MyRacePass - Official MRP App

Review by eFreeware

If you follow short-track or sanctioned racing and you want the numbers as they happen rather than the next morning, MyRacePass is built for exactly that. The app pulls entry lists, lineups, results, point standings and live timing from participating tracks, series and drivers in the United States, Canada and Australia. It is a free download that carries ads and offers in-app purchases, and it holds a 4.8 average from more than 6,000 ratings, which suggests the people using it on race night are getting what they came for.

The appeal is the breadth of a single race night in one place. You can watch lap times update, check where a driver sits in the standings and read the official press releases without juggling a dozen track websites. Nearly 100,000 driver profiles sit inside the app, and national points for NASCAR, WISSOTA and USRA are included. For anyone who has spent a Saturday evening refreshing a results page on a phone browser, the pitch is easy to understand.

It is worth being clear about the shape of the thing. MyRacePass is a companion to racing that is already being timed and scored through its system, not a general motorsport news app. The tracks, series and drivers you care about have to be taking part for their data to show up. Within that boundary, it covers a lot of ground.

Following a race night as it unfolds

The core of the app is the live side of a race program. Entry lists tell you who is in the building, lineups show how they are gridded, and live timing tracks lap times as cars go around. Results and official point standings appear alongside, so you can see both the immediate outcome and what it does to a season-long table. The developer describes the timing and scoring as covering hundreds of tracks and series, which is the kind of scale that makes a single app more useful than bookmarking individual track pages.

Refreshing takes a downward swipe, the move most people would repeat on race night. Tapping a driver in an entry list brings up an overview of their event, a shortcut that saves digging through separate screens when you are trying to follow one person through a heat, a qualifier and a feature. Announcer audio plays when a track makes it available, so you can hear the call while watching the timing screen.

Favorites are the other feature that shapes daily use. You can mark tracks, series and drivers and keep them close at hand instead of searching each time. For someone who follows two or three local tracks and a handful of drivers, that turns the app into a personalized dashboard rather than a directory. The calendar does similar work on the planning side, letting you look at past or upcoming events before deciding whether a trip is worth making.

Standings, history and fantasy

MyRacePass keeps a record. You can look at points and results from previous years, which is useful when you are trying to work out how a driver has performed at a track over time or settle an argument about a past season. News and official press releases round out the picture between race weekends.

Fantasy racing adds a social layer. The developer frames it as a way to compete against your racing friends, and it sits naturally alongside the results and standings data the app already holds. If your group already argues about picks in a message thread, having the scoring in the same place as the lineups is a sensible arrangement.

The scale of the driver database is the other thing that stands out. Nearly 100,000 profiles means that even a driver who only appears at a handful of events in a season is likely to be findable. Combined with the historical results, that makes the app more useful than a pure race-night tool for anyone who follows the sport seriously across a season.

What drivers and promoters get from it

The app is not only for spectators. Drivers can check their own lap times during a race night, look at official results and upcoming events, and keep an eye on their current point standings. That is a narrow but genuinely useful set of jobs: knowing where you stand in points without waiting for a bulletin, and seeing your lap times while the night is still going.

Promoters have a different set of tools. They can publish schedules and points, post news that reaches drivers and fans using the app, and include tickets for their events. There is also quick access to online apparel for promoting an organization. For a track that already runs on MyRacePass timing, this is a way to push information out through the same channel people are already using to follow the races.

The result is an app with three audiences sharing one set of data. A fan, a driver and a promoter are looking at the same entry lists and results from different angles, which is a more coherent arrangement than apps that bolt a competitor section onto a spectator product.

What you need before it is useful

The main requirement is participation. MyRacePass draws its data from tracks, series and drivers that are part of its network across the United States, Canada and Australia, so the value you get depends on whether the events you follow are in that group. If your local track is not covered, the app has less to show you, and no amount of tapping around will change that. It is a companion to the timing and scoring service rather than an independent source of race information.

Announcer audio is available when a track provides it, so that feature comes and goes depending on the event. The app is free to download, carries advertising and offers in-app purchases, and is rated for everyone. It has been updated recently, and the most recent release focuses on Australian terminology, with dates shown in local format and terms like grids, divisions and scrutineering replacing their US equivalents. That is a small change, but it shows the app is being adjusted for the markets it covers rather than treated as a US-only product.

Who gets the most from MyRacePass

This is an app for people who already follow sanctioned racing closely enough to care about entry lists, lineups and points. If you go to a track most weekends, or you follow a series from a distance and want the timing as it happens, the combination of live data, favorites and historical results covers the whole arc of a season. The fantasy element gives that interest a competitive outlet with people you already talk racing with.

Drivers and promoters who are already inside the MyRacePass system have the clearest reason to install it, since their own lap times, results and standings are the point. Fans of tracks that use the service get a well-stocked companion. The audience is narrower than a general motorsport app, but within it the feature set is broad, and the rating suggests it does its job on race night.

The case for installing it before your next race night

MyRacePass earns a place on the phone of anyone whose weekends revolve around a track that uses its timing service. Live lap times, lineups, results and points in one place, with favorites to cut the searching and a calendar to plan around, is a practical combination for a free download. The driver profiles and past-season results give it value between race nights as well, and the fantasy mode adds a reason to open it when nothing is running.

The trade-offs are straightforward. Coverage depends on which tracks and series participate, announcer audio depends on the individual event, and the app carries ads and in-app purchases. None of that undermines what it does well. If your track is in the network, this is the version of race night worth carrying in your pocket; if it is not, the app will feel thin no matter how good the timing screen is.

What's new in version 19.3.847

G’day, mates! We’ve gone full Aussie in this ripper release to keep you up-to-date while Down Unda! Dates now appear backwards (don't worry US, yours are still right). Lineups are now Grids, Classes are now Divisions, and the ever important Tech is now Scrutineering. Oh, and toilets now flush the other direction. (OK, so I don't know if that is a real thing or just a myth...)