Bests board

Sessions › Bests (#/sessions?sub=bests; old #/bests links land there) — the personal-bests board: for every circuit, the fastest counting lap per car, across every session ever recorded. The Sessions sub-tab answers what did I drive; this answers what is the best I have ever done here, and in what — the numbers a lap has to beat.

What a row means

One card per circuit, with the circuit's outright best time in its header. Inside it, one row per car — the fastest counting lap that car ever set at that circuit, whatever session it happened in, fastest first. Per row:

Part	Meaning
Car and class chip	the car, and its class ("Gr.3", "N300"…) when GT7 broadcast one
clean / ⚠	track limits on that lap from GT7's surface flags (– when the lap has no surface data), plus a · N ⚠ count of excursions beyond the surveyed road edge
of N laps · date	how many counting laps stand behind the row — a best from one lap and a best from forty are different kinds of evidence — and when the best was set
Δ	gap to the circuit's outright best (best on the fastest row), so within a circuit the rows read as a ladder
Time	the best counting lap
open	opens the lap in Analysis

Counting laps only. Pit out-laps and laps the capture only half-saw are excluded by the same span guard that keeps them from owning a session best: a partial lap's reported time is shorter than any real lap's, so without the rule the board would fill with laps that never happened. Laps you excluded by hand are left out too. Sessions whose circuit was never named can't be grouped and don't appear — name the track once and every session there joins the board.

Why a quicker time is missing

When a lap quicker than a row's best was excluded by hand, the row says so: ⊘ 1:28.422 off-track — the fastest excluded time and the reason it was given, with +N when there are more. Hover it for the full list. Slower excluded laps change nothing on the board, so they aren't mentioned; a circuit and car whose every lap is excluded has no row at all.

Category filter

The same class chips as the Sessions sub-tab — they sit above both: pick one and the board narrows to that class — the Gr.3 board. The view fetches the whole board once and filters in place, so the chips always list every class that actually holds a best; only classes present are offered, and cars whose class is unknown (recorded below packet C) appear only under All. (API consumers can ask the server for the same narrowing with /api/laps/bests?category= — it filters the finished board rows, never re-ranking within a class.)

Excluded sessions

Sessions flagged exclude from bests never own a row here, however fast their laps: replays record other drivers' laps into your history and telemetry cannot tell them from your own driving, so the flag is how a salvaged leaderboard replay is kept for comparison without standing on your board as your time. A row set by a salvaged lap carries a ⟲ salvaged marker for exactly this reason — if you don't recognize the time, that marker is the trail back to the replay session to exclude. The same applies to imported lap files: an import lands in a session like any lap and can own a row, so a friend's lap you imported to study belongs in an excluded session.

Open in Analysis

Every row's open opens its lap in Analysis. From there, + Add lap… pulls any other lap at the same circuit into the comparison — your latest attempt against the board's row, or the row against the class benchmark. The board is the index; Analysis is the microscope.