PitWall Devlog 9 Fuel Load Estimator and Undercut Calculator

What I built

Fuel Load Effect Estimator

get_fuel_effect estimates how much lap time a driver gains from burning off fuel across a race, FastF1 doesn’t have a fuel sensor data, so this is an estimate so it’s not as precise as the actual data chart_fuel_effect compares the estimated fuel effect for a few drivers

Undercut/Overcut Effectiveness Calculator

get_undercut_effectiveness checks whether pitting earlier than a rival actually gained track position or gave them an advantage, finds when each driver pits, confirms driver1 actually pitted first, measures the time gap between them the lap before driver1 stops, then measures it again a few laps after the rival has also boxed, and the difference between those two numbers tells if the undercut worked although you won’t see this every race actually took me some time to think of an example so that i could test the function and it’s not always effective as you will have older tyres then chart_undercut_effectiveness shows the before/after gap