FAQ

Quick answers to the most common questions.

Is StintIQ free?

Today, the whole product is free during early-access. When we move out of early-access, the planning surface — teams, race plans, stints, driver availability, share links, the fuel calculator — will stay free. Paid tiers will cover Discord integration, alternate plans, and live telemetry. The StintIQ Telemetry Agent is free during its beta. We'll announce pricing well ahead of any changes.

What sims do you support?

StintIQ's planning is sim-agnostic: it works for any sim where you race with a team. Teams have run StintIQ for:

iRacing — endurance team races (IMSA, NEO Endurance, 24H Series).
Assetto Corsa Competizione — endurance championships (ACC Endurance Series).
Le Mans Ultimate — Hypercar and GT3 with NRG management.

Other sims work fine; driving-rule checks cover iRacing, LMU and ACC servers (see Fair share rules). The StintIQ Telemetry Agent records races in iRacing and Le Mans Ultimate; ACC is coming.

Does StintIQ read live telemetry from my sim?

Yes, with the StintIQ Telemetry Agent, a free beta for Windows. It records your team's StintIQ races in iRacing and Le Mans Ultimate, and the race-day page and the plan page show the race live against the plan. See Race day with the agent.

What does the agent read on my PC, and what does it send?

On your PC, it reads only what your sims make available to telemetry tools (their live session data and the results files they write), plus the names of running programs, to notice a sim starting. It doesn't record or send that list, and it doesn't read your other files, your browsing or anything else.

To StintIQ, it sends:

that it's running, its version and whether it's paused;
your own sim identity, only when you choose to link it;
for a session that matches one of your team's StintIQ races: the session, laps and lap times, pit stops, fuel or energy, and which team member was driving (or "Unlinked driver").

It never sends a sim name or number that hasn't been linked, and nothing for any other session. During the beta the raw data is kept for 7 days; lap and stint summaries are kept with the race. Full detail in the Privacy Policy.

Can I bring my own Discord bot?

No. StintIQ's race-day DMs come from the StintIQ bot. You can have your own bot in the same server — they don't conflict.

Can drivers see each other's stint preferences?

Yes — the stint builder shows everyone's preferences (rain, night, race-start, double-stints, max consecutive stints) and timezone, so the team admin can build a balanced plan.

Can I switch a Driver to Engineer for one stint?

Yes. The team-level role (Owner, Admin, Driver) is separate from the per-stint role (primary driver, backup driver, engineer / spotter). The same person can be a primary driver on stint 1, an engineer on stint 2, and a backup driver on stint 3 — all per-stint, set by the team admin in the stint builder.

Can I plan with someone who hasn't joined yet?

Yes. On the team page, click + Add driver by name and type their name. They can be put in stints right away. When they join, use This is… on the placeholder's row to move all their seats to them. See Invite drivers and engineers.

Why does a seat have a 🔕?

The person in it won't get Discord reminders: either they're a placeholder (added by name, no account), or they're a member who hasn't linked their Discord to StintIQ yet. Remind them yourself, or ask them to link Discord under Settings → Discord.

What happens to a driver's stints when they leave the team?

Their seats in races that haven't finished go to a placeholder with their name, tagged Left the team, so every stint keeps a driver. They stop getting reminders for the team's races, and the team's Owners and Admins get a Discord DM. Give those seats to someone else in the builder; if the driver comes back, This is… hands them all back. Finished races keep showing who drove. See Remove a member.

What's the difference between "server opens" and "lights out"?

Server opens is when drivers can join the server; practice usually starts then. Lights out is when the race itself starts, after practice and qualifying. Every race stint time counts from lights out. On race day, the Green Flag button records the moment the race actually went green, which is usually a few minutes after the planned lights out because of formation laps. Captains set all of it in the plan's schedule.

Can I have multiple plans for the same race?

Yes — your team can have multiple race plans active simultaneously. Each plan gets its own roster availability, share link, and race-day countdown.

If you want sibling strategies for the same race that share roster + availability + share link but each carry their own stints + fuel/NRG, use variants (alternate plans) instead. Every plan ships with a Primary variant by default; captains can create alternates from the variant picker on the plan-detail page. See Alternate plans (variants).

Where does my data live?

Your team and plan data live in Postgres on Neon (US-East-1). The web app and API run on Render in Virginia. We use Discord for authentication and bot DMs. StintIQ shows no ads, and the only cookies it sets are the ones that keep you signed in. For full detail, see our Privacy Policy.

How do I delete my account / team / plan?

Plan — Delete plan button at the bottom of the plan detail page (Owner-only; type the race name to confirm).
Team — Delete team button in the Danger Zone on the team detail page (Owner-only; type the team name to confirm).
Account — "Delete my account" on your Profile page (type your Discord username to confirm). Your account deactivates immediately and is permanently anonymized after 14 days — sign in again within that window to reactivate. Your race history stays with your teams as "Deleted user." Details in the Privacy Policy.

Where's the changelog?

Two places:

CHANGELOG.md in the GitHub repo — full technical detail.
#changelog in the StintIQ Discord — plain-language release announcements as each new version ships.

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