special reportmotorsport · realtime systems
GridPulse Live!
Race timing reaches the grandstand in milliseconds.
Race timing from the track to the fans in milliseconds. All weekend. No restarts. GridPulse takes eight seasons of running a race series the hard way and rebuilds it right, for any series: sign-ups, live scoring, fan features, and the data that connects teams, organizers and vendors.
Its first full weekend was American Endurance Racing at Summit Point: Friday practice and qualifying, then two eight-hour races. Standings went to the grandstand twice a second for about twenty-four hours of racing, over rural West Virginia internet, with one person on ops.
That person was watching from his couch, with Messenger open in case something looked wrong. A few times, something did. Every time, it was the race, not the system. A car in the pits. A full-course caution.
It was load tested to ten thousand concurrent connections. Real peak was about a hundred. Two orders of magnitude of headroom, which is the polite way of saying the servers spent the weekend bored.
The only tickets all weekend were new fans asking what things meant. Officials get a loud alarm when they can act. Spectators get a calm note that the data is stuck in the pipes, not lost. Same fault, two audiences, two designs.
editor's note: nothing did.
In pictures
Hover a picture and it moves.What it does
For any series.no. 1
Sign-ups
Entries, drivers and payments, sorted before anyone gets to the track.
no. 2
Live scoring
Laps, stints and penalties, scored as they happen.
no. 3
Fan features
Live standings in the grandstand, on whatever phone is in their hand.
no. 4
The data in between
One record connecting teams, organizers and vendors.
wanted
Racers & organizers.
Race weekend, handled.
Bring your sign-ups, your scoring rules and your rural internet. GridPulse brings the rest. Apply within.