Race tracking platforms that show positions and a leaderboard live

If you mean platforms for following an organized race, these offer a live map with positions plus a leaderboard:

Key difference: Some platforms show continuous GPS positions; others estimate where a racer is between timing checkpoints. For spectators, check the specific event’s official race page or app, since the organizer usually chooses the tracking provider. If you tell me the sport and whether you’re following a race or organizing one, I can narrow this down.

Here are the main platforms, grouped by sport. Availability depends on the event, since most apps only cover races their timing company runs.

Motorsport

• NASCAR app and NASCAR.com: Offers live scoring with leaderboards, lap times, pit stops, and positions. A Race Tracker feature shows real-time car locations through NASCAR Fan Rewards. Live Scoring – Track leaderboards, lap times, pit stops, and positions. Some features are unavailable for standalone Truck and O'Reilly Series events. For standalone Craftsman Truck and O'Reilly Auto Parts Series events, Driver Telemetry and Race Tracker are unavailable.
• MYLAPS Speedhive: Covers karting and many club and track series. The app and website show live leaderboards, lap times and personal results, plus progress bars showing racers' positions.
• Race Monitor (RMonitor): Shows live timing from thousands of races worldwide. You can sort racers by position or qualifying times and group them by class.

Running and endurance events

• Competitive Timing / LivePlanit (also used by The Rut): Shows live splits, estimated finish times, and estimated runner positions on a course map. Its app is in the App Store and Google Play, and it also runs on the web. On race day, tap follow to track your runners live — their updates appear on your Tracked Participants screen. Open the course map to see estimated positions in real time.
• Racetimer Live Results: Lets you follow chosen participants with splits, finish times, a course map, and optional checkpoint notifications. It needs no account.
• Racemap: A platform for event organizers that builds live leaderboards from GPS data and checkpoints. It is useful for large events and virtual races, and its leaderboards are interactive, optimized for mobile usage.
• SVE Live! and Chrono-Course: Apps that show participant times, paces, and live leaderboards for events they time. Coverage is limited to listed events.
• RTRT.me: Provides real-time race tracking with live leaderboards for supported events. One App Store reviewer complained that the "real-time" positions were really estimates based on split points, so check how positions are calculated.
• Athletics marathon coverage (e.g., Chicago Marathon): Major marathons run official apps with live leaderboards and runner tracking.
• rslts and SVETiming: Timing companies whose apps show live results and athlete tracking for the races they time.

Rowing and boats

• Ludum Live: Tracks each boat via GPS, showing position, pace, and gaps between crews. Spectators can follow through a shared public link with no login needed.
• RaceClocker: A do-it-yourself manual timing tool that publishes live results and splits during races.

GPS-based fan trackers

• eventrace: Shows live GPS positions and a real-time leaderboard for events that use its trackers. Updates are not instant. The GPS tracker transmits a new position approximately every 30 seconds, and poor mobile coverage can delay them.

Tips for choosing

• Check whether your specific event is listed. Most apps say that not every event is supported.
• For positions on a map, confirm whether they are GPS-tracked or estimated from timing mats. Many "live" maps are estimates.
• If you tell me the sport (F1, karting, marathon, triathlon, etc.) or the event, I can narrow this down.

Race tracking platforms that provide live position tracking and leaderboards vary depending on the type of event, such as endurance sports (running/cycling), motorsport, or virtual racing.

Here are the most prominent platforms categorized by their primary use case:

1. Endurance & Multi-Sport Events (Running, Cycling, Trail)

These platforms are designed to track participants over long distances using GPS or RFID timing chips.

• MYLAPS (EventApp/Sporthive): A industry leader for both active sports and motorsports. They provide comprehensive event apps that include real-time athlete tracking on interactive maps, live leaderboards, and split times.
• RTRT.me: Widely used for large-scale world-class events. It offers a "Web Tracker & Leaderboard," real-time push notifications, and multi-course map tracking.
• Racemap: A popular choice for outdoor sports like trail running and cycling. It focuses on easy-to-use, interactive maps where participants can be tracked live, along with race flow charts and statistics.
• LiveTrail: Specialized for trail running and ultra-marathons, offering advanced features like AI-based finish time estimations, favorite-runner tracking, and deep performance analysis.
• Tracktherace: Another platform specifically built for adventure races, orienteering, and cycling, providing GPS tracking and management for event organizers.
• WHIP LIVE: Allows for smartphone-based tracking without requiring extra hardware, providing a 3D map interface for spectators to follow participants in real-time.

2. Motorsport & Sim-Racing

These platforms focus on high-precision timing, telemetry, and lap-by-lap data.

• Race Monitor: A well-known app that allows spectators and racers to view live timing from thousands of tracks globally. It supports integration with professional timing systems (like MyLaps) and shows positions and qualifying times.
• RaceNova: Provides live timing, sector times, and a rider tracker map for track days and motorsports, keeping both drivers and spectators informed with real-time updates.
• RaceView: A leading platform specifically for sim-racing. It offers professional-grade live timing, sector splits, position tracking with millisecond accuracy, and competitive leaderboards.
• RaceTrace: Focuses on motorsport live streaming, allowing teams to monitor a vehicle’s position, speed, and G-forces in real-time alongside a video feed.

3. General & Smaller-Scale Events

• Webscorer: Often used for smaller, self-timed events. It is a highly versatile timing app that can handle race registration, timing, and results, making it a budget-friendly option for organizers.
• Open Tracking: Provides end-to-end GPS tracking and timing, frequently used for charity challenges and adventure races, with a focus on ease of use for the participants and engaging, "addictive" live leaderboards for fans.

How to choose the right one?

• For Spectators/Fans: Platforms like Race Monitor or the MYLAPS apps are best if you want to follow professional or large-scale organized races.
• For Organizers: If you are running an event, look for platforms like Racemap or Tracktherace for ease of setup, or RTRT.me if you need high-end, scalable features for thousands of participants.
• For Sim-Racers: RaceView is currently the go-to for professional-level timing and leaderboard tracking in virtual environments.

Here are several platforms that combine live race positions or progress with a leaderboard:

• Racemap — Interactive live maps and real-time leaderboards. It can use participant phone GPS or timing-system data, and supports replay after the event. ¹²³
• RaceMyRace — Browser-based tracking for spectators, with projected participant positions, predicted times, split listings, and overall or age-group leaderboards. ⁵
• RTRT.me — Live map tracking, web and mobile leaderboards, notifications, and team scoring. Depending on the event, positions may be estimated from timing checkpoints rather than continuous GPS. ⁷¹²
• RACE RESULT 14 — A race-timing and results platform that publishes live times, splits, rankings, and tracking, with results displayed on websites or screens. ⁴¹¹
• RunMate — Offers live GPS tracking and automatically updated leaderboards through its phone-based platform. ⁶

Quick distinction: If you need a moving map with frequent GPS updates, look at Racemap or RunMate. If checkpoint-based timing and live rankings are enough, RTRT.me or RACE RESULT may be a better fit. Check how each platform gets location data and whether it supports your sport, timing setup, and event size before choosing.