If your fun involves track time, there’s a good chance your fun also involves data acquisition. Diving into your data system’s settings to ensure you’re capturing everything you need can feel overwhelming, though, so while checking the internet for advice can prove useful, nothing is more effective than knowledge from absolute experts. To that point, while you may not compete in SCCA® Road Racing’s Spec MX-5 class, there’s a good chance you can learn a lot about correct data setup from Mazda Motorsports and AiM in their Spec MX-5 data setup guide – a guide that also touches on Flagtronics integration.

Recently updated on the Spec MX-5 website, the guide covers some of the class requirements for data acquisition and submission to Stewards per the GCR. Scroll down a bit, and you’ll discover which systems Spec MX-5 cars can use, which if you run any AiM setup beyond a Solo 2, this guide will likely be useful for whatever’s in your road race or Time Attack car.

In the “How to Configure your Data Logger” section, readers are presented with a sheet that covers how to ensure data channels are correctly activated and configured. Further nuggets of knowledge are also included, like the advice that a data capture rate of 20Hz minimum is recommended for pressures, while temperatures should be set at 10Hz or higher. There’s also a note to uncheck boxes for items that would otherwise be capturing null data.

Speaking of sensors, further down in the article is a section on configuring fuel and oil pressure sensors. Some of the tips on those links are specific to Spec MX-5, but others offer excellent tips to making new sensors in your competition vehicle work correctly.

The article also offers tips on Flagtronics integration with an AiM data logger (something every Flagtronics user with an AiM should check out) plus an hour-long data webinar.

The complete article can be found by clicking here.

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