Racinghub.NetA global motorsport history database and community

Motorsport data at unprecedented scale

By 2011, we had already spent more than a decade building databases and communities around Formula One and other racing series. Racinghub.Net became the natural evolution of that work — a massive, unified hub covering:

• 🏎️ Formula One

• 🏍️ Moto Grand Prix

• 🇺🇸 NASCAR Sprint Cup

• ⚡ Formula E

• 🇺🇸 IndyCar

• 🇺🇸 ChampCar

Every driver, every team, every result — structured and stored in a way that allowed fans to trace the complete history of their favorite series.

Community engine meets motorsport

But Racinghub.Net wasn’t just a static encyclopedia. It was built as a social platform for fans, blending together the principles of our tag-based engine and the ideas we had been experimenting with in Chasm and Autobot.

• 💬 Users could comment on races, drivers, or teams.

• 📸 Upload photos and videos tied directly to database objects.

• 📝 Create personal blogs and share stories.

• ⚖️ Earn or lose reputation points, influencing their role in the community.

This reputation system was crucial: it encouraged constructive contributions while naturally limiting trolls or bad actors. A high reputation unlocked contests and influence; a low score restricted actions or led to bans.

The tag-driven structure

At the heart of Racinghub.Net was our unique tag system, something we had been refining since Chasm (2005). Every object — a driver, a race, a season, a media upload, even a comment — was tagged and interconnected.

👉 This meant there was no “lost content.” If you clicked on Ayrton Senna, you’d find not just his stats, but linked media, blogs, discussions, and related drivers or teams. Two clicks were enough to move from one era of motorsport to another.

This object-tag model later became the backbone of how QRaway handles all data today.

Legacy and significance

Racinghub.Net was, in many ways, the most ambitious motorsport community we ever built. It was not tied to a client like F-One.Ru or Automotosport.Ru — it was ours, a culmination of experience since 1999, packaged into a truly global platform.

It showed that our approach to databases, tags, and community interaction wasn’t limited to a single industry. Motorsport was simply the perfect proving ground.

🔑 And just like PromoFM in music, Racinghub.Net in motorsport confirmed that our Core could scale to massive, object-driven ecosystems — laying the foundation for QRaway.