Glossary | Outlap Docs

Term	Meaning
Apex	The point on a corner where the car is closest to the inside. Also Outlap’s cyan, used for organisers, links and telemetry.
API key	A secret that lets software act for a club. Starts with `olap_`, shown once, scoped. See Authentication.
AxWare	Timing and scoring software used for autocross and solo events.
Bridge	The Outlap Timing Bridge: a Node script that relays an RMonitor feed to Outlap.
Club	The account that owns members, events, keys and payouts. A track is the circuit-operator equivalent.
Delta	The live time difference to a reference lap, usually your best. Outlap computes it by position on track.
Event	A dated activity with tickets, a waiver, groups and sessions.
Feed	A live stream of timing data into an event. It has a status: idle, connecting, live, stale, error or stopped.
Flame	Outlap’s orange, used for drivers and calls to action.
GNSS	Satellite positioning (GPS and its peers). RaceBox logs it at up to 25 Hz.
Ideal lap	The sum of your best sectors across a session.
Kerb stripe	The dashed Flame line in Outlap’s design, from the kerbs at a circuit.
Lap	A time in milliseconds with optional sector splits, speed and validity.
Manifest	The list of who’s attending an event, used at the gate.
MCP	Model Context Protocol, a standard for connecting AI assistants to tools. See MCP server.
Minor units	Money as integers of the smallest currency unit, such as cents.
Out-lap / in-lap	The laps leaving and returning to the pits. Not representative, so logger imports drop them.
Paddock	The event tab where attendees, transponders and numbers are managed. Also the area at the circuit.
PAX	Handicap index used in autocross to compare cars.
Penalty	A time penalty (added to total time) or a points deduction.
Race Control	The organiser’s console for an event. See Race Control.
RMonitor	A line-based timing protocol over TCP, emitted by MyLaps systems and AxWare. See reference.
Scope	A permission on an API key, such as `timing:write`.
Session	A part of an event, such as practice or a race, with its own status and lap numbering.
Sector	A section of the lap with its own split time.
Sodium	Outlap’s amber, used for clubs and highlights.
Start/finish gate	The timing line across the track. Outlap finds it from the file, the circuit database or the lap data.
Transponder	A device in the car that a decoder reads each lap. Outlap matches it to a driver.
Visibility	Whether an event is public or private. Public events expose a live board and read endpoints.
Wristband	A driver’s progression tier shown in the app.