A pit wall for the clubhouse.
Live timing on any screen you already have, a running sheet that survives a real day, and a device pool that keeps the times straight for whoever borrows one.
Readable at ten metres, from the back of the room.
- Live timing on any screen — tower, speed-coloured map and delta ribbon, readable at ten metres, and on every spectator’s phone with nothing to install.
- Run the day — sessions and groups on a running sheet that copes with rain, reordering and a skipped group.
- Lend devices, keep the times — issue a pooled RaceBox to a walk-up rider; the data follows whoever holds it.
Radical SR31:01.884
Cayman GT41:03.412
Elise Cup 2501:04.612
Rain, a reorder, and a group that never went out.
A run sheet is a plan, and a track day is what happens instead. Sessions can be reordered, shortened, merged or dropped while the day is running, and the timing follows — a lap belongs to whichever session was actually on track when it was driven, not to whichever one the printed sheet said.
The same rule settles the hardest case in club timing: a device handed to a different rider mid-day. Attribution is by time, so the handover splits the day at the instant it happened. Nobody inherits somebody else’s laps, and no data has to be moved to make that true.
Lend a box to a walk-up rider and forget about it.
A venue’s pool of RaceBoxes is issued at the sign-on desk against a claim slip. The rider drives, the times land, and they can claim the outing to their own account afterwards — or not, in which case the times stay with your event and the trace is discarded on a timer rather than kept indefinitely.
Devices coming back late are visible before somebody notices a box is missing at the end of the day.
Your timing on your website, your sponsors beside it.
Paste one line into your club’s website and it shows the day’s live timing tower, or a circuit’s ranked and practice boards, exactly as a visitor sees them on Apex. There is no key, no registration and no charge, for as long as the day is published. Your site needs to be served over https.
Upload your logo and up to eight sponsors in the venue console. They appear on your venue’s page and on the day’s tower wherever it is framed. The clubhouse screen carries no logos: it shows the timing, and on a public day a code spectators scan to follow it on their own phone.
Free for the timing. The lending pool is the paid part.
Racers never pay. A venue will pay only to run a lending pool of devices, because that is the part with hardware and support attached.
While Apex sets up with its first venues, nothing is charged at all — the lending pool included.
Free
Your venue’s page, events and running sheet, the live dashboard, the boards, and racers bringing their own devices — including a private day with six friends and no club behind it.
The paid part
A lending pool of devices: issuing a box at the sign-on desk, accounts for walk-up riders, knowing where every box is, and closing the loans at the end of the day.
From a request to a screen on the wall.
- A person at Apex reads the request. Nothing approves itself, which is why nobody else can claim your venue.
- If you asked while signed in, you are normally made the venue’s first owner when it is approved, and we can tell you the decision by email.
- In the venue console you add your tracks and the configurations you run, and place the start/finish line on the map — or ask us to place it with you.
- Add the people who run the day with you, create an event, and open its dashboard on any screen with a browser.
What does the clubhouse screen need?
A web browser and an internet connection. The dashboard is a web page, so a TV with a small PC, a laptop or a tablet will do.
What do riders need?
A rider bringing their own RaceBox records with the Apex Android app, which is not in the Play Store yet. Or they borrow one from your pool at the sign-on desk, are given an account there, and claim it later with the code on their timing slip.
Which devices?
RaceBox Mini and Mini S. The Micro is not supported yet. A venue’s own units are registered by Apex — you ask for them from the Devices page in your console.
Do we have to type our entries in again?
No. Load the spreadsheet your entry system exports. It is read in your browser, and only the columns you match are sent. Riders are entered, not checked in: the desk still sees each one.
Can we show the timing on our own website?
Yes, free. The day’s tower and each circuit’s boards come with a line of code to paste, in your console.
Can our sponsors appear?
Yes, free. Your logo and up to eight sponsors, on your venue’s page and your day’s framed tower. Not on the clubhouse screen.
Whose are the results?
Yours. Lap times are your record of the day and stay in the event’s history, even if a racer later erases their account. The detailed trace of where each car went is the racer’s.
Does it work for a private day?
Yes. The timing, the dashboard and the boards are free for a day with no club behind it too.
Can spectators watch without an app?
Yes. When you make an event’s dashboard public, its tower and live map open in any phone’s browser, with no account and nothing to install.
Every lap of the day, timed one way.
A club day’s lap times usually end up scattered: a results file on one laptop, each racer’s own logger, an app nobody else can open. Apex times them all with one engine and keeps them in one place, so a lap reads the same on a racer’s phone, on the clubhouse screen and on the circuit’s board afterwards.
It is built for club and amateur days rather than championships, so a venue needs no timing system to buy and racers never pay. The lending pool of devices is the only part a venue will pay for.
Your venue, your information.
Tell us which circuit you run and we set it up with you as its owner — a venue is added by request, so nobody else can claim yours. From then on the venue console is where your staff keep its details, tracks and configurations straight, and where an owner adds everybody else who needs to open it.