Advanced Setup

These advanced option have been placed into the program because people have requested them, normally the default options will be fine. If you don’t understand what these do, then don’t touch!

First of all open the laps program and then the setup screen then exit/close the program (there is a good reason for this).
To get to the advanced options open a file called “laps.ini” which is in the same directory as the lapsw.exe program file. The file should be opened into a text editor (i.e. notepad). A good idea before opening the file is to make a copy to a floppy disk etc (that way you can restore the original if you make a mistake).

Setting the Stagger Order

To set the starting order given for stagger starts, open the laps.ini file
Go to the entry
STAGGER ORDER=

To set for the last round, re-enter as
STAGGER ORDER=LAST

To set for FTD
STAGGER ORDER=FTD

Setting the gap between calling cars for stagger start

By default cars will be called with a one second gap but this can be increased.
The gap between calling cars can be between 1 second and 3 seconds.

Open the laps.ini file

Go to the entry
STAGGER GAP=

To set to 1 second
STAGGER GAP=1000

To set to 3 seconds
STAGGER GAP=3000

Any number between 1000 and 3000 is acceptable. e.g 1.25 seconds = 1250
If the number is not between 1000 and 3000 then the default 1 second will be used.

Setting the number of seconds/beeps countdown before a race

The ten second countdown can now be set (to avoid confusion it will still be called ten second countdown), the number of seconds can be set between 2 and 10 seconds (Default is 10 seconds).

Open the laps.ini file

Go to the entry
COUNT BEEPS=

To set to 10 second
COUNT BEEPS=10

To set to 5 second
COUNT BEEPS=5