2021 Rounds 2 and 3: Preston, 5th and 6th June

It was a pretty fast turnout generally.  When allocating the races I basically put the obviously fast people in one group, the obviously slow people in the other and the middle half of the field were allocated almost at random.  It could easily have been the fully-faired race and the part-faired/unfaired race.

The Preston track really is lovely when there's no slime on the corners...

To follow up on this, it worked astoundingly well.  The software worked as intended, and we somehow managed to get everyone into a queue without any of the anticipated cat-herding problems.  The only real issue seemed to be someone going on bips of the DNS rider in front of them, which was easily fixed in the results.  (Important to note that setting a rider to DNS doesn't in itself change anyone else's start time, which is probably the correct approach if we're telling people their start time in advance.)

Thanks again to yostumpy for providing a reliable wireless router (which made this practical), and to everyone who managed to be in the right place at the right time.

Next time we can use a shorter interval between riders (I chose a fairly conservative 45 seconds to give us plenty of time in case of unforeseen issues), which means we can get through a time trial much more quickly and efficiently than before.  

It also opens up the possibility of doing multi-lap time trials, which would be impractical to time manually without a lot of human attention.  And in principle we could do flying starts, though this depends on everyone congregating outside RFID range until after their turn, which might be possible at somewhere like Darley Moor, but not the likes of Hillingdon or Stourport.