Next Level Timing

[arch2b]

Next Level Timing
(https://nextleveltiming.com/)

Not a lot of information is provided.
Where re user guides, manuals?
What kind of race management is offered?


CROSS SYSTEM COMPATIBILITY
Support for windows and mac. Compatible with Orange Lap RC, I-LapRC, and Trackmate timing systems and more devices are being added!

SUPPORTED DECODERS
Trackmate Iridium RC lap counter
I-LapRC Race Timing System
Orange Lap RC
Easy Lap Serial Decoder
Easy Lap USB Decoder (windows only)



WHY SHOULD I USE NEXT LEVEL TIMING?
Never stop racing. Direct races with ease by adjusting racers and transponders on the fly- no need to stop the race.

Setup what you want, not the kitchen sink
No limits on racers in a race
Racer Management
Assign and reassign racers during a race
Assign and reassign transponders during a race
Automatically register racers
Sounds
Voice announcements

HELPS IMPROVE CONSISTENCY
Improve your consistency. It isn't just about fast laps anymore, consistency streaks makes practice exciting by giving you another metric to strive for.

Practice Mode
Consistency improvement
Difficulty adjustment
Voice announcements
Sounds

[BladeSling]

Hey there,

I am the owner of Next Level Timing. I am attempting to build racing software in a way that makes life easy. If I can find a better way to do what racing software does today I want in on that action. There are other alternatives that currently have more features. Some are just about as easy to use but have stalled in development, some have more features but are way to hard to use. And then you have some that are super costly.

Currently I'm targeting small clubs and individuals. I'll be honest- this is because I have a limited bandwidth and the features they need are minimal and they can help find issues before I start adding the bigger features.

I haven't made a manual because the software "Just works" at the moment. Seriously, just plug in a decoder that I support and start a race. The software auto connects to the decoder and you don't manually add people to races. Just line up at the starting line and on the buzzer you go. As I get more features there will likely be in software help, not a manual.

Feel free to leave feedback. I am actively working on things. Currently there is a bug with Robitronic and EasyLap hardware that causes the times to be "rounded" or "static" in a way. It is forcing me to rebuild a bit of the software. I've solved for the serial devices but the USB devices are giving me trouble. Hopefully someone at Robitronic or EasyLap can help.

[arch2b]

Welcome! Glad to have you and look forward to working with you if possible. :p I'm already trying to get this started however must be incredibly incompetent as I couldn't get it plugged in and working but will take that discussion offline. :o

[Thorvald]

Hi BladeSling, I just tried it out today with my EzLap setup. Basic software seems to work fine, auto detected EzLap and transponders when creating racers.

Quick questions:

1. Does the software support a practice mode yet?
2. Is there a way to bring up a score board to a second monitor?

Thanks
Tim

[SuperFly]

Hi BladeSling, I just tried it out today with my EzLap setup. Basic software seems to work fine, auto detected EzLap and transponders when creating racers.

Quick questions:

1. Does the software support a practice mode yet?
2. Is there a way to bring up a score board to a second monitor?

Thanks
Tim

1. When you get to the New Race page, there is a pull-down labeled "Mode," with two choices; the default is "Standard Race," but the other option is "Practice"

Also, the "consistency" tab is related to practice.

[BladeSling]

Hi BladeSling, I just tried it out today with my EzLap setup. Basic software seems to work fine, auto detected EzLap and transponders when creating racers.

Quick questions:

1. Does the software support a practice mode yet?
2. Is there a way to bring up a score board to a second monitor?

Thanks
Tim

First thing, since you are using the EasyLap equipment I highly recommend you upgrade to 1.4.0 which was just barely released. There were accuracy issues that I fixed specifically for that decoder.

Your practice was answered by Superfly. You set it up similar to a race at the moment but it works different than race mode. It calls out your lap times and consistency streaks.

Can you explain the second monitor score board a bit more? It sounds like you are working with a single computer and two monitors? At our club we duplicate the laptop display to the TV and this works. What are you hoping displays on the second monitor? The only thing I can think of is removing the navigation. Something I've been considering letting people hide during a race.

[arch2b]

Zround offers a second scoring monitor display that you cannot interact with and is solely dedicated to displaying real time results. It doesn't need any extraneous information and infact, you are able to configure from selectable data sets what is displayed. In our club, we have up to 5 monitors throughout that display this all day while the operator only sees all the controls. It's simply a way of presenting only the relevant data to the public while no one needs to see how the sausage is made so to speak. I've uploaded examples.

[Thorvald]

Arch got the info down in the post above.

To add to that it's basically it's a second window which can be moved to an external monitor only shows race info, no buttons/controls etc. So it allows for a MUCH larger font size to make it visible from across the track for the drivers to observe.

You could actually make a couple of versions, one would be a simple scoring tree like in MotoGP and other races that provides basic info on position etc.

Cheers
Tim

[MTseo]

We just switched to NextLevel timing from zround. I really like that you can start a race with any registered drivers. You do not have to run practice laps every time the program starts.

Is there a way to set the default on the quick race feature. We run HFAY so we always practice 8 minute races, currently it defaults to 3 minutes.

[BladeSling]

MTseo,
I believe you contacted me and I responded that it is a feature we are looking to add. I may make a page available for features to be submitted as there are a fair few of them and it can be difficult to prioritize. Obviously there is a workaround for that and currently I am prioritizing things that people need in order to even use the software so you may be waiting a little bit for the feature. Sorry!

In other news, v1.5.0 has just been released. We added Core Speedway decoder support, race staggered starts, and race lap length.

[briankstan]

MTseo,
I believe you contacted me and I responded that it is a feature we are looking to add. I may make a page available for features to be submitted as there are a fair few of them and it can be difficult to prioritize. Obviously there is a workaround for that and currently I am prioritizing things that people need in order to even use the software so you may be waiting a little bit for the feature. Sorry!

In other news, v1.5.0 has just been released. We added Core Speedway decoder support, race staggered starts, and race lap length.

Awesome, I'll download and install and look forward to using it tonight for racing. :) once I get my Timer back ;)

[SuperFly]

Mac version link is giving a 500 error.

[MTseo]

Thanks, I will download the new version tonight and check out the new features.

[BladeSling]

Mac version link is giving a 500 error.

Fixed! Thanks for reporting the issue

[art4242]

First of all kudos on the program, super easy to setup and run compared to other race programs. Great for quick practice and race sessions.

A couple of future feature requests (these would all be nice to haves):

- Can the lap times be announced during a race as an option?
- Can remaining time (say every minute) be announced during a race? Handy for those of us without a race director/announcer, hard to tell how much time left in those 8 minute runs.

- Can the post race results include more stats such as average lap time, top 5/10/20 laps?

- Can the post race results be formatted in columns for each driver, instead of a block per driver?

Thanks.

[MTseo]

Oh I have another request also. I really like the repeat race feature when race is selected because I don't have to go back and reset all of the times.
I think it would be nice to have a repeat on the practice races too. We like running the practices when it is only1 or 2 of us for the verbal lap times.

[BladeSling]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

I have made a nolt board specifically for the next level timing software like we have on the next level timing communities side. Feel free to vote and add items:

https://nlt-software.nolt.io/

I started it off with the things suggested on the forum, some of my ideas, and ideas emailed to me.

[briankstan]

thanks for setting that up. I've voted for a few, and made a few comments.

Our Club Ran your software last race and it work perfectly, no missed laps and seemed really consistent. We'll be using it some more at our race tomorrow as well.

some of the comments were things that have already been brought up, and I look forward to the develpement of the program. Thanks for supporting the hobby with your programming skills. :D

[mugler]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions!

I have made a nolt board specifically for the next level timing software like we have on the next level timing communities side. Feel free to vote and add items:

https://nlt-software.nolt.io/

I started it off with the things suggested on the forum, some of my ideas, and ideas emailed to me.

Thanks for the continuous work on the software as it is the backbone the program stands on.

On nolt I noticed before, creation of a central HFAY info & registration page went to "in progress" mode however I don't see that item listed there any longer ...has that suggestion been already completed or was the idea scrapped?

[BladeSling]

Thanks for the continuous work on the software as it is the backbone the program stands on.

On nolt I noticed before, creation of a central HFAY info & registration page went to "in progress" mode however I don't see that item listed there any longer ...has that suggestion been already completed or was the idea scrapped?


Thank you, I appreciate it.

I have two different pages, one for the racing software and one for the online community features. They may be merged one day but I think most people still use other software.

It was announced within a rambling post on the HFAY forum post. You must have just missed it. But I believe the work is done, here is the page: https://nextleveltiming.com/communities/hfay/page/racer-manual

Let me know your thoughts on it.

You can see the completed roadmap items for the community items here:
https://nextleveltiming.nolt.io/roadmap

[BladeSling]

thanks for setting that up. I've voted for a few, and made a few comments.

Our Club Ran your software last race and it work perfectly, no missed laps and seemed really consistent. We'll be using it some more at our race tomorrow as well.

some of the comments were things that have already been brought up, and I look forward to the develpement of the program. Thanks for supporting the hobby with your programming skills. :D

I've been meaning to bother you to find out if you ended up using it and how it worked out. I'm super glad to hear that it worked well. That was a super fun week of programming for that decoder.

I know the application is still needs work but I feel like most small clubs/individuals have been fairly happy. I like getting the feedback in the group setting because it is showing me what the priorities really should be. I especially appreciate those like you who take the time to comment and share more of how you feel it ideally should work. I am not a "race director", I went in this wanting software that could help me get in the zone. For me I especially enjoy practice as the consistency steaks help me get in the zone.

[briankstan]

I've been meaning to bother you to find out if you ended up using it and how it worked out. I'm super glad to hear that it worked well. That was a super fun week of programming for that decoder.

I know the application is still needs work but I feel like most small clubs/individuals have been fairly happy. I like getting the feedback in the group setting because it is showing me what the priorities really should be. I especially appreciate those like you who take the time to comment and share more of how you feel it ideally should work. I am not a "race director", I went in this wanting software that could help me get in the zone. For me I especially enjoy practice as the consistency steaks help me get in the zone.

Honestly I didn't use the practice feature. I'll give it a try tonight. When I'm practicing I prefer the system to call out every lap time so I know what I'm hitting and how consistent I am running.

this helps especially when you are trying to mades changes and see how it affects the lap times. if you don't get a call out with the time you don't have the imediate feedback as to the results of your changes, faster or slower. I like the fast laps callouts and the individual best laps per racer during a race, kind of a personal "High 5" :)

Russ on the other hand would prefer the silence, as the callouts tent to push him harder and then he makes more mistakes.

this is why the option to turn them on and off work good.

During the race the timed anouncments as to laps per racer is nice, we have used it also as a guide to how our run is going. Knowing you have 85 laps with 2 minutes to go, can be just the push you need to push a little bit more to gain a lap or 2.

[SuperFly]

Honestly I didn't use the practice feature. I'll give it a try tonight. When I'm practicing I prefer the system to call out every lap time so I know what I'm hitting and how consistent I am running.

this helps especially when you are trying to mades changes and see how it affects the lap times. if you don't get a call out with the time you don't have the imediate feedback as to the results of your changes, faster or slower. I like the fast laps callouts and the individual best laps per racer during a race, kind of a personal "High 5" :)

Russ on the other hand would prefer the silence, as the callouts tent to push him harder and then he makes more mistakes.

this is why the option to turn them on and off work good.

During the race the timed anouncments as to laps per racer is nice, we have used it also as a guide to how our run is going. Knowing you have 85 laps with 2 minutes to go, can be just the push you need to push a little bit more to gain a lap or 2.

I don't know if I'm spilling beans here, but I heard talk of a future with personalized RDing to an individual's phone. Probably a distant future, pie in the sky thing, but that would be cool to have an earbud in one ear calling out just your lap times.

[RussF]

I don't know if I'm spilling beans here, but I heard talk of a future with personalized RDing to an individual's phone. Probably a distant future, pie in the sky thing, but that would be cool to have an earbud in one ear calling out just your lap times. This forum needs a like button. I like this idea. Way cool idea!!

[RussF]

Honestly I didn't use the practice feature. I'll give it a try tonight. When I'm practicing I prefer the system to call out every lap time so I know what I'm hitting and how consistent I am running.

this helps especially when you are trying to mades changes and see how it affects the lap times. if you don't get a call out with the time you don't have the imediate feedback as to the results of your changes, faster or slower. I like the fast laps callouts and the individual best laps per racer during a race, kind of a personal "High 5" :)

Russ on the other hand would prefer the silence, as the callouts tent to push him harder and then he makes more mistakes.

this is why the option to turn them on and off work good.

During the race the timed anouncments as to laps per racer is nice, we have used it also as a guide to how our run is going. Knowing you have 85 laps with 2 minutes to go, can be just the push you need to push a little bit more to gain a lap or 2. Got that right! I dont like the constant jabbering of the computerized voice during a race, especially at the beginning. But during practice its ok. As Brian stated its nice to know what you are getting with changes you make to your line while practicing but too much during a race. Fast lap announcement is cool though.

Something a different software did that I liked was a small sound indicating if the lap was consistent, faster, or slower than the prior lap. I'm afraid it would get crazy though with short 3-6 second laps but might be cool on bigger tracks.

[mugler]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

I have two different pages, one for the racing software and one for the online community features. They may be merged one day but I think most people still use other software.

It was announced within a rambling post on the HFAY forum post. You must have just missed it. But I believe the work is done, here is the page: https://nextleveltiming.com/communities/hfay/page/racer-manual

Let me know your thoughts on it.

You can see the completed roadmap items for the community items here:
https://nextleveltiming.nolt.io/roadmap

Yes I had missed both of those links, thank you for pointing them out ! I already shared the racer manual link on my FB page and would just suggest it would be a good next step towards HFAY promotion if everyone participating in HFAY would start sharing the link as they fit on social media. There's surprisingly very little HFAY exposure on social media.

Also I just made a new suggestion on nolt for a HFAY Logo for further promotion of the series.:)

[briankstan]

Yes I had missed both of those links, thank you for pointing them out ! I already shared the racer manual link on my FB page and would just suggest it would be a good next step towards HFAY promotion if everyone participating in HFAY would start sharing the link as they fit on social media. There's surprisingly very little HFAY exposure on social media.

Also I just made a new suggestion on nolt for a HFAY Logo for further promotion of the series.:)

yep, that is my failure. :o

[SuperFly]

Something a different software did that I liked was a small sound indicating if the lap was consistent, faster, or slower than the prior lap. I'm afraid it would get crazy though with short 3-6 second laps but might be cool on bigger tracks.

Next Level does this in practice mode. There's a tone that signals a "starting point", and then there's a tone for a lap that falls within the (user-settable, default is 10% for faster and slower) range for consistent lap. Then, after the 5th consecutive lap, it calls out "5 consecutive laps, 6 consecutive laps, etc." If you fall off, it starts over. I got it into the teens once. The only thing it doesn't do is tell you if it was faster or slower. Once you hit that 5th lap and it calls it out every lap, it's like Tetris when things start speeding up.

[BladeSling]

As for the phone app- yes I want to build it. Yes I want it to announce your times into your ear especially during practice/race when there are 8 people racing and you can't really hear what is going on. Also since directors can neglect the back markers or just don't mention those stats you care about.

My strategy to get to the phone app is a bit further away at the moment. Trying to get the communities more self sufficient. Then integration of the desktop app and the community features.

Full disclosure, that particular feature will probably be part of a racer feature subscription package. The subscription package is going to include a features I hope people are willing to spend a couple bucks a month on. I'm looking at around $24/year. $2/mo basically but it would be more of a pain to do $2 monthly. This will help keep things going.

While I keep things running relatively cheap some things like equipment, design, and hosting cost me a couple grand a year. I'm not dying over this money as they are expected operating costs. But the plan is to continue working towards getting to the racer subscription features by working on the ones communities need to run their races. I would only need like a 100 paying racers to pay operating costs.

More features will be added to the software for free though. The software was built to remove frustrations of getting races going and I know it has some gaps. For example race formats and automatic race director announcements are totally on top of my todo once I shift my attention to the desktop application again.Those just make sense and fit my audience.

I'm more willing to talk about some of the future features in private because I can't guarantee anything and hate people feeling like I made promises.

[BladeSling]

Updated website

- Championship Page: Changing the verbiage races to rounds
- Championship Page: Added round details
- Race Page: Added race details
- Race Page: Fixed races not displaying for users not logged on
- Database clean up for tracks, races, race participants, and race formats

[BladeSling]

The website has been updated.

Community Member Updates
- You can now join other communities other than the ones you create
- As a community member you are allowed to see results for championship races that haven't been revealed
- When joining a community that doesn't allow automatic registration you will get a response email notification when they have accepted or denied you
- Community admins can approve or deny new members
- The admins will also get an email for when you register as a new member
- Communities admins can remove current members
- The member being removed will be notified, you can leave a goodbye message for them as well

League Championship Updates
- League championship community admins receive emails for pending registrations so they know when they need to response to a community want to join league
- League championship registrations now have email notifications letting you know when you have been accepted or denied

[BladeSling]

Website Update

Community page updates
- Moved championships from community home page to designated championship page
- Moved races from community home page to designated race page
- Added track layouts page to communities (beta communities only)
- Added racer classes page to communities (beta communities only)

Creating track layouts, racer classes, and championships is only available to beta communities at this time. The pages for these items will display on all communities.

[BladeSling]

Website Update

- Community admins can now add, update, and delete track layouts from their communities. Track layouts support uploading an image and setting the name.
- The styling has been updated on the track layout page and communities page.
- Fixed some bugs for some older browsers.

[BladeSling]

Website Update

- Community admins can now add, update, and delete racer classes for their communities. Racer classes support a name, scale, vehicle type, power type, and a description.

[BladeSling]

Website Update

- Community admins can now delete races from their race pages
- Community admins can now set a name for a race when uploading race results instead of it just taking the championship's race name
- Added link to championship on race page
- Updated timestamp on race upload page to be more human readable

[bobbyz]

Like:

being able to delete races if need be on the Race Page (if a mistake is noticed and the race data needs to be resubmitted)

Adding a unique name to each race- helps to keep all details straight for HFAY, especially running CW and then CCW for both Racer and Open Class

Need more Info:

On Class designations>> does each community need to define the classes for both Racer and Open? I know the website is for more than just HFAY ultimately, and the Racer class rules are already pretty clearly defined on the Manual Page. Just wondering how to best add clarity for other visitors/members.

Thx!

[BladeSling]

being able to delete races if need be on the Race Page (if a mistake is noticed and the race data needs to be resubmitted)

Yes, one of my most common requests is to fix results. There is a finally for others to fix them :D

Adding a unique name to each race- helps to keep all details straight for HFAY, especially running CW and then CCW for both Racer and Open Class

Yeah, it was a few weeks ago I was posting results to the PDX Miniz page and realized it would be a pain for anyone to find those races because I couldn't customize their name for our club to something like: A Main Race 1, B Main Race 1, etc.

On Class designations>> does each community need to define the classes for both Racer and Open? I know the website is for more than just HFAY ultimately, and the Racer class rules are already pretty clearly defined on the Manual Page. Just wondering how to best add clarity for other visitors/members.

No- you do not have to add the HFAY classes to your own community. That is a bit confusing and I'm not exactly sure how to address it yet. When submitting races to a championship it uses the classes configured for the championship. If you have any ideas let me know.

[BladeSling]

Website Update

Championship Page Updates
- The championship page was broken into several pages.
- Left side navigation now contains the register community button.
- Left side navigation is now championship oriented instead of the community navigation.
- Registering communities to championships has been simplified.
- Standing page was added with some instruction explaining how scoring works.
- Rounds page was added. This page holds all the race results.
- Registrations page was added. This is list of communities registered and approved for the championship.
- Community standings were removed as their measurements were flawed
- Racer Classes page was added. These are the racer classes associated to the championship.

[BladeSling]

Website Update

Community Page Updates
- Added race formats page for owners, admins, and directors. These will be used to setup races and championships quickly


Application Update

Linux Beta Version Released
- Looking for beta testers and feedback

[BladeSling]

Website Update

Profile Page
- Added a profile page that you reach once you login that shows the communities you have joined.
- Added account settings to allow updating your name, email, and password.

Races Page
- You can now submit a race without having to associate it to a championship
- You now see the associated championship track and race format information after you have selected a championship round to associate to a race
- You can now set these options when saving a race not associated to a championship

[BladeSling]

Website Update

Championships
- You can now create, delete, and modify championships
- You can now create and delete championship rounds
- You can now associate racer classes to championships
- Updated wording on racer standings championship scoring
- Minor visual updates several championship pages

[HaCo]

Website Update

Linux Beta Version Released
- Looking for beta testers and feedback

Hi, is this for Raspberry Pi for example? Thanks!

[BladeSling]

Hi, is this for Raspberry Pi for example? Thanks!

HaCo,

The Raspberry Pi is has an ARM processor and the software is not built for it. Also, I'm not sure it could run well on a Raspberry Pi. it is a very limited machine. You are the third person to ask about this however which is interesting. Out of curiosity, why Raspberry Pi? Is it just cost or just for fun?

The software was tested on Ubuntu 64-bit. It will not work on 32-bit Ubuntu.

[HaCo]

HaCo,

The Raspberry Pi is has an ARM processor and the software is not built for it. Also, I'm not sure it could run well on a Raspberry Pi. it is a very limited machine. You are the third person to ask about this however which is interesting. Out of curiosity, why Raspberry Pi? Is it just cost or just for fun?

The software was tested on Ubuntu 64-bit. It will not work on 32-bit Ubuntu.

Hi Blade,

The RPi is a low-cost, small form computer. It is interesting because it doesn't take the space of a pc and you can run it even on a powerbank, so it's also lowpower.

If it would work, I would have a dedicated RPi for timing, and throw out a big pc which has to do the job for it now.

Of course you also need a screen and some kind of input device. But a pico projector would do, or even an old projector which only has analog video for example.

Of course it is fun as well, and has more posibilities: you could easily read out room temperature, make start lights (LEDs), maybe other fun stuff...

What GUI development environment do you use, is it not available in RPi environment? You could make a build for the platform (I guess).

[BladeSling]

Hi Blade,

The RPi is a low-cost, small form computer. It is interesting because it doesn't take the space of a pc and you can run it even on a powerbank, so it's also lowpower.

If it would work, I would have a dedicated RPi for timing, and throw out a big pc which has to do the job for it now.

Of course you also need a screen and some kind of input device. But a pico projector would do, or even an old projector which only has analog video for example.

Of course it is fun as well, and has more posibilities: you could easily read out room temperature, make start lights (LEDs), maybe other fun stuff...

What GUI development environment do you use, is it not available in RPi environment? You could make a build for the platform (I guess).

The application gui is chrome, and while chrome does run in RPi it is not amazingly fast. One day I'll get me one of those new Raspberry Pis and hack away but for the time being I think most people have one of the three other options lol.

[BladeSling]

Website Update

Communities Page Updates
- Search communities by name
- Filter communities by category
- Community member count listed on the page
- Featured communities show up with a featured tag at the top of the results

[BladeSling]

Website Update

A ton of minor updates for a better user experience were released today. These updates primary focused on the community pages and communities search page.

- Removed height restrictions from track layout images
- Fixed form submit buttons on mobile screens
- Added member count to community page
- Centered text for empty list messages on community pages
- Small redesign on search input to make the button more obvious
- Organization update to the left side navigation on the community page for community admins
- The community manage page is now the community settings page
- Updated profile page to display community member role, community member join date, and community member count
- Added community updates section to profile page
- Updated profile page beta notice
- Fixed bug where pages failed to scroll to the top moving from the communities page to a community page
- Fixed styling on titles where occasionally the title border would display incorrectly
- Updated footer design

[BladeSling]

Website Updates

Championship Pages Updates
- Small tweaks were made to make the championship pages more mobile friendly.
- The championship rounds page was redesigned to initially hide results. This allows the page to hold more information about each round with less scrolling.

[BladeSling]

Website Update

Community Members Management
- You can now assign roles to your community members. You have a choice between a member, judge, director, and an administrator. Each of these has varying levels of abilities that can help you manage your communities,

Championship Leagues
- Added ability for championship league directors to post results on behalf of the communities participating in the championship.
- Championship league directors can now post results outside the window submission window.
- Added races to championship rounds page.
- Removed the championships round management page and merged it with the results page.
- Posting results to championships is now done from the championship results page.
- Added ability to delete championship rounds


So many of the updates this year were to make the tools to continue to run the the How Fast are You series. I was not expecting to have the opportunity to help grow the series in such a way but I'm glad we did.

I am excited for what next year will bring! The road map for next year will be focused on racers. I am interested in hearing ideas that make racing more exciting and fun for racers. I'm especially interested in ideas that can help racers improve their abilities!

[HaCo]

Hello,

Can you set Practice as default format?
Also, is it possible to save the race settings?
After practice it would be nice also to have "Repeat Practice" just like in normal race?

I really like the interface, also the way you can quickly get started without too much hassle.

Thanks!

[SuperFly]

One trick Blaine taught me was if you delete the number in the laps/minutes slot, the session will be forever.

[BladeSling]

HaCo, thanks for the suggestions.

V2 is being worked on as we speak! Many people ask for an easier way to start practice and it has been added. As well as a repeat practice button. We will release these features hopefully by the end of next month.

Race formats will probably not make it into the initial release of V2 but they are on the roadmap!

[HaCo]

Thanks a lot for replying and also all your effort you put into this software.

I always race alone, on my attic, small carpet track.

It would be great, awesome, and I think I'm not alone, if you would invent some kind of single-player mode.

I think of recorded sessions (laptimes), where you race virtually against one or more recorded sessions. The voice then says you are place 5th now (against 10 recorded sessions for example), 3secs behind, ...

Something like pitstops would also be a fun feature: where you need a kind of minimum time for a lap to simulate a pitstop, or something like that.

Great courage for the work still in progress!

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i posted a separate question HERE (http://mini-zracer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42663).