Section 4.7 - Handicap races
To time a handicap race, you must specify the race type as "handicap" when creating the project (see
Section 4.1 to recall):

For handicap races, "Handicap" will be added to the list of registration fields and is not optional:

All racers must be given a handicap or they will not show up in the results printout. The handicap must be specified as hh:mm:ss. When inputting a handicap in the registration window, it will verify that the handicap is in the right format and will not allow the entry to be created/edited if handicap is in the wrong format:
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Above is a handicap of one minute. If a racer has no handicap, then it must be specified as 0:00:00.
The timing window has an additional column "Corrected time" which displays the marked time, minus that racer's handicap:

Racer 100 had a handicap of 0:01:00. Racer 104 had no handicap specified. Racer 101 had a handicap of 0:00:50. Racer 102 had a handicap of 0:00:00. Note that racer 102 is the correct way to specify that the racer has no delay in starting.
The results printout will show the corrected time:

Note that
racer 104 does not show up in the results because he did not have a handicap specified. The same thing would happen if his handicap was not correctly formatted. This can be corrected by simpling saving the times, editing the registration file to have a correctly formatted handicap, generating a new timing dictionary, starting the timing window with that timing dictionary, and then loading the saved timing session. (This procedure is described in more detail in
Section 4.5).
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