Leaderboard: Smarter & More Customizable

We've expanded our leaderboard solution with new customization options and improved logic to support more complex event formats. 

Improved start detection

The leaderboard now better identifies the actual start of a race when start and finish locations are geographically close but connected by a long course loop. This improves ranking accuracy for lap-based and looped events.

Custom leaderboard branding

You can now set the leaderboard header color directly within the settings, making it easier to align leaderboards with event branding and sponsor requirements.

Built-in leaderboard preview

We've added a leaderboard preview in the configurator, to immediately verify appearance and settings before publishing changes. This reduces setup time and helps avoid configuration errors during event preparation. 

All about the RACEMAP leaderboard add-on in our documentation:
https://docs.racemap.com/live-tracking/gps-timing 

Auto-pause API to prevent unnecessary costs

To help customers better manage API usage and operational costs, the Data API add-on now automatically deactivates after an event has concluded.

How it works:

• The system automatically pauses the Data API after the first API request that occurs more than two hours after the event end time.
• Users can resume the API at any time if continued access is required.

This change helps prevent unintended API consumption and unexpected costs while maintaining full flexibility for customers who need extended access. 

More current API Improvements

Our current API continues to evolve as a reliable data source for broadcasters, media teams, event organizers, and technology partners.

AI-assisted development becomes common. An increasing number of teams use tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or GitHub Copilot to rapidly create custom dashboards, reporting tools, and event-specific applications. Our current API is the stable, structured, and well-documented data foundation for such custom solutions.

Whether you're building a live race dashboard, an operations monitor, a broadcast control panel, or automated reporting workflows, you can use AI assistants together with our documentation to generate applications tailored to your specific requirements—while relying on verified real-time race data from RACEMAP.

We've enhanced the current API with reliability, analysis capabilities, and consistency.

Highlights:

• New routing and expanded test coverage for the Current API Analyser. 
• Consistent formatting of units, pace values, and receive-gap information. 
• Improved speed and movement calculations within backend processing. 
• Additional test coverage and internal quality improvements.

Explore the current API documentation to start building your own dashboards and integrations: https://docs.racemap.com/api/current

Clearer Tracker Management for Queclink GL3xx Devices

We've improved the Tracker Manager interface to make device communication settings easier to understand and operate. 

Improved ACK visibility

The tracker dashboard previously exposed two different acknowledgement concepts ("Cl-ACK" and "Server ACK") that could be difficult to distinguish during troubleshooting and device configuration. These improvements help operations teams diagnose communication issues faster and manage Queclink GL3xx GPS tracker with greater confidence.

The improved interface now includes:

• Context-sensitive explanations directly within the UI.
• Clearer descriptions for tracker communication settings.
• Improved display and sorting behavior for Server ACK states.
• Better support for identifying unknown versus disabled acknowledgement states. 

Learn more about Tracker Management in our documentation:
https://docs.racemap.com/tracker-management

Faster Synchronization Across the Platform

To improve data freshness and operational responsiveness, we adjusted platform synchronization intervals.

• Starter synchronization now runs every one minute (instead of every five minutes). 
• The default player aut-reload interval has been standardized to one minute, also.

These adjustments provide faster updates while maintaining efficient system performance.