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 is the digital operating layer for a race weekend.
Fans follow live timing, schedules and drivers; organisers update the day and communicate changes; drivers and teams manage profiles, results and paddock information. Eirvanta works as FanDrive's embedded product partner across product direction, design, engineering and live operation.
The number 19 Caterham on track at Donington Park, panning with the background blurred by speed.

01 · THE VISION

One live system for the whole weekend

Schedules move, timing updates and incidents interrupt the plan. Different people need different answers at the same time. FanDrive keeps the public timetable, live timing, event communication and driver information connected as the weekend changes.

Demonstration film · photography from 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

When a session moves, every later time can be recalculated from one change. An organiser can publish one announcement with the revised schedule already attached, reaching people at the circuit and following from elsewhere.

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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