Race Control Advanced Features

Advanced features at a glance

Race Control offers several advanced features: DRS, Pit Rules, Weather, and Tires. This article is an overview — the deeper treatment of fueling/PSAU lives in its own "Fueling and PSAU" article.

1. Open the advanced features area in Race Control.
2. Check which features are available for your track.
3. Keep in mind the difference between static track capability and session configuration (see below).

Static track capability vs. race/session rule

Two distinct concepts matter here, and shouldn't be conflated:

• Static track capability — what a track's actually installed or planned hardware fundamentally makes possible.
• Race/session rule — how a feature behaves during an actual session or race.

The table below shows the static capability requirements:

DRS

DRS is a static track capability that requires a Control Unit and 2 Check Lanes. In the race mode step, you can configure:

• the strength (Mild, Normal, Strong — defined in Configuration)
• the lap from which DRS may be used
• the maximum time gap to the car ahead (e.g. 1 second) at which DRS activates for the following car
• whether activation is evaluated live at the measurement point (CU or Check Lane), or from a previously-determined average time over several laps minus a lead-in

Pit Rules

Pit Rules — like Fueling — require a Control Unit and a PSAU. Configurable:

• the number of mandatory stops
• the minimum stop duration
• whether fueling is required during the stop
• the lap window (first lap from which stops count, last lap up to which stops count)

Weather

Weather Rules are staged: unavailable without a Control Unit, partially available with a Control Unit alone, fully available with a Control Unit and PSAU. At race start you set the starting weather and track condition, in two modes:

• Automatic — the app pulls the real-world weather for the detected location in real time.
• Manual — the Race Director has full control and can adjust conditions dynamically at any time.

Tires

Tires are one of the vehicle properties in the Racing Database; the starting tire type is set per vehicle in vehicle settings. In Configuration under "Weather & Tires" you define which tire types get a braking-performance penalty under which weather conditions. During the race, you can pre-select a tire change matching current conditions via the Driver Display at any pit stop — it's executed automatically at the next stop. Tires additionally wear/degrade over the distance driven.

Pace Car

The Pace Car feature requires a Control Unit plus a second Pit Lane or Pace-Car Lane. The Race Director triggers it via the "Pace Car"/"Safety Car" button, which starts a yellow-flag phase together with the physical Pace Car on track.

Capability states: available, partially available, unavailable

The relevant capability model has three states: available, partially available, and unavailable. "Partially available" must not be conflated with "unavailable."

Static capability vs. configurable session rule

The table above describes what a track can fundamentally do based on its hardware (static capability). The settings described in this article (DRS strength/activation logic, Pit Rule parameters, weather mode, tire braking penalties, Pace Car triggering) are the separate, per-race configurable session rule.