About this event
Hack the Track — Toyota Racing Data Hackathon
Prize Pool: $20,000 USD
About the Hackathon
Hack the Track challenges developers, data scientists, strategists, and motorsport enthusiasts to unlock insights from real racing data collected from Toyota's past victories. Dive into telemetry, lap times, and sensor data to build innovative tools, predictive models, dashboards, or analyses that can transform driver performance, team strategy, and fan engagement.
What to Build
Choose from one of the following categories:
- Driver Training & Insights:
Build tools to help drivers optimize their racing lines, identify areas for improvement, or understand performance trends.
- Pre-Event Prediction:
Develop models forecasting qualifying results, race pace, tire degradation, or other race-critical metrics before the race.
- Post-Event Analysis:
Create dashboards or reports highlighting key moments and strategic decisions that shaped the race outcome.
- Real-Time Analytics:
Design applications to aid race engineers in decision-making, such as pit stop timing and caution flag response.
- Wildcard:
Submit creative, out-of-the-box applications of racing data beyond the predefined categories.
Submission Requirements
- Select the competition category
- Indicate datasets used
- Provide a text project description
- Publish a working project/demo for judging
- Submit a URL to your code repository (private repos can be shared with organizers)
- Include a demo video (~3 minutes) showcasing your project
Prizes
- Grand Prize: $7,000 USD + two 3-day general admission tickets to a 2026 Toyota Customer Racing event (SRO America)
- Additional prizes for 2nd and 3rd place
- Category-specific awards for best Driver Training, Predictions, Post-Event Analysis, Real-Time Analytics, and Wildcard projects
Judging Criteria
- Effective and unique application of Toyota Racing datasets
- User experience and design quality
- Potential impact on Toyota Racing and broader communities
- Creativity and innovation — improvements upon existing concepts
Join Hack the Track to harness motorsport data and help drive the future of racing performance and strategy!