INFORMATION............................................................................................ 19
9. USER INTERFACE CUSTOMIZATION (OPTIONAL) .................................................. 20
9.1. GENERAL ................................................................................................................. 20
9.2. TABS ........................................................................................................................ 20

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9.3. LAYOUTS .................................................................................................................. 20

9.4. DEFAULT INTERFACE RESTORATION ............................................................................ 20

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1. Installation
1.1.Distribution kit
E-Race software is distributed as a set of 6 files, in the E-Race folder of the installation CD
:

Launch the setup.exe program to install E-Race.

The installation software will detect if E-Race is already installed, and automatically
upgrade what’s needed.

At the end of the installation, the following window should appear:

This is the report of the directory creation utility. If at this point you have any error, please
contact us.

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1.2.Directories
E-Race uses the C:\XAP DATA\ directory as root.

Each track and session created with E-Link are placed under this root. The Maps extracted
will be saved under the MAP directory.

1.3.First Use
At the first use of the software you have to choose the language of the user interface.

You’ll be able to change the language later using the Options\Language Menu.

Then you have to select the default user interface you’ll use.

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These are a set of tabs used for displaying data.

Now the software is ready for use.

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2. Data Manager
When E-Race is started the only available menu is the Data Manager,
which allows you to open the data files.

It presents the Tracks and Session on the left, in a tree form.

Items legend:
Track/Session
Data File
Lap

The following actions can be taken:

- Left single click on a line selects a file or a specific lap.
- Left double click on a file: opens the file in single or compare mode (depending on
the chosen option).
- Left double click on a lap: open the corresponding file and points on the selected
lap.
- Right click on a line: shows the following popup menu

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Open file : Opens the selected file.

Select for compare : Opens twice the selected file for comparison.
Select for Pilot A : Adds the selected file as Pilot A.
Select for Pilot B : Adds the selected file as Pilot B.

When either a Pilot A, or a Pilot A and a Pilot B are selected, you can click on OK to open
the files.

3. Channels
3.1.Channels Display
Once at least one file is opened, the
Sessions\Channels menu is available.
You can display the channel table of a
specific file (Pilot A or Pilot B).

This reflects exactly the channel table as

it appears in the file.

No change on the channel table is needed

if using the XDash C2R2. The channels
are presented only as information.

3.2.Channels properties
This panel comes by right-clicking on the label of a
traced channel, and mostly contains the same
information than the data channel table, plus trace-
specific options, like the numbers of decimals.

3.3.Channel tools (optional)

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By right-clicking on the 2nd (or 3rd) column of the channel table,

this menu allows to:
- Realize a “Zero to Cursor” operation: you have to select
first the new reference value on a graph. Only the “B”
value of the channel will be modified.
- Bring up the Channel setup panel.
- Add in to the data window: it’s small floating panel able to
contain some channels and display their values.

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4. Data Analysis
4.1.Main Menu

After opening the files, the main menu bar is undimmed, as the first tab of Analysis
interface is opened. The following two controls make the floating tool windows appear. And
the list boxes change the laps you are visualizing.

4.2.Display interface
The interface is made of a top control bar, including the basic controls, such as
Time/Distance, Zoom, Shift, Screens, and a set of tabs containing the graphs.

The available channels are in the table at the right of the screen.

Channels table

This table may have up to 3 tabs, depending on the channels present in

the file :
- The Data tab contains the default physical channels.
- The Maths tab contains only computed channels.
- The Diag tab is filled with the diagnostic channels.
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It always indicates the value of the channel at the position of the cursor.

Traced Channels
Right-Clicking on a channel label make this menu appear :

The first button calls the “Channel Setup” tool. See below.

Second button realizes the Zero to Cursor operation.

The third button brings up a popup window with the Min and Max value for the
selected data.

The “Go To Min” and “Go To Max” buttons set the cursor position to the Min and Max of
the data.

The “Delete” button deletes the trace from the graph.

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The third button shows the “Trace Properties” panel.

To make this menu disappear without clicking a button, click the right mouse button or
press the Escape Key.

The Trace Properties panel allows you to change the color of a trace, or
delete it. There is also the possibility to use the value itself for the Y-scale
of the graph. Then click on the Close button, or press the Escape key.

Zoom
The zoom controls allows you to zoom around the current cursor, by dividing the scale by
2. You can also obtain the same result as the PLUS button
when left-double-clicking on a graph. The RESTORE button
will restore the original scaling.

The black bar on the right symbolizes the position of the zoomed data in the selected lap,
including its percentage.

You can drag the bar horizontally to navigate into the data.

Time/Distance toggle
This toggle allows to choose the X-Axis mode, time or
distance. If there is no distance channel available, like with the
C2R2 XDash data, this item is dimmed.

Floating Panels
The SHOW MAP button make the map panel to appear. The red and blue cursors
indicate the position of the two pilots, at the time or distance selected by the graph
cursors.

Screen configurations
E-Race allows you to save your favorites screen configuration
(graphs and channel traces on them), up to 16 different
configurations. The last configuration used is stored in the “Auto”
screen.

You can choose any saved screen configuration, or save the current screen.

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Click on the Interface\Save Current Screen menu :

A new panel will appear. If you want to create a new

screen configuration, enter its name.

Or choose an existing configuration from the list, clicking

on rename if it’s needed.

Laps
The lap control allows you to choose the lap you want to display,
for each pilot. The Best Lap is indicated with an asterisk.

This control only shows the Enabled laps. By default, all laps are
Enabled.

Keyboard shortcuts
You can use the left/right arrows to move the cursors on the graphs. If you are zooming,
the arrow will make the graphs slide horizontally.

Pressing the SHIFT key and the arrows key, when the screen is zoomed, will slide the
graphs page by page.

The Page-Up and Page-Down keys allow to change the current lap for the last used Pilot
Lap control.

F1 will bring the contextual help.

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4.3.Tabs

Overview

Each interface consists in a set of tabs (here, 4). You can navigate through them by
clicking on their labels, at the bottom of the screen. See chapter 9 for information about
interface customization.

On each tab, there is up to 4 graph controls, of 3 different types :

- Time/Distance graphs: the data is traced against time or distance
- X/Y graphs: a channel is traced against another one.
- Statistics graphs: a 10 bars histogram of the data, computed on the current zoom
level.

Time/Distance Graphs

On these graphs the data is plotted against time or distance.

To plot a data channel on a Time/Distance graph, drag and drop the channel on the graph
control from:
- the label of the channel, to erase all traces
- the value of the channel, to add a trace to the graph

Note: if there is more than one file opened, the first option traces the data for the two
Pilots.

Restrictions: You can only overlay different channels from a given pilot, or different pilots
for a given channel.

The default trace colors are red, blue, green and magenta. You can change the trace color
with the Trace Properties panel (see above).

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X/Y Graphs
This graph allows to plot one data against
another one, typically oil pressure versus engine
RPM, or pedal signal versus throttle position.

To put a data channel on the X axis, you have to

drop it in the lower right part of the graph. The Y
data has to be dropped in the upper left part.

The trace is also automatically adjusted when

the zoom level changes, or when another part of
data is selected with the zoom bar.

Statistics Graphs

This graph offers a histographic

representation of data, for the selected
lap or all laps.

On the left of the screen, there are the

intervals, and on the right the % of time
for this interval, and the total time.

For example in the capture beside, the

Pilot A has been between 7280 and
6874 RPM 2.1% of time, 1.8s, and the
Pilot B 2.6% of time, 2.2s.

You can display the channel of your choice with drag and drop from the channel table.

If you want to see all the values for the entire time of the session, use the All Session lap.

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5. Maps
5.1.GPS
The GPS device records in real-time the position of the car, and the time, in order to
retrace the trip, and display the time for every data.

5.2.Overview
The localization of the vehicle can be made in two ways:
- Track mode: the position on the track is calculated with the distance channel, and
traced on a pre-recorded map.
- Rallye mode: the position is computed in real time with the GPS data in the file.

The first mode is interesting when the GPS can’t be fitted permanently in the vehicle.
Otherwise, it’s recommended to use the second mode.

5.3.Map Options
Click on Options\Map to display the Map Options panel.

You can set here the two modes previously presented.

The colors are those displayed on the floating map panel.

The external link is a new feature, working only in Rallye

Mode. By putting the switch “ON”, and launching the Google
Earth application, the position of the vehicle is automatically
displayed on its map, in real time. It’s strongly recommended
to use two different screens, one for E-Race, the other for
Google Earth.

The Google Earth application can be downloaded on the www.google.com website. It only
works with an active internet connexion.

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6. Laps
6.1. Laps Display (optional)
In some cases, the laps recorded by the data logging system are
inaccurate. They appear in the lap time list, but are not representatives
of any pilot performance.

So you may want to disable them, as they disturb the analysis of the
good laps.

Use the Lap\Display menu item to show this window.

Choose the Pilot you want to modify the laps in the list control on the
top of the window. His lap time list appears in the table below.

Then double-click on the lap time you want to disable. The cell will
become grey, as the lap is disabled. To re-enable a lap just double-
click on it.

The effect is immediate. Click on OK to close this window.

6.2. Lap tools

In the Lap menu, you’ll access the different lap tools.

Split
First, you have to position the cursor on the point you want the
current lap splitted. Then click on Laps\Split\Pilot X, when X is the
name of the “Pilot” you want to split the lap.

You can make adjustment on the time, or the distance if it’s

available.

Merge
Select the first lap you want to merge and click on
Lap\Merge\Pilot X. A panel appears with a summary of the
action.

Click OK to merge the laps.

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Shift (track mode and 2 files only)

The shift tool allows correcting the lap shifting between two XAP files. Between the two
sessions, the beacon may have been displaced, so you have to shift the starting of all
laps.

You have first to shift the Pilot B data. Then click on Lap\Shift\Pilot B. The current shifting
is saved in the file.

Restore
This item just restores the laps as they were in the original file, cancelling the modifications
made with the lap tools.

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7. Options
7.1. User Interface

Click on Options\User Interface.

You can set :

- The color of the text labels background
(default: transparent)
- The startup lap, Best Lap, or All Session
- The units, Imperial or metric
- The GMT Time difference, if it hasn’t been set
correctly in the data logging system
- The default opening file mode, while double-
clicking on a file in the data manager
- The display to use at the opening of a file, the
last one used or the default one defined in the
configuration.

7.2.Language
Click on Options\Language.

You can change the language of the E-Race User Interface.

Clicking OK will automatically close the software. The new
language will be effective on the next use.

7.3.Graphs
Click on Options\Graphs.

In this box you can hide or show the grid of the graphs, and change
traces from lines to dots (very slow).
You can also choose any color you like for the grid, the graph
background and the main vertical cursor.

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8. Session Information
The Session Information Tool allows you to
access all information in the XAP file, as the
pilot name, date, wheel perimeter…

The Pilot Name, Date and Time are only

informational, and have no effect on the data.

The Wheel perimeter is not used with the

C2R2 XDash data.

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9. User Interface customization (optional)

Click on Interface\Edit to bring up the Interface Setup Panel.

9.1.General
Here you can set up a new background picture, shown when
you launch E-Race. The picture file should be left in the E-race
program files directory.

You can also set a new name for the interface.

9.2.Tabs
This is the list of the tabs present in the interface. Use the buttons below to create, delete,
and move tabs.

9.3.Layouts
Here are the available layouts:

2 Time/Distance graphs

3 Time/Distance graphs

4 Time/Distance Graphs

1, 2 can be either Stats or X/Y Graphs. 3 is a Time/Distance graph.

1, 2, 3, 4 can be either Stats or X/Y Graphs.

9.4.Default interface restoration

You can always restore the default display configuration, clicking on the Data\Restore
default configuration menu, and choose Citroen C2R2.

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