What this pillar does
The seven-term identity says every lap time is the sum of six physics components plus driver skill. This pillar makes that identity visible at three different scales:- Per lap the Waterfall shows a single driver’s full breakdown as an additive bar chart.
- Full race How the Race Was Lost sums the per-lap components across an entire race, turning fractions of a second into total minutes of time lost or gained.
- Per sector Sector & Corner splits the decomposition by timing sector, allocating each physics component to where in the lap it actually came from.
fct_lap_residuals,
the transform model that closes the identity for every green lap in the dataset. The
decomposition maths are documented in the Transform
Residual Decomposition family page.
Every feature in this pillar
Lap Waterfall
A waterfall chart showing how fuel, compound, rubber, ambient, constructor, dirty air,
and driver skill each contribute to a driver’s pace delta, with track noise as a diagnostic.
How the Race Was Lost
The per-lap decomposition summed across an entire race, turning average-per-lap
components into total seconds gained or lost to each cause.
Sector & Corner
The lap decomposition applied to each of the three timing sectors separately, so
sectors sum correctly to the full lap total.