Help

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Getting started

What bdr is, and the first steps for drivers and for organisers.

Signing in

Racing

Your dashboard

Your rating, your next races, races you can enter and, if you run a community, what you are hosting.

The race calendar

Find upcoming races, see which ones you can enter, and open past results.

A race page

Ratings and licences

How ELO, Safety Rating, licences and divisions are calculated, and which races count.

Standings

How race points are awarded, which weeks count, and how team standings work.

Best times

The fastest recorded laps per game, track and car class, and where your own lap ranks.

Teams

Founding, joining and leaving a team, team ELO, and how teams score in standings.

Communities

Who hosts races on bdr, what Ranked and Unranked hosts mean, and what the community page shows.

Your account

Your entries, the reports you are involved in, and your display name and country.

Incidents and stewarding

Reports

Reporting an incident after a race, what happens next, and what each penalty costs.

Stewarding

For stewards: working the report queue, deciding reports, and releasing flagged sessions.

Organising

Start a community, what organisers can do, roles, and ranked versus unranked hosts.

Community setup

The getting-started checklist, creating a season, your servers and your members.

Machines

Seasons and series

Add a series, pick tracks, generate races, publish, and run the season from its page.

Single events

Create a one-off race from one form, without a weekly timetable.

Race servers

A race server's history page, running ACC by hand with an API key, and the ACC config download.

Ranked status

What ranked and unranked mean for a community, and how to ask for ranked status.

How it works

Communities publish seasons and one-off events. Each race appears in one shared race calendar.

You sign up for a race with the car you want to drive. When signups close, the field is split by ELO into groups of similar pace.

The community's server lets in only the drivers who have a seat. When the race ends, the server uploads the results.

Results update your ELO (pace) and Safety Rating (clean driving). You keep one rating across every community that hosts on bdr.

Note

A community is either a Ranked host or an Unranked host. Races run by an unranked host show results, but they do not change anyone's ELO or Safety Rating. New communities start as unranked. See Ratings.

If you want to race

Sign in through Steam. Your SteamID links you to your entry on the game server and to your results. See Signing in.

Find a race. On your dashboard, select Find a race. The Open to you list shows only races you are eligible for. See The race calendar.

Sign up. On the race page, choose your car and select Sign up. See A race page.

Join the server. When signups close, the race page shows your split, your car number and the server password.

Check your results. Results show on the race page shortly after the chequered flag. Your rating updates on your dashboard.

If something went wrong on track, you can report it after the race. See Reports.

If you want to organise

Fill in Start a community (name, URL slug, description) and select Create.

Set up your community. Add your machine and game servers, then create a season with its series, or create a single event. Use these topics:

Select Generate races, then Publish season. From then on, bdr runs each race on schedule: it opens and closes signups, splits the field, assigns your servers and collects the results.

For the organiser's view as a whole, see Organising.

Finding your way around

Where

What is there

Dashboard

Your ratings, next races, suggested races and latest results. See Dashboard.

Seasons

Championship standings. See Standings.

Best times

Fastest laps per track and car. See Best times.

People

Drivers, Teams and Communities. See Teams and Communities.

Your name (top right)

Your entries, your reports and your profile. See Your account.