Live Timing
Every rider, every sector, live.
The TT Mountain Course is nearly 38 miles long, and most fans can see one corner of it. Live timing is how they follow the rest: who’s leading, who’s gaining, who’s stopped. We built the official live timing for the TT, carrying every lap and sector time to fans at the roadside, teams in the paddock and families watching around the world, all at once.
All Isle of Man TT Races work (4)At a glance
- Live timing
- Instant updates
- Built for race day
- The fan view
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Every one of them needs the same thing at the same moment: the right number, right now. Delivering that to thousands of people at once, without the system slowing or breaking, is a different problem from building a website.
The scale of the problem
The TT runs over 37.73 miles of public road, and its audience is global. During a race the timing data never stops, and everyone wants it at once. Traffic spikes in ways that would bring a conventional hosting set-up down.
The data has to be accurate, instant and available to thousands of people at the same time, whether they’re at the roadside or on the other side of the world. That makes it an infrastructure problem rather than a content one.
How it works
Real-time data
A Node application takes in the timing feed as it happens, far faster than conventional server-side code could. The data is stored in a NoSQL database, structured for fast delivery as the race goes on, and every change is pushed to screens straight away.
Hosting that scales itself
The system runs on a serverless platform that scales automatically with demand, wherever people are. In stress testing it handled a volume of requests that would look like an attack on a conventional server, without slowing.
A view for everyone
A live leaderboard, lap times, sector splits, race commentary and the schedule, built for phones, tablets and desktops. It’s fast enough to use at the roadside and clear enough to follow from anywhere.
What it delivers
Race sessions bring thousands of people on at once, and hundreds of thousands over the event: fans at the roadside, teams in the paddock checking splits, and riders’ families watching from overseas.
It has also become a tool the teams rely on. The same system that serves a fan in the grandstand informs decisions in the garage.
DotPerformance has delivered the official TT live timing year after year, and it has served every race without failure.
The TT runs because the infrastructure holds, and that includes the timing.
The film
TT Live Timing: about the film
“The whole suite of services from dotperformance were once again top rate. They performed without any hiccups set against the hardest of challenges and stress.”
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