About
Live timing for club motorsport
mtime.nz puts times in front of competitors as they happen. It runs on the timing gear your club already owns, it doesn't need a full-time IT volunteer, and it's priced for a club — not a national promoter.
It started with a spreadsheet
If you've competed at a closed road sprint or hillclimb, you know the drill. You cross the line, and then you wait. Someone back at timing is reading a time code off a screen, typing it into a cell, and hoping the formula underneath still points where it's supposed to. Copy a cell wrong, mistype a code, and a five-second job turns into a twenty-minute hunt for the error.
By the time results are printed and pinned up, you're an hour down the road — well onto your next run, or packing up for the day. The first drivers off the line rarely see their own time before they're back in the queue. At a bigger event, a full result sheet can take hours.
We ran our own club's timing that way for years. It works, mostly — until it doesn't, and then it works slowly.
Everything else is live. Why not this?
Watch a circuit meeting and lap times appear the instant a car crosses the beam. Club motorsport — sprints, hillclimbs, the grassroots end of the sport — got left behind. Not because clubs don't want it, but because the tools built for it assume a timing budget in the thousands of dollars a year, or a level of setup most clubs don't have the volunteers to run.
That gap is where mtime.nz started.
Built for how clubs actually time events
Most clubs already have decent timing gear — something that reliably produces a start time and a stop time. What's usually missing is everything after that: getting those times in front of competitors, correctly, in real time, without a chain of manual data entry standing between the finish line and the results board.
mtime.nz sits in that gap. You don't replace your timing hardware and you don't retrain your officials. It takes the times you're already capturing and puts them live in front of competitors as they happen, cutting out the copy-paste chain that causes the delays and the errors in the first place.
Want the detail?
See how it works, from the beam to the results board
Setup, timing gear, the formats we support, and what you need on the day.
How it works →
The mission
Every competitor should see their time before their next run, not fifteen minutes after. Every club should be able to afford live timing, not just the ones with major sponsorship.
Built in New Zealand by people who've stood at the timing desk at 4pm on event day, watching the queue build while results were still being checked by hand.