Server side objects

I'm trying to create an object server side, which tracks all of the clients in a race. I want to have a $Race object with methods which I can call to add people/remove people from the list.

Right now I'm getting "Unable to instantiate non-conobject class race." in the console, so I'm definatly going about this the wrong way. Can someone help? Or maybe show me to some docs/suggest some code to look at in the game itself?

My best attempt at it is this

$Race = new RaceManager() {};

function RaceManager::newRace(%this, %blah)
{
}