Ask in your own words.
Hold a key or a button on your wheel to talk, or leave it always listening and start with "Engineer". It understands 284 questions and about 15,800 ways of asking them, plus some 2,000 chat phrases, so there are no commands to learn.
Speak English or Spanish, whichever comes out: if it doesn't catch you in one, it listens again in the other. It follows the conversation too: "and the one behind?", "and sector 2?", "why?". A few of the things you can ask:
- How much fuel do I need to the end? How much do I have to save?
- What's the plan? When do I pit?
- Gap to P3? And to car 51? Ask by position, race number or driver's name.
- How am I doing? Where am I losing time?
- How are the tyres? Temperatures, wear and pressure, one by one.
- Is it going to rain? What happened?
Any car, any comparison.
Ask about the car ahead or behind, the leader, a position, a race number or a name. "Ahead" and "behind" are two cars: your class rival and the one next to you on track. When they're different, it tells you both.
- The gap, and whether it's closing or growing.
- How many laps until you catch them.
- Where you gain or lose, sector by sector.
- Their pace, best lap, stops, car and pace group.
Your pace and your car, in detail.
Your pace over the last 5, 10 or 15 laps, the stint or the whole session, against your class. Your reference times, the time you need, where your pace would put you, and whether you're improving.
Each tyre's temperatures, wear and pressure, the brakes, damage, last-lap consumption and how much to save. With the setup data it tells you how the car behaves in each part of the corner, and what to change in brake bias, TC and ABS.
Reports and incidents.
Say "report" and you get the full picture. There's also a short one, one per topic (tyres, fuel, rivals, pace, car, brakes, weather, session, strategy, setup) and one for your lap.
It notices your spins, and after a big hit or a retirement it asks if you're OK and understands the answer. It warns you about stopped or spinning cars ahead, with the corner and how many metres away, and "what happened?" tells you who, what and where.
It speaks up when it matters.
You don't have to ask for everything. The engineer calls out what changes the race, each topic takes its turn so one never drowns out the rest, and you switch every callout on or off one by one.
- Your laps: each lap against your best and your class, sector records, encouragement when you're consistent or improving, and your pace group.
- Rivals: whether you're catching the car ahead or it's getting away, and whether the one behind is closing or dropping back.
- Strategy: fuel and virtual energy, the pit window, and "box this lap" when the plan says so.
- Car and electronics: setup and electronics notes, and how many laps the tyres have left.
- Incidents: spins, stopped cars and contact.
- Flags, weather and session: yellow, blue and red flags, rain on the way, five minutes to go, last lap.
A radio that feels like a real one.
It goes by the name of its voice, and if you call it, it answers "go ahead". If it needs more than two seconds it says "OK, checking", and if you talk over it, it stops.
Tell it "talk less", "only the important stuff", "quiet for a while" or "talk again" and it changes how much it speaks. Say "copy" and it keeps it short, and it cheers you on when you say "nice" or "mega".
Setups and strategy by voice.
Say "let's do a setup" and it asks you eight questions. It prepares the changes with the same setup engineer as the Setup tab and your own laps, reads them out and saves them as a new setup, without overwriting any. It only loads it on the car if you say yes and you're in the garage.
The race plan is the same one you see in the strategy page, updated in both places at once. Ask "what's the plan?", or say "the best strategy", "two stops", "double stint", "no tyres at the next stop", "box on lap 25" or "clear the plan".
AI that runs on your PC.
Speech recognition understands what you say and natural AI voices answer, all on your computer. Once installed it works without an internet connection, and what you say is never sent anywhere.
On NVIDIA graphics cards there's a maximum accuracy mode, and RaceCraft recommends the best one for your PC. The numbers come straight from the game's telemetry, not from a chatbot, so the engineer doesn't make things up.
Voices in English and Spanish.
Pick a voice that sounds like a real person, with Spanish voices from Spain, Mexico and Argentina, or a quick voice for instant answers. A clear team-radio effect with F1-style beeps keeps it easy to hear over the engine.
It also knows your driving coach: ask for a tip, and in practice it gives you advice as you lap.