Congratulations to all of the participants and especially the winners at this year’s 55th Anniversary Rolex 24. It was great to see so many of you. As it turns out, the last minute fix for the safety car wasn’t required as T&S changed their procedure from Friday’s CTSC race and we got the competitors before … Read more

The Rolex 24 at Daytona is upon us and RaceTools has been updated in preparation for the 2017 season opener of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. With the change in T&S suppliers and the associated change in the data feed, it is recommended that your run v3.0.4 or above of the RaceTools software. If you … Read more

The ability to replay a session in RaceTools has been part of the software since the very first version. It was a good tool for me to use to develop and debug the software and a great tool for teams to analyze data from previous sessions, events or even years. Using replay files rather than … Read more

With the new season, a lot of teams are reinstalling RaceTools and upgrading to Windows 10. This has caused some users to get file access errors when running RaceTools from the ‘Program Files’ or ‘Program Files (x86)’ folder as Window’s UAC restricts access the the program folder. The recommended place to store user data files … Read more

For years, the company name was VFX, or more precisely, VFX Digital Solutions, Inc. In 2004, the business was acquired by another company and as part of the agreement, the company name had to be changed, and it became 0435432 BC LTD. Now that the agreement is no longer in place (I bought back the … Read more

This is an optional update with some bug fixes but mostly minor tweaks to the interface to make it a little easier to use.   Enhancements: Add Delete Log Files button to General Configurations tab to delete old log files from LogPath Add Delete Session Files button to General Configurations tab to delete old ABS … Read more

Relay Server was included in a major update to RaceTools in version 2.56. It was added to address the connection restrictions in the WEC data feed, but this feature is also useful for non-WEC users. The Relay Server redistributes the data stream from one instance of RaceTools to other copies of RaceTools. This can be … Read more

For the first 8 years of RaceTools, the focus was on new features as the feedback and suggestions from dozens of race engineers and strategists made their way into the software. The focus for the last couple of years has been ease of use; trying to corral all of the features and options into something … Read more

Tired of switching track maps during a race weekend? Using the new $U message to identify the control lines from the data feed (available only since Detroit), RaceTools can now use a single track map to display both the race and alternate track configurations. Check Control Line to automatically adjust for Alternate SF line(s): To … Read more

This is a maintenance upgrade and offers a few refinements to the software as requested by our users. For IndyCar, one of the most common errors and frustrating parts of the software was making sure the correct map was loaded and the correct SF line was configured for the race and alternate start/finish lines. The … Read more