Excel Worksheet for 2-lane racing

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Excel Worksheet for 2-lane racing

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Our two lane track uses a timer interfaced GPRM for scheduling, but I am looking for a backup spreadsheet in the event the timer fails during the race.

Does anybody have a worksheet that will schedule a race for a two-lane track with up to 50 racers?
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*5 J's* wrote:Our two lane track uses a timer interfaced GPRM for scheduling, but I am looking for a backup spreadsheet in the event the timer fails during the race.

Does anybody have a worksheet that will schedule a race for a two-lane track with up to 50 racers?
Cory Young has one. It requires Excel and incorporates the latest PPN software for schedule specification. See Software on Cory's website.

Last I looked, it used a feature of Excel that is not in other spreadsheet products.
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*5 J's* wrote:Our two lane track uses a timer interfaced GPRM for scheduling, but I am looking for a backup spreadsheet in the event the timer fails during the race.
When using GPRM, we do recommend that you print out the scoresheet report and use that to manually record each heat (finish order at a minimum). If there is some issue with the computer, you can continue the race and tabulate the results off of that.

If it is just an issue of timer communications, then you can switch to Points scoring, if scoring by Time, and then manually enter the finish order for each heat into GPRM. GPRM keeps track of points as well as times, even when scoring by time. That way you can let GPRM do all the number crunching for you.
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Thanks Randy and Stan. I would be using times, so it's good to know that I could swap over to points if required.
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