# YB Races

> Sports

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id452193682](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id452193682)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id452193682`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ground Control Technologies UK Ltd
- **Category:** Sports
- **Rating:** 2.90 / 5 (75 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-23
- **First published:** 2011-11-18
- **Size:** 4.71 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yb-races/id452193682)
- **Website:** [http://www.groundcontrol.com](http://www.groundcontrol.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.groundcontrol.com](http://www.groundcontrol.com/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #178,999 — Overall

## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id452193682)