OPERATIONAL · IN USE WITH CATERHAM MOTORSPORT UK

RELATIONSHIP
Product partnership
PARTNER
FanDrive LLC
SINCE
2024
SCOPE
Product direction · Design · Engineering · Live operation

Project note

FanDrive gives a race weekend one shared digital layer.
Fans follow timing and schedules; organisers change the day once; drivers and teams manage profiles, results and communication. Eirvanta works as FanDrive's embedded product and engineering partner, taking the platform from product direction through live operation with Caterham Motorsport UK.
The number 19 Caterham on track at Donington Park, panning with the background blurred by speed.

01 · THE VISION

One source of truth for the whole weekend

A race weekend has a thousand moving parts and no single place to follow them — FanDrive is the digital layer that connects the fence, race control and the garage.

Caterham Academy Championship · Donington Park

02 · AT THE FENCE

For fans, at the fence

Live timing, session schedules and a calendar of UK motorsport in one app. Follow a driver once and their weekend comes to you — profiles open from QR codes on the cars themselves.

A close-up of the car livery showing the FanDrive sponsor decal among the driver and partner names.
FanDrive on the Academy grid

03 · RACE CONTROL

Running the weekend

An incident delays Race 2 by fifteen minutes. The organiser moves one session and every later time cascades to follow; one announcement, written once, reaches everyone — and lands on phones at the fence and at home with the revised times already in the schedule. Built to be trusted while cars are on track.

04 · THE PADDOCK

Drivers and teams, between sessions

Drivers manage profiles, licences and garage details, review session results and lap data, and answer structured post-session interviews. Official posts queue offline in the paddock and publish when signal returns — after an organiser signs them off. Fans get the story from the people in it.

The driver pulling on his race suit in the paddock beside the car, in black and white.
Between sessions — the paddock, and the data

The outcome

Bringing it together

FanDrive now operates at Caterham Motorsport UK race weekends, where timing, schedule changes, communication and driver data must remain accurate while the event is moving. Eirvanta continues to develop and operate the product as FanDrive's embedded product partner.

In service

STATUS OPERATIONAL · IN USE WITH CATERHAM MOTORSPORT UK

  • Runs at live race weekends, where the schedule can change while cars are on track and the information has to stay right.
  • Eirvanta develops and operates the platform continuously as FanDrive's product and engineering partner — from product direction through the software that runs on the day.

Technical note

STACK Swift · React · Node · Postgres · WebSocket live timing

Building software that has to work live?

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