Technical official

As a user assigned to an event, you operate the app during a race. Depending on your role and assignments, you can log penalties and incidents, coordinate with other officials in real time, monitor drafting data, and track positions on the course map.

New to the app? Start with the five-minute quick start — it walks the whole loop once, safely, in practice mode.

In this section

Race day

• Running an event — the main screens you'll use during a race.
• Ready check — confirm every official is in position before the start.
• Location tracking — how official tracking works on the course map.
• Chat — team communication during events.
• Notifications — alerts and push notifications.

Penalties and incidents

• Penalties — reporting, reviewing, and managing penalties.
• Incidents — reporting and tracking incidents.
• Penalty box — managing the penalty box during a race.
• Voice commands — hands-free penalty and incident reporting.

Watches and devices

• Apple Watch — use RaceRanger from your wrist.
• Garmin watches — pair a Garmin watch and submit from it.
• Drafting view — live drafting data from athlete devices.

Monitoring and wrap-up

• Race control — the web-based race overview dashboard.
• Event feedback — sharing feedback after an event finishes.

What you'll spend most of your time on

During a race, you'll mostly be on the race mode screen — watching for penalties, submitting them when you see them, and coordinating with your team via chat. Everything else (setup, configuration) happens in the minutes before and after a race.

What you can see

What you can see and do depends on your role and TO assignments — if a screen or button described in these guides isn't visible to you, that's usually why. Ask your technical delegate, or see Users and permissions for the full breakdown.