Race timing app

[Brendan-q8a4z]

Hi all,

I've been working on an app to bring race timing, updates and flags into the car for drivers as you're racing and wanted to share it here for feedback. I'm a Brit in the US so it has been designed for use in US based motorsports, but I am exploring whether it's worth making it work for a UK audience too. I am not sure whether Race Monitor is used in the UK?

I tested this a few weeks ago at Sebring for Radical Cup and Porsche Sprint Challenge and I'm interested to get more feedback from a broader audience.

Here's a video overview:

Who is it for?
- Amateur racers, particularly multi-class racing where there are a ton of cars on track and its difficult to understand your race position etc
- This is not for track days as typically they don't have timing loops running to avoid people chasing lap times

What does it do?
- Gives you live race information from the official timing system as you race
- Info includes lap times, overall and class race positions, sector times, race time remaining, current flag status (red, full course yellow, green, checkered)
- You get both a visual and audio output
- It connects to Porsche Sprint Challenge, USF, Radical Cup and Race Monitor feeds today, and I am looking to add more feeds soon

How do I use it?
- You will need to mount your phone in the car, depending on your setup, there are a variety of different ways to go about this
- If you want to use audio, you will need a bluetooth receiver and then a splitter cable. Racing Radios have a variety of options to make this work so you can hear both the audio from the app and still maintain your racing radio audio

Would love any general feedback on how useful this is for folks and also interested to find people in the UK who might want to test it out.

[Brendan-q8a4z]

Thanks all for the feedback.

Understood there are some hurdles with the regulations.

Outside of that, I'm intrigued to hear more from those who find this kind of thing distracting and those who find it useful. What series are you racing in and are you competitive at the front of the field or a novice who is just trying to get a handle on feel for the car?

It seems to be a split down the middle of people who don't want to know anything about their lap times at all during a race, to those who want all of the data they can get.