ZRound race manager

Starting ZRound

ZRound setup installs shortcuts on Windows ZRound program group and your desktop. You can create/edit shortcuts to add these extra settings.

Parameter Features
-practiceAutostart application. You can add a shorcut with the -practice parameter to your login startup profile in order to automatically start ZRound whent the system boots up.

Party races. You don't need to register racers and results are not saved to the championship manager. Just enjoy a run with the racer's registered on the practice session.
-debugIt adds extra info to the log console. Only needed if the support team ask you to do it in order to capture extra details to investigate issues.

When application is started, an information box shows the boot-up progress information

Main window

Main look like this at startup.

There are several section to work with options, races, data, etc.

As you can have several copies installed and/or use different databases, at startup, you can see the database and settings paths used on the console

1. Tool bar

Here you will find these buttons to work with ZRound

Icon Function
Clear race and racers information. It is a simple way to “reset” application to start from scratch witout restart the application
Open a race configuration file with racers to be registered. You don't need to use this type of files as championship manager will do it for you. However, you could be use it for special purposes or custom races where you want to setup runs manually.
Save the current race settings and racers registered to a race configuration file you could use later to start or recover information. If race is started from championship manager you will save the results to the race database.
Open the racers database
Open ZRound application settings
Show/Hide secondary window
Show/Hide compact scoreboard used for video recording
Print out results
Mute/Unmute application
Read out the first three racers results during the race
Read out all the racers results during the race
Read out the race time during the race
Start practice time
Start race time
Show/Hide bottom panel with console and laps/times info panels
Show/Hide race info panel
Show/Hide laps/times info panel
Show/Hide racers sessions panel
Show Application Info and extra debug settings. You can generate a .zip archive with details about installation and runtime information. It helps if you are in troubles and need helpdesk support

At right there is a status section

Section Function
lap counter state

1.1 Application settings

2. Race info

Race info panel shows information about the run

Section Info
Race name - Run (heat/main) - Round
Racer in first position
Best lap owner. You can remove the best lap with the “X” button at left


Track layout. You can edit the layout properties by clicking on it
Cars in track count, race time and lap count is shown at right.
:!: If you click on the clock panel, it will switch to count/countdown mode

3. Race Settings

Take a look to Key concepts

3.1 Race mode

Setting Function
QualifyingQualify mode.
Laps: Max. number of laps. Tie break by less total time
Best time: Best lap time. See Best lap Qualifying options
StartStart mode:
Staggered: racers have their own clock. It starts on the first detection
Le Mans: All racers have the same clock. Extra settings are shown for start mode fine tunning
Initialize after first finishing line passClock starts counting when the first car is detected (not when the countdown stops)
Count first detectionIf enabled, first detection will count as lap 1. Otherwise, lapcount will start on 0

Best lap Qualifying options

OptionDescription
LapsNumber of best laps to compute the “best lap” time. For example, you can use the 2 best lap times to be considered in order to compute the best racer
ConsecutiveIf laps is greather than 1, you can define if the n-best laps must be consecutives
AlgorithmYou can choose if you want compute sum or average in order to show the “best lap time”

3.2 Duration

Setting Function
TimeRace duration expressed in time units (hour,minuts, seconds)
LapsRace duration expressed in number of laps to be completted). There are fine tuning options for lap duration mode
Complete all lapsWhen duration is “Laps”, this options controls whether racer must complete all laps or the run stops when the first racer complete the lap count

3.3 Start/Finish settings

Settings Function
Countdown timeTime to wait for the race to be started.
Example: 10 → (10, 9, 8, … 1, go)
SpeakerCountdown will be read out
Call to startIf Speaker is enabled, seconds before start to begin read out
Example: 3 ( . . . . 3 2 1 go)
Random call to startEven choosing a call to start number of seconds, you could want to do it randomly. If enabled, call to start will be random within the call to start number of seconds.
Time beteween carsPause time between racers stat on staggered start mode
Min. lap timeLap times under this value will be ignored. A special sound can be configured to distinguish this event and it will be dumped to the log console
Time to finishExtra time given to racers to complete their last lap once race duration is over

4. Racers

List of registered racers. Available actions on the registered racers view:

Function Description
Column orderYou can change the columns order by drag and drop
Column widthYou can change the column width by dragging the header margin as you do in a spreadsheet
List sortYou can set the sort criteria by clicking the column header you want
Racers optionsOpen the context menu (right click) to open the racer's registration options

5. Log Console

Console shows events fired by the application and lapcounters. It will dump configuration changes, start/stop race events, lapcounter events (connect, disconnect, lap detection, etc.)

The context menu (right click) offers these options:

Option Description
View event for this carEnabled when a car event is selected, open a pop-up window with that car events filtered
CopyCopy the log content to the windows clipboard
Save as…Save the log content to a text file

Info / About

Info button display version information and CopyRight.

There are two actions available

  • Extra debug Checkbox. It activates the extra debug information messages on ZRound Console. It only affects the current session, it's cleared if you restart ZRound unless you use the -debug command line setting
  • Helpdesk report button. It ask you to save a report (.zip file) with system/zround/logs/database information. It can be claimed from helpdesk support if you aks for help to zround support team.
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