Driver Class Support

Out of the box, Finish-Time supports the SCCA class structure. That is, any Alpha-Numeric class designation.

Example: ES (E-Street) or F125

But the class must start with a letter. It can therefore also be configured for the NASA series with very little effort. We also fully support the PAX Index also known as the "Racers Theoretical Performance." Although, Finish-Time's functionality doesen't rely on the PAX Index, we do include index data in the printed reports and web page results.

We understand that no two Sports Car Clubs are the same, and that the rules for classification are different. You have the option to include any additional classes that your club has established in which the driver's best time is multiplied by their respective Standard Class Index to determine the standings in any Indexed Class.

Example: If your club has a vintage car class (VIN Class) made up of vastly different cars from different standard SCCA Solo II classes, each driver's best time will be multiplied by their respective Standard Class PAX index as usual but the winner in the PAX Index class will be determined by their PAX index time only. You can do the same with the ladies class too.

Driver Registration

Each driver is identified by their CarID; a unique key identifier that is used as a reference to stage drivers/cars during run heats. The CarID is comprised of the driver's car number and class with no spaces. To maintain consistency and to eliminate any confusion during the event, Finish-Time will always format the CarID by deleting any spaces and converting lowercase text to uppercase.

Using a unique key identifier for each driver eliminates any possible registration and staging conflicts, especially during a timed heat.

You have the option to import drivers from other applications using Comma Seperated or Tab Delimited database sources, or even from a previous Finish-Time event database.

You have the ability to re-class, delete or edit each driver's information, assign worker assignments, even during a timed event.

Timing and Scoring

General management of the event is accomplished in the Timing Function Panel shown below. Here is where you STAGE cars, assess penalties, etc. Before sending the first car off, it is recommended that you perform a "Preflight Check" of all of your hardware. Ensure that the start and finish photo heads are properly aligned. They might have been during setup, but one of the competitors may have tripped over the start/finish wires, knocking the photo heads out of alignment. Ensure that the serial port cable is firmly attached to the timer computer.

Assessing penalties to any driver is easy. Just select the driver in the START or FINISHED list box and click the O/C, DNF, or Pylon toolbar buttons.

The O/C and DNF penalty buttons work like an On/Off switch. Click once to apply the penalty, click again to clear the penalty. The Pylon penalty button increments the number of pylons by one. The number listed is the quantity of pylons displaced, not the actual penalty time. The actual time is determined in Options/Preferences. Clear removes all penalties for that run.

Printing Results

Posting the printed results during the event so drivers can track their runs is just a matter of one simple mouse click! Results are printed in Landscape fashion on letter sized or legal sized paper. No need to hold the event, print them when a car is on course!

Now, you can post your final results on your web site for all to view. You have several different options here.

You can save the web page results on your computer and use any FTP client to upload them to your web server, or you can use Finish-Time's FTP client and upload the results with Finish-Time. The latter option is much easyer!

Or, if you have internet access at the event site, post the results in real time during the event with Finish-Time LIVE! Now, your competitors can view the results in real time on the web. All that is needed is live internet access at the event site and FTP login information for your web server. That's all there is to it!

Publishing the results

One of the most unique features of Finish-Time is the option to publish the event results to your club´s web page. Save them on your PC, then upload to your web site with an FTP application. Upload directly to your web site within Finish-Time, or Publish live event results using Finish-Time LIVE. This option will require Internet access at the event site.

The code generated is HTML 4.0, AJAX with Cascading Style Sheets, and should be compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and newer, Apple Safari 4.0, Mozilla FireFox 3.5 and Google Chrome. Users navigating to your results web page will need to enable JavaScript on their browser to view the web page.

Finish-Time uses Cascading Style Sheets to define web page layout. You can customize some of the page content like background colors, or include an additional link in the menu, and hide each driver's last name.