Meet Apex

Some of what you read in Marque was written rather than measured. Apex is the name for that writing. The paragraph that puts a drive into words, the description on a road you’ve never driven, the caption you didn’t have to think of.

There’s nowhere to go and open Apex. It turns up in the handful of places where a sentence does something a number can’t, and stays out of everywhere else.

Where you meet Apex

• The debrief - a drive put into plain language: the corner that stood out, how composed you were, how it sat against your own history. On the drive’s report.
• Your month - the same thing at a longer range, once a month. Your month in review.
• Road write-ups - the scenic routes Marque suggests are found by Apex and written up the way somebody who had driven them would describe them. See following a road.
• Captions - stuck for what to say about a drive, you can ask for a line and take it or ignore it.
• Build advice - a read of what’s on your car and what it wants next.
• A word on a rivalry - a light note when you and another driver keep trading places on a road.

The violet sparkle

Anything Apex wrote or picked carries a violet sparkle. The colour is deliberate: it’s the one colour in Marque that never changes with your chosen livery, so it means the same thing on every screen and on everybody’s phone. If you see it, a machine had a hand in those words. If you don’t, it’s your driving, measured.

Describe, never instruct

Apex describes what already happened. It doesn’t tell you to carry more speed, doesn’t set you a target, and doesn’t grade a drive against anybody else. Every sentence it writes is checked against that boundary before you see it, and there’s no “how do I do better” button anywhere to get around it.

It waits to be asked

Nothing here writes itself the moment you finish a drive. A debrief takes a tap, and so does a caption - and once something is written it’s kept, so opening it again costs nothing and reads the same as the day it was written.