Co-driver colours part of new LED display info for Bathurst

Supercars will introduce additional information to help fans follow the action, with co-driver colours added to LED display panels for the Repco Bathurst 1000.

LED display panels were introduced this year on the new Gen3 cars to help fans follow the track action. The MoTeC-designed displays are installed on the passenger’s side of the front windscreen on all cars.

The new LED information will make its track debut in Practice 1 at Mount Panorama at 1:20pm AEDT on Thursday.

The following displays will be used to show a driver's/car's on track position during each session in the same format as the circuit timing screen.

PRACTICE & QUALIFYING

Yellow: Default colour for Primary Driver to display a Car's position in the Session. 

Blue: Default colour for Co-Driver to display a Car's position in the Session.

Purple: When a Car has set the fastest time for a Sector, the position number will be displayed Purple the same as the timing screen in the garages. If the Driver takes overall lap time #1 position at the control line, the 01 position will be displayed Purple to show trackside that the Driver just completed the fastest lap.

Green: When a Car has set the individual Driver's fastest Sector time, the position number will be displayed Green. If a Car sets a personal best lap time at the control line but not #01, then the new position number (eg #02) will be displayed Green to show the Car just set its fastest time so far in the Session.

RACES

Yellow: Default colour for Primary Driver to display a Car's position in the Session. 

Blue: Default colour for Co-Driver to display a Car's position in the Session.

Purple: When a Car has set the fastest lap for the Race, the position number will be displayed Purple the same as the timing screen in the garages. The Driver’s position number will stay Purple for the duration of the Race to show they have set the fastest lap unless another Driver records a faster lap.

Green: When a Car sets a personal sector and/or overall best lap time, the position number will be displayed Green for that lap.

RACE STARTS/STALLED CAR

Red: When a Car stalls on the grid or in another situation like being stuck in a sand trap during a session, the position display will show 88 in Red. 88 has been chosen to give maximum display to grab attention, especially for starts.

This can also assist Race Control on decisions through the live race vision.

WHITE NUMBERS

A Car's live pit stop time, time indicates the air jack deployment time via a pressure sensor.

The display is programmed to be active from when the Car is raised in the air until 10 seconds after the car exits pit lane.