it's 24 bits for latitude, 24 bits for longitude at 1m accuracy.
There are two levels of latency here, one for the system to transmit its position, say, 128 bits. It does not matter what happens at the race control receiver, in that the decision making process to understand the data is much longer than the reception of the data, display, etc.
The other level of latency has to do with the humans in the loop between the corner workers and whoever is fat-fingering in the flag at race control. Obviously, some people are going to be better at it than others.
Packet acq's? The contribution there depends entirely on the implementation, but in general we don't do acqs as much any more because its far faster to include forward error correction rather than to ask for it again.
As far as sorting what happens when multiple cars approach a corner station under yellow, I'd think this system is going to be no worse than the workers, especially if the corner is manned by only one or two.
I can see that in pro racing where lots of $$$ are on the line you don't want to put the series outcome in the hands of volunteer workers. They've largely fixed this on ovals, but road courses require a different solution.
I don't like the implementation of this at the amateur level for a few reasons:1) I'm not sure this will be a huge improvement over what we have, in amateur level open wheel cars, that some "culture stiffening" couldn't provide the same results for frequent violators. I don't think the SCCA has the backbone for that though.
2) it's just another thing I have to buy, install, verify, fix when it fails, etc, and its not engineered for the amateur open wheel environment.
3) when we finally don't have enough workers and this thing becomes not only mandatory but safety critical, then a failure of it will put you on the trailer for the rest of the weekend, so then I'll need an entire spare system (or there will no doubt be rentals).
4) when you have this thing it makes solving the corner worker problem less of an issue, and people will stop trying.