now, for most drivers, what makes the biggest difference to their speed isn t tweaking the car, it s about their driving skills. i put way too much curve in there, didn t i? yeah. and that usually means getting an instructor to help us improve. and then back the other way. that is until now. garmin have come up with the catalyst. it wants to make me drive faster. my question is, can it make me the next lewis hamilton? and more to the point, is ben here out of a job? so far, my best time around the track was a 151.6. i was getting faster, but could the catalyst make a difference? now, when you re driving a car around a track, you re aiming to do one thing take corners really well. it s all about timing,
this is thruxton race circuit. it s the fastest track in the uk where ordinary road cars can take corners at over 100mph. now, for most drivers, what makes the biggest difference to their speed isn t tweaking the car, it s about their driving skills. and that usually means getting an instructor to help us improve. that is until now. i ve come up with the catalyst. it wants to make me drive faster. my question is, can it make me the next lewis hamilton? and more to the point,
take corners really well. it s all about timing, braking in the right place and trying to keep the car on the fastest line. to help with this, the catalyst uses a camera fitted to the dashboard, along with gps and accelerometers, to work out where you are on the circuit. after three set up laps, it analyses where it thinks improvements can be made and then coaches you in real time as you continue round the circuit. what did it say, ben? good job on braking harder. 0k. so that s what it wants me to do apex later. it says nice work, so it s sort of encouraging me a little bit. this is my session summary, and the catalyst has picked out some
really expect it to. i thought it would go for the twisty bits, but it hasn t. it s gone for the long, sweeping fast corners. look at that church, it thinks i can improve on, that run up the hill fast and sudden braking into the chicane. it thinks that i can do much better. so all it needed was a few more laps. that was good. good turning! i said it first. you did, i ll give you that. the results were in. it did help me go faster. it helped me straighten out the corners and actually give a little bit more gas in some cases, where i was quite willing to sometimes lift off. would i replace a live
with the catalyst. it wants to make me drive faster. my question is, can it make me the next lewis hamilton? and more to the point, is ben here out of a job? so far, my best time around the track was a 151.6. i was getting faster, but could the catalyst make a difference? now, when you re driving a car round a track, you re aiming to do one thing, take corners really well. it s all about timing, braking in the right place and trying to keep the car on the fastest line. to help with this, the catalyst uses a camera fitted to the dashboard, along with gps and accelerometers, to work out where you are on the circuit. after three set up laps, it analyses where it thinks improvements can be made and then coaches you in real time as you continue round the circuit.