Drag mode

Open it

Go to the Record tab and tap Drag mode under the record button. The first time you open it, Marque asks for the camera, and for the microphone so the engine is in the clip. Mount the phone upright or sideways: the screen and the clip follow it.

Make a run

1. Mount the phone with the rear camera facing the road ahead.
2. Drive to the start and come to a stop. The steps at the top of the screen fill as you hold still, then light upStaged and the camera starts recording.
3. Launch. The clock starts as the car moves off and the splits appear as you earn them.
4. Lift when you’re done. The run ends there, and the clip keeps a couple of seconds after the line so it doesn’t cut on it.

Lifting before the first split counts as a false start: that clip is thrown away and you can stage again straight away. Staged by accident, or want to start over mid-run? Tap Reset and the clip and clock are cleared.

A finished run waits for you: tap Save run to keep it (switch on Also post to feed to share it too), or Discard to throw it away. Nothing is saved until you choose.

What it times

The numbers drag strips, performance meters and car magazines quote, in your units:

• From a stop: 0-100 and 0-200 km/h with 100 m, 200 m and 400 m, or 0-60 and 0-100 mph with 60 ft, 1/8 and 1/4 mile. Each long distance comes with a trap speed at its line.
• In gear: 80-120 km/h and 100-200 km/h, or 60-130 mph.

Rolling starts

You don’t have to stop for an in-gear time. Hold a steady speed above 40 km/h for a couple of seconds and the screen says a rolling start is armed; floor it from there. A rolling run times only the in-gear intervals it accelerates through, so arm below 80 km/h for 80-120.

Times start when the car passes walking pace, the same way the sprints on your drive report are measured, so the two agree. With an OBD adapter connected, Marque times off the car’s own speed; otherwise it uses GPS and the phone’s motion sensors. Either way, these are phone-measured times, not a timing system’s, and they never count towards a leaderboard.

Your runs

A saved run keeps its times, its speed curve and the car you last recorded in. Runs sit in the Drives tab among your drives, marked with a lightning bolt, and Your runs on the drag screen lists them under your personal bests. Tap one for the full detail: the speed curve with every split marked, peak speed and distance, your best other run in the car drawn behind it with the gap at every split, the launch, the pull in g with each gear change and roughly what it cost, how far the car moved sideways, how much the road climbed or fell, how long the car took through each band of speed, and where the run ranks among your runs in the car. The pull, the sideways movement and the slope come from your phone’s motion sensors and barometer, so runs recorded before this update work the pull out from the speed instead. A run saved without signal is kept on the phone and synced once you’re back online.

When you save a run online, its clip goes up with it, numbers burned in, and plays at the top of the run. It is private to the run: only you see it, and the people who can see the run once you post it. To keep a copy, open the run, tap the cog and choose Save to Photos or Share video. To take it off, choose Remove video there; the run and its times stay. Deleting the run deletes the clip too. With Premium, Apex review on the run reads the launch and the splits against your other runs in the car.

Export the video

When a run finishes, tap Export video. Marque draws the speed, the clock, a live speed curve and every split onto the footage on your phone, ends it on a result card, and saves the clip to Photos. On the free plan the clip carries the Marque mark; with Premium you can turn it off.