diff --git a/rowers/views/racesviews.py b/rowers/views/racesviews.py
index a8387b28..606dbdb0 100644
--- a/rowers/views/racesviews.py
+++ b/rowers/views/racesviews.py
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ def virtualevent_view(request,id=0):
 
 def do_encode(x):
     try:
-        return encoder.encode_hex(x)
+        return encoder.encode_hex(int(x))
     except:
         return x