In 1999, Sönke Petersen started the race result project in the age of merely 16. Within short time, the race result software became the most widely used solution in the German speaking countries. In 2009, after his studies at KIT Karlsruhe, Harvard/MIT, and UB Barcelona, Sönke founded the company IT Sport Service GmbH which was converted into race result AG in 2013. Today, the company offers around the globe a complete race management and race timing solution for any type of active sports event. The race result 11 software is still a major competitive advantage of the company, but the German engineering timing hardware creates most of the revenues.