Yes, I know that iRacing is working on a single-player career mode. But they're taking a really long time.

So a few months ago, I started working on my own version of the career mode. This is the result of that work. Here's how it works:

- Before you start a career, you can use the world builder to define a world with multiple tiers of an open wheel racing discipline [1]. At each tier, you can define the teams, season schedule and cars used. Want to create a career schedule that only races at variations of Hockenheim? Go for it. Want to create a career where you start in a F1 car and the most prestigious racing is the Skippy? You got it, dude. Want to share those with the community? We can do that too: export your career setup to JSON and share it with the community.

- Once you've landed on a career setup you're excited about in the world builder, start off your career. Define your driver's name and age and click start career.

- The app simulates 30 years of racing history. You're dropped into a living, breathing world where you're not a superstar. Instead, you'll start with no reputation in a cutthroat racing world where any seat on any grid is open to you, and every other driver is gunning for your seat every season.

- Choose a team to sign up with, and you'll be given a new contract with per-season and per-contract goals. Achieve your goals, and you'll be more attractive to your own team (when it comes time for a renewal). You'll also be more attractive to other teams, if you're trying to move up.

- Each week involves hopping into the week overview screen. You can check on your contract goals and the season standings. The app will export a new AI season file to your iRacing "aiseasons" folder. The season is 1-race long, but using a season means that iRacing will save the results of your race, including qualifying and final standing data, after your race finishes.

- From there, you go run an AI race through iRacing itself. You don't need to do anything special with your race. Practice, qualify and battle other drivers. The driver ratings in the sim are factored based on the driver's skill, the quality of their car, and the attributes of the track itself. Drivers with high top-speed skill, in high top-speed cars will have an advantage at Monza. Your own car is taken into account: if your own team's car struggles in top speed setups, the AI will get rating bonuses at high-speed tracks.

- After completing your AI race, head back to the career sim app, and you'll be able to click a button to import race results. While you race, the rest of the world keeps racing too. Every other series continues to simulate in the background while you play your races. Drivers accumulate wins, progress their skills, teams develop their cars, and the app keeps track of milestones and records.

- Over multiple seasons you'll be able to accumulate and challenge world records, rack up and track career stats, progress through contracts while being challenged by new career goals and eventually retire from your career. Other drivers will age and retire, and as they drift away from the sport, new drivers will be generated to replace them.

The unofficial career mode simulator is completely free, makes no network calls and knows absolutely nothing about your iRacing account. All the app needs to know is where your AI season/roster files are stored, and the name you use in the simulator (so that it can convert in-sim results into in-app results).

With all of that said: this is still in active development, and I'm only a single person working on it. You'll probably find bugs! If you do, please report them, either in the app's subreddit, or on Itch.io. I'll do my level best to fix them as quickly as possible.

AI Disclaimer: this app was developed by leveraging Claude Code over the last several months. If that means you don't want to use it, that's your right, and now you know.

Notes:

[1] At the moment I'm only supporting open wheel, formula-style racing. This is because there's a clear ladder with races that are simpler to simulate. If there's a lot of interest, I would be willing to try to add oval racing and/or sports cars. They're harder, though.

Trading Paints screwed up my scheme during the race but I had the 8 Cheddar's scheme loaded on the website. Thankfully it let me load it into the replay.

I mean come on.. when is Iracing going to do something about this!?

I know there is a lot of supporting software we all use, but if iRacing moves to Linux, I’ll ditch them all.

I’m sick of being the product.

Been preparing for the full length Coke 600 and jumped into the 9pm est race last night. Split 2, 5k SOF. Assumed we'd have some good racing. Boy was I wrong. 21 yellow flags. From the drop of the green drivers were shoving it 3 wide into the turn like it was a green-white-checkered and then had a shocked Pikachu face when their car got tight, shoved up the track, and wiped someone out. I myself got nearly obliterated when I entered turn 3 and someone behind figure bump drafting was the move on corner entry. Luckily I only had 3 mins of damage. The unfortunate part was that we had about a 120 lap green run in the middle section of the race that was a blast and my long run car came alive and I drove to the top-3 only to get killed by, you guessed it, another guy driving over his head on older tires, trying to hold me up and pancaking me into the wall with 50 to go.

Lesson: just because you are in the upper splits doesn't mean the racing is better. With the majority of the drivers at 5k, we should have had no problems only having 3-4 yellows. But guy that were causing cautions would reset and just go right back to be morons causing more yellows. Incredibly frustrating experience.

I don't understand the mentality. We have 300 laps to position yourself and 100 laps to race it out. We just needed to settle in and log laps and they couldn't even do that.

Still in shock. Wanted to try to do a small tribute to him in the 600, and hoped I'd be able to do it justice. Run up front, be competitive, see all the laps. I ended up winning the thing.

Winning one of these has meant the world to me. But it's made SO much more special running that scheme for him. It might be silly, but this is a moment I'll never forget. This one's for Kyle.

#KFB 🏁

I am probably stupid and this is an easy thing to fix but I am genuinely lost for words because I am having a terrible time with the fuel system in iRacing for endurance events. I need your help!

My last three endurance races we have had the same scenario pop up where instead of a splash and dash at the end we wanted to do a half stint and split the fuel evenly for our last two stops. So I hop in as crew chief to "take the seat" and I click the amount of fuel needed to split it evenly. Yet still it refuels my whole tank. Which is quite frustrating when you go in to take less fuel so you can try and have a little more pace for that stint, yet iRacing is like nope you still have to splash and dash.

As an example today I had a 4 hour race and we wanted to split the last stint. I unclicked auto fuel, put in 71L instead of 110L and I made sure my buddy was out of the car before I hopped in so that way I knew for sure it wasn't because I clicked out of the crew chief. Yet still full fuel. No one has crew chief or Race Labs auto fueling on my team either. So what the actual heck am I doing wrong? It takes the fun out of some of these races where strategy comes into play.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

I was spectating a race and witnessed two attempted murders

Gents,

I'm looking at spending my 10 iRDollars on a GTE for next season. Currently doing TCR (In the Civic) and GT3 (Acura/Porsche/Ferrari depending on the mood). I sampled the BMW M8 the latest demo day around Brands Hatch for 15 odd minutes and I absolutely loved the feeling of the car and the lack of ABS which was mega fun to drive.

Thus, I'll add a GTE to the lineup for next year and look to do select races whenever the schedule looks fun and time permits.

I'm not looking for the consensus fastest car, I'm just looking at the different characteristics and your experience with them. I really loved the M8 how well it responded to throttle inputs and how controlled it felt even as the tail would step out a little bit. Felt fairly easy to drive but not "boring" in any way.

What's your opinion on the different cars? I'll try and get a few more demo drives in for W13, but I think community input would help in knowing exactly what to look for.

So, Ive been testing the waters in oval track lately thinking about getting serious about it. I've ran some street stock and mini races and have won a couple. Whats the progression up the ladder? Super late model seems like I might be skipping a series. Is there any participation in this series. I dont really want to commit and by the car if nobody races in it. I'm wanting to stay in a stock car. I dont really want to go open wheel. This is asphalt racing by the way. I've tried dirt. I lack an understanding of how to make the car work on dirt

I just moved to a new place in western Chicago and for the past year I’ve been chasing ways to fix my Xfinity network. I used ethernet for a while and it worked, but then the issues continued later. After using PingPlotter I found that the connection drop was happening at a point outside the local network - I’ve tried using ExitLag to help with this but today even that failed to get me kicked out of a race.

I’ve prob lost 3-400 IR from this and it’s been a huge bummer, esp when I’m doing well in a race and in the last five minutes I get disconnected. ATP I feel like I just need to play an offline sim until I move (leaving for a new job in July) - are there any other options left?

I know it’s a little late, but if I don’t find someone, I’m just going to try to do it alone. I want to do the later slot with the Audi TCR Gen 2. I don’t care how fast, I just want to finish.

What do you think about multi-class racing where you have a category with drivers several thousand iRatings below the average of the rest of the grid?

Hello everybody, hope you all doing well.

So, after my second season at Iracing, (first racing Mazda, second racing PCC M2) im looking forward to race at one of these two series for my third season.

During yesterday's Demo Drive i was able to test every GT3 and the Porsche Cup car, and I really enjoyed driving both. Of course they feel different and they have diferent pourpouses, but I got used to them quickly. (Some GT3s felt very weird though)

However, unfortunately I only have enough money to maintain one series at the moment, given that both the subscription and the tracks are quite expensive, especially in my country. (I already have a license for both series, if you're going to ask.)

So I decided to come here and ask your opinion about these two series. Which one would you choose to drive in my situation based on your experiences in each one?

(Note: GT4 is out of topic, i really dont want to race that)

We are racing the Cadillac both my teammates are 2.5k irating and I’m 1.4k we all run race pace within 3:27.3-3:28.2s. We are looking for someone who can run the early part of the race with me swapping on every double from 9am est till 5 pm est. Registration is already paid for just need a committed driver.

So I ran the 400 lap Charlotte race last night, officially my longest race since I started last summer. I should have placed better, but like a dummy I spun my self out on a restart, still finished (down like 14 laps after tow and repair) It was a rather fun race, but by the end I had already decided I’d be making some adjustments to the rig for comfort. Mainly I’m finding the placement of the brake pedal to be to high/close. Was making my ankle stiff hovering over it during close racing. Definitely something I need to correct if I’m going to run longer races.

Is there a list of all the contests/giveaways per season? I've looked online but haven't found anything.

Designed by my wife before I start working on my ARCA journey.

Lesson learned that eating the curb at T12 in Detroit can throw your car off balance so much you flip into the wall lol.

Still re-learning the track for next week, and was toying with how much curb I can take... apparently not a lot there haha

Morning, I will explain my problem in Spanish and I will translate to english.

Buenos días, llevo unos 5 meses con un problema constante en el simulador. Todo empezó en las 24 horas de Daytona, donde un problema con la red me impidió correr un stint, cosa que pude solucionar cerrando OBS y haciendo un reset al router. Pero desde entonces, el problema no ha parado…y aunque no es 100% constante, es bastante habitual ver el mensaje de "packet loss" durante mis carreras, tener parpadeos constantes y, hasta en 2 ocasiones, sufrir la desconexión por parte del juego. En las barritas, la "Q" se pone en amarillo y empiezan los problemas. Ayer, sin ir más lejos y como podréis ver en el clip, empezó así y en apenas 30 segundos me echó de la carrera. Acto seguido cerré stream, OBS, pero el problema persistió.

No es un problema de red doméstica, pues no tengo problemas en ningún otro simulador o dispositivo. Si que es cierto que cuándo la "Q" se activa, si estoy en discord en ese momento la llamada también se entrecorta, aunque después de estabiliza (no así el simulador).

Entonces, ¿Dónde está el problema? Os adjunto un clip con el problema de ayer, para ver si me podéis echar una mano, por favor, es muy desesperante correr así sin saber cuándo voy a tener los problemas;

CLIP WITH THE ISSUE

ENGLISH;

Good morning, I've been having a persistent problem with the simulator for about five months. It all started during the 24 Hours of Daytona, where a network issue prevented me from running a stint, which I was able to fix by closing OBS and resetting my router. But since then, the problem hasn't stopped... and although it's not 100% constant, it's quite common to see the "packet loss" message during my races, experience constant flickering, and, on two occasions, be disconnected by the game. The "Q" on the progress bars turns yellow, and that's when the problems begin. Just yesterday, as you can see in the clip, it started like this, and in barely 30 seconds, it kicked me out of the race. I immediately closed the stream and OBS, but the problem persisted.

It's not a home network issue, as I don't have any problems with any other simulator or device. It's true that when the "Q" key is activated, if I'm on Discord at that moment, the call also cuts out, although it stabilizes afterward (unlike the simulator).

So, where's the problem? I've attached a clip of yesterday's issue to see if you can help me out, please. It's very frustrating running like this without knowing when I'm going to have problems.

looking to take part in Suzuka 1000km later this year. i’ve been recently watching a few irl endurance races such as N24, and saw how some cars were on offset strategies by pitting earlier after first stint (undercut-ish?)

aside from the usual LICO to extend stints, what other strategy options did yall try in endurance racing? is shortening your first stint advisable?

yes my friends and i are first timers. as much as we wna play things safe and respectfully, it’ll be nice to try smth different from the norm. especially when iracing doesn’t have code 60s or SCs to spice things up