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Qualifying – Formatting & Cleanup Instructions

Use these steps whenever you import raw Club Speed data for a Qualifying heat into a thought of Type Qualifying.

1. Paste raw data into the Qualifying thought

  1. Open the Club Speed Heat Details page for the qualifying session.
  2. Copy all text (headers, winner, classification, lap times, etc.).
  3. Paste everything into the notes of the Qualifying thought.

2. Build the Session section

  1. At the top of the note, create:

### Session

  1. From the raw text, fill in:
    • Heat Type: e.g. MNL Qualifying - 1Lap(F).
    • Date: e.g. 1/5/2026 7:20 PM.
    • Format: for hot-lap qualifying, use:
      • 1 flying lap per driver (hot lap qualifying)
  1. Delete extra raw lines that are not needed in the summary (for qualifying):
    • Win By, Winner, etc. (the winner will be obvious from the grid).

3. Build the Grid table

  1. Under the Session section, add:

### Grid

| Pos | Racer | Lap Time | Interval | Gap | ProSkill | +/- |

  1. Column definitions:
    • Pos – final qualifying position.
    • Racer – driver name (remove - P).
    • Lap Time – best lap from Club Speed.
    • Interval – time difference to the car immediately ahead.
    • Gap – time difference to the leader (P1).
    • ProSkill – ProSkill SCORE.
    • +/- – This Round +/- from Club Speed (or — if not provided).

4. Fill the Grid from the raw classification

  1. In the raw block, find the main classification that contains:
    • Position, Racer, Best Lap, Gap from Leader, ProSkill, This Round +/-.
  1. For each driver:
    • Pos: copy the position number (1, 2, 3, ...).
    • Racer: copy the name, then remove trailing - P or - N (e.g. A. Kennedy - P → A. Kennedy, B. Driver - N → B. Driver).
    • Lap Time: use Best Lap.
    • Gap: use Gap from Leader (vs. P1). For P1 this is -.
    • ProSkill: use ProSkill SCORE.
    • +/-: use This Round +/- where present; otherwise set —.

Example row layout:

| 1 | A. Kennedy | 39.321 | - | - | 8618 | +34 |

| 2 | A. Schopler | 39.332 | 0.011 | 0.011 | 7610 | +42 |

5. Compute the Interval column

Steps:

  1. For P1, set Interval = - (no car ahead).
  2. For each driver from P2 downward:
    • Interval = LapTime(current) − LapTime(driver ahead).

Example using real numbers:

Gap remains the time to the leader, as provided by Club Speed.

6. Simplify and clean up

  1. Drop redundant columns:
    • Remove the Laps column from the table when everyone has the same number of laps (for hot-lap quali it is 1 for all drivers).
  1. Remove extra sections for Qualifying:
    • Delete the long Lap Times by Racer block because each driver has only one flying lap and it’s already in Lap Time.
    • Once the grid is verified, delete the remaining raw import text.

7. Final expected layout for a Qualifying thought

After cleanup, a typical Qualifying thought should look like this:

### Session

### Grid

| Pos | Racer | Lap Time | Interval | Gap | ProSkill | +/- |

| 1 | A. Kennedy | 39.321 | - | - | 8618 | +34 |

| 2 | A. Schopler | 39.332 | 0.011 | 0.011 | 7610 | +42 |

| 3 | K. Mullings | 39.364 | 0.032 | 0.043 | 6920 | +63 |

| 4 | T. Loidl | 39.510 | 0.146 | 0.189 | 6545 | — |

| 5 | K. Patel | 39.828 | 0.318 | 0.507 | 5384 | — |

| 6 | J. Babineau | 40.066 | 0.238 | 0.745 | 5633 | — |

| 7 | J. Moore | 40.130 | 0.064 | 0.809 | 6201 | — |

| 8 | E. Vanwagner | 40.537 | 0.407 | 1.216 | 4855 | — |

| 9 | W. Shurtleff | 40.582 | 0.045 | 1.261 | 4286 | — |

| 10 | C. Loidl | 40.637 | 0.055 | 1.316 | 4081 | — |

Whenever you set a race thought to Type Qualifying, you can refer back to this Type’s notes as the checklist for converting the raw Club Speed data into your standard format.