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Price: $449.99
Specifications: Trans Am FT200 In-Car Kit (PDF)
The Flagtronics FT200 ushers in a revolution in racing safety. The FT200 brings top tier race flagging capabiltiy, as well as messaging from race control directly to the driver. Available for purchase in 2020.
Features
- Rapid (with 0.1s) notification of flag conditions from race control & flag stands
- Long range, highly reliable proprietary communications system
- Lightweight, inexpensive deployment footprint for racetracks & sanctioning bodies
- Inexpensive in-car equipment
- Durable & bright LED matrix display with automatic dimming at night
- User replaceable battery backup
- CAN Bus & expansion system capable
- Included or remote flagging antenna option
- Flagging audit log on in-car boxes & race control
- Web API for flagging information at the race level & car level for teams, race control, racetracks, & sanctioning bodies
- End session timing & capability. Send the checkered flag when you need to when schedules go awry.
- High system design flexibility to accomodate the needs of racetracks & sanctioning bodies
- Custom message capability. Our FT300 will expand on this further with a full LCD screen
- Incident, Accident, & Stopped vehicle reporting for race control. Automatic yellow flagging options
- Timing & Scoring backup system if transponders fail
- FCC Legal
- Optional integration with flag stand display boards that allow conversion to fully digital flagging and a simple button press for in-car and on track flagging from flaggers
Critical Benefits
- Fills in coverage holes between flag stations
- Gets dangerous cars who are unresponsive to black flags off track
- Improve all drivers flag observation percentage
- Helps novice drivers
- Allows messages to dangerous drivers red misting around track
- Greatly improves night flagging
- Greatly improves low visibility flagging in conditions like fog or heavy rain
- Allows flagging when drivers line of sight to flag stand is obscured
- Capable of notifying race control of a stopped car or wreck
- Gives team flag information in the pits for improved strategy & safety
- Capable of providing blue flag to improve safety passing
- Pit Timer that counts up so that it's clear and easy for the team & officials to see
- Pit speed Warning as well as data for race control
- Purple Flag speed warning (VIR 35 as example) as well as data for race control
- Emergency services may be dispatched to accident
- Tow truck may be dispatched to disabled vehicle
- Color Blind supplementation as many color blind drivers can't distinguish existing flags
- Avoid Black Flag confusion where multiple cars pit for the Black flag event of one car
- Timing & Scoring backup system if transponders fail.
- Passing under yellow mitigation; greatly improves passing under yellow data for race control
- CAN Bus communication to allow users to integrate signalling in their logger, display system, &/or telemetry system.
- Improves safety for racers, safety workers, & officials