O.K. Here I go.

I was on vacation last month and went to an autox event in Yakima Wa. What was interesting was we received our standings right after the event...normally we (Local autox group in Wy.) dont have results for a couple weeks if were lucky.

At our last event I mentioned to some of the guys that we should really implement this into our own events.

While they all agreed they also agreed that it would be great if I could figure this out.

So...all we have so far is a laptop. Where's a good place to get the software and which ones the best.

I know this must sound like a joke but I am serious

Thanks.

 

Take a look at Lap Tracker. It is written with your needs specifically in mind. The website is http://www.a-metrics.com. Great folks to work with, btw. We are using the 2 stopwatch version for road course time on our laptop. This is serious sofware at a very reasonable price

 

Wyoming, huh? Do they still run the Black Otter hillclimb in Billings? Ooops. Rocky mountain highjack...

K

 

There are ads in the back of SportsCar and GRM for timing and scoring software and equipment. I know there are commercially available products out there, can't think of the name of them (maybe autox t/s is one of them).

We have done it for a couple years using excel spreadsheets. Its pretty straightforward once the event is running, but a real pain in the *** entering and classing all the people, and not very flexible when you want to make a change. 3 people in timing. One records times on a driver's event card. He hands them to the computer guy who enters it into that run column in excel. Next guy re-sorts the cards by number so they are easy to find for the next set of runs.

Its error prone, and more cumbersome than the off-the-shelf products, but it works if you don't have the money to set up something more polished.


A dry-erase board to post times on is enough to get results right after an event, I don't see why you guys have to wait so long.

 

We use AutoX T/S by Rob Gregg. Good software, extremely flexible for everything we could possibly need. Works with online registration site myautoevents.com. Down side is that it only runs in DOS and not on any NT platform. Teaching people to use it due to the DOS interface has been a bit of a problem.

http://www.autoxts.com

It does not do any timing, rather takes input from a standalone timer or you can manually input times. Most people use a JA Circuits timer or RaceAmerica. We purchased the JAC unit.

I did a pretty extensive report on moving from a manual system to a computerized one a few years ago. You'd be more than welcome to look at it and use whatever you want from it. The information may be a bit out of date as it was put together back in 2000.

http://www.madisonautocross.co...m.pdf

 

Oh yeah, other applications out there....

AccuCross
TS 2000 (used by the National Office)
AutoCron

 

Wow. Thanks guys for the info.

Thats why I love this forum...nobody dissing our out of date timing methods.

I'm gonna take a day or two and research this information. Probably will have some more questions later.

Thanks again.