Drivers are saved in bbkRC together with details of their car or cars.  When you prepare for a race meeting you can call up drivers and their cars to be competitors in the meeting.  You can optionally store details about Drivers and their Cars, including your Club and BRCA Membership details.

You can enter new Driver & Car details via the Main Screen or while creating a Competitor.  In addition to the mandatory information there are a number of optional driver details.

Required Driver Information

Driver Name
This can be up to 60 characters long.  While entering the driver name you can set Auto Capitals (the tick box to the right of the Driver name).  When Auto Capital is selected there is no need to press the Shift key for a capital letter at the start of each name.  For names where capitals appear within a name, such as MacMillan or O’Shea, you can turn off the Auto Capitals and enter the name as required.  You can turn on Auto Capitals when you enter the next Driver name.

Club ID
You can enter any number you like, provided no other Driver has that number allocated.  Think of Club ID as the Driver’s Club Number. There are 2 buttons to automatically generate numbers:

 Selects the lowest unused Number. Shortcut F6

 Selects the lowest unused T Number. Shortcut F7

T Numbers can be used a Temporary numbers.  You will be able to separate Drivers for Series points based on whether they have Number IDs or T Number Ids

Driver Name and Club ID are the only mandatory items of data that are needed to make a New Driver.

Required Car Information

Car Name
A Driver can have more than one car.  To select a Driver’s car, we use the Car Name.  This can be anything that you like, like Buggy, Touring Car, Nitro TC etc.  The name does not have to be unique.  It is just a way of identifying a car.  To add a Car to a Driver press the  button or use Shortcut Ctrl-C.  You can overtype the default car name “New Car” of leave it.  If a driver only has one car you do not need a name to select it.  Do not assign the car make as the name, there is a place for that in the Car data.

You do not need any more data for a car, but it makes sense to at least assign crystals to the car, so when the car is put into races, a suitable crystal can be selected.

If you are using bbkRC to keep a record of your Club members, there may be some members who don’t have cars, such as the Timekeeper.  There is no need for a Driver to have a Car.

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.      

Notes
You can add Notes to a particular car.  Press the Notes Tab below the Crystals Tab to select the Car Notes area.

Additional Driver Data
You can keep more information about each Driver and their Cars.  This might be useful for providing more information during racing and also to maintain club membership data.

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

Club Member
You can use this to keep track of members, particularly at the end of the Club Year, when membership needs to be renewed.  You can use this tag to select who is eligible for series points.

Ability Tab

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 Driver Type.

Note area
You can put whatever notes you wish in the Note Area.

Contact Tab

Address
The tick box below Address is to turn on Auto Capitals for the address, to save you pressing the shift key.

PostCode
This always has capitals for letters.

Email, Phone and Mobile
These can be whatever you like.

Club Member Type
Similar to Driver Type.

Date of Birth, Join Date & Renew Date
You can enter dates in any format you like.  The date is displayed in your PC Short Date Format.  When entering dates you can enter numbers separated by – or . or /.  The order of day, month and year is taken from the order in the PCs Short Date format.  For the UK this is usually day, month, year and in the USA it is month, day, year.

BRCA Membership Tab
This tab will only be available if you have selected the BRCA Membership option in the initial screen Options tab.

There is provision for keeping track of BRCA Affiliated Drivers whose Affiliation fees are paid by your Club, or who are Affiliated by another club.  You can also track whether they have paid and what their interests are.  You will be able to exchange this information with the BRCA Membership Administration in the future.

Car Tab
This shows the current selected Car.  You can select another car via the Drop Down control.

The  Button can be used to delete the current selected car.  The label to the left of the Car selector shows the number of Cars owned by the Driver.

Car Name
You can rename a car.

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.

Type
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.

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