Exporting telemetry data to MoTeC

[codeforgery]

Hi,
I've become a little obsessed with driving the VRC Formula 1 cars in Assetto Corsa, some of the most realistic cars on the game. I've been challenging myself with beating some of the pole position times in the 2024 car, and I want to analyse my laps and compare them with MoTeC. It's basically a telemetry analysis app that real world drivers used, but someone made an app which exports Assetto Corsa data into the MoTeC format.

My point is - I want to compare my lap to various real F1 pole laps using this app. Is this at all possible to do? What sort of code would I have to write to achieve this?

[theOehrly]

It seems like the MoTeC data format is just CSV. That shouldn't be to difficult, I suppose. Exporting a Pandas DataFrame to CSV is not very difficult so you'd probably just need to get the formatting right.

There seems to be no documentation of the format. I've found this thread: https://forum.motec.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3864
You'll probably need to grab an existing export for MoTeC, open it in a text editor and then try to match that format when exporting the FastF1 data to CSV using Pandas (or some custom code, if necessary).

[codeforgery]

There are two files for each export, a .ldx and a .ld.

The .ldx is just an XML file with some info about the track, car, etc;

The .ld is slightly more complicated;