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Karting Lap Timer App

Stopwatch & Laps turns the phone into a pit-wall lap timer: tap anywhere to start and to record each lap, add sector splits, and watch best, average, consistency and theoretical best update live. Save the session with track, driver and conditions, and your best lap shows up in Track Notes for that track.

Free: 50 laps · Works offline

Free: 50 saved laps in total across sessions (Premium lifts the cap)

Stopwatch & Laps is a pit-wall lap timer for timing a driver from trackside. The top of the screen is one large tap zone: tap anywhere to start, then tap anywhere each time the kart crosses the line to record a lap. Pause, Split, Save session and Reset sit in a separate row below, so a lap tap can never stop the clock.

As the laps come in, the session card shows your best, average and consistency, which is the standard deviation of the laps in seconds. The running lap shows its gap to the best lap, green when ahead and red when behind. Type a target lap such as 47.25 or 1:02.4 before you start and every lap in the timing-tower list shows its gap to the target as well as to the best.

Tap Split for intermediate times inside a lap. Split laps show sector times S1, S2 and so on, and the app works out a theoretical best: the quickest time in each sector added together. It uses the sector count most of your split laps share and ignores laps split a different number of times, so one missed press cannot invent a faster sector than anyone drove.

Pause, then save the session with track, driver, conditions and notes. Saved sessions show the lap count, best lap and date, and open to the full lap list with best, average and consistency. Track Notes picks up your best logged lap for a track saved under the same name. While the clock runs, the app locks the tabs and back gesture so a knock cannot end the session. You can switch between digital and analogue faces, and it all runs on the phone with no signal.

How to use it

  1. 01Open Pit Kit and choose Stopwatch & Laps.
  2. 02Before you start, optionally type a Target lap (e.g. 47.25 or 1:02.4).
  3. 03Tap anywhere on the timer panel as the kart crosses the line to start, then tap again on every lap; tap SPLIT at your sector markers if you want sector times.
  4. 04Tap PAUSE when the session ends, then Save session and add Track, Driver, Conditions and notes.
  5. 05Open any entry under Saved sessions to see its full lap list and stats.

Questions

Can I time kart laps from the pit wall with my phone?
Yes. Tap anywhere on the large timer panel to start as the kart crosses the line, and tap anywhere again each lap. The controls that pause or reset the clock sit in a separate row so a lap tap cannot hit them, and it works with no signal.
What is the theoretical best lap?
It is the sum of the quickest time recorded in each sector across the session's split laps. The app uses the sector count most split laps share and ignores laps split a different number of times, so a missed split cannot produce a sector time nobody actually drove.
How does the app measure lap consistency?
Consistency is the standard deviation of the session's lap times, shown in seconds as ±σ. The smaller the number, the closer together the laps were.

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