RacerRX tutorials

Install and sign in

iPhone or Android. Needs signal. 3 steps.

1. Download RacerRX from the App Store or Google Play, open it and tap Sign in with Google, or Sign in with Apple on an iPhone. For email, tap Other login methods first. Already on RaceNight or RacePrep? Use that same login; it's one account.
2. A short setup walks you through your profile, cars, templates and tracks.
3. Your cars and tracks are saved. On the last screen, tap Let's Go.

More in the user guide: Getting started

Add your first car

Needs signal. 5 steps.

1. Open the menu drawer and tap Manage.
2. Tap Cars, then Add a new car.
3. Name the car, pick its race class and fill in Chassis manufacturer. The race class decides which templates you see, and the race class list needs signal to load.
4. Add the Model and Version, since a setup you share carries it, then tap Save. Add your other cars the same way; there's no cap.
5. In Manage, Templates, switch on the template for the car's race class.

More in the user guide: Add your first car · Gears, chassis and calculators

Add your tracks

Needs signal. 3 steps.

1. In the menu, tap Manage, then Tracks.
2. Search for the track. An indoor track that isn't on the map? Add it by hand with a name and an address.
3. The track is saved and ready to pick when you start a setup.

More in the user guide: Getting started

Save a baseline for each car

Works with no signal. 5 steps.

1. Build a setup for the car and fill it in the way you like to start a day, then tap the 3-dot menu.
2. Tap Save as baseline.
3. Name it for the conditions it fits, like Copper Ridge dry, and tap Save.
4. Racing another track that runs like this one? Open the baseline, tap the 3-dot menu, then Clone baseline.
5. Type over the suggested name, here Red Clay Bend dry, and tap Save. The copy keeps the numbers and race date of the baseline you cloned.

Next race day, pick it under Your baselines when you start a setup (Start a setup at the track).

More in the user guide: Baselines

Fill your pick lists

Works with no signal. 3 steps.

1. On any setup, tap a list field such as Oil on the Shocks tab, then tap Add new.
2. Type the oil or spring you actually own and tap Save. Made a typo or sold the part? Use the edit or delete icon next to a value you added.
3. That value now shows up in the same field on every setup, so logging gets faster every week.

More in the user guide: Customizable pick lists

Start a setup at the track

Works with no signal. 3 steps.

1. At the track, tap + on the home screen.
2. Name the setup, pick the track, date and car, choose your baseline under Your baselines and tap Build setup.
3. It opens on Baseline with your numbers filled in, next to Round 1, Round 2 and Feature.

More in the user guide: Setups and rounds

Run a race day from Baseline to Feature

Works with no signal. 5 steps.

1. Before you roll out, open General > Pre-Race Conditions on Baseline and log the surface type, track configuration and surface condition.
2. After Round 1, tap Round 1 in the session bar and log what you changed. On the Recap tab, log its race conditions.
3. Rate the round 1 to 5 stars.
4. Change what you need for Round 2. Changes you make in this round are shaded one color and changes from earlier rounds another, so you can see what moved.
5. Do the same for the Feature, then write your notes (Write your race notes) and finish the night (Finish the night).

Want a second opinion between rounds? See Ask the AI what to change and Get a session review; those need signal.

More in the user guide: Setups and rounds · Pre-race conditions

Rename or turn on sessions

Any setup that isn't a baseline or finished. Works with no signal. 3 steps.

1. Running more rounds? Open the 3-dot menu and tap Edit sessions.
2. Flip the switch on the sessions your track runs. Beyond the four you start with, there's Practice 1, Practice 2, Seeding Round, Round 3, and E, D, C and B Main, for 12 in all. A session with values in it can't be hidden.
3. Tap a session to rename it so the sheet reads the way your track calls the day.

More in the user guide: Baseline through Feature

Pick gears from the spur and pinion table

Works with no signal. 4 steps.

1. On a setup, open the Gears tab and tap Select next to Pinion and Spur Table.
2. Scroll to your combo. Blue cells run cooler and red cells hotter.
3. Tap a cell to see its ratio, then tap OK.
4. Pinion Gear and Spur Gear fill in, and Gear Ratio, FDR and Rollout work themselves out.

More in the user guide: Gears and chassis · Calculators

Finish the night

Works with no signal. 3 steps.

1. After the Feature, tap the checkered-flag button at the bottom left.
2. Tap "I'm done racing". There's no un-finish.
3. You're back on your list, and the Active tag is gone from that setup.

More in the user guide: Setups and rounds

Fill corner weights from a photo

Uses the AI, so it needs signal. 4 steps.

1. Set the car on the scale. On the Scale tab, tap Import Scale Weights with AI.
2. Tap Camera to shoot the readout, or Gallery for a screenshot.
3. Read what it found and tap OK. The four corners fill in, and Cross RF/LR, Left Side and Wedge (Bite) work themselves out, so an imbalance shows before the heat. Cancel throws it away.
4. If a corner wasn't read, or came out wrong, type it in by hand.

More in the user guide: Fill it from a photo · Weight distribution

Ask the AI what to change

Needs signal. 4 steps.

1. On the setup you're running, tap Ask AI Crew Chief. Don't see it? Your template doesn't have it; use Ask a what-if instead.
2. Say which track, what the surface is doing and how the car drove: pushing in the sweepers, loose on power, tight off-power.
3. Read the suggestion. Changes it makes land in the session you have open.
4. Ask a follow-up, like "what if I go softer on the rear springs instead".

More in the user guide: AI Setup Assistant

Get a session review

Needs signal. 2 steps.

1. After a round, open the Recap tab and tap Analyze this session.
2. Read the review and tap OK. AI can make mistakes, so check it against what you saw on track.

More in the user guide: AI Setup Assistant

Ask a what-if

Needs signal. 2 steps.

1. Open the What If? tab, set what changed on the track and type your question in Ask A What-if Question.
2. Read what the change would do before you turn a wrench.

More in the user guide: AI Setup Assistant

Write your race notes

Works with no signal. 2 steps.

1. On the Feature, open Recap and answer the three Feature Notes prompts while it's fresh.
2. Add what you'd try next visit. It saves with the setup.

More in the user guide: Race recap notes

Open the Full Setup Sheet

Works with no signal. 3 steps.

1. Open the setup and tap the expand icon at the top right.
2. The Full Setup Sheet shows one session at a time, with your tags in the header.
3. Values in yellow changed in that session.

More in the user guide: Full Setup Sheet

Email a PDF of your setup

Needs signal to send. 3 steps.

1. In the Full Setup Sheet, tap Email.
2. Choose This session or All sessions, and tap Send.
3. Within a few minutes a PDF lands in the inbox you signed up with. Forward it to a racing buddy, or print it for the pit box. If your email isn't verified yet, the sheet asks you to verify it first.

More in the user guide: Email and print setups

Share a setup with another racer

Needs signal. 3 steps.

1. In the Full Setup Sheet, tap Share. Share shows on race setups; baselines get Email only.
2. Give it a title. Manufacturer and Model and Version fill in from your car.
3. Tap Share to post it to Community Setups. Or turn on Share privately and send the code it gives you; only racers with that code can open it (Use a private share code).

Changed your mind? Open Manage > My Shared Setups in the menu drawer to edit or delete what you've shared.

More in the user guide: Community and sharing

Start from a Community Setup

Needs signal. 3 steps.

1. Open the menu drawer, tap Community Setups and look for your car. Each one shows the manufacturer and model it was built for, plus download and view counts; tap Official only to see just the official ones.
2. Tap one and it opens read-only in the Full Setup Sheet under a SHARED SETUP PREVIEW banner. Read through its values, from Venue and Surface Condition on down, before you use it.
3. Like it? Open the 3-dot menu and tap New Setup with this Baseline.

You can also get there from Create setup: under Select a starting baseline, tap Community setups.

More in the user guide: Community Setups

Find what you ran last time

Works with no signal. 3 steps.

1. On the home screen, type a setup or track name in Search for a setup.
2. Or tap the filter icon and pick a track, tags, dates or a Feature race rating (minimum). Want only your good nights? Set it to 4 stars.
3. Your runs at that track show newest first. Open one and read it in the Full Setup Sheet (Open the Full Setup Sheet).

More in the user guide: Search your history

Use a private share code

Needs signal. 2 steps.

1. Got a code? Open Community Setups and type it in the Search or Enter Private Code box.
2. Open it and start a new setup from it with New Setup with this Baseline.

More in the user guide: Community and sharing

See or cancel your plan

Needs signal. 3 steps.

1. Open the menu drawer and tap Subscriptions.
2. Your plan and renewal are listed here.
3. Tap See Features for the full list.

To cancel, go to your App Store or Google Play subscription settings. RacerRX has no cancel button of its own.

More in the user guide: Plan

Race without a signal

Works with no signal. 2 steps.

1. No signal at the track? Keep logging. Setups save on your phone.
2. AI, email, and car and track changes wait until you're back online.

More in the user guide: Read this before race day

Back up and move to a new phone

Needs signal. 3 steps. Read all of it before you start.

1. On the old phone, open the menu drawer, tap your name, then Log out of RacerRX and Log Out. Do it with signal: that's when RacerRX backs up.
2. Wait for Syncing Data to finish.
3. Install RacerRX on the new phone and sign in with the same account. It restores your backup on its own and replaces whatever is on that phone; it doesn't merge, and there's no undo.

Then check your cars and last race day, and race with the new phone only. Setups don't sync between phones, and the last phone to sign out overwrites the backup.

More in the user guide: Read this before race day

Delete your account

Needs signal. No undo.

1. Go to the account deletion page and fill in the form.
2. RacerRX, RaceNight and RacePrep share one account. Deleting one deletes all three, with every setup in them.
3. Cancel your subscription in your app store too. Deleting the account doesn't stop billing.

More in the user guide: Delete your account

Still stuck?

The RacerRX user guide covers every screen, one topic per page. Short answers and how to reach us are on the Help page.