Hi guys,
Recently I've been reading through my Race History and exporting the csv's to gather some data for my league. It is proving to be a long and tedious job, which could be much easier.
Can we add a few features here?
1. Adding a 'next' and 'previous' button would really speed things up. At the moment, when I click in one of the races, it pops up and closes the list view. Then, when I close it, it takes me back to the top of the list and I have to scroll back down (which is also slow due to the lazy loading feature).
2. When saving, can we add the date and venue of the race to the filename? Right now, it just exports as a set of numbers which I assume is the race ID. It makes file management really annoying and prone to mistakes.
3. Add a break between the driver and the team name. At the moment, they get merged as one without a space, e.g. 'C WrightMercedes'. Would be nice to have the full name too, as sometimes drivers have the same last name and initial.
Edit:
It would be better to keep the current 'driver_name+team_name', but add them as separate fields as well. The first is useful for lookups, and the latter for labelling (e.g. C WrightMercedes, C Wright, Mercedes).
I also found that there are two empty spaces before the name, so instead of it showing as 'C WrightMercedes' it is in fact exporting as ' C WrightMercedes'. I believe this is caused by the national flag & gender icons that show before the drivers name on the list.
4. When exporting, it's difficult to find the fastest lap holder. Just adding a column titled 'Fastest Lap' and putting the time again would help with data lookups (it would be the same as Best Lap, but only show for the actual Fastest Lap holder).
5. In the export, the top 3 positions don't get saved, I suspect this is because they are shown as trophy icon's on the page (lower priority, anyone can just add 1,2,3).
6. I think most people who export these CSV's want to manipulate the data somehow. That said, the Finish column data shows up as errors after the race winner. If you open the CSV in Excel/Sheets it interprets the initial plus sign as a formula or sum. Personally, removing the plus sign in the export would make most sense. (lower priority - can use Replace All)
7. It would be great to be able to export all three Practice/Quali/Race csv's in one click, it would just save a bit of time.
8. Not important, but 'Top MPH' is a useless statistic.
Point 1 is the most time saving by far, just having that would be a life-saver, and the Fastest Lap indicator would make it easier too. The filenames would also be amazing. Others have workarounds.