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How to get your laps on the boards, and why one occasionally does not count.

Getting on the leaderboard

Sit down at a rig and scan the QR code on its screen with your phone. Sign in, or make an account right there, and the rig is yours. Every lap you drive from then on lands on the leaderboard as you finish it, with no refreshing and nothing to press.

You stay signed in until you tap "I'm done", staff sign you out, or someone else scans that rig. Nobody gets logged out silently in the middle of a session.

Driving at home

Your own PC can put laps on the same boards. Install the agent, sign in once from the code it shows you, and it stays connected: every lap counts from then on with nothing to scan.

Get the rig agent for Windows

Home laps are badged as such. You can disconnect a PC any time from your settings.

Why a lap might not count

iRacing does not mark laps valid or invalid, so we work it out from the telemetry. A lap is set aside when any of these happened on it:

• Off track. All four wheels off the racing surface.
• An incident. Contact or a spin that iRacing counted against you.
• Pit road. In or out laps are not flying laps.
• A reset or tow. Anything that put the car back on track for you.
• A gap in the data. The sim stuttered or the recording broke mid-lap.

The lap is still saved and you can still look at its telemetry. It just does not take a leaderboard spot. Every lap also stores the conditions it was set in, which is what keeps a cool morning lap and a hot afternoon lap honest about each other.

Weekly and monthly competitions

A competition is one track and car over one window of time. Your best valid lap inside that window is the one that scores. Some competitions also pin a condition band, for example a track temperature range, so that everyone is chasing a comparable time rather than whoever happened to drive on the best surface.

Each competition says on its own page whether home laps count. Open one from Competitions and the rules card spells out the combo, the window, the conditions, and where laps may be set.

Classes and records

Bronze, Silver and Gold are lap-time bars per track and car. Clearing a bar earns that class on that combo, and holding it on enough different combos earns it as your overall tag, so one hot lap does not make you Gold. Hall of Fame keeps the outright track records.

Your account

Settings holds your display name, photo, units, and the PCs you have connected. Date of birth and gender are optional there, and are only ever used to offer the women's and age-group leaderboard filters. They are never shown on your profile.