Glossary
Every term Race Control uses, and what each one means.
Organization
The club that runs the races. Race Control gives each organization its own riders, classes, tracks, and seasons.
Season
One calendar year or two consecutive years for one organization. A season holds its events and its championship points.
Event
One race weekend at one track. Clubs also call an event a round.
Day
One day of an event. A day holds the ordered sessions that run on it.
Session
One slot on the schedule: a practice, a qualifying session, a warmup, or a race.
Schedule template
A reusable schedule with Days, sessions, races, and registration defaults. Copy it into an event to create that event's schedule.
MotorsportReg product
A registration choice identified by its MotorsportReg segment, class, and group fields. Review how an event uses each product.
Product disposition
How Race Control uses a MotorsportReg product: race eligibility, qualifying, practice, or Ignore. Its target names the local race or sessions.
Race
One race on track, with its own number, its own classes, and its own grid.
Class
A competition category such as 600 Superstock. A class joins riders to races, and championship points accrue in it.
Rider
A person who races. A rider has one race number for the organization and can carry more than one transponder.
Entry
One rider in one class at one event. A rider who races three classes has three entries.
An entry is the unit Race Control grids and scores. A rider is a person; an entry is that person in one class at one event.
Race Control has no direct link from a rider to a race. A race runs a set of classes, and the riders in that race are the event entries in those classes. The class is the join, because championship points accrue per class.
An entry can show no vehicle, one vehicle, or several vehicles from its exact MotorsportReg class or product assignments. It never owns one singular vehicle.
Vehicle
One motorcycle that MotorsportReg assigned to a rider's class or product. One entry can use different vehicles in different races.
Race Control reads vehicles from MotorsportReg. It shows the year, make, model, color, tire brand, and sponsor when MotorsportReg supplies them.
A vehicle is not a transponder. The same transponder can move between motorcycles, so Race Control keeps those records separate.
Two vehicle claims for one race entry, or one rider in one qualifying run, block application. Event Setup shows the exact claims for review. Matching year, make, and model do not make two provider vehicle IDs the same motorcycle.
Race number
The number a rider carries for the season. A trailing letter marks a visiting rider from another club, such as 301R.
Transponder
The timing device on a bike. One rider can hold several transponders, because one rider can race several bikes.
Track
The circuit an event runs at. It holds grid templates that staff can select for each event.
Grid
The starting order for one race. Race Control generates a grid, and you publish it when it is ready to show riders.
A grid is a record, not a drawing. It holds every position, the rider in it, and the details behind each position, together with a copy of the configuration that produced it.
A grid moves through three states. A draft is private to your organization. A published grid is visible to riders on the public pages. An amended grid is a published grid that has been regenerated since.
Grid template
The shape of the starting grid at one track: how many rows, how many positions in each row, and which side pole is on.
Row
One line of starting positions in a grid template. Rows can hold different numbers of positions.
Wave
A group of classes that starts together, with a gap before the next group starts.
Pole side
The side of the track that position one starts on. Pole side changes how a grid is drawn and never changes position numbers.
Grid configuration
The ordering criteria, qualifying policies, and wave placement settings that decide who starts where. Set the organization default under Setup, an event override under Event → Setup, or a race override under Event → Grids.
Criterion
One rule that orders riders, such as qualifying lap time. A grid configuration applies its criteria in order.
Tier
A group of riders that the same criterion ordered. Riders with no data for a criterion fall to the next tier, behind everyone the criterion placed.
Race Control orders grids in tiers, not by a blended score.
Every rider with data for the first criterion grids first, sorted by it. Riders with no data for that criterion form the next tier below them, sorted by the second criterion, and so on. The last tier uses registration order, with reviewed fallback ranks where staff have recorded them.
This is the ordinary club convention. A rider who crashed in qualifying grids behind every rider who set a lap, not among them.
Fallback rank
A reviewed historical ordering key for one event entry, which can apply in several races. Lower ranks come first within the final fallback group; they do not request grid positions.
Qualifying
A session that sets lap times for gridding. Race Control reads those lap times to order the grid.
Qualifying group
A label that says which classes one bike can plausibly race. A rider's qualifying lap carries to their other entries in the same qualifying group.
Pin
A manual override that holds a rider at one grid position. Race Control keeps a pin when it regenerates the grid.
Back of wave
A manual override that moves a rider to the last position in their wave. Race Control keeps it when it regenerates the grid.
Row penalty
A manual override that moves a rider back a set number of rows. Race Control keeps it when it regenerates the grid.
Qualifying override
A staff decision that sets the qualifying evidence for one rider in one race: selected qualifying runs, a typed time, or Missing. Race Control keeps it when it regenerates the grid.
Reconcile queue
The list of imported records that Race Control could not match with confidence. You decide each one, and the decision survives the next import.
Provisional results
A finishing order that Race Control read from live timing and that nobody has confirmed. Provisional results can still change.
Timing
The lap and finishing data for a session. Race Control reads timing from a file you upload or from a linked live provider.
Published
Visible to riders on the public pages. A grid stays private until you publish it.
Public page
A page anyone can open without signing in. Public pages carry the schedule, the published grids, and the results.
Public pages need no account and no app. Their addresses are short enough to text to a rider in the paddock, such as racecontrol.lapbrain.com/wmrra/2026/race5/grids/6.
An organization can be listed, unlisted, or disabled. Listed organizations appear in the club list on the Race Control home page. An unlisted organization is reachable by anyone holding the address, but is not in that club list. A disabled organization serves no public pages at all.