Pitt Race endurance round 2023

No idea, Race Monitor is a nice thing for live timing but it is NOT remotely official or always accurate since it's merely a feed from the timing program while the race is running. Mylaps has our upload and is accurate. Our website once we have the results in is official and accurate. The ones printed and posted at the track are official and accurate.

Of course accurate is relative barring any issues. But the point is still race-monitor is not the final say on anything ever.

 

One of the issues at Pitt was people not running the right transponder on Friday - not saying that is what happened to you but it did happen. Others were on our end getting the multiple runs merged properly since the program did it on bike numbers not TX numbers or ID numbers - didn't realize that until it was too late to fix things. Pure mistake on our end. Then there was the normal unrelated transponders and removing sprint riders and other busy work pain in the ass stuff that led to things not being correct (one of the reason I personally don't like the mixed sessions for qualifying).

For those who didn't get affected by those issues- with the groups being all screwed up time wise on Friday we did try go with the best time we could across all the runs you did so it wasn't just the marked q sessions and Saturday. We'll have our end of it better at Summit but the reality is while this is fun and all having "qualifying" what we really want is the grid in a generally safe order for the first lap or so, after that you all have a looooonnnggggg time to sort out your positions for the final result.

 

We do try to get the teams to pick a transponder and stick with using the one but then every single weekend you have the left it at home, it isn't charged, that rider isn't here, and so on issues.

We're not going to go through and sort out times for every rider on their own bikes on a Friday and then assign the fastest one to their team - but as I said that is why I also am not a fan of mixed qualifying, it just confuses everyone - we just need the teams to pay attention and get the right transponder on their paperwork. Granted I know it'll never happen but it's a fun dream for now

 

The practice day - including the Q sessions since they were a practice group - was open to endurance and sprint racers. Not to mention the entire relay thing where they all have their own transponders on their bikes for practice. I don't have the option in any of our systems to tie 4 or 5 transponders to a single team.

So when we do the merge to get the grid we have to manually delete anyone that isn't an endurance team. If the wrong TX is tied to the team then the wrong laptimes wind up getting used for the team time. It's doable but it really is a pain in the ass and leaves us open to making mistakes.

 

Oh yeah, then for historical and uploading to mylaps purposes we have to manually put back in everyone we deleted.

 

Then we have to stop everyone and police it - not to mention the whole promoting the day as being timed.

Basically it is a paint in the ass. However it's part of the job and we have worked out some ways to cut down on the mistakes on our end so I expect that it won't be noticeable on your end at Summit. On that note it's really kind of funny the stuff that you guys never see or know happens

 

Eh, they pay their money they want their laptimes.