Case Study · Branded Activation
Turning Silverstone's Lap of Lights into a fully interactive branded experience.
A historic circuit, 21 nights of drive-through gameplay, tens of thousands of visitors playing a branded treasure hunt from a racecar driver's perspective — without commissioning a standalone app.
- Location
- Silverstone Circuit, UK
- Client
- Silverstone & ADI.TV
- Format
- Branded Activation
- Scale
- 10,000+ Visitors
- Duration
- 21 Nights
- Build Time
- 6 Weeks
The Challenge
A historic circuit, 21 nights of drive-through gameplay, and a brand to bring alive.
Lap of Lights had the venue, the spectacle, and the audience — visitors driving the circuit from a racecar driver's perspective. What it needed was a way to turn that drive into active play, sustained night after night, without commissioning a custom-built app for a 21-night run.
Turn passengers into players
A slow drive through light installations risks becoming passive viewing. The activation needed to give every car something to actively play, not just watch, from the moment they rolled onto the circuit.
Keep the immersion intact
The activation lives or dies on atmosphere. Anything generic on-screen would shatter the world.
Guide the drive
Pace cars around the historic circuit so the treasure hunt stays in rhythm with the convoy and every installation gets discovered.
Brand it end-to-end
Custom identity across every surface for a 21-night run, without committing to a multi-month standalone app build.
The Experience
One event code, and the circuit became a treasure hunt.
Visitors opened the ReadySet app and entered the event code as they rolled onto the circuit. From that first tap, the activation owned the screen — the map of the track, the racing-line treasure hunt, the world from a driver's perspective.
Branded surface
Every screen wore the activation.
Splash, map, mission cards, leaderboard, themed end-to-end in the event's pink-and-electric-blue identity. No off-the-shelf chrome.
Custom checkpoints
The track became the board.
Light installations, partner pavilions, and hidden moments along the circuit became scannable checkpoints with their own gameplay logic.
One app, one code
In the experience, in seconds.
Attendees downloaded the ReadySet app, entered the event code, and were inside the branded experience instantly, no account, no friction.
The Festive World
A custom 3D world wrapped around the circuit.
The Silverstone circuit was re-imagined as a Lap of Lights playable 3D map, renamed corners, branded in-app moments, and a cast of pickable racer characters carrying the identity from join screen to outro — sustained across all 21 nights.
The board
The Silverstone circuit, re-mapped as a Lap of Lights playable world.
Pick your racer
Branded outro
A cast, not a crowd
Pick a racer. Run the lights.
Custom 3D characters slot straight into the branded experience, giving every attendee an identity inside the world, not just a username on a leaderboard.
The Technology Layer
A branded layer, not a custom app.
Agencies and enterprise event teams use ReadySet as the engine underneath, keeping the build cycle short, the customization deep, and the operational lift low.
A branded layer, not a new app
Skip the 6-month app build. ReadySet provides the engine; your activation provides the world.
Deployable at venue scale
Thousands of concurrent participants, multi-zone maps, and ops dashboards built for live event teams.
Customizable end-to-end
Theme, missions, checkpoints, leaderboards, every layer is yours to brand and reshape per activation.
The phone disappears into the drive. It's not a tool, it's another light along the circuit.
Outcomes
What the activation actually delivered.
The wins were in the texture of each night, sustained across a 21-night run, and in how cleanly the format scales to the next activation.
Immersion held
The screens read as part of the drive. No 'app moment' broke the spell of the lights, night after night.
Brand consistency, end-to-end
From splash to leaderboard, every interaction lived inside the activation's identity.
Active participation at scale
Tens of thousands of visitors drove the full circuit, played the treasure hunt, and stayed engaged from grid to outro.
Scalable for the next one
The same engine re-themes for the next activation, same ops playbook, brand-new world.
What this proved
A flagship the next activation can stand on.
Branded delivery
An end-to-end branded surface deployed in weeks, running live across a 21-night run without commissioning a standalone app.
Real-world scale
Tens of thousands of visitors joined through the ReadySet app with a unique event code. No standalone build, no App Store approval, no second-class spectators.
Repeatable engine
The same production playbook re-themes for the next client edition, agency-ready, enterprise-ready.
What organizers say
ReadySet transformed Lap of Lights into an interactive adventure with strong engagement, high completion rates, and excellent guest feedback.
Alex Ashworth
Senior Creative Producer · ADI.TV
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