Pit Wall 2026

Your job

Pick a team, then race seven rounds. Points pay prize money ($0.35M a point plus $2M a start, plus a sponsor bonus when you hit the weekend target). Spend it in the garage on the power unit, aero, suspension, reliability and pit crew.

Before the race

Choose each driver's starting tyre and pace. Soft is fastest but wears quickly, Hard is slow but lasts. In a dry race each car must use two different dry compounds, or it gets a 10 second penalty.

During the race (on the pit wall)

• Pace: Conserve saves tyres and the engine, Push is quicker but wears tyres 50% faster and risks failures.
• Battery: Deploy gives extra speed until the battery is empty. Harvest refills it. Balanced trickles in.
• Box: pick a compound to pit at the end of this lap. Under each card you see where the car would rejoin if it pitted now. Pitting under the Virtual Safety Car loses less time.
• Tyre life: each card tells you about how many laps the tyre has left at the current pace, or that it lasts to the flag.
• Setup: before the race, choose low downforce (fast on straights, harder on tyres), balanced or high downforce (fast in corners and rain, kind to tyres). The engineer marks the best one with a star.
• Rain: watch the radar at the top. Intermediates for a damp track, Wets for heavy rain. Slicks in the rain risk a crash.
• Team order: when your cars run within 1.6 s, swap them so the faster one gets by.

Controls

Tap the buttons on each car card. On a keyboard: 1/2 follow a car, Space pause, +/− zoom, F faster sim.