Read the assessment
Insulting
Below
Fair
Strong
The agent places your offer on one of four bands. Nothing shows a hidden percentage, so you judge the offer as the driver would.
A racing team manager · iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, PC
Run the team.Earn the title.
Sign drivers in contract talks that push back. Develop the car. Watch every decision play out on 45 circuits as you climb a three-tier ladder. A landscape management game, coming in early 2027.
Scale, metres
iOS · Android · Mac · PC · early 2027
1Live order, 14 cars
2Battle called: MOR holds off OKA
- Negotiate contracts that push back
- Develop the car
- Race 45 circuits
- Climb three tiers
- Decide what happens next
- Watch every lap
01 · How a season plays
One season, in order.
The calendar moves in stops. At each stop the game settles what happened, writes the news to your inbox and waits for your decisions. Six steps make a season.
- 01
The board sets the bearing
Each season opens with board objectives: a target position, and what exceeding, meeting or missing it would mean.
Board inbox
- 02
The inbox fills up
Contracts ending, wages over budget and job offers arrive as decisions, not as a menu of options.
Inbox
- 03
Negotiate the grid
Put an offer to a driver. The agent weighs the whole package and answers: accept, refuse, or counter.
Contracts
- 04
Build the machine
Research car parts, upgrade facilities and hire technical staff. Rival teams spend their budgets too.
Garage
- 05
Qualify, then race
Qualifying runs the day before each round. The race then plays out on its own circuit, lap by lap.
Race replay
- 06
The season closes
Final positions move reputation, set next season’s budget and bring in a new class of rookies.
Season recap
02 · Contracts and negotiation
Driver contracts: every contract is a conversation.
A driver judges the whole package, not just the salary: base pay, a fee for every race entered, and a bonus for each podium and each win. The agent's assessment tells you where your offer stands.
Counters cost patience
A driver can accept, refuse or counter with new terms. Each counter makes the driver less patient, so you cannot grind a bargain out of them by offering again and again.
Feelings have a price
Drivers form a view of teams they have been to and of their rivals. Devotion can lower the ask, and real dislike raises it, in plain words on the screen. Every contract also carries a release clause of six times salary.
03 · Car development and facilities
Build the machine.
Every car has four ratings: power, aero, chassis and reliability. The car rating is their weighted mean, so the parts you research are the parts that count. Research programmes run for a fixed number of days, two at a time.
- Power30%
- Aero30%
- Chassis25%
- Reliability15%
Weights of the car rating · Build status: car ratings do not yet feed the race simulation
Plate 03 · Garage · R&D · sample career
BM 014BRG 247°
Power30% of the rating
Aero30% of the rating
Chassis25% of the rating
Reliability15% of the rating
- L1–5
Wind tunnel
Each level above 1 cuts 6% off aero and chassis programmes. Research lands sooner.
- L1–5
Simulator
Each level above 1 adds 6% to the gain from power and reliability programmes.
- L1–5
Factory
Each level above 1 cuts 4% from the cost and the days of every programme.
- 4
Technical staff
A technical director lifts every programme. Aero, powertrain and chassis chiefs lift their own part.
Plate 04 · Race replay · 3D chase · lap 2 of 10
BM 031BRG 82°
- 45
- circuits, one engine, each with its own outline
- 10
- pit boxes on the start straight, pit lane on the right
- 0.2 s
- how often drivers reassess their position on track
- Top 2
- drivers by rating enter each team's race lineup
04 · The race replay and engine
Every race is decided on track.
The race is not simulated and then replayed. The engine places every car on the circuit by its distance along the lap, its line across the road and its speed, and the race is decided as you watch it.
- A
Corners and DRS come from the outline
Corners are stretches tighter than 250 m in radius. DRS zones are the two longest straights.
- B
Drivers reassess every 0.2 seconds
A faster car picks a side, brakes later and completes the pass. Slipstream and dirty air change the pace.
- C
Pits, safety cars and retirements
Ten pit boxes on the start straight, pit stops, safety car periods and retirements all happen on the road.
- D
Watch at your speed
Play, 4x, or skip to the flag. A race you skip runs the same engine, so the result is the same race.
Plate 05 · Forty-five outlines
05 · The circuits
Forty-five circuits, one engine.
Street circuits, parkland raceways, motor parks and speedways. Each outline is the game’s own data, with its own lap, road width and corners. The orange tick marks the start and finish line on every circuit.
Alpenhof Ring Ashdown Airfield Circuit Autódromo Altiplano Autodromo del Parco Ducale Autódromo Serra Blanca Autódromo Serra Verde Brindle Creek Circuit Cantera Ring Cerro Alto Circuit Circuit de la Vallée Noire Circuit Île-du-Phare Circuito Meseta Urbano Citadel Quarter Street Circuit Coldwater Marina Circuit Coral Isle Circuit Corvane Harbour Street Circuit Duinwijk Circuit Dunmere Sands Circuit Foxglove Park Circuit Gilded Mile Street Circuit Greyhythe Airfield Circuit Hillcrest Ring Hollow Vale Circuit Jade Harbour International Circuit Kashiro Circuit Kestrel Coast Circuit Lake Harrow Circuit Lantern Bay Street Circuit Marlin Point Circuit Mesa Ridge Circuit Neon Dune Circuit Oakfield Ring Oasis Fields International Circuit Port Valdoro Street Circuit Prairie Hollow Circuit Quayside Gasworks Street Circuit Sable Gulf Circuit Saltmarsh Street Circuit Sierra Vale Circuit Sunport Autodrome Sunset Isle Circuit Tallow Ridge Ring Tarn Lake Circuit Valtara Ring Vellmark Park Circuit
Podium dataset · 45 outlines · not to scaleStart and finish marked in orange
Plate 06 · Podium ladder
06 · The three-tier ladder
Three tiers. 32 teams.
Prima is the pinnacle, with the biggest budgets and the most attention. Tertia is the entry level. Every tier uses one points table, from 25 for a win down to 1 for tenth.
Prima Series
Pinnacle
The top flight: eleven teams, the biggest budgets and the most attention in the series. Rules change every few seasons and every team chases the same unknowns.
- Races
- 22
- races · to 9 Oct
- teams
- 11
- teams
Secunda Series
Proving ground
The second tier: teams race for promotion and the money that comes with it, with a sprint and a feature race every weekend.
- Races
- 14
- races · to 9 Oct
- teams
- 11
- teams
Tertia Series
Entry tier
The entry tier: identical cars, a tight budget cap and young drivers learning the job in public. Win here and the doors to Secunda open.
- Races
- 9
- races · to 9 Oct
- teams
- 10
- teams
- 1st 25
- 2nd 18
- 3rd 15
- 4th 12
- 5th 10
- 6th 8
- 7th 6
- 8th 4
- 9th 2
- 10th 1
To confirm moves between tiers are not in this build yet
07 · Drivers and rivals
Drivers have opinions.
Every driver has traits, a team they grew up backing and teams they resent. Each team has fixed rivals, and a driver who is bitter toward a rival is warier of you. The number never shows. You read the feeling in plain words.
Rivalries are fixed in the team data and are mutual. Brackley Silver's rivals are Carolina Racing, Scatto Motori and Salzburg Racing, and each of those teams lists Brackley Silver back.
Ettore Giordano
- Ambitious
Brackley Silver
Cormac Hartigan
- Media-Savvy
- Ambitious
Brackley Silver
Mikkel Falkenberg
Brackley Silver
Barnaby Cresswell
- Fan Favorite
- Media-Savvy
Surrey Orange
Flynn Burrows
- Perfectionist
Surrey Orange
Fabrizio Santoro
Surrey Orange
Aurelien Grimaldeau
- Fan Favorite
- Loyal
Scatto Motori
Osbert Lyndhurst
- Mentor
- Fan Favorite
Scatto Motori
Mees Kuipers
- Ambitious
- Perfectionist
Salzburg Racing
Clement Chastain
- Temperamental
- Ambitious
Salzburg Racing
Eiji Morikawa
- Ambitious
Salzburg Racing
Pathomphon Jaroenwong
- Loyal
Whittlebury Racing
Podium drivers are fictional. In the sample career shown here, Ettore Giordano and Cormac Hartigan race for Brackley Silver. Traits are from the game’s driver data.
08 · The inbox
Every step leaves a decision.
After each step of the calendar, the news is written to your inbox. Action messages stay open until the situation changes, and they resolve themselves once you deal with them.
Action
- A driver's contract ends within 30 days, with salary and expiry date
- Wages over budget, with the deadline to fix it
- A job offer, with the board's target and when it lapses
Important
- A driver left because their contract ran out
- Board warning: improve within the set races or lose your job
Info
- Qualifying and race recaps, with grid slots and points
- Research delivered, with the gain for each part
- The season that just closed, with position and prize money
Renew a driver, balance the budget or decline an offer, and the matching message resolves at once. Nothing waits for the next stop.
The waitlist
Be there whenit opens.
Join the waitlist and we will tell you when the beta starts, when pre-registration opens and when Podium launches. Nothing else.
Release window: early 2027 · iOS · Android · Mac · PC