A race is on and the lobby is full of friends with nothing to look at. Sim racing leaderboard software puts the running order on the wall, then gives drivers a reason to come back.
Sim racing leaderboard software for the people not in a rig
Friday night, eight rigs, one race. Eight people are having a great time. Their friends are by the bar, looking at phones, with no idea who is winning.
The race is the product, and most of the people in the building cannot see how it is going. Sim racing leaderboard software fixes that by putting live race standings on the wall while the race is on, and by keeping a score that lasts after everyone has gone home.
VenueChief does both through screens you set up yourself: live standings during a race, and contests and lap records between visits.
What goes on your screens
- Live Race. The race standings tower, made for venue TVs. A timed race shows the time left.
- Race Leaderboard. Live standings with positions, gaps and lap times for the running session.
- Contest Leaderboard. Standings for one contest, or a rotation through every active contest.
- Best Laps. All-time best lap records by track, rotating one track at a time.
- Driver Score Leaderboard. Top drivers by unified score, with grade badges.
Each screen is a page with its own address. Open it in full-screen mode on a TV browser or small PC, and it updates live with no refresh.
Book a demo and we will put a race and a contest on it.
How a race reaches the wall
Group your rigs into display zones, such as the party room, if you run more than one race at a time. A Live Race screen given a zone shows the races on that zone’s rigs. At a venue without zones, every race gets the venue’s Live Race screens. When a screen’s own race is not running, it shows the busiest live race at the venue.
Launching a race picks those screens automatically. Session Control also lists Live Race screens under Display Screens, so staff can show one on a session by hand.
When a race ends, you should not have to tidy up. If the time runs out or the server stops, the screens and the spectator station it held are free for the next race, with no Stop button needed. A screen may keep showing the final standings until the next race claims it, which is a nice thing for a group to walk past.
A Spectator station is a rig set to join races as a watcher. It is never booked, and it does not count toward your simulator limit. When a race launches, Session Control says which station is joining it, or why none is.
Contests that reward more than one lucky lap
A hotlap contest rewards the fastest single lap. That is fine for your regulars and can feel out of reach for everyone else. Two scoring methods change who can win:
- Average Lap Time scores the average of a driver’s fastest N laps in one session. You choose N.
- Consistency scores the spread of those laps, shown as ±0.081 seconds. The tightest spread wins, and it needs at least 3 laps.
A session with fewer than N laps does not score, and each driver keeps their best session. AI-driven laps are left out. Standings name the lap behind each score, and removing or reinstating a lap rescores the driver’s active contests.
You can also fix the game, track and allowed vehicles, so the contest rewards the driver and not whoever found the fastest car.
Lap records that give people a reason to return
The Best Laps screen rotates through your tracks and shows the all-time best laps at your venue, drawn from attributed drivers’ personal bests. A record on the wall is a simple dare. A regular who sees their name there brings a friend. A friend who sees that name wants to beat it. Guests can also check best laps and contest standings on the kiosk.
Who it suits
Sim racing centers and lounges with a TV or two to fill, venues running group events and parties, and any owner who wants a standing contest on a signature track. For a party that wants its own board, see group event leaderboards.
What it changes on a busy night
- Friends in the lobby can follow the race without asking.
- A finished race does not leave the next race without its screens.
- A steady newcomer has a contest they can win.
Availability and fine print
A Live Race screen on a venue TV shows the standings tower. It reads the race your rigs are running at that moment.
Spectator stations depend on the Sim Commander version on the rig, so check your version with us before planning around one. Contest scoring locks once anyone has a score. The method cannot switch to one that measures something else, such as to or from Average or Consistency, and the number of laps counted cannot change.
By default, sessions from a private event stay out of public results and live standings. You can list them as Private event instead, with no names. On any shared screen, minors appear by racer name, never their real name. See pricing for what your plan includes.