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Five simulators lined up under neon tubes at the Gdańsk festival stand, each screen showing the RaceControl idle display
ON THE ROAD

RaceControl on the floor
at real events.

Simulators outside the venue are a different job. The queue never stops, there is no gap to walk over and touch a rig between drivers, and the stand has to look effortless for ten hours straight.

5Simulators
~300Drivers served
10 hContinuous
1Operator, one screen
01 Aug 2026 · Gdańsk, PL · ul. Elektryków · 10:00–20:00

BMW M Festival 2026 — Gdańsk

What the event was. An open-air festival organised by BMW Group Polska on ul. Elektryków in Gdańsk on 1 August 2026, from 10:00 to 20:00, marking 40 years of the BMW M3 with all six generations on display. The published attraction line-up ran from test drives and a fashion show to skate and parkour demonstrations, panel talks, a live concert — and racing simulators.

The racing simulators were ours. SimRacingDream brought five rigs up from Kraków. RaceControl ran all five from a single screen for the whole ten hours — one operator, nearly 300 drivers through the seats, and not one walk-to-the-machine moment in the middle of a queue.

A simulator seat and wheel in front of an ultrawide screen showing the RaceControl idle display
Idle rig — the RaceControl screen every driver walks up to
A laptop on the stand running the RaceControl operator dashboard, ready to join five rigs to one server
The whole stand, run from one laptop
A driver's hands on the wheel with the track and timing on screen
Session running, countdown on screen
Wide view of the industrial hall with the row of simulators lit by neon tubes
Five seats, one row, one operator
Visitors seated at the simulators, seen from behind, racing at the same time
All five seats full, same car, same track
Close view of a rig screen showing the RaceControl branded idle message
The idle screen doubles as the stand's signage
Visitors gathered around the stand watching the simulators, seen from behind
The queue that never really stopped
A driver mid-session with the racing view filling the ultrawide screen
Ten hours, back to back
Two adjacent simulators in use, both screens showing a live session
Launched together, timed together
The row of simulators from the far end of the hall
The stand from the far end

Simulators: SimRacingDream, Kraków · Software: RaceControl

RaceControl and SimRacingDream are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by BMW AG or BMW Group Polska. "BMW", "M" and the model designations referred to above are trademarks of their respective owners, used here solely to describe factually an event at which RaceControl was operated.

THROUGHPUT

127% more drivers
than the same seats
without fleet software.

A stand is a throughput problem. Five simulators is five simulators — what decides how many people get to drive is how fast a seat turns over.

Five simulators run from RaceControl
286
Five simulators without fleet software
126
57Drivers per seat
~10 minAverage seat turnover
+127%Drivers, same hardware count

Measured over a single ten-hour day, five seats either way. The difference is where the time goes: registration happens at the kiosk while the previous session is still running, the next car and track go to all five seats at once, and the countdown ends the session without anyone having to walk over and ask.

WHAT A FESTIVAL STAND ACTUALLY NEEDS

Four problems a venue never has

A sim centre has a desk, a booking and a customer who came for an hour. A festival stand has none of those. These are the parts of RaceControl that exist because of days like this.

A queue that never stops

The kiosk flips to Event mode: first and last name only, consent shown on screen instead of two checkboxes, and every signup stamped with the event name so it lands in its own tab in the driver picker.

customers

Same car on every seat

One car and one track pushed to all five rigs, started together. Nobody sets up a machine between drivers and no seat is running something different.

launch

A fixed session, no argument

Sessions are sold by minutes or by laps. The countdown is on the driver's own screen — an overlay on top of the game and a badge inside it — so time is up when the screen says it is, not when staff say so.

sessions

Nothing to reset

Per-rig tiles show who is driving and how long is left, and CPU, RAM and disk per machine, so a struggling rig is visible from the laptop instead of from the seat.

fleet
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×Idle rig showing the RaceControl display, full size
×The operator laptop running RaceControl, full size
×Hands on the wheel mid-session, full size
×Wide view of the hall and the row of simulators, full size
×Visitors racing at the simulators, full size
×Rig screen close-up, full size
×Visitors around the stand, full size
×Driver mid-session, full size
×Two adjacent simulators in use, full size
×The simulator row from the far end, full size