Manual › Chapter 03
The driver profile
Driver data, preferred cars, race paces, personal calendar and account settings.
Why it is worth filling in#
The driver profile is not paperwork: it is what the automations work on. The decisions that land on you on race day come out of here.
| This field… | …decides |
|---|---|
| iRating | How you are distributed across crews (balanced in a snake draft) |
| Preferred cars | Which car gets proposed to your crew |
| Race paces | The exact length of your stints |
| Customer ID | Who a livery reaches, and which car on track is you |
| Time zone | What counts as "night" for you, and therefore which stints to spare you |
| Number and colours | What the painter draws, and what the gallery shows on air |
Leaving something blank blocks nothing: the system estimates. But an estimate is an estimate.
The profile lives in Profile, split into four sections: Driver, Cars, Settings and Support.
Profile → Driver#
Driver card#
- Driver name — what your teammates see. The only mandatory field.
- Nationality — the flag next to your name, including in the broadcast graphics.
- Race number — your number in the team. If another driver already has it, the app says so: "Number already assigned to another driver in the team". Admins decide who keeps it.
- Livery colours — primary, secondary and accent. How many you are asked for is up to the team (
Teams → Management → Livery colours required from drivers). Alternatively you can name a flag: the painter will use its colours. - Notes for the painter — free text, for example "white number on a dark base, sponsor on the bonnet".
iRating, Safety Rating and licence#
You can type them by hand, but there is no need: with the companion running they update themselves at every login, read from the simulator. That is the road to prefer — those are the real figures, and they will still be real next month.
iRacing licences appear for all five categories — Sports Car, Formula, Oval, Dirt Oval, Dirt Road — but the app highlights Sports Car: that is where endurance racing lives.
iRacing Customer ID#
You find it in iRacing under Account → Customer ID. It is the number that identifies you on track.
It is needed for two things:
- Liveries: the
.tgafile must be named with your customer ID for iRacing to recognise it. Whoever sends you one does not need to know it by heart: the system renames the file itself. - The pit wall: it is how the monitor knows which car on track is you.
Training preferences#
Days and time slots when you are usually available to practise with the team. Whoever organises practice sessions uses them.
Photo and portrait#
Tap the photo to change it. There is also the broadcast portrait: an image and a helmet the gallery uses on the driver card when you are on air. It needs your explicit consent, and you can revoke it whenever you like.
Honours#
The records board: best laps per car and track combination — outright, seasonal or team.
Only a clean lap counts — zero incidents, no pit, no off-track — even one driven alone. Dry and wet are separate boards.
Your race calendar#
A personal address to add once to the calendar you already use: the races you sign up for appear there, update themselves when your entry or crew changes, and carry a reminder the day before and an hour before.
- Google Calendar: there is a direct link (
Connect Google Calendar) that writes the events into your calendar and removes them if you withdraw. - Other calendars: copy the address and paste it where needed.
- Google:
Other calendars → From URL. - iPhone and Mac:
Calendar → Add calendar → Add subscription calendar. - Outlook:
Add calendar → Subscribe from web.
Profile → Cars#
Up to three preferred cars per class (GT3, GTP, GT4, LMP2), in order of preference.
They come into play when crews are formed: the system proposes a car by counting every member's preferences with a points count — first choice is worth 3, second 2, third 1. The car with the most points wins, which is the one that disappoints the fewest people.
Profile → Settings#
Notifications and alarm#
The switch for this device, plus the alarm test. The Notifications, Discord and Telegram chapter covers it in full.
Alert phone call#
If you do not confirm your check-in, on top of the notifications the system calls your phone at 8 and 5 minutes before check-in time.
It needs your number in international format (+39...).
Telegram#
Connect Telegram opens the chat with the bot: press Start and the link is made. From then on the stint reminder lands in chat with a Confirm check-in button: one tap and the alarm and the phone call stand down.
Account password#
Your account password, if you want to change it, or if you signed in with Discord and would also like to be able to sign in by email.
Language#
Italian or English. It changes the app, not this manual — the manual has its own switch at the top right.
Companion#
The link to the installer and the instructions. Worth coming back to even if you already have it: if it gets stuck on loading, reinstalling from here repairs it.
Replay the introduction#
Reopens the tour of the pages, one screen per section.
What about race paces?#
They live in Performance → Paces, next to the laps they are derived from. See Performance: telemetry and coach.
When the team asks for more#
A team can decide that without certain fields filled in you cannot sign up for its events (Teams → Management → Requirements to sign up). The fields it can require are: race number, livery colours, nationality, customer ID, preferred cars, training preferences.
If something is missing, at sign-up you will read "Sign-up blocked: incomplete personal profile" with the list of what to fill in.