A "practice" session used as a scheduled slot in a structured
race/sponsor event's session plan silently skipped the entire
countdown/lights/start-tone ceremony and jumped straight to running,
unlike qualifying/heat/final. Narrowed the ceremony-skip check to
only the standalone "Quick Open Practice" shortcut and free_practice
(both rolling/best-lap ranked with no fixed roster) - "practice" is
already ranked like a real timed session in every other respect and
now gets the same start sequence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Unlike Open Practice, these session types run the real countdown/light/
audio sequence before a session transitions to "running" - this was
untested beyond Open Practice's instant-start shortcut. Confirms the
Start button shows a real ticking countdown, the right audio events
fire per type (qualifying_start only for qualification), and pause/
resume/finish behave the same as they already do for Open Practice.
All audio effects/voice are silenced via raceAudio.events so the test
depends only on the sequence's own timers, not on real audio/TTS
playback completing in a headless browser with no sound hardware.
Also logs a new roadmap item: indoor clubs that reconfigure the track
layout in the same venue have no way to tell the app a layout change
happened, so PBs/track records/pace baselines silently keep comparing
lap times across incomparable layouts. No design decided yet - open
questions recorded for a future dedicated conversation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
