Race Management

Finish Line Management

If your organization has experience managing road races, then you may only need finish line management.  3 D Racing can provide experienced personnel to manage a flawless finish line.  Services include all equipment and personnel needed to manage the race finish line and race results.

 

What 3 D Racing Provides Your Race

3 D RACING offers the pull tag methods of obtaining finish line results. The pull tag system is simple and effective. Each runner wears a bib number with a pull-off tag attached to it. The person's data, such as name, age, and sex, is connected to that bib number and stored in a computer database. As a participant crosses the finish line, their time is recorded manually using computerized timing devices. Finish line timers record times for all finishers and also record bib numbers for as many finishers as possible. Times captured with a known bib number are called select times.

Finish line volunteers obtain all of the bib numbers by tearing off the pull tag after the participants cross the finish line. They place the pull tags in finish order, on a spindle or stringer. Workers periodically deliver spindles to the people doing the result processing. 3D RACING personnel enter the times and places into the results processing computer containing the participant database. The computer sorts out the results automatically lining up times with bib numbers. The select bib numbers obtained by the timers help to correctly synchronize the places with the matching times.

Preliminary results are usually posted before all athletes have finished the race.