Stephen Ellis is an amateur racing driver with 38 recorded laps across 5 vehicles on LapMeta, averaging 7.6 laps per car—high concentration ratio indicating focused commitment to mastering five specific platforms. Over seven laps per vehicle builds profound knowledge transcending typical driver-vehicle relationships, revealing nuances impossible to discover through brief exposure. This exceptional focus demonstrates specialist philosophy prioritizing depth over superficial breadth.
His LapMeta data shows testing with 7 laps at 13CW configuration, 6 laps at Streets, and 5 laps at Streets-CCW. The selective 5-vehicle portfolio suggests curated testing balancing comparative education against deep platform understanding. Each car received over seven sessions revealing how tire performance evolves, how brake feel changes with temperature, optimal techniques for specific chassis characteristics, and extracting maximum capability as conditions vary. This depth often allows dedicated amateurs to outperform professionals conducting brief evaluations through intimate vehicle-specific knowledge. With 38 laps concentrated across five vehicles averaging nearly 8 laps each, Stephen Ellis exemplifies the focused specialist who treats motorsport as pursuit of perfection through systematic development and intimate platform expertise.
This is the in-cabin video to my previous video, didn't add the lap time to this one because it seemed redundant.
PB weather is has been hard to come by this year in SoCal, but for some strange reason SDC keeps getting these amazing weather track days. Rather than waste it on trying to hunt for another PB I used the day to focus on consistency!
Last PB here was 2:01 so the goal today was to consistently match that speed and refine my vision by focusing on reference points. Without a lack of trying I did try to clock a PB today but that was towards the end of the day, ended up having some personal matters to tend to.
Tried out Race Chrono Pro and it's CAN / ODBII Data-logging Capabilities to try to supplement my data logging needs ; since Garmin still doesn't have an OBD2 solution (it's an Android App, how hard is it to add BT OBD2 dongles ?) and made an overlay for the video. This will be used to help with coaching.
Shout out to the OSS Devs that put this together as it was going to take me forever to figure out how to log this stuff on my own. https://github.com/timurrrr/RaceChronoDiyBleDevice
Lastly, Fresh set of @bridgestonetires RE71RS in 255/40/17 thanks to @ConceptIIIPerformance , I'm fairly certain my @FealSuspension 441s are due for some maintenance now so ill try to get those taken care of during the summer when its... generally too hot around here..
TL;DR
Skipped looking for a PB and found consistency in my driving, which was just as rewarding.