vMin corner scores: reading the dots and pinning them
Two laps can post almost the same time and still be won and lost in completely different corners. vMin is built to find those corners: for every turn on the track, it scores the slowest speed you carried through it against every other driver who has logged that same corner, so a glance at the track map tells you which turn is actually costing you speed — not just which lap.
The score is only as good as where it's measured, though, and the automatic guess at a corner's slowest point occasionally lands a few meters from where you actually brake and apex. You can drag it to the real spot yourself, and LapLift remembers that correction for next time.
What the score measures
For each corner, vMin finds the minimum speed you carried through it and ranks that against other drivers' minimum speeds through the same corner, as a 1st-to-99th percentile — 1 is the slowest in the field, 99 the fastest. The dot on the track map is colored along that scale: red-ish toward the low end, green toward the high end.
Corners here are the track's own turn markers — T1, T2, and so on — not any custom sectors you may have drawn on the map yourself. The two look similar on the map, but they are separate features built from separate data; see the “Customize your track's sectors” guide for the splits system.
A dot without a color — a flat gray — means one of two things: too few other drivers have logged that corner yet to rank against, or the detected minimum-speed point looks unreliable (right at the edge of where the software searched for it). Either way, treat that dot's position as approximate rather than exact.
Turning it on
- Load the laps you want to look at on the analysis page — vMin needs at least one selected lap, and it only compares laps that are all on the same track.
- Find the vMin toggle in the analysis header — labeled “vMin score (corner min speed)” — and switch it on.
- Give it a moment to fetch and score; a dot appears at each corner along the track once it's done.
The toggle only appears when LapLift has corner reference data for the track you're viewing — not every track has it yet.
Pinning a corner
If a corner's dot isn't sitting where you actually brake and apex, drag it there. Click (or touch) the dot and drag it along the track to the point you want measured, then release. It saves on its own — no confirm button — and the score, speed, and position for that corner refresh to reflect where you dropped it, because LapLift re-centers its search around your pin rather than just moving a label.
This works with a mouse on desktop and with touch — the dot has a larger invisible grab area than its visible size, specifically so it's easier to hit with a thumb on a phone or tablet.
A pin is saved per corner, per track, per driver. It doesn't change your logged lap or sector times, and it doesn't affect anyone else's view of the track — only where vMin looks for that one corner's minimum speed, for you.
Undoing a pin
Drag a corner again at any time to move a pin you already set — the new drop position simply replaces the old one. Once you have at least one saved pin, a “Reset corner pins” button appears next to the vMin toggle, showing how many you have; pressing it clears every pin you've saved for the current track in one go and falls back to automatic detection everywhere.
There is no per-corner undo button — only a full reset for the track. If you only want to fix one corner, just drag that dot to a better spot instead of resetting.
Questions
Are vMin corners the same as my custom sector splits?
No. vMin's corners come from LapLift's built-in turn markers (T1, T2, and so on) for the track, not the splits you draw yourself with right-click. Dragging a vMin dot never touches your splits, and editing your splits never moves a vMin corner.
Why is a dot gray instead of colored?
Either not enough other drivers have logged that corner yet to rank against, or the detected minimum-speed point looks unreliable — right at the edge of where the software searched. Both cases render as gray rather than a false-confident color.
Does pinning a corner change my lap time?
No. A pin only changes where vMin measures and displays that corner's minimum speed. Your recorded lap and sector times are untouched.
Can I drag corner dots from my phone?
Yes. The drag works with touch as well as a mouse — the dot's actual touch target is larger than what you see, to make it easier to grab with a thumb.
I moved a dot to the wrong spot. Now what?
Drag it again — a new drop simply replaces the old pin. If you'd rather start over completely, “Reset corner pins” clears every pin you've saved for that track at once (there's no per-corner undo, only the full reset).
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