Entering Competitors into a Meeting

To enter a Competitor into a Race or Meeting, you must select a Driver, a Car and a Race Class.  You cannot enter a Driver more than once into a particular Race Class.

Minimum Requirements for Selecting a Competitor

Selecting a Driver
To select a driver you can enter part of their name or Club ID.
As you enter characters, a dropdown list will appear of all the Drivers that have names or Club Ids that match your typing.  You can select an entry from the Drop Down list using the Mouse or by typing Tab, or locating the Driver using the Up/Down arrow keys and pressing Enter when the required Driver is selected.  If you keep typing characters until only one driver matches, that Driver will automatically be selected.  With practice you will be able to locate an individual Driver with only a few key strokes.

If the required Driver is not listed on the Driver Database, press the  key to make a new Driver and Car.

Selecting a Car
If the Driver has more than 1 car, you can select the required car using the Drop Down.  You can make new Cars for Drivers  or Delete Cars . You can also press Ctrl-C to make a new Car.

Selecting a Race Class
Use the drop down to select a Race Class for the Competitor.  If you are entering several Competitors into a Meeting, this entry is saved between successive Competitors, so once set you don’t need to re select this each time.  If you are adding a Competitor to a Race, the Race Class is set to match the Race’s Race Class.

Additional Settings for Competitors

Entry Status
You can set this to indicate the entry status.  This is useful when entering Competitors prior to Race Day.  When you Make Races, you can select which Competitors are entered based on their Entry Status.  If a Competitor leaves prior to Finals, you can mark them as Withdrawn.  Their Heat results are preserved but they are not allocated to a final.

Paid
You can use this to keep track of who has paid their entry fee.

Competitor details
The details in the lower part of the form are loaded from the Driver & Car Database.  You can change these if you wish.  When you save the Competitor entry, you will be asked if you want these changes saving back to the Driver Database.

Is Member
Indicates if the Driver is a Member and the Club ID.  You can change the Membership Status, but not the Club ID.

Nat #
This is for a Driver’s National Number.  If you want to store BRCA Number, do not use National Number.  There is a special section for BRCA membership information.

BRCA #
This is for the Driver’s BRCA Number.  This is only available if BRCA Membership Option has been selected..

Ability
This is a number 1-15 or blank.  The higher the number, the higher the ability.  You will be able to automatically set this ability based on driver performance.  Blank is a lower ability than 1.  Ability can be used to sort Competitors into Races.

Formula
Range F5-F1 and Blank.  F1 is high, F5 is low.  Blank is lower than F5.  Formula can be used to sort Competitors into Races.

Roof Colour
This is based on the Stock Car Roof Colour system.  Roof Colour can be used to sort Competitors into Races using the Stock Car Ability mixing rules.

Driver Type
You can set up Driver Types to whatever you want.  You can add new Driver Types or rename existing Driver Types.  To add or rename a Driver Type, right mouse click over the Driver Type “box”.  Select the appropriate item from the Popup Menu.

Team
You can set up Teams to whatever you want.  You can add or rename a Team in a similar way to that for Driver Type.

Car Manufacturer
This is selected using the Drop Down to the right of Car name.  You can Add or Rename cars by right mouse clicking over the Drop Down.

Car Model
This is selected using the Drop Down below Car manufacturer.  You can Add or Rename cars by right mouse clicking over the Drop Down.

Transponder Type & Transponder

This is only available if you have Autocount Support.

The car can be assigned No Transponder or AMBrc.  If you select AMBrc you should assign a Personal Transponder.  If the PT has already been used with your system it may well be in the Database.  If so type part of the number or nickname and it will appear in the dropdown.  You can then select it.  If not you can make a new entry for that transponder by pressing the  Button.  This will show the New Transponder Form.  Enter the Transponder Number and Save.  If after you have entered the 7 digit transponder number, number box remains red, that transponder was already in the system.  Press Cancel and enter the transponder number.

If you assign a Transponder that is already “owned” by another car, you will be warned and given the option to remove the PT from the other car.

Crystals
The car’s crystals are shown in a box.  To allocate new crystals check  
“Show All Available Crystals” and select the Tab for the Crystal band required.  The available crystals are shown in yellow and the Car’s Crystals are shown in Green.  
To select a crystal double click with the mouse over the crystal.  

To remove an assigned (green) crystal, double click it.  

One of the assigned crystals can be the preferred crystal, shown underlined.  To mark an assigned crystal as preferred, select it and right mouse click.  Click on the Popup menu   and the selected crystal will be the preferred crystal.  In the example T685 is the driver’s preferred crystal. 
You can select which crystal bands you want to make available.  For details see the Chapter on RC Crystals.

Saving Competitors
When you Save a Competitor, if anything has been changed you are invited to save that change back to the Driver and/or Car Entry. Some changes may be for this meeting only and so do not need to saved for future use.

Automatically sorting Competitors into Races

Make Races
You can sort the Competitors into Races using the Make Races button.  You can choose to assign them to Races based on Ability, Formula and Roof Colour or you can assign them based on their qualifying order in previous races.  For Instance you can sort Competitors into Practice Races based on ability, run one or more rounds of Practice then sort them into heats based on their Practice results.  When assigning Competitors into races by ability you can set the crystal allocation to avoid the same crystal being used in consecutive Races.  Note that there is no check between the first and last Race.  You may also find that there are Competitors in the last Race that have no available crystals.

When using ability based sorting, if Ability and Formula are chosen, Formula takes precedence over Ability.  An F2 Competitor of Ability 5 is considered higher ability than an F3 Competitor of Ability 9.  If you just want Ability based sorting, don’t check Formula.

Eligible Drivers
When Competitors are allocated to Races using Make Races only Confirmed entries are automatically allocated.  You can specify that Provisional, Reserve and Withdrawn Drivers are also included.  

Copy Exactly from……..
If you run a meeting with Timed Practice you may decide to run the Heats with the same drivers as Practice.  During Practice you may well make changes to Competitor details.  Once Practice is over you can make the Heats from the Practice races.  It may also be the case that you have prepared Heats before a meeting and decide on the day to run some Timed Practice.  You can make the Practice Races from the Heats you have set up.

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