Guide

The starting page. It is only for reading: it gathers in one place what you need to know before the race.

• The week: the steps to take in GPRO before the race (car repair, driver training, testing, practice, Qualifying 1, Qualifying 2, race setup), with the ones already done ticked and a link to the page where each is prepared.
• Next race: the track card (distance, laps, turns, pit lane, how much Power, Handling and Acceleration it asks for, its six characteristics), your previous races there, the race lap record and the recommended strategy in short.
• Weather: Qualifying 1, Qualifying 2 and the race split into its four forecast windows, each with the laps of your race it falls on. The start has the weather of Qualifying 2; from 50% average rain the race setup is calculated for the wet.
• Driver: the characteristics, the Overall against the category cap, energy, contract, salary and career.
• Driver strengths and weak points: with the site's formulas (dry, wet, risk, car wear, fuel, tyres, weight) against free drivers on the market with a similar Overall; only what really matters in a race is shown, with details on mouse over. The wet goes with talent: measured on a single race, an estimate.
• Compare with a rival: choose a manager of your group and Datapit downloads the last known skills of his driver (the public ones, with the race they are known at) to put them next to yours. It costs 1 call per rival, plus 1 the first time in a race week for the list of the group's drivers; viewing one already downloaded costs nothing.
• Group: position, points, car level compared with the others, the standings around you, your finishes this season and your grid position.
• Car: Power, Handling and Acceleration, how closely they match what the track asks for, the points coming from tests, the cash and the wear of every part, red from the failure threshold of the Car plan.
• Season tests: the season's test track, the stints and laps left and the best lap.

Warnings appear at the top when needed: past races to put in the archive, a driver change during the week, the end of the season.

It follows the order of the weekend, in four parts; the numbers at the top take you straight to each one.

• 1. Track and weather: the track card and the weather windows turned into laps of your race.
• 2. Practice: lap by lap, what the driver says about each of the six setup settings (▲ raise, ▼ lower) and which ones still need fixing. It starts closed, and even closed it tells you how many laps you have done and whether the setup is right.
• 3. Setup: one setup for Qualifying 1, one for Qualifying 2 and one for the race, because each has its own weather, with the band (±) to stay within and where each value sits from 0 to 999. It is calculated with your driver, your car as it is today, wear included, and the track. Near 50% rain you choose whether to see the race setup for the dry or the wet, and the page says how many seconds per lap the wrong weather costs.
• External reference: on a track the formula does not know and where you have not raced yet, you can type the Qualifying 1 setup from another calculator (and, if you have them, stops, consumption and compound): it becomes the base instead of the estimate.
• 4. Race: recommended compound, stops, total litres and litres per stint, and the race drawn lap by lap with stints, stops and boosts. The compound table adds up the seconds each compound loses (stops, fuel weight, tyre pace, laps on a nearly worn tyre) and recommends the one that loses least; those within 5 seconds count as equal.
• Stops and litres in the compounds: every row of the table has a stop counter (− and +) and a litres box for the start and for each stop. Change a number and the row is recalculated at once, playing the race lap by lap: it tells you where the stops really fall, the seconds in the pits, for fuel and for tyres, the gap from the other compounds, whether you reach the end even with the consumption margin and, if a stop is missing, asks you to add it. The boxes you don't touch follow the site's litres. ↺ puts the row back as it was. Not saved.
• Qualifying, the game's tyre and the rain: the next race card tells how you finished Qualifying 1 and 2 (position, time and gap to the first) and, from the last races, the day of the season reset: «Update» already reads this data, with no extra calls. Under the compounds table, once the archive races have shown which compound the game's code stands for (two races that agree are needed), it says which compound you set there and whether it is the recommended one. In «If it rains» the wet lap costs about 15% more, an estimate from 9 of your races confirmed by the track records.
• Race temperature: in the Setup header you can type the temperature the race setup is calculated with, if you know it will differ from the forecast average (the default). It changes the race setup and the tyres (recommended compound and stops), but not the strategy saved in the archive; «Forecast» goes back to the previous value. The Race section is split into numbered cards (the race lap by lap, compounds, risks, rain), with links at the top to jump between them.
• Race risks: the highest «Clear track» risk you can give without running out of energy and without taking a part past the failure threshold, with the energy at the finish and what the extra wear costs in parts. Wear follows the average of overtake, defend, «Clear track» and malfunction. The five risks you type are saved for that race, and that average also goes into the Car plan.
• Boost: type the lap where each of the three boosts starts; each lasts 3 laps and the extra fuel goes into the stint where it starts. They stay saved until the next race.
• If it rains: how much the car uses in the wet, how much fuel you need depending on the wet laps and how long the rain tyres last, even if it stops raining.

How far to trust it: on the tracks the formula knows, the setup is off by at most 2.4 points against an external calculator. The stops come from a real stint of yours on the same track when there is one, otherwise from a tyre formula calibrated on your races (typical error 5% on the length). The most uncertain part is the pit time. The recommended strategy is saved until the start, to compare it later with the real race.

• The track and the week: the test track, the same for the whole season, the stints and laps left this week and the test weather.
• Test points towards the car: the points move from Testing to R&D to Engineering and then onto the car; those from tests done before race N arrive from race N+3.
• The sessions: one card per week with the setup tried stint by stint, the compounds compared on the same setup and the driver's comments on each setting.

The driver judges the setup only with the «Setup tuning» test priority: with the others you keep the values tried, without a verdict. The stints save themselves when you open the Summary or the Race weekend during a test session.

It helps you grow the driver without going over your category's Overall cap, and know in advance what happens at the end of the season.

• The starting point: your driver today, with the age (from 35 the characteristics drop by themselves) and the renewal race. You can change a value to try a hypothesis, or paste a driver copied from the market (📋) to see how they would grow with you.
• Race by race: for each race choose the training, the expected position (or «U» if you plan to finish last on purpose to keep motivation low) and the tests, up to 5 rows of laps and type for at most 100 laps. Then press «Calculate plan»: the effects carry over to all the following races.
• The balance: season by season, the Overall after race 17 (the one that counts for the cap), whether the expected positions get you promoted (top 3), whether in Rookie you risk losing the driver at the reset, and what the plan is worth in prizes.
• Contract: whether the Overall lets you renew at the renewal race, how much it costs and how long it covers.
• Tools: «Minimum Overall» picks, over a range of races, the trainings that keep the Overall lowest; «Maximum Rank» the ones that raise the Rank most, also towards a stamina or concentration target; «Apply position» and «Clear training» are quicker than doing it by hand.
• Training effects: the cost and change of every training, and how many Rank points it gives for each Overall point: the right measure to grow while staying under the cap.
• Check and charts: what the page forecast and what really happened in the last season of the archive, and the characteristics forecast race by race.

The training effects are measured on real trainings; for those never seen, every logged race measures their effect. The Overall formula is an estimate found online, not the official one. The plan saves itself, and the Car plan (tests) and the Economy (costs and prizes) use it too.

• The plan at a glance: races left, planned changes and their cost, the first part at risk and the highest wear.
• Wear and change plan: races in columns and the 11 parts in rows. In each cell pick a change from the menu (replacement or upgrade; the downgrade only at the next race, the only one whose wear is known) and below it read the wear forecast at that race. The plan adapts: a change that has become useless goes back to «No change» by itself.
• Replace when needed plans, for the whole season, the replacement of each part just before the failure threshold; «Clear all replacements» starts again from scratch.
• Failure threshold and risk: the wear from which a part risks breaking (80% to start with; it stays saved and also applies to the Summary and the Race weekend) and the risk you plan to use (the average of overtake, defend, «Clear track» and malfunction), which changes the forecast wear.
• Power, Handling, Acceleration: how closely the car's proportions match those of each track (100% = the same). For each race two suggestions, towards that track and towards the average of the remaining races, with the best-value upgrade: one click picks it in the table.
• Tests: for each race, which test type to give the development laps to align the car better when the points arrive; the click changes the Driver plan.

How far to trust it: wear follows GPRO's mechanism (typical track wear × level and risk × driver). Typical wear comes from your races on the tracks already raced, otherwise from a per-track table (average error of about 2.4 points on real races), and for the few tracks outside the table from a regression on your races. How many test points become car points is an estimate. The PHA alignment is not a GPRO rule: it is a way to measure with a number that the car goes better when it resembles the track. The plan saves itself.

• The season in figures: cash today, the season's income, expenses and balance, and the cash forecast for the end of the season.
• Forecast to the end of the season: race by race, the average fixed costs (salaries, tyres, testing, practice and qualifying), the Driver plan costs (training, testing, renewal) and the Car plan changes, against sponsors and prizes. If the plan runs you out of money, it says at which race.
• Prizes: with the expected position of each race in the Driver plan it uses the qualifying and race prize formulas; without it, the average of the prizes already won this season.
• Balance after each race: the chart of the cash, real and forecast.
• Where the money went: the season total per item; Statement: every GPRO transaction, race by race.
• Staff and facilities: levels and the cost of the next step, for information only.

The real accounts come from the GPRO statement; the forecast is an estimate that changes with your plans. At the start of a season, while there are fewer than 3 races, the averages also use the last ones of the previous season.

Like the Staff and Facilities page in the game, but with the costs level by level and an estimate: write the levels you would like to take the facilities to and see what they cost and how maintenance would change. Nothing is saved and nothing is changed in the game.

• The staff: the six skills, the salary, up to which level it can be trained and the cost of the three trainings.
• The facilities: current level, maximum level for your category, cost of the next level and of levels 10 and 20.
• The estimate: total spend, the cash that would be left and maintenance per race after the changes.

How far to trust it: levels, caps and prices are the game's. Maintenance is an estimate ($5,000 per level). How much a level is worth is not known: no source says, so there is no value ranking.

From Pro upwards the tyre supplier is chosen with the contract at the start of the season (in Rookie and Amateur everyone has Pipirelli). Here you pick a supplier from the list and see what changes compared with yours.

• The official data for the season of all 9 suppliers: contract, durability, peak temperature, dry and wet performance. They change from one season to the next.
• The season: for each supplier the seconds more or less than yours over all the races of the calendar (next season, if already published), with the race where you gain most and the one where you lose most.
• The next race: compound, stops and seconds with each supplier, with the forecast weather.
• The chosen supplier: race by race, how much comes from the strategy (durability and compound pace), from the distance between the race temperature and its peak, from the dry performance and from the wet one.

How far to trust it: durability follows the tyre formula, checked on your races also across different seasons; peak, dry and wet are measured on the results of thousands of Pro, Master and Elite managers (dry is the least certain); the compound pace per supplier comes from an external calculator. For the season the temperature of a track is an estimate from your races.

• In numbers: races recorded, best finish, average position, races with failures, time lost to errors per race and where you lose most.
• Season by season: one row per race with the grid (the real one, from the formation lap) and the finish; you can filter by track.
• Race by race detail: setup used, result, tyre and fuel consumption stint by stint, stops, risks and the driver's development.
• The race bill: how many seconds each choice cost compared with what could be known before the start, and how many positions they were worth in your group. The items: stops (against the other managers of the division at equal strength), setup (the points off the formula with the forecast weather, or off the values the driver called right), fuel left in the tank beyond the margin, laps on worn-out tyres from badly spread stops, rain tyres on a dry track, failures of parts that started beyond the threshold of the real failures. It counts from 3 seconds up. Apart are Datapit's errors (when the advice itself was wrong) and the estimates, like a too low «Clear track» risk, not in the total. With the weather changing during the race or a failure, the items that depend on them are not judged.

A race goes into the archive by itself: open the Summary or the Race weekend before the start (so the recommended strategy is saved too) and, once the race is over, press «Update». From here you also open Recommended strategy versus actual and Past races.

For each race with the strategy saved it compares the forecast with the real race:

• Tyres: the forecast life, brought to the real temperature and risk, against the real wear of the dry stints; this way the gap is the model's error, not the weather forecast's.
• Consumption: the forecast litres per lap against the real ones, with the boost laps you used (fully dry races only).
• Stops and pits: the stops made and the real standing time against the model's, and whether you used the recommended compound.
• Tyre calibration: over all the dry races without failures, how much the tyre formula must be corrected to match the real wear, with its interval. If the value in use falls outside it, it is flagged.
• Fuel calibration: over all the fully dry races without failures, the real consumption divided by the formula, race by race, with the median and its interval, and how many races used more than the load with the 4% margin.
• The other models, in the same way and with an index at the top: the pit time, consumption and tyres in the rain, the energy at the finish (with the safety margin of the Race weekend) and the wear of the parts, also part by part.
• Stops against the other managers: for every dry race, the stops Datapit would have recommended against the ones that worked best for the other managers of the division, at equal strength, with the seconds lost. It uses the rankings already downloaded in the Rankings (your division is enough).

It opens from the History or from the Summary's notice. It lists all the races you have run on GPRO, season by season, and says which are already in the archive. Tick the ones you want, one by one or a whole season, and press «Download the ticked races».

• The races unlocked on GPRO arrive complete (setup, laps, consumption, weather, driver and car of that time) and feed every calculation; the others arrive with the result alone. The lap-by-lap replay does not: for past races it costs money on GPRO.
• It costs one call per race and runs in blocks: the page carries on by itself and you can stop it whenever you like. It always stops before leaving you with fewer than 30 calls; after the next race you pick up from there.

GPRO does not publish a time per track: here are the real laps of your driver with your car, from the archive. A record, not a forecast. For each track:

• Race pace: the median time of the race laps, dry and wet apart, one row per race, because car and driver change over time.
• With an empty tank: the same pace without the weight of the fuel, to compare races with different loads.
• At zero risk: an estimate of the time without that race's «Clear track» risk.
• Practice: the single lap per compound, on new tyres.

• Three views: your group, the Italians of all divisions and the world ranking of one division at a time; for a single race or for the whole season.
• Points of your choice: the F1 scale on the finishing order of the list, or the game points given for the position each manager got in their own group. Plus two bonuses to switch on: fastest lap (+1) and comeback (+1 for every 5 places gained, at most +3). Changing the points downloads nothing.
• Downloading races: «Download missing races» takes 3 lists per race (your division, the Italians and your group); the other divisions are downloaded separately when you open them, one call per race. Every button says first what it costs, and what you download stays in the archive.

GPRO gives a maximum number of rows per list: in the biggest divisions you get the fastest managers, not all of them.

• The whole market, not just the drivers suggested for your league: filters on the real characteristics, sorting by clicking a column header, all the results on one page.
• Concentration is highlighted: in the races of one Rookie group the pace went mostly with it. It is a hint from a single group, not a rule of the game.
• With the star ☆ you follow a driver in Favourites, and see when they are no longer on the market; with 📋 you copy their characteristics to paste them into the Driver plan and see how they would grow.