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Setting Up a Race

A race holds everything for a single event: the schedule, driver availability, stint plan, car setups and live telemetry. This guide walks through creating one.

Create a race

From your team dashboard, click Create Race to open the setup form. Only the race name is required — every other field is optional, so you can rough out a race now and fill in the details later.

Basic information

  • Race Name (required) — what the event is called, e.g. "Daytona 24".
  • Official iRacing Event (optional) — search for the official series event. Selecting one auto-fills the track, date, time and duration for you, and unlocks the weather forecast on the dashboard. You can clear it at any time to build a fully custom race.
  • Track — search the track list (active and retired tracks are listed separately). Choosing a track loads its layouts.
  • Layout — pick the circuit configuration. If a track has only one layout it's selected automatically.
  • Race Date — the calendar date of the event.
  • Session Start Time — the green-flag time in 24-hour HH:MM format. Start times are entered in GMT, matching iRacing.

Race duration

Choose how the race length is measured:

  • By time — enter the hours and minutes the race runs (e.g. 24h 0m).
  • By laps — enter the total number of laps.

Session timings

These set the lead-in sessions before the race:

  • Special Event — tick this for big events. It bumps the default practice session to 30 minutes (otherwise practice defaults to 3 minutes).
  • Practice Duration — minutes of practice.
  • Qualifying Duration — minutes of qualifying (default 8).
  • Grid Duration — minutes on the grid before the start (default 2).

After you create it

Once the race exists you can:

  • Roster — confirm which drivers from your iRacing team are running.
  • Availability — have each driver block out the hours they can't drive.
  • Schedule — build the stint plan across the full race duration.
  • Car Setup — upload .sto setup files for the team to share.

The schedule, availability and setups are all available from Discord too — see the Discord Bot guide.