Run race day
You've built the plan, assigned stints, drivers signed up. Race day. Here's your checklist.
Final pre-race check
The morning of the race, open the plan detail page and verify:
- The schedule is right — server opens, practice, qualifying, and especially lights out, which every race stint time counts from. Times show in your timezone; drivers see them in theirs. If the plan shows a "Stint times are counting from server open" banner, set the schedule now (see Build a race plan).
- All stints have a primary driver — gaps appear as warnings under the Stints section header.
- Validation badge is green. The Stints section header shows
✓ checks pass (rule name)when the lineup meets the plan's fair share rule. Orange warnings appear below the header naming any driver short of their share or over a limit. Reorder or reassign in the stint builder (drag-to-reorder) to clear them. - Fuel + NRG projection looks right — laps per tank, total stops, total pit time. If something looks off, the inputs are wrong, not the math.
- The right variant is active. If you've drafted alternate plans (variants), make sure the ● in the variant picker is on the strategy you intend to race. Race-day countdown, push-DM stint reminders, and the public share link all read the active variant. Switching variants in the picker on race-day is planning-only — you have to hit Make active to commit.
Share the plan with drivers
Drivers don't need to log in for race day — they can use the share link.
- On the plan detail page, click Share (Owner or Admin only).
- The modal pops open and auto-mints a share URL:
https://stintiq.app/r/abc123... - Click Copy, then paste the URL in your team's Discord channel.
Drivers open the URL on phone or laptop. Public; no login required. Read-only — they can't edit the plan. It shows the schedule and every stint's start time in each viewer's own time zone, with the in-game day / dusk / night badge, so a ringer abroad reads their own clock.
If you need to invalidate the link (e.g., it leaked to the wrong server), click Disconnect. The next click of Share mints a fresh URL.
During the race
Most of race day runs itself once everything is set up. What happens automatically:
- Server-open DMs fire to anyone with any stint assignment on the plan at T-30 / T-15 / T-5 minutes before the server opens. They show both times — when the server opens and when lights out is planned — so nobody mistakes one for the other.
- Qualifying-prep DMs go to the driver assigned to qualify (the primary driver of any Qualifying stint) at T-15 and T-5 before qualifying starts: "Qualifying starts in 15 min." If qualifying starts right when the server opens, this replaces their generic server-open DM at those two times.
- Stint reminders fire T-30 / T-15 / T-5 before each Race stint, counted from lights out. That includes the opening stint once your plan has a lights-out time, so your first driver can confirm with the buttons below too. (Plans without a lights-out time skip stint 1's reminders; the server-open DM covers that driver instead.)
- Engineers assigned to a stint also get the stint reminders (labeled clearly so they know they're on comms, not driving).
- The race-day mobile view (the
/race/{plan_id}page) shows the weekend's schedule, which session is running, and a live countdown to each driver's next stint. - With the StintIQ Telemetry Agent, the race-day page and the plan page show the race live against the plan: who's in the car, the next stop, fuel, and who's ready. See Race day with the agent.
- If you've set up a team channel, it gets the lineup an hour before the server opens, a lights-out post, and a post whenever a driver drops out. See Race announcements in your team channel.
Check who has confirmed
Reminder DMs now carry two buttons — ✅ I'm ready and ⚠️ I can't make it — so you find out about a no-show while there's still time to do something about it, instead of at an empty seat on green.
Open the race-day view (/race/{plan_id}) and tap View all stints to see the board.
The summary line at the top answers the question you actually ask an hour out — who
hasn't answered yet?
Reading the board:
- 🟢 ready — they pressed the button.
- 🔴 can't make it — a red DRIVER CAN'T MAKE IT badge. You'll also get a DM the moment it happens, and the stint's backup is asked directly.
- ⚪ no answer yet — nobody has responded. This is the normal state hours out, so the board stays quiet until someone actually answers.
Two things worth knowing:
- The counts are drivers only. A stint whose engineer has confirmed but whose driver hasn't still counts as no answer — and shows an amber NO ANSWER FROM DRIVER badge, so a green engineer never reads as an all-clear for the seat.
- Changing the driver on a stint resets that slot to unconfirmed. The new driver is asked by their own reminder; the old driver's answer never carries over to someone else.
When a driver can't make it
You get a DM as soon as someone declines, and the stint's backup is DMed at the same time with their own ✅ I can take it button — the cascade doesn't wait on you, because captains are often in the car themselves. Their answer comes back to you the same way.
Nothing on the plan changes automatically. StintIQ won't silently swap your lineup at 2am, and drivers who said they couldn't make it do sometimes turn up. When you're ready to make it official, use ↑ Promote backup in the stint builder.
If the original driver changes their mind and presses ✅ again, you're told and the backup is sent a "stand down" DM — so you never end up with two people preparing for one seat.
Press the Green Flag when the race goes green
When the green flag actually drops, anyone on the team can press the 🏁 Press Green Flag button on the race-day view (or the plan detail page). A confirm modal asks "Are you sure?" — confirm and the race timer locks at that moment.
Why this matters: until the button is pressed, stint times count from the planned lights out on your schedule. Formation laps and rolling starts usually push the real green flag a few minutes later. Once Green Flag is pressed, stint times and the remaining reminders count from the actual moment, so drivers see correct countdowns whatever the sim or series.
The confirm modal warns you if it looks too early. If someone presses during practice or qualifying, more than about 10 minutes before the planned lights out, or before the server has even opened, the modal says so: for example "Qualifying is still running. Lights out is planned for 19:05, 47 minutes from now. Only press if the race has actually gone green." You can still press: the button exists precisely for when the planned time turns out to be wrong.
If someone fat-fingers the button (presses too early), an Owner or Admin can click clear next to the green-flag badge to revert and re-press when the race actually goes green.
If a driver is unavailable last-minute, you can re-assign their stint to their backup using the ↑ Promote backup button in the stint builder. The bot's DMs flow to the new primary driver automatically on the next tick.
If you retire
If the car is out of the race, anyone can tap Retired? Log a DNF on the race-day view. That cancels every remaining stint reminder and marks the race finished for the whole team, with an Undo if it turns out you're still racing. See Race results and DNFs.
After the race
Record how it went: anyone on the team can enter the result (finished / DNF / DSQ, class and overall position, laps, notes) on the race-day view or the plan detail page. See Race results and DNFs.
The plan stays in your archive. Your team's Race plans page lists upcoming races first, then past races with their result badge.
To remove the plan entirely, use Delete plan in the Danger Zone at the bottom of the plan detail page (type the race name to confirm — cascade is destructive).
Next steps
You're done with the race-day workflow. Build another plan, or browse the Reference section for deeper dives.
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