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brother of pieter bervoets founder of serpent and virtual rc it was developed as a university project for his electronic studies to keep track of the results in radio controlled car racing 1 creating the world s first automatic sports timing system . in90 the first automatic timing systems for professional car and bike racing were being implemented by the company . amb i.t. introduced personal transponders in 1996 what meant that racers no longer needed to rent a transponder at every event in which they participated but have their own . in 2000 the company introduced the first multi loop timing system which enabled intermediate timing points at the track giving racers and their teams insight in their intermediate times . in 2003 amb i.t. launched a website at which race organizers could publish their event results and track owners and racing clubs could publish results of practice sessions called mylaps.com . championchip edit the finish of the 100th boston marathon using the championchip system championchip was founded in 1993 in nijmegen netherlands . this company created the first timing system for mass running events of which the zevenheuvelenloop was the very first and the berlin marathon in 1994 was the first big international race in which the championchip system was used . 2 championchip introduced a new product called timepoint in 2007 permanently timed tracks in public places such as parks or other public sports facilities . timepoints are installed on different places throughout the world including the netherlands 3 mexico and sweden . 4 mylaps sports timing edit the companies merged to mylaps sports timing in 2008 which was already a well known name in motorized racing as mylaps.com was amb i.t. s website at which racing results were being published . products edit active sports edit mylaps supplies different systems for different types of sports differed by each sport s requirements for example velocity and weight demands . in active sports three main systems can be distinguished the championchip system the prochip system and the bibtag system . together these systems provide timing for running events bicycle racing triathlon swimming ice skating and more . 5 motorized sports edit timing systems for motorized racing are differed mainly by velocity . mylaps provides systems for car racing bike racing motocross snocross kart racing radio controlled vehicle racing and more . 5 mylaps users edit mylaps timing systems are used worldwide by many sports events racing series and race tracks worldwide including 24 hours of le mans 6 boston marathon 6 fia world touring car championship 6 giro d italia 6 honolulu marathon 6 indianapolis motor speedway 6 indy racing league 6 ironman world championship 6 motogp 6 nascar 6 olympic games 6 sepang international circuit 6 super gt 6 world superbike championship 6 references edit http www.femca rc.com page id 824 information on the system . mhrrc.org . retrieved 27 september 2012 . timepoint at university nijmegen . ru.nl . retrieved 20 september 2012 . timepoint . mylaps.com . retrieved 11 june 2012 . a b mylaps product list . mylaps.com . retrieved 4 june 2012 . a b c d e f g h i j k l m n mylaps brochure pdf . mylaps.com . retrieved 4 june 2012 . external links edit official website timepoint website mylaps s channel on youtube companies portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mylaps sports timing & oldid 720780186 categories companies established in 1982dutch brands1982 establishments in the netherlandshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from august 2012all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles lacking reliable references from august 2012all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 may 2016 at 22 32 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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