Session analysis
Every lap you run is parsed corner by corner against your own best reference and against what the car is capable of. You get a ranked list, not a graph to interpret.
Vaquero Performance & Tuning
Race engineering for iRacing
Engineering not opinion
Software that runs while you race, and engineers who read what it records. Built for iRacing, for drivers who are done guessing at setup.
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01 — Structure
Two halves, one loop
Neither half works without the other.
Builds the technology
Racecraft
Lab
Research, software engineering, and machine learning. The models that read an iRacing session the way a race engineer reads one.
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Delivers the engineering
Vaquero
Performance
The app you run, the reports you read, and the engineers who work your car, your track, and your championship with you.
See the product →iRacing gives you the car, the track, and the competition. It does not give you a race engineer.
Real teams put an engineer on every car. In sim racing you are the driver, the crew chief, and the setup shop, usually after work. This is the engineer you were never going to be able to hire — running in the background while you drive, and reporting when you get out.
02 — Services
Available now
What we do, plain and simple.
Setup development
Springs, bars, dampers, ride height, wing, diff, gears, tire pressures — specific changes with direction, magnitude, and the order to test them in.
Driver coaching
Coaching from your own telemetry. Two or three priorities per session, ranked by what each is worth, instead of a list of everything you did wrong.
Race strategy
Fuel, tires, stint length, and traffic. What to do on the box when the race stops going to plan.
Endurance & team engineering
Multi-driver stints, driver swaps, and a shared setup direction so four people are not developing four different cars.
Season planning
Which weeks to attack, which to bank, and what to work on between them. Where your points are actually going.
Practice programming
What to run and for how long. Most practice is repetition of problems you already solved.
Incident review
What preceded the contact, in the data, without the protest thread.
03 — Product
Software and people
One app while you drive. One engineer when you stop.
The software
Runs while
Reads what
Runs while
you race
A desktop app that connects to iRacing and works in the background. It records every lap, watches the car live, and gives you a screen for setup, strategy, and the plan for the run.
- Background capture
- Live strategy
- Setup workspace
- Corner map
- Stint planner
- Session history
Reads what
it records
The analysis behind the screen, and the people behind the analysis. Ranked findings with projected gains, setup direction for your car and track, and an engineer you can actually talk to.
- Ranked findings
- Projected gain
- Setup direction
- Driver profile
- Coaching
- Championship support
04 — Compounding
Why week eight beats week one
The engineer gets better at your car the longer you run it.
Week one you
get a report.
Week ten it
knows your car.
Your session history is what makes trend analysis possible — separating a genuinely quicker car from a good night, and showing whether last week's change actually did anything.
The car and track baselines improve the same way. The more laps the platform has seen on a combination, the sharper its recommendations for it — which is why the tenth week is worth more than the first.
Sessions are stored and analysed on our servers, and help improve the models behind the platform. Full terms are set out before you connect an account.
05 — Roadmap
Shipped, building, and further out
What runs today, and what is being built.
Running now
After the
After the
session
- Automatic telemetry capture
- Corner-by-corner analysis
- Lap and reference comparison
- Ranked findings with projected gain
- Setup file management
- Setup change recommendations
- Driver coaching notes
- Session history and trends
- Driver profile
- Team and league dashboards
In development
During the
During the
session
- Live strategy screen
- Fuel and stint modelling
- Tire state estimation
- In-race pace targets
- Traffic and pit-window calls
- Predicted lap simulation
- Setup assistant
- Driver-swap handover notes
Further out
In your
In your
ear
- Real-time coaching
- Voice engineering assistant
- Automated crew chief
- Dynamic setup generation
- Video synchronisation
- Weather and track-state modelling
Run one session.
Then read what an engineer would have told you about it.
Install the app, drive the way you normally drive, and get out of the car. The report is waiting. If there is nothing worth finding in your driving, we will tell you that too.
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Session report
Practice · 31 laps
T1
Braking 12 m early, then coastingDriver · consistent across 24 laps
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T6
Mid-corner understeer on entryBalance · front ARB, one softer
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T9
Throttle applied before the apexDriver · costing exit speed onto the straight
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ALL
Rear tires falling away after lap 9Setup · pressures 2 kPa high for this run length
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Projected, this session
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Illustrative. Your findings depend on your car, track, and driving.