Sotnem.com Launches In-App Telemetry Viewer: Motorsport Data Made Simple
A native in-app telemetry viewer reads raw motorsport data and presents it in plain language that any athlete, parent, or junior driver can understand, not just engineers.
Sotnem.com has launched a native in-app telemetry viewer that transforms raw motorsport data into clear, actionable coaching insights anyone can understand. Throttle position, brake pressure, G-force, sector times, gear changes, and speed traces are no longer locked behind engineering dashboards and specialist knowledge. With the new viewer, every athlete, parent, and junior driver can read their own performance data as easily as reading a text message.
Your data. Your language. Your improvement.
The Problem with Existing Telemetry Tools
Motorsport telemetry has historically been the domain of engineers. Professional data analysis software presents raw CAN bus streams, multi-axis graphs, and numeric overlays that require significant training to interpret. For a karting parent watching their 12-year-old compete, or a club-level racer trying to find three tenths of a second, these tools create more confusion than clarity.
The result is a gap between data collection and data understanding. Many grassroots competitors invest in data loggers and sensors but struggle to extract meaningful coaching value from the information they capture. The hardware works perfectly. The software assumes you are an engineer.
How the Viewer Translates Raw Data into Coaching
The Sotnem Telemetry Viewer reads standard data formats from popular motorsport loggers and presents the information through a coaching-first lens. Instead of showing a throttle trace graph and expecting the user to interpret the squiggly line, the viewer identifies specific moments where the data reveals a coaching opportunity and explains it in plain language.
A corner analysis in the new viewer might read: "You braked 18 metres later than your fastest lap in sector 2. Your entry speed was 4 km/h higher but your minimum corner speed was 6 km/h lower, which means you carried too much speed into the turn and had to scrub it off mid-corner. Try braking at the same point as lap 7 and focus on a smoother turn-in." This is the kind of feedback a professional coach would give, now generated automatically from the raw data.
What the Viewer Shows
The telemetry viewer presents data across several intuitive panels:
- Corner-by-Corner Breakdown: Each corner on the circuit is analysed independently with clear explanations of braking point, entry speed, minimum speed, apex timing, and exit acceleration. Comparisons against the driver's own best performance highlight where time is being gained or lost.
- Sector Analysis: Time deltas for each sector are presented with specific explanations of what changed between laps. "You lost 0.3s in sector 3 because your throttle application was 0.4 seconds later coming out of turn 8."
- Session Summary: An overview of the entire session including lap time progression, consistency metrics, and the top three areas for improvement ranked by potential time gain.
- Comparison Mode: Side-by-side lap comparisons with plain-language explanations of the differences, making it easy to understand what the faster lap did differently.
The AI Layer: Pattern Recognition Across Sessions
Beyond single-session analysis, the telemetry viewer's AI layer identifies patterns across multiple sessions and events. It tracks whether a driver consistently struggles with the same corner type, whether performance improves or declines in certain weather conditions, and whether setup changes produce measurable results.
Over time, the AI builds a performance profile for each driver, learning their strengths and identifying their most productive areas for development. A notification might read: "Across your last 5 events, you lose an average of 0.2 seconds per lap in high-speed left-handers. This pattern suggests a chassis setup adjustment may help. Here are the setup changes that worked at similar tracks."
Who Benefits Most
The telemetry viewer is designed for the competitors who need data insights the most but have traditionally been unable to access them: junior drivers building their skills, parents who want to support their child's development with data rather than guesswork, and club-level racers competing on weekends who do not have the budget for a dedicated data engineer.
For semi-professional teams running multiple drivers, the viewer provides a consistent analysis framework that ensures every driver receives the same depth of feedback regardless of whether the team's engineer is trackside that day.
The Sotnem Telemetry Viewer is available now for all motorsport subscribers as part of the platform's racing intelligence suite.