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GridCast is a broadcast, streaming, and community platform for iRacing — for drivers, leagues, streamers, and broadcast channels.

• Community pages — every driver, team, league, and channel gets a real public page with standings, schedules, results, and history.
• League tools — results straight from iRacing, points systems, playoffs, recruitment, stewarding, rulebooks, and a Discord bot.
• Overlays — a browser-based overlay editor plus ready-made layouts, fed with live iRacing data for your stream or broadcast.
• GridCast TV — a free, always-on TV dial of sim racing broadcasts at tv.gridcast.gg.

Use as much or as little of it as you like. Racing in a league doesn't require ever touching the broadcast side, and vice versa.

The driver and fan side is free: your profile, leagues, teams, standings, the community pages, and watching GridCast TV all cost nothing on the Pit Crew plan.

Paid plans cover streaming, running leagues, and broadcasting. GridCast is in beta, and several paid features are currently open to everyone while it is — see Billing & Pricing for the plans and what's open right now.

• A channel is a broadcaster — the group putting races on stream, with its own page, staff, sponsors, and overlays.
• A league (also called a series) is a competition — seasons, a schedule, results, standings, and a roster. A league can have a channel attached as its broadcaster.
• An organization is the umbrella a league sits in. Most hold one league; some run several series under one name.
• A team is a group of drivers who race together, with their own page and roster.

One person can be all of these at once: a driver on a team, racing in a league, that your channel broadcasts.

1. Sign in from the login page. Continue with iRacing is the quickest route, and it connects you to your driver record automatically. See Accounts & Sign-In.
2. Fill in your profile — the profile wizard walks you through your number, photo, rig, and socials. Broadcasts use these on air.
3. Find your league and team under Leagues and Teams, or join a league from its page.
4. Watch on GridCast TV, and keep up on the Community page.

Streaming your own races? Open the Overlay Editor or download GridCast Lite. Running a broadcast? Start with the Broadcaster plan on Pricing.

There are two ways in, both on the login page:

• Continue with iRacing — you sign in on iRacing's own site (we never see your iRacing password). The first time, this creates your GridCast account and links it to your driver record, so your results and standings come with you.
• Create Account tab — username, email, optional display name, and a password of at least 8 characters. While GridCast is in beta, this tab only works for approved beta testers (see the next question).

Email sign-up is limited to approved beta testers right now.

1. Apply using the Apply for the beta form on the homepage — it asks for your name, email, Discord username, and iRacing customer ID.
2. Applications are reviewed in our Discord.
3. Once approved, use the same email you applied with on the Create Account tab. Some testers receive an activation link by email instead, which creates the account and signs you in.

If you have an iRacing account, Continue with iRacing also works.

Yes — click Continue with iRacing on the login page. You enter your password on iRacing's site, never on ours.

• If your results were already on GridCast from a league upload, you sign straight into that driver record and it becomes yours, history included.
• If you're new, an account is created for you. It has no email address yet — add one in Account Settings so you can receive password resets and receipts.

Already have a password account? Sign in to it first, then link iRacing from Account Settings — or click Continue with iRacing while you're signed in, and it links to that account. If you're signed out, iRacing has no way to know about your password account, so it creates a separate one.

It depends on Remember me, which is ticked by default on the sign-in page:

• Ticked — you stay signed in for 7 days.
• Unticked — your session lasts 12 hours.

One sign-in covers gridcast.gg and GridCast TV together, and Logout signs you out of both.

For the desktop apps, leave Remember me ticked when they send you to the browser to sign in — they need it to stay signed in (see Software & Downloads).

Forgot password: on the login page, click Forgot password? and then Send Reset Link. The link is valid for 1 hour, and you'll get a confirmation email once the password is changed. Resetting your password signs the account out on every device, so sign in again afterwards.

Verification emails: you can resend one from Account Settings with Resend verification email. Verification doesn't limit normal use, but you do need a verified email before buying a plan or entering an event.

If nothing arrives, check spam first. Accounts created with iRacing have no email until you add one, so they sign in with iRacing instead. Still stuck? Ask in Discord.

Email: open Account Settings from the user menu (/account). Enter the new address and your current password, then click Send confirmation. The change only takes effect when you click the link sent to the new address, and you can Cancel change while it's pending.

Password: in Account Settings, under Password, enter your current password and the new one twice, then click Change password. You stay signed in on that browser and are signed out everywhere else. Forgotten the current one? Click Email me a reset link instead. If you sign in with iRacing, the account has no password yet: the same panel lets you Set password, so you can also sign in with your username and a password.

Deleting your account isn't self-serve. Email [email protected] or ask in Discord.

Both are in Account Settings.

Signed-in devices → Sign out everywhere ends every session on the account: every browser, GridCast TV, and the Broadcaster, Lite and Launcher apps, including the one you're using. Use it if you signed in on a computer you no longer control. Changing or resetting your password does the same, except that it keeps you signed in where you made the change.

Your data → Download my data saves a JSON file of everything GridCast holds about your account: your profile, league memberships, results, channels, teams and the rest. Passwords and sign-in tokens are left out.

Preferences is where you set your timezone and choose whether to get GridCast news and product updates by email. Receipts and account notices are sent either way.

Your iRacing customer ID is what connects you to your results, standings, and profile. There are three ways to link it:

• Continue with iRacing when signing in. This is best if your results already exist on GridCast.
• Account Settings → Link my iRacing account. This sends you through iRacing sign-in and asks you to confirm the name and ID that come back.
• The profile wizard's first step has an iRacing Customer ID field.

If GridCast says the ID is already linked to another account, it usually means your results were imported before you signed up. Use Continue with iRacing to claim that record, or ask in Discord and we'll merge the two.

Yes. This usually happens when someone makes a password account and later, while signed out, uses Continue with iRacing — which creates a separate account tied to their iRacing ID.

Merging is done by the GridCast team. Ask in Discord with both usernames and we'll combine them into one.

Open My Profile from the user menu, then click Edit Profile (only you see it on your own profile). That opens the profile wizard at /onboarding.

Your profile lives at /user/<your iRacing customer ID>, so a profile needs your iRacing ID linked first — see Accounts & Sign-In. Without one, you can still open /onboarding directly.

The wizard has seven steps. It saves as you go and shows a live broadcast preview of how you'll look on air:

1. The Basics — name, display name, nickname, hometown, state, country, occupation, iRacing customer ID
2. Number — car number, top three sponsors (read out on air), number graphic, paint colours, and per-league numbers
3. Photo — your driver photo (a cut-out PNG looks best; location data is stripped)
4. Career & Rig — years sim racing, iRating, main league, best finish, real-world racing, driving style, plus wheelbase, pedals, monitors, mods, and a rig photo
5. Personality — favourite driver, track, car, movie, show, and song, pre-race ritual, fun fact, and a bio of up to 1,000 characters
6. Socials — X/Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Bluesky
7. Discord — connect your Discord account

Broadcasters pull these straight into driver cards, so filling them in changes what viewers see during a race.

The percentage in the wizard shows how complete your profile is for broadcast use. The biggest items are your number graphic (20 points) and driver photo (20), then your name and race number (10 each).

Smaller items are worth 5 each: display name, location, iRacing ID, career, rig, personality, at least one social handle, and Discord.

Upload your number art in step 2 of the profile wizard. It must be a transparent PNG or an SVG. GridCast rejects PNGs with no transparency, which are usually a photo of the car rather than number art.

Broadcasts use the first of these that exists:

1. The league's number for you — your team's roster image, or a number you uploaded for that league
2. Your own profile upload
3. Plain text (#42)

Per-league numbers appear under League Car Numbers once you're on a league roster, which helps if you run different numbers in different series.

An AI tool in step 3 of the profile wizard that generates a broadcast-style driver portrait from a reference photo. It's in beta and each account gets one free generation.

If it isn't available when you try it, upload a regular photo instead — it works just as well on air.

Achievements are worked out from your race results across every league: wins, podiums, laps led, clean races, and more, each with tiers to climb. They appear in the Achievements section of your profile.

Each stat only counts races where that figure was actually recorded, and the profile shows how many races that covers. With Discord linked, Griddy can also tell you when you earn one.

Yes — Tale of the Tape puts two drivers side by side. Search by name, number, or iRacing ID. The result has a shareable link (/compare/<id>/<id>).

Only races both drivers ran in are counted, so it's a genuine head-to-head. The same comparison is available in Discord with Griddy's /compare.

The Drivers directory lists every driver on GridCast, including drivers imported from league results who haven't signed in yet.

You can search by driver or team, filter to Winners, On a Team, or Free Agents, and sort by wins, podiums, races, or name. The top three by wins get the Front Row spotlight.

All prices are in US dollars. Yearly billing costs ten times the monthly price (two months free).

• Pit Crew — free. Your profile, leagues, teams, standings, and the community.
• Streamer — $4/mo or $40/yr. GridCast's ready-made streamer overlays and Driver HUD widgets on your Twitch or YouTube stream, plus chat and alerts.
• Streamer Plus — $7/mo or $70/yr. Everything in Streamer, plus the full overlay editor to build your own.
• League — $10/mo or $100/yr. One league, with Griddy for your Discord.
• Organization — $25/mo or $250/yr. Up to three series under one organization.
• Broadcaster — $30/mo or $300/yr. A broadcast channel with staff roles, the Broadcaster app and broadcast overlays, sponsors, and league management.
• Grid Partner — $50/mo or $500/yr. Multiple channels under one organization, with hands-on support.
• TV Listing add-on — $7/mo or $70/yr. Puts an approved broadcast channel on GridCast TV.

Full details are on Pricing.

While GridCast is in beta:

• The overlay editor and the Streamer widgets are open to every signed-in account.
• Running leagues and Griddy in Discord aren't being charged for.

Still plan-only: creating a broadcast channel and the broadcast overlay package (Broadcaster or Grid Partner), and downloading the Broadcaster app (beta access).

Beta access can end when paid plans fully switch on. That will be announced in advance.

A league that a GridCast Broadcaster channel airs is free. The League plan is for leagues that run without a GridCast broadcaster, and the Organization plan covers up to three series.

During the beta, league management isn't being charged for at all.

Pick a plan on Pricing and choose monthly or yearly. You need to be signed in with a verified email — checkout tells you if yours isn't, and you can verify it from Account Settings.

There's no self-serve billing page yet, so email [email protected] or ask in Discord, and we'll cancel or change it for you.

When you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you've already paid for.

Paid plans renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel. If a price changes, you'll get at least 30 days' notice by email or on the site first.

Card details go straight to the payment processor — GridCast never stores them.

There are no free trials, though the beta keeps a lot open for free in the meantime (see above).

Payments are non-refundable except where the law requires it, or where a feature central to your plan is materially reduced — then you get a pro-rata refund. Full details are in the Terms of Service. If something's wrong with a charge, contact [email protected] before opening a dispute with your bank.

No — overlay themes in the Marketplace are free to install. GridCast's own broadcast layouts are part of the Broadcaster plan, so they show a lock for accounts without broadcast access.

The marketplace also lists community services, such as liveries and design work. Those are paid, but their checkout isn't open yet.

From the user menu, choose Create → Channel (/start-a-channel). Creating a broadcast channel needs an active Broadcaster or Grid Partner plan, or an access code from the GridCast team.

New channels are reviewed before they appear in public listings. Each account can own one broadcast channel.

No. Every signed-in account gets its own private space for the overlay editor and GridCast Lite automatically — nothing to set up, and nothing public.

A broadcast channel is only needed for a public channel page, staff, league broadcasting, and the broadcast overlay package.

A channel page (/channel/<slug>) brings together everything about a broadcaster:

• its GridCast TV slot, About section, and YouTube figures
• recent Shows from YouTube
• an Upcoming Schedule
• the Leagues it broadcasts, past and present
• its Broadcasting Team and Partners

The schedule merges the channel's own events with the race calendar of every league it broadcasts, so it stays current without manual updates. Shows fill in automatically once YouTube is added to the channel's social accounts.

Yes. In your channel admin (/channel/<slug>/admin), open the Staff tab and give each person only what they need:

• Edit Overlays — use the overlay editor for this channel
• Manage Settings — branding, colours, logos, social accounts
• Manage Sponsors — sponsors, brands, and commercials
• Manage League Claims — request to broadcast leagues
• Manage Staff — add and remove other staff (only the owner can grant this)

Permissions are enforced on the server. Two things stay owner-only: publishing an overlay to the live channel, and listing a theme on the marketplace. The owner can't be removed from the staff list — ownership has to be transferred instead.

In channel admin, open the League Claims tab and claim the league. It lists every league that doesn't have a broadcaster yet. The league's owner gets a notification and can accept or decline.

Once accepted:

• your channel's badge appears on the league page
• its races flow into your schedule
• the channel owner gets full admin rights on that league

If you own the league yourself, it attaches straight away. A league with no owner can only be attached by the GridCast team — ask in Discord.

A producer tool linked from your channel admin. Connect your YouTube account and it schedules a league season's live broadcasts for you. After each race, it adds the results to the video's description.

Sponsors are credited under "Presented by" in each description. Which ones is set where you edit sponsors (league Settings or Channel Admin): each sponsor has an In YouTube descriptions switch. Switched-on sponsors arrive ticked in Stream Manager, and you can untick any of them before scheduling.

From the user menu, choose Create → League (/create-league). The wizard covers identity, organization, schedule, cars and classes, format, championship, and community links.

New leagues are reviewed before they appear in the Leagues directory.

After creating, open your league's Settings and check the Points System tab before your first race. Some wizard answers — drop weeks, incident limits, a custom points table — still need setting there.

The umbrella a league sits in. Every league belongs to one. Most organizations hold a single league, but a group running several series can keep them all under one name and one page.

Organization settings (/org/<slug>/settings) have three tabs:

• Profile
• Series — create a series, attach an existing league, reorder, publish
• Staff — including who administers each series

Each series keeps its own roster, points, standings, and overlays.

Most leagues let you ask from their page:

• Ask for a place — the league's admins get a request and approve or decline it, and you're notified either way.
• Join this league — some leagues let you straight in.

The join page (/leagues/<slug>/join) shows the league's rules, lets you pick a car number, and asks for your class in multiclass leagues. Leagues can also share a recruitment link or QR code that takes you straight there.

League admins can also add you directly. If you race in a league and your results are uploaded, you're added to its roster automatically.

A league page (/leagues/<slug>) is the competition's home:

• Header — banner, logo, broadcaster badge, and arrows to step through past seasons
• Tabs — Last Race, Next Race, Records, Broadcasts, Connect
• Season schedule and roster
• Standings — drivers and teams, with one table per class in multiclass leagues
• Race results — qualifying and race, with bonus points shown
• Rulebook and cup bracket, where the league uses them
• A join strip if the league is recruiting

Archived leagues stay viewable with a Historical tag.

League admin rights come from four places:

• the league owner
• league admins the owner has appointed
• the owner of the league's broadcasting channel, automatically
• the GridCast team

To add a co-admin, open the league's Settings → Admins → Add Administrator. Enter their email or iRacing ID, then tick what they can manage: roster, schedule, news, settings, and other admins. Permissions on each admin changes their rights later, and Remove takes them off.

Organization staff can do the same for every series from the organization's settings → Staff → Series Staff.

Not by notification — use a recruitment link instead. Create one on the league's Settings → Recruitment tab and share the link or QR code. See League Tools.

They're kept. The Leagues directory has a Historical Leagues section, and archived league pages still open with all their past seasons, standings, and results.

On your league's Settings → Recruitment tab, create a link with:

• a name
• a maximum number of places
• an optional expiry date

Each link comes with a QR code (SVG or PNG) for graphics and Discord posts. Drivers who follow it land on your join page. Requests arrive in your notification bell and on the Recruitment tab, where you approve or decline them.

Yes — on the Drivers tab, use Build the roster in bulk:

• From a results file — upload one or more iRacing JSON files and every entrant is added, without scoring anything.
• From iRacing — Pull roster from iRacing, once your league is linked on the iRacing Sync tab.

Both show a preview first, and they only ever add drivers — never remove them.

Yes. Add your classes on the Drivers tab → Car Classes, or in the league wizard. With two or more classes:

• each driver gets a class
• the join page asks applicants which class they're in
• standings split into one table per class, with class positions

Points are paid on overall finishing position.

Labels you can give drivers, for example by skill level. On the Drivers tab → Driver Categories, add your own or click Use Pro / Pro-Am / Amateur, each with its own name and colour.

Categories show as a coloured emblem on broadcast graphics. They never change anyone's points.

Yes — on the Drivers tab, use Images. Photos can be PNG, JPG, or WebP. Number art can be PNG, SVG, or WebP.

These apply only to your league's broadcasts, entry lists, and results, and never touch the driver's own profile. Clear one to go back to the driver's own image.

Yes. In Settings → Schedule, edit the race and set its Event Logo (PNG, JPEG, WebP, or SVG). Broadcast graphics and the league page use it for that round.

A set of race-day tools on the league's Settings → Race Night tab. Each one is off until you turn it on:

• RSVPs — drivers register, mark tentative, or withdraw, with a deadline
• Check-in window before the race
• Provisionals — a driver who misses a race can claim last-place points, up to a per-season limit
• Discord — an RSVP card with buttons, reminder DMs, check-in reminders, a pre-race post with the GridCast TV and YouTube links, and automatic results posts

The Discord features need Griddy connected to your server first — see Griddy & Discord.

Turn it on in Settings → Stewarding by ticking Take incident reports. Then choose:

• who can file — race entrants, any member, or stewards only
• how long the filing window stays open after a race
• whether open reports are visible to the whole league
• whether drivers are told when a report names them
• optional licence points with a threshold. These flag a driver; they never suspend anyone automatically.

Drivers file from the race page, and stewards rule from the Steward Queue on the league page. A points deduction updates standings by itself. Time or position penalties and DQs are applied with Revise Results. Griddy can post rulings to your Discord.

Settings → Rulebook. Write your rules as sections, upload a PDF, or both. You can set a league-wide rulebook, season-specific rules, and a supplement for an individual round.

Rulebooks are versioned: every race is judged by the version that was in force when it ran. Races run before you first uploaded your rulebook use that first version. The current rules are public at /leagues/<slug>/rules, appear on the join page, and are in the commentators' Booth in the Broadcaster.

Knockout competitions decided by the races your league already runs. Set them up in Settings → Cups.

• Each cup round uses one of your races, and the better finisher advances.
• A driver who doesn't show up loses by walkover.
• Brackets go up to 64 drivers, with byes for the top seeds.

Cups never affect the championship. Brackets are public at /leagues/<slug>/cups.

League admins have two routes:

• iRacing Sync (recommended) — on the league's Settings → iRacing Sync tab, connect an iRacing account, enter your iRacing league ID, and click Verify. After that, Sync Now pulls in new results, or you can import a single session from the session browser.
• Upload — Settings → Schedule → Upload Race Results, using iRacing's JSON results file. Upload one at a time or in bulk.

Either way, GridCast matches each session to the scheduled race, imports qualifying and the race, applies your points system, and updates standings.

Drivers without a GridCast account get a placeholder so their result still counts. That's why you'll see drivers who've never signed in.

Not yet. Automatic importing isn't switched on, even though the option appears on the iRacing Sync tab. Click Sync Now after each race — it only takes a moment.

Yes. On the iRacing Sync tab, use Import full history. See what's on iRacing previews the seasons, and Import all seasons brings them in. Each iRacing season becomes its own GridCast season, and running it again is safe.

Every import appears in the Import Log, and reverting one restores exactly what the race held before.

On the league's Settings → Points System tab, start from a preset — NASCAR, Winston Cup, Formula 1, IndyCar, or IMSA — or build a fully Custom table.

Optional bonuses:

• most laps led
• leading a lap
• fastest lap
• pole
• race winner
• most positions gained
• a clean race with zero incidents

The same tab sets drop weeks, playoffs, and a team championship. Saving recalculates standings straight away.

Counted — how many of a driver's races count toward their total after drop weeks.

Drop weeks are set on the Points System tab:

• how many races to drop
• which round drops start showing from (or only at season end)
• a minimum number of races before any drop applies

Every driver keeps at least one counted race.

On the Points System tab, Playoff Points Management supports up to three rounds. Each round has:

• a name and a points reset value
• the race it counts from
• an optional seeding bonus and per-win bonus

Tick the drivers who advance and click Apply Round. Each one restarts from the reset value plus their bonuses, and only races after that point count. Playoff drivers are highlighted in the standings and on broadcast tickers.

Yes. League admins use Edit Points on the standings tab of the league page. Adjustments are kept separately from race points, so they survive every recalculation.

To correct a finishing order itself — for a penalty or a scoring error — use Revise Results on the race. The race is rescored and standings update.

Standings recalculate automatically after uploads, syncs, points-system changes, playoff rounds, point edits, and revisions. If something still looks off:

• Check the Points System tab, especially drop weeks and bonuses.
• Run Recalculate Standings from the General tab to rebuild from scratch.
• Make sure every race was actually imported — the Import Log on the iRacing Sync tab shows what came in.

Results are matched by iRacing customer ID. If yours aren't counting, your account probably isn't linked to your iRacing ID yet — sign in with Continue with iRacing, or see Accounts & Sign-In.

If your results landed on a placeholder record created during an upload, we can merge it into your account — ask in Discord. If a specific race is missing, it may not have been imported yet, so check with your league admin.

From the user menu, choose Create → Team. There's no approval step — your team page exists immediately.

Set the name, description, colours, and logo at creation. The team tag, HQ, manufacturer, and founding year can't be edited afterwards yet, so get those right the first time.

To join, click Join Team on the team's page. The team manager gets your request in their notification bell and accepts or declines it.

To leave, click Leave Team on the team's page. Managers have to transfer the team to someone else before they can leave.

Roles like driver, spotter, painter, and crew chief are labels that show who does what on the roster.

The team manager holds the actual permissions: editing the team and answering join requests.

As the team manager, edit the team from its page. You can upload a new logo or banner (up to 8 MB), and change the name, description, colours, and the team's X/Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube links. Social links appear under the team description.

The wins, podiums, and starts totals on team pages aren't calculated yet, so they show 0. Recent Results isn't filled in yet either.

Team results do work where it matters most: leagues with a team championship show full Team Standings on the league page, and broadcast graphics use team logos and rosters.

Sponsors are brands: a partner company with its logos, artwork for different placements, and commercials. Leagues and channels carry brands, and broadcast overlays show them — including a sponsor banner that rotates through them during a race.

Only approved sponsors reach air. That's enforced on the server, so an unapproved logo can't go to air by accident.

League owners open Settings → Sponsors:

• Add a sponsor — upload the sponsor's artwork yourself. Artwork you upload for your own league is approved straight away.
• Attach a brand — carry a brand that already exists on GridCast. This starts as pending until it's cleared.

Set a sponsor's placement to General sponsor to credit them in your stream descriptions without putting them on your overlays.

If a pending sponsor is holding up a broadcast, let us know in Discord.

In League Settings → Schedule, edit the race and open Race Sponsor. Pick a sponsor you've used before, or choose Add a new sponsor and fill in its artwork (a logo, or a WebM/MP4 bumper), name, website, broadcast placement, time on screen and broadcast notes. Then type the ad read for this race, word for word.

A race sponsor belongs to that race only. It isn't added to your season-long sponsor list or your stream descriptions. Its artwork shows on the overlays during that race once your broadcaster approves it, and they can approve it in the same window. Its ad read appears at the top of the commentators' AD Read window in the GridCast Broadcaster. Choose Ad read only if it shouldn't appear on the overlays.

Open your event's admin page (Manage event on the event page) and go to the Sponsors tab. It works like a league's Sponsors tab: Add a sponsor to upload their logo or a WebM/MP4 bumper with a name, website, broadcast placement, time on screen and broadcast notes, or Attach a brand that's already on GridCast. Type the sponsor's Ad read word for word, too.

An event's sponsors belong to that event only. Your organization's other events don't get them. They show on the overlays during the event's races and in its stream descriptions once the broadcaster approves them. The owner or sponsor staff of a channel carrying the event approve them on the same tab. Commentators see every approved event sponsor, with its ad read, at the top of the AD Read window in the GridCast Broadcaster.

In channel admin:

• Sponsors tab — Add Sponsor to upload your own (PNG, JPG, SVG, WebP, or a WebM/MP4 clip), or Attach From Repository.
• Brands tab — Create A Brand for a partner, which can give the sponsor's own staff a login, or Carry An Existing Brand.

Commercials a brand sends you wait under Commercials Awaiting Your Approval — nothing plays until you clear it.

Yes. Anyone can create a brand from the user menu → Create → Brand (/brands/new). A brand keeps its logos, placement artwork, and commercials in one place, and channels and leagues can carry it.

A channel that creates a brand for a partner can invite the partner's staff to manage it.

A single video clip — WebM or MP4 — with all your league's sponsors in it, played by the Friends of the Show graphic. Upload it with Upload clip on the league's Sponsors tab.

It's a league asset rather than a sponsor, so it isn't listed as a brand or credited separately.

A full graphics editor in your browser for the overlays you put on stream. Lay elements out on a canvas, bind them to live race data, and load the result into OBS or Meld as a single browser source.

Open it from Overlay Editor in the navigation once you're signed in. You don't need a channel — you get your own private space automatically.

During the beta, the editor is open to every signed-in account. After the beta it's part of Streamer Plus and above. See Billing & Pricing.

Over 50 ready-made widgets, found in the Widgets tab of the Add browser:

• Driver HUD — Relative, Fuel Calculator, Input Telemetry, iRating Tower, Dash Cluster, Delta, Halo HUD, Race Deck, Grid Lights, G-Force, Radar / Spotter
• Timing & scoring — Leaderboard, Movers, Incident Ticker, Lap Chart, Sector Board, Pit Strategy
• Streamer — Twitch Chat, YouTube Chat, Grid Beats (music), Heart Rate, Stream Stats, Stream Goal
• Race moments — Head to Head, Fastest Lap Stinger, Driver of the Day, Countdown, Stream Alert
• GridCast Broadcast (Broadcaster plan) — running order tower, top bar ticker, starting grid, driver card, lower third, championship standings, race results, playoff bubble, pit road, track map, replay bug and stinger, commercial break, and more

There are also 11 building blocks under Primitives — text, bound values, gauge bars, images, video (including transparent WebM), shapes, groups, tables, car numbers, driver images, and sponsor banners. Kits are ready-made arrangements, like a lower third, that open up into ordinary editable elements.

• Free — Leaderboard, Movers, Incident Ticker, Lap Chart, Sector Board, Pit Strategy, Head to Head, Fastest Lap, Driver of the Day, Countdown, Grid Beats, and every building block
• Streamer — the Driver HUD widgets, chat, stream alerts, stats and goals, Heart Rate, Banner, Broadcast Message
• Broadcaster — the GridCast Broadcast package

During the beta, every account is treated as Streamer Plus, so all Streamer widgets are open. Plans follow the channel owner's plan, and a lapsed plan never removes widgets already in your overlay.

Effectively all of it. Expand a widget in the Layers panel to see its parts — labels, rows, bars, dividers, images — and each part gets its own properties:

• visibility, colours, background, border, opacity
• font size, weight, and family, letter spacing, line height, case, alignment, name format
• outline, shadows, glow
• size, corner radius, padding, stacking order, position, rotation
• picture fit and position for images

You can also pin a piece of live text to something fixed, then clear it to go back to live data.

Tables go further: add, reorder, and format columns, and set sorting, row limits, class filters, striping, podium tinting, grouping, totals, and conditional highlighting.

Select it and open Data Bindings. The bind dialog has three tabs:

• Live Telemetry — over 200 live timing and telemetry fields from iRacing
• League & Channel Data — over 180 fields from GridCast: drivers, profiles, teams, leagues, tracks, sponsors, and events
• Text Template — text like Lap {lap} of {total}, with each token bound separately

Pick several fields at once to build a template in one go. Twenty transforms handle unit conversion, time formats, ordinals, name abbreviation, value mapping, conditional colours, and fallbacks. The Data Glossary in the brand menu lists every field with its current value.

• Twitch Chat widget — connects anonymously, so no login or token is needed. Leave its channel blank to use the Twitch account connected to your channel or listed in its social accounts, or type any channel name.
• YouTube Chat widget — paste your live stream's URL or video ID, plus your own YouTube API key from Google Cloud Console. YouTube doesn't allow anonymous chat reading. The widget has a quota guard so it can't run your key dry.

Stack both for a combined feed. Sample messages only appear in the editor — on air, the widget shows real chat or nothing.

Saved looks within one overlay — pre-race, racing, post-race — that you switch between live from the Broadcaster app. Open Scenes from the brand menu.

A scene remembers what it hides, so anything you add later shows in every scene until you hide it. Switching is instant; there are no scene transition animations yet.

No — the editor autosaves a moment after every change and shows when anything is unsaved.

Publishing is separate: it freezes a snapshot as a new version, and that version is what your live link shows. Versions in the brand menu lets you view history and roll back.

Overlays started from a GridCast layout also get a GridCast updates button when we improve that layout. You choose which changes to take, your own edits are kept, and you can undo.

Yes. Any widget or part can have an Enter and an Exit animation — Fade In or Out, or Slide In or Out — with adjustable duration and easing, and a Play button to preview it.

The Events section makes elements react to the race. On a flag change, a winner, a replay, or new standings, an element can show, hide, replay, animate, or switch the whole overlay to a scene. Each rule can wait, hold for a set time, and then put things back.

Every account is given GridCast's Streamer HUD layout, and broadcast channels also get the GridCast Broadcast layouts in 1440p and 1080p. They appear under GridCast layouts in your overlay list, where Take a fresh copy gives you a clean one to edit.

Creating a new overlay also offers templates for streaming, broadcasting, triple screens, and VR.

• My Library — save any selection, including everything nested inside it, and drop it into other overlays as often as you like. Use Save to My Library in the properties panel.
• Marketplace — browse and install overlay themes shared by other channels from the Marketplace (also linked from the editor's brand menu). Installing gives you your own editable copy, and themes are free.

To list your own theme, publish it first. Only the channel owner can list one.

Choose the canvas in the brand menu → Canvas:

• Single screen — 2560×1440 (default), 1920×1080, 4K, and two ultrawide sizes
• Triple screen — sizes from 5760×1080 up to 11520×2160
• Custom — anything up to 15360×4320

Match your OBS browser source to the canvas you pick.

Each channel has its own asset library:

• Images up to 12 MB (PNG, JPG, SVG, WebP, GIF)
• Video up to 500 MB (WebM, MP4, MOV) — transparent WebM works, which is how flag wipes and stingers are done
• Audio up to 25 MB (MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV)

Each layer's On air setting decides whether it's showing when the overlay loads:

• Starts on air
• Starts off air
• Always on air
• Always off air

The Broadcaster app and Events then take it on and off during the show. The editor still shows off-air layers so you can work on them.

Yes — it opens automatically the first time you use the editor, and you can replay it any time from the brand menu → Help → Editor tutorial. It walks through the whole editor in short chapters and never changes your layout.

One browser source shows your whole overlay — you don't add a source per widget.

1. In the overlay editor, open the brand menu (the GridCast mark, top-left) and find Browser Source Links.
2. Copy Live channel, or Preview (this theme) to test an unpublished overlay.
3. In OBS, choose Add → Browser, paste the link, and set the width and height to your overlay's canvas size. In Meld Studio, add a browser layer the same way.

Links include a private key (?k=...), so treat them like a password. Links copied before August 2026 don't have one and need pasting again.

Work through these:

• Nothing is sending data. Live timing widgets stay empty until the Broadcaster app or GridCast Lite is running. See Live Data & Timing.
• The link is old or its key changed. Copy the link again from the editor.
• It isn't published yet. An unpublished channel shows a transparent waiting page that checks back every 15 seconds and starts on its own once you publish.
• Size mismatch. If the browser source doesn't match the canvas size, everything looks cropped or shrunk.
• OBS is holding an old copy. Open the source's properties and click Refresh cache of current page.

It already is. Overlay pages render with a transparent background, so your overlay sits straight on top of your game capture — no colour keying needed.

GridCast's own fonts are served with the overlay itself, so they render even on a broadcast machine with a shaky connection. A few extra font choices load from Google Fonts and fall back to a standard font if that machine is offline.

Open the Telestrator tab in the Broadcaster app and draw — it appears on air live.

Nothing needs adding to your overlay: the telestrator sits on top of every GridCast overlay. Bind Telestrator: On Air to take a drawing off screen without wiping it, and Telestrator: Clear to wipe it.

If a scene has no GridCast overlay in it, add the Telestrator (standalone) source from your overlay links at the top of the scene. Don't add both, or every stroke is drawn twice.

It's a readout of how many overlay pages are connected to your broadcast right now — a quick check that your OBS or Meld sources are live. It doesn't start or stop anything.

Yes. Overlays are ordinary web pages, so a free tool called OpenKneeboard can bring them into your headset: add your overlay link as a Web Dashboard tab and place it in your cockpit. GridCast Lite also gives you a ready-made In VR link.

The full walkthrough is at Overlays in VR, including which iRacing display mode to use and where to put panels so they don't cover your mirrors.

A headset never sees your monitor. Anything drawn on the desktop — OBS, Lite's on-screen widgets, other overlay apps — is invisible once the headset is on.

To appear in VR, a graphic has to be drawn inside the game's own frame, which is what OpenKneeboard does. See Overlays in VR.

Only if SteamVR is the runtime actually rendering your session. Those tools are SteamVR overlays, so they never appear when iRacing runs in OpenXR mode through Meta's Link runtime or Virtual Desktop — a very common Quest setup.

We recommend OpenKneeboard because it works on every runtime, SteamVR included. If you're on a Steam-native headset and already have a setup you like, there's no need to change.

Much smaller than a broadcast layout — one focused panel with a few large fields. Start from the VR templates (Relative, Driver HUD, Spotter) rather than shrinking a broadcast overlay.

You don't need to set a resolution in OpenKneeboard either. The overlay detects where it's running and asks for its own size, so the panel comes out sharp and correctly shaped.

That's a known depth-sorting issue in Meta's Link runtime. It affects every OpenXR overlay tool in iRacing, not just GridCast. Running Virtual Desktop or SteamVR as your runtime avoids it.

If you're on a Varjo headset and see nothing at all, that's a separate known issue with Varjo Base 4.4 and newer.

Yes. The headset panel decides where the overlay is drawn, not where its numbers come from. Something on your race PC has to read iRacing — GridCast Lite does this on its own, or the Broadcaster app if you're running a full broadcast.

With no data source, driver-aid widgets show a demo with an amber DEMO tag. That's handy for positioning panels before a session.

Two separate paths:

• League and channel information — drivers, standings, sponsors, logos, colours — comes straight from GridCast over the internet. Nothing needs to run on your PC.
• Live timing and telemetry — positions, gaps, lap times, flags, pit road — has to be read out of iRacing by GridCast software on the race PC: GridCast Lite or the Broadcaster app.

Overlays find the data on their own. They connect directly when they're on the same PC, and through GridCast's cloud relay when they're on another machine.

GridCast Lite. It reads iRacing on your PC and powers three outputs:

• On Screen widgets that float over the game
• a Streaming link for OBS or Streamlabs
• an In VR link for OpenKneeboard

You don't need the Broadcaster app for your own stream. See Software & Downloads.

On the PC running iRacing, run the GridCast Broadcaster app. It reads the race, feeds your overlays, and is your control surface during the show:

• scenes and paging through standings
• replays and flags
• showing and hiding graphics
• the telestrator, spotter guide, live telemetry, and the director room

When it opens, the Broadcaster needs two things: broadcast access on your account, and at least one published overlay on your channel. See Software & Downloads.

Yes. Run the Broadcaster on the iRacing PC, and your overlay links work on any other machine — they pick up the race through GridCast's cloud relay automatically.

To run the Broadcaster itself on a different PC from iRacing, use GridCast Sim Link:

1. On the sim PC, open Sim Link and click Turn on. It shows an address and a pairing key.
2. In the Broadcaster, go to the GridCast menu → Keybinds & integrations → Where iRacing runs → Another PC (Sim Link).
3. Paste the address and key, then click Connect.

Both PCs need to be on the same network. The pairing key changes each time Sim Link is turned off and on.

Crew sign into the Broadcaster app and choose Join a production — pick a producer's session from the list, or Join by code. Joining connects you to the production's comms room and feed.

Two switches in the sidebar:

• Camera Link — follow the producer's camera
• Data Link — use the producer's live data instead of your own iRacing

Crew still need beta access to download the Broadcaster.

In Live Telemetry, commentators and the producer click 📘 Booth to open a panel beside the timing:

• Script — your channel's show script, as formatted text with a button for each segment, a search, and a Prompter mode that scrolls on its own. The sponsor reads your producer picked show up in the script, and you can tick each one off once you've read it. Producers upload the script (.docx or PDF) and pick the reads under Channel Admin → Booth Script; type [AD READ] on its own line where a read goes. Placeholders such as {Race Winner}, {Track Name}, {Lead Name}, {Color Name} and {Producer Name} fill themselves in. The names come from the producer's session (pick who is Lead and who is Color at the top of the Script tab), and the winner appears at the checkered flag. A read uses the sponsor's own Ad read (set on the sponsor's profile) unless the producer writes their own wording.
• Trivia — facts about the track and the drivers, all from GridCast's records: track details and real-world lap records, who has won here, each driver's record at this track, their form, career, upcoming milestones and fun facts, and the championship picture. Live facts update as the race unfolds, such as a driver leading for a first career win. Tap a fact once you've used it.
• Rules — the league's rulebook for the round on air, with any "this round only" rules at the top. Uploaded PDF rulebooks are shown as formatted text. Press / to search.
• Schedule — the season round by round, with past winners, playoff races, and the next race.

Beside it, 📣 AD Read opens the sponsor sheet in its own window, so you can put it on a second monitor. The race sponsor and its read sit at the top, then every league sponsor with its ad read and what it sponsors. Tap Read to count each read. League admins set a round's race sponsor under Schedule → Edit Race Event → Race Sponsor.

The Booth keeps a copy on your PC, so it still opens if your internet drops mid-show. Grid Order shows the starting grid from qualifying as driver cards.

Yes. Turn on Replay mode from the GridCast menu in the Broadcaster. LIVE then returns you to where you left the race, rather than jumping to the end of the replay file.

Crew watching the same replay follow the producer's position, pauses, and speed. Replay mode switches off each time the app restarts.

Yes — use the GridCast menu → Keybinds & integrations. Key binds work even while iRacing has focus. Function keys and the numpad work on their own; letters need a modifier.

• OBS — connect through obs-websocket (default 127.0.0.1:4455, with your password).
• Meld Studio — turn on its WebSocket server under Settings → Advanced (port 13376).

Binds and board buttons can switch scenes and show or hide sources. Meld can only show or hide layers, not move them.

Yes — that's how most building happens. The editor has two preview modes:

• Edit Mode — every field shows its own name ("First Name", "Car #", "Points"), so you can see what each element is bound to.
• Live Data — fills the canvas with your league's real drivers, car numbers, number art, and standings, with simulated timing on top until a real feed arrives.

Data no database can supply, such as weather or stream alerts, uses sample values. On air, an overlay shows only what the live feed says, apart from the amber DEMO tag on driver-aid widgets when nothing is connected.

• GridCast Launcher — installs, updates, and opens the other apps. Download it from Download in the navigation.
• GridCast Lite — widgets over iRacing, a streaming link for OBS, and a VR link. Ideal for drivers and streamers.
• GridCast Broadcaster — the control panel for a full broadcast. Beta access.
• GridCast Sim Link — sends iRacing data from your sim PC to a Broadcaster on another PC on the same network. Beta access.

Everything on the website, including the whole overlay editor, runs in your browser and needs no download.

• Launcher and Lite — anyone with a GridCast account
• Broadcaster and Sim Link — beta testers and accounts given access

To get beta access, apply on the homepage or ask in Discord. Being on a channel's staff doesn't include the download by itself.

The Launcher only lists the apps your account can use. There are no licence keys.

No — all GridCast apps are Windows only, like iRacing itself. Everything on the website, including the overlay editor, works in any modern browser on any computer.

1. Download the GridCast Launcher and sign in with its Sign In button, which opens your browser.
2. Click Install on the apps you want.
3. When a new version is out, an Update button appears. Check for updates refreshes the list.

The apps don't update themselves — updates come through the Launcher. Each app signs in on its own the first time you open it.

Leave Remember me ticked on the browser sign-in page those apps open. Without it the apps can't stay signed in and refuse the sign-in. Try again with it ticked.

It checks two things when it opens:

• "Get on the air" — your account doesn't have broadcast access yet. You need a broadcast channel, or a role on a channel's team.
• Waiting for an overlay — your channel hasn't published an overlay yet. Saving isn't enough; click Publish in the overlay editor. Commentators need their producer or channel owner to publish.

A free, always-on TV dial of sim racing broadcasts at tv.gridcast.gg. Each channel is a partner broadcaster.

Live shows air automatically. Between them, each channel runs past broadcasts and scheduled programming, in sync, so every viewer sees the same thing. GridCast's own channels include the TV Guide and Grid Guesser, a trivia game played in chat.

Grid Guesser is GridCast TV's motorsport trivia channel. A new question goes up every 55 seconds: you get 40 seconds to answer, then the board shows the right answer and who scored what that round.

To answer, tap an option on the screen or type A, B, C or D in the lobby chat. From any other channel, type !g B. Your first answer is the one that counts. Right answers score more the faster they come in, and harder questions are worth more.

Admins sometimes run a 15-question game. The player with the most points across those 15 questions wins the Grid Guesser Champion emblem on their GridCast profile.

No — watching is always free with no account. After a few minutes, signed-out viewers see a Please Stand By card. Click Keep Watching to carry on.

Signing in unlocks chat and Grid Guesser scoring, and uses the same account as gridcast.gg.

Keyboard controls:

• ↑ / ↓ — change channel
• ← / → — volume
• 0–9 — tune to a channel number
• G — guide
• M — mute
• F — fullscreen
• C — chat

Every video has a Watch on YouTube link, and full listings are at TV Guide.

Yes. Shows play through YouTube's official player, so views and ad revenue go to the channel that made them, exactly as on YouTube.

Approved broadcast channels can be listed with the TV Listing add-on. Ask in Discord to get set up.

Once you're listed, program your channel from the GridCast TV tab in your channel admin: playlists, a weekly schedule, and break clips.

GridCast's bot for Discord and stream chat. It can:

• look up drivers and stats, league standings, and head-to-heads
• run a play-money points game with race odds and bets
• host Grid Guesser trivia
• handle league race-day posts, RSVPs, and stewarding rulings
• manage membership roles and support tickets

League owners use Settings → Discord Bot, and channel owners use the Discord tab in channel admin. Click Add Griddy to Discord, choose your server in Discord, then come back and click Connect next to the server Griddy just joined.

All of Griddy's settings live on the website, not in Discord. Once Griddy is in your server, you choose its results, announcements and broadcast links channels from a list. The list only shows channels Griddy has permission to post in.

Yes. In your league's Settings → Race Night, tick Post the broadcast links before every race. Griddy then posts once per round, 24 hours before the green by default. You can choose anywhere from 1 to 168 hours. Each post has:

• the GridCast TV link that tunes straight to the channel showing your race
• the YouTube link for the broadcast
• the start time in each reader's own time zone, plus practice and qualifying
• anything special about the round: playoffs, double points, exhibitions
• the top five in the championship, and links to your race page, standings and rulebook
• your own notes, such as the server name and password

The post goes to the Broadcast links channel chosen on the Discord Bot tab. If you haven't chosen one, Griddy posts in a channel called #broadcast-links, or in your announcements channel if there isn't one. Schedule your streams in Stream Manager before the post goes up, so the YouTube link is in it.

• Drivers and stats — /driver, /stats, /profile, /compare, /leaderboard, /top
• Leagues — /standings, /leagues
• Points game — /points, /give, /odds, /bet, /mybets, /guess
• Your account — /link, /unlink, /connect, /myaccount
• Help — /griddy, /report

No. Points are play money for fun: they can't be bought, sold, or cashed out, and betting on race odds isn't gambling.

Balances are kept separately per platform, so your Discord and Twitch points are separate wallets.

Yes. In Settings → Discord Bot (or the Discord tab in channel admin), set Points betting to Disabled and save. Within a minute Griddy stops posting odds, bets opening and closing, and the daily points top-up in your server, and /bet and /odds reply that betting is off. Everything else Griddy does keeps working.

In the profile wizard's last step, click Connect with Discord. Or run /connect in the GridCast Discord and enter the code it gives you.

Linking syncs your member role, and lets Griddy show your stats and send you post-race recaps.

Griddy for Discord is part of the League, Organization, and Broadcaster plans. During the beta it's free for everyone.

The Marketplace has two sides:

• Services — custom liveries, team packages, and design work from the community
• Overlay Themes — free overlay themes shared by channels

My Orders and Studio tabs handle buying and selling. Paid services show Checkout coming soon — ordering opens soon, and payment will be held by GridCast until you accept the delivery.

Go to Become a painter, or use the user menu → Create → Painter Page. Your page lives at /painter/<name> and appears in the Painters directory.

You can offer paints as free downloads (zip or tga, up to 100 MB) that anyone can grab without signing in.

Talent is a free directory of broadcast crew — commentators, producers, and more — plus jobs that channels post and you can apply to.

Credits come from real channel crew rosters, so they can't simply be self-declared.

Power rankings score drivers across the 10 most recently finished races on GridCast, pooled across all active leagues rather than per league.

The score out of 100 blends six things:

• Average finish (20%)
• Win rate (20%)
• iRating (20%)
• Consistency — top-10 rate (15%)
• Recent form — newer races count more (15%)
• Podium rate (10%)

Drivers with fewer than three races in the window have their win score reduced, so one lucky win doesn't top the chart. Drivers with no iRating on record aren't penalised — the other five factors are rebalanced.

Most likely you haven't raced in the 10 most recent finished races. That window is shared across every active league, so a busy league can fill it and leave quieter leagues out for a while.

It can also mean your results aren't linked to your account — see Accounts & Sign-In.

Automatically. Rankings recalculate a few minutes after new race results finish arriving — a big import counts as one update, so they don't churn while results are still landing. The full list is at Power Rankings, and the top 20 run across the Community page.

No — they answer different questions.

Standings are the official championship: points earned in one league season under that league's rules. Power rankings measure who's driving well right now across all of GridCast, ignoring championship points.

A driver can lead a championship and rank modestly, or rank highly while sitting mid-table.

Anything that needs your attention:

• Team join requests — for team managers, with Accept and Decline
• League join requests — for league admins, with a link to the Recruitment tab
• Your own requests — when a league or team answers you
• Broadcaster claims — when a channel asks to broadcast your league, with Accept and Decline
• Talent applications
• Site updates — short notes from the GridCast team about what's changed

Notifications shows your recent notifications on one page.

Click the × on it. Requests and claims clear on their own once you accept or decline them. There's no mark-all-as-read yet.

The bell loads when a page loads and doesn't check again while you stay on that page. Refresh to pick up anything new.

Only about your account and purchases:

• verification, password resets, and email changes
• iRacing linking
• beta invites and welcome messages
• receipts

Notifications themselves stay in the app — there are no notification emails or digests. With Discord linked, Griddy may also send you post-race recaps.

Community is the platform-wide view:

• Stats — leagues, drivers, races run, laps, and incidents
• Power Rankings — the current top 20
• Headlines — the latest news from every league
• This Week — upcoming races and events for the next 7 days (US Eastern time), with the TV channel for televised races
• Standings — the top 10 of each league
• Stat Leaders — sortable by races, wins, podiums, top 5s, top 10s, laps led, and average finish
• Recent Results and Painters

Finish at least three races. Drivers are then ranked by wins and points, counted all-time across every league rather than a single season.

Updates has announcements from the GridCast team. Short "here's what changed" notes also appear in your notification bell. The biggest news goes out in our Discord.

One-off competitions — invitationals, endurance races, special events — listed at Events. Organizations, leagues, and channels can host one from the user menu → Create → Event.

Entering needs a verified email and a linked iRacing ID. Paid entry isn't open yet.

Almost always, your account isn't linked to your iRacing customer ID. That link connects you to your results, standings, and profile.

Sign in with Continue with iRacing, or use Link my iRacing account in Account Settings. If it says the ID is already linked elsewhere, ask in Discord and we'll merge the records.

If your account is linked but one race is missing, that race may not have been imported yet — check with your league admin.

Your profile lives at your iRacing customer ID, so without one linked, the link has nothing to point to. Link your iRacing account (see above), or open the profile wizard at /onboarding directly.

Overlay links include a private key. A link copied before August 2026, or one whose key has since been changed, stops working. Copy a fresh link from the overlay editor's Browser Source Links and paste it into the source again.

In the GridCast Discord, use the #bug-reports panel, or /report with Griddy. Your report becomes a ticket, and you're notified in its thread when the status changes.

If you hit a broken link or a missing page, a quick report genuinely helps.

Most page content is managed by whoever runs that league or channel, so start with them. League admins control standings, schedules, results, news, and sponsors, and channel admins control branding, socials, and shows.

If it looks like a platform problem rather than stale content, tell us in Discord.

No — it's in active beta, and some parts are further along than others. This help centre aims to be honest about which is which, rather than describing features that aren't there yet.

If something here is wrong or out of date, say so in Discord and it'll get fixed.