Race day as an engineer

When you're assigned as the engineer on a stint, race day works very similarly to driving — except your role on screen and in DMs is clearly labeled so you know you're on comms, not behind the wheel.

Open the race-day mobile view

Your team admin shares a link to the live race-day view — looks like stintiq.app/race/{plan-id}. Open it on phone or laptop (you'll need to be signed in to StintIQ).

What you see

The page is the same race-day mobile view drivers see, with one key difference: when you're the engineer on a stint, your stint card shows:

• "Engineering [driver's name]'s stint" instead of "Primary driver."
• The driver's name as the 🏎️ Driver chip (so you know who you're on comms with).
• The lap range, fuel target, NRG target, and pit-type — the same data the driver sees.

The countdown ticks down to the stint start the same way. When the stint goes live, your card switches to "🎧 You're engineering this stint."

Discord DMs

If you've linked your Discord account (see Stay alert (Discord DMs) in the Driver Guide), the bot DMs you at T-30, T-15, and T-5 minutes before each stint you're engineering. The DM is clearly labeled — "You're engineering Alice's stint in 30 min" — so there's no confusion about whether you're driving or supporting.

If you're both driving and engineering on race day

You'll see each stint's role on your card as it comes up — primary driver on stints where you're driving, engineer on stints where you're on comms. The countdown always reflects whichever's next.

Tips

• Keep the page open during your stint. The "in-car" / "engineering" state is the clearest indicator of when to be on comms.
• The lap range and fuel/NRG targets are the same data the driver sees — you don't need to ask them mid-stint.

Next steps

You're done with the engineer workflow. Browse the Reference section for deeper dives on Discord setup, fuel math, NRG/car class, and troubleshooting.

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