A mechanic's first morning with Team Garage
By LapperSnapper ·
Team Garage gives the mechanic a repeatable loop for the time between runs: read the conditions, choose the starting setup, record what actually ran, connect the session and make the next change.
1. Read the morning before touching the kart
Open Garage to see the whole fleet and its readiness. The live Conditions card uses your location to show the current air temperature, humidity, wind and pressure, plus relative air density or density altitude. Open the briefing for the hourly outlook, correction factor, carb-icing risk and the last recorded visit here.
2. Give the first heat a deliberate starting point
Open the driver's kart and its Setup tab. Create today's heat from a named baseline, clone the latest heat, or start blank. A baseline is a reusable setup library entry; a heat is the independent record of what the kart actually runs. Later edits to the source never rewrite a heat already created from it.
3. Record the setup and the paddock truth
Enter the tyres, chassis, axle, geometry, drivetrain, engine and weight values that matter, then add the heat's track state, grip, air and track temperature, humidity and pressure. These paddock readings are manual and belong to the heat. They sit beside the fetched live weather but are not silently copied or merged with it.
4. Attach the run to the heat it actually used
After the run is recorded or imported, open the session's Setup tab and assign it to the correct heat. Assignment is explicit: LapperSnapper never guesses from the clock. More than one session can share a heat, and every assigned session sees the same setup record.
5. Use the evidence to build the next heat
Open the session's lap data and logger channels to judge the change, then clone the heat forward and adjust only what should move. The new heat keeps a snapshot of its source so the change remains visible. When a setup deserves to be reused, save the current heat as a named baseline.
6. Make the handover unambiguous
Set the readiness chip to Ready, Needs attention or Grounded before the kart leaves your hands. Mechanics can change that operational status directly; if the handover needs a readiness note, service report, photo or vehicle-record change, pass that context to an owner or coach to add to the durable record.
Verification. Mechanic permissions, live conditions, baselines, heats, manual paddock readings, explicit session assignment and readiness were checked against the current LapperSnapper implementation on 20 September 2026.