WORKING along with an information logging system, Hyundai has this week offered an upgraded model of its Observe Maps racetrack info characteristic at no cost obtain to enabled N efficiency fashions.
Information logging and different related information’ on the racetrack is very fascinating for a lot of fanatic drivers who frequently take a look at themselves and their automotive within the managed excessive velocity setting.
To get a heads-up on the observe and the nitty gritty in your and your automotive’s efficiency has, up to now required refined digital tools that got here at a excessive price.
Hyundai has gone a couple of further steps with its new Observe Maps characteristic in comparison with different savvy car-makers who present an information logging system designed particularly to cater for so-called “observe addicts”.
Information logging has been accessible in Hyundai’s N efficiency vehicles for some time however has been not too long ago upgraded to incorporate extra info and particularly, related info on most of Australia’s essential racetracks.
The total title is Hyundai N Observe Maps and it accommodates an expanded catalogue of supported Australian circuits. Observe Maps identifies when a appropriate N car is on a racetrack, permitting the motive force to run an automated lap timer and logger.
The perform additionally shows car place on observe within the multimedia show and is obtainable on the favored i20 N, i30 Sedan N and Kona N excessive efficiency SUV.
Customers can obtain the Observe Maps software program replace from the replace.hyundai.com web site (without charge), and there’s no want to go to a dealership. This and subsequent software program updates could be downloaded onto a USB stick after which uploaded by the consumer into the appropriate Hyundai N mannequin’s navigation/multimedia system. The method solely takes a couple of minutes.
After a widget is downloaded onto the multimedia show in appropriate N fashions, Observe Maps helps the motive force undertake a “Let’s Play” mind-set by displaying the circuit format on strategy.
The system intuitively identities the racetrack and format, permitting the motive force to run an automated lap timer triggered when crossing the beginning/end line, liberating mind capability for hitting every apex, reasonably than a lap timer button.
The characteristic not solely reveals the place of the car on observe however gives stay lap timing and a log of earlier lap instances (lap timing additionally displayed within the driver’s digital cluster).
This, is along with the data-logging supplied by the N Efficiency Driving Information System, which gives an acceleration timer, a g-force meter, and energy, torque and turbocharger increase gauges.
Observe Maps first appeared within the surprisingly succesful Kona N and is now accessible from the i20 N by to the i30 Sedan N.
The system helps, Wakefield Park Raceway (whereas it exists) and Sydney Motorsport Park in NSW, Winton and Sandown in Victoria, Queensland Raceway, Morgan Park and Lakeside in QLD, Mallala and The Bend in SA, Baskerville and Symmons Plains in Tasmania, Collie and Wanneroo in WA, Hidden Valley within the NT and extra, together with a number of layouts and separate begin/end strains the place relevant.
“Each Hyundai N mannequin has an innate sense of enjoyable and driver involvement engineered into it,” mentioned Hyundai Motor Firm Australia CEO Ted Lee.
“Now, that’s complemented by the Observe Maps software program that may recognise and routinely report lap instances round a number of Australian racing circuits, to immediate the motive force when the chance for driving enjoyable arises.”
Observe Maps enhances all of the track-focused options and applied sciences inherent within the Hyundai N vary.
