Most places you can drive a simulator, your lap time belongs to the afternoon. You set it, somebody says well done, the next person sits down and it is gone.
Here it goes on a wall with your name on it, and it stays there until somebody beats it. That is the part people end up caring about, usually to their own surprise — and it is worth knowing how it works before you drive, because a couple of small decisions change whether your lap counts for anything.
Your lap times are not typed in by anyone
Start here, because it is the bit that makes the rest worth taking seriously. Every time on our boards is read straight out of the game's own telemetry — sector times, top speed, the assists you were using, all of it captured automatically as you drive. Nobody at the desk keys in a number, and nobody can.
That cuts both ways, which is the point. You cannot talk your way onto the board, and nobody above you talked their way there either.
Two boards, one track
A board is always about one circuit. We pick a track of the month, and a track of the week inside it, and those are what the walls rank — so everybody on a board drove the same corners, and the comparison means something.
- The Wall of the Month ranks every driver's fastest lap at that month's track. It wipes on the 1st. This is the hard one: four weeks of other people having a go at it.
- The Wall of the Week does the same over one week, and wipes every Monday. This is the winnable one — a good lap on a quiet Tuesday can sit near the top for days.
- Both show one time per driver, your best, ranked fastest first. Twenty laps do not clutter the board with twenty rows; they just improve the one row you have.
Last month's final board is kept too, so a month you won stays won rather than being wiped along with everything else.
Get a driver tag
A tag is the name you appear under — the one on the wall, on the leaderboard and on your own page. Pick it at check-in. It takes about ten seconds and it is the difference between being a row on a board and being somebody on it.
It also gives you a public profile of your own: every lap you have driven here, your sector times, where you sit on the current boards, and whether you are leading the month. You can send somebody that link, which is a more satisfying way to win an argument than describing a lap.
The SETUP badge, and why slower is sometimes better
Next to each time is a badge saying how the lap was driven, because a lap with the game helping is not the same achievement as one without, and a board that hid the difference would be lying politely.
- TC ON — driven with the driving assists on. Where everybody starts, and no reason not to: a real lap, honestly labelled.
- NO TC — traction control off. The first thing most people switch off, and the first time the car will genuinely spin on you out of a slow corner.
- RAW — everything off: no traction control, no ABS, no racing line, manual gears. Slower for about a week. Faster than you were, forever after.
If you are chasing the top of a board, this is the decision that matters most, and the answer is to switch things off earlier than feels comfortable. Learning to brake without ABS is the single biggest lap-time gain available to a new driver, and it is unpleasant for roughly three sessions.
How to actually do it, in order
- Turn up. No booking — Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 8 PM, closed Mondays. Midweek afternoons are quietest, which matters more than you would think.
- Give your name at the desk and pick a driver tag.
- Ask which track is up this week. Drive that one. A brilliant lap at a circuit nobody else is running ranks nowhere.
- Spend the first few laps learning the corners, not attacking them. Your best lap is almost never in the first five minutes.
- Switch one assist off, and do a few more.
- Check the wall before you leave, and your own page afterwards.
Come and take somebody's spot
The boards are public — you can see who is quick before you ever come in, which is either encouraging or annoying depending on temperament. The weekly one resets on Monday, so there is a new one starting more or less constantly.
We are in Guindy, Chennai, a few minutes from Kathipara Junction. Walk in, tell us you are here for a time rather than a go, and we will put you on whichever seat is quicker.
