Critical Race Operations, Connectivity and Technology Services on Display
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Imagine a central technology hub capturing more than 10,000 individual data points per second. And imagine that hub connects a race series, its race operations, its timing and scoring, its teams and its broadcasters in one spot and travels to IMSA events across the U.S.
That central hub is the IMSA Lenovo Technology Center Powered by AMD, which has now come to the end of its first full season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship since debuting at Daytona International Speedway for the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona weekend in January.
The mobile data center, supporting IMSA’s 18 automobile partners racing on track, visited Lenovo HQ in Raleigh, N.C. for an open house in August, in-between IMSA race weekends at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis. and VIRginia International Raceway in Alton, Va., just north of the North Carolina state line.
This allowed a showcase of the technological aspects to the Lenovo corporate community, which houses employees, resellers, channel partners, and their “Executive Briefing Center” which features Lenovo’s latest technology.
The technology center brought forth these key elements of IMSA’s race critical functions and technology services provided to teams, race officials and fans:
- Catapult software (formerly SBG Sports Software) running on Lenovo servers and laptops powered by AMD processors, combining views from 50+ cameras at each racetrack which helps enable quick, accurate officiating by IMSA
- At-track networking infrastructure for teams, race control, and industry, allowing for remote engineers and a reduced carbon footprint
IMSA’s technological footprint creates some fascinating and large numbers of data:
- Estimated that at least if not more than 40TB of data has been captured in the 2025 season.
- 15+ timing loops in each race track, receiving more than 100 pieces of data per car, per loop pass, per lap, at speeds upwards of 200 mph.
- 178 real-time sensors on the most technologically advanced race cars in North America, IMSA’s Hybrid-Electrified Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) prototypes, delivering thousands of data points per second to IMSA, as well as Engineers at the race track and around the world.
- 10+ miles of fiber cables for timing and scoring, race control and trackside Internet, fed to teams, stakeholders and off-site engineers
As part of the visit to Lenovo’s North American Headquarters, DXDT Racing brought its IMSA Grand Touring Daytona (GTD) class No. 36 Corvette Z06 GT3.R, allowing guests to experience the complete data-loop first hand. The car itself is a technological marvel with a Bosch electronic hand-braking system installed for races Robert Wickens competed in this year.
IMSA, its teams, drivers and race cars from 18 different automobile manufacturers are all driven by data, with AMD and Lenovo powering the sport for all, while enhancing the experience for fans around the world.