YB Races

Name: YB Races
Rating: 3 (76 reviews)
Author: Ground Control Technologies UK Ltd

By: Ground Control Technologies UK Ltd App

Sports

Overview

Version:

5.0.1

Last updated: 2025-06-23

Ranking

#175,163 ▼ 172

Overall

Features & Capabilities

YB Races is a mobile app for iPhone and iPad that provides live race tracking across yacht races, car rallies, and adventure racing. The race viewer displays information provided by race organizers, so media may be missing if organizers have not supplied it. Note that an internet connection is required for operation.

Key features include viewing team information, live leaderboards, maps and wind information where available, zooming to all teams and the course area, a social media feed with race news, and a replay function to scrub through time.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Sports Navigation & Mapping

By:

Ground Control Technologies UK Ltd

Rating:

3.00

(76)

Version:

5.0.1 Last updated: 2025-06-23

Version code:

875818255

Creation date:

2011-11-18

Compatible devices:

Size:

4.71MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-08-10

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 175,163 ▼ 172

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Developed by:

Ground Control Technologies UK Ltd

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yb-races/id452193682

Website:

http://www.groundcontrol.com

User Reviews

Users broadly enjoy YB Races for following events and find it fun and engaging, with good support. However, frequent crashes, unstable updates (including a disliked 3D viewer), and missing core features like saving favorites or following a single boat significantly hamper usability. Some users also want browser access as an alternative. Overall sentiment is positive about purpose and engagement, but reliability and feature gaps are the main recurring drawbacks.

Pros

Helps monitor and follow race action for fans.
Adds significant interest and is a favorite app for some events (e.g., Mackinac), with positive viewing on Apple TV.
Customer service is great.
Works well for following friends' boats and general enjoyable use.

Cons

Frequent crashes and instability (app locks up or crashes during use).
Update-related usability problems, including a disliked 3D viewer and overall poor user experience after updates.
Inability to save favorites, tag/highlight boats on the map, or follow a single boat within a team.
Lack of browser option to view race data (users want browser access as an alternative) and reliability issues with data not updating properly.

Recent reviews

As others have noted, this app is next to useless. The controls on the “new” viewer are horrible, and the legacy was barely passable to begin with. Nothing scales properly, and trying to rotate your screen to get some improvement somehow works even worse. If you can, try to use the website which is at least “ok.”

by Dr*****, 2026-07-18

The app version will not let you read notes about boats that have retired, but when you go to the web version on an iOS device to try to read the notes there, it won’t let you as you need to use the app. They’ve now tried to fix this with their new race viewer, but after looking at 3 boats in the Fastnet Race Tracker, it crashes.