Name: Kraków Sim Racing League — Round 0
Start: 2026-08-27T19:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-27T23:00+02:00
Location: SimRacingDream, Kraków

27 Aug 2026 · Kraków, PL · ul. Prochowa 13 · 19:00 · Round 0

Kraków Sim Racing League — Round 0

What the round was. The opening test round of the Kraków Sim Racing League (Krakowska Liga Simracingowa), run at SimRacingDream on 27 August 2026 before the season proper, which runs from September 2026 to January 2027 alongside the venue's Multi Hotlap Challenge. Fourteen drivers turned up and were split into two groups of seven. Assetto Corsa, Mercedes DTM, Hockenheimring.

A league night is not one long session. The league format stacks short ones: a 15-minute pre-qualifying to seed the groups, then a heat of qualifying plus two ten-minute races — the second on a reversed top ten — and then the field swaps simulators and does the whole thing again. Every driver is drawn onto a different rig, so every rig has to be identical and every rig has to go into the same session at the same moment.

What RaceControl did. Every rig was launched into the shared session from one screen, each time, for every session of the night. Drivers signed themselves in at the rig on the kiosk screen, so nobody had to walk the row typing names between heats. The organiser ran the league; the software did the standing up and sitting down.

Wide view of the SimRacingDream room with the row of simulators occupied by league drivers under pink and blue lighting — The room on league night

A driver's hands on the wheel of a simulator, the track on the screens ahead — Mercedes DTM at Hockenheim

A league driver at the wheel of a simulator, seen from the side during a race — Ten minutes, flat out

A driver concentrating at the wheel, lit blue by the simulator screens — Qualifying: one out lap, three timed

A triple-screen simulator rig between sessions, the track loaded and waiting — A rig between heats, already loaded

A simulator rig lit red, screens showing the race in progress — Reversed top ten, race two

A driver in headphones at the wheel during a league race — Headphones on, group one

The row of simulators lit for the league, drivers seated and racing — Simulators are drawn at random each heat

Venue and league: SimRacingDream, Kraków · Software: RaceControl

RaceControl and SimRacingDream are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Group AG or the operators of the Hockenheimring. The car and track named above are trademarks of their respective owners, referred to here solely to describe factually the content used at an event at which RaceControl was operated.

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HOW A LEAGUE NIGHT IS BUILT

Seven sessions,
and the rigs change hands
halfway through.

The league's own rulebook decides the shape of the evening. Read it as a list of things the software has to survive, and it looks like this.

01 — PRE-QUALIFYING

One 15-minute session seeds the groups

Everyone runs together, then the field is cut fastest to slowest into group one and group two.

02 — HEAT

Draw a rig, qualify, race twice

A simulator is drawn for each driver. Qualifying is one out lap and three timed, eight minutes maximum. Then a ten-minute race, then a second ten-minute race with the top ten reversed.

03 — SWAP, THEN AGAIN

Two up, two down, new rigs

Points from both races decide promotion and relegation between the groups, the simulators are redrawn, and the whole heat runs a second time.

Points are scored per race and per round; each driver's worst round is dropped from the season total. Track limits are policed by the in-game app — five warnings, then a five-second penalty — and the pit limiter is watched at 80 km/h.

WHAT A LEAGUE NIGHT NEEDS FROM THE SOFTWARE

Four problems a single session never has

One customer in one seat for one hour is easy. A league is the same room doing it seven times in an evening, with the drivers moving between the machines.

Drivers sign themselves in

The kiosk on each rig takes the driver's name at the rig itself. Nobody walks the row with a laptop typing fourteen names in before every session.

customers

Every rig into one session, at once

The whole row is launched into the same server from a single screen, so a heat starts when the organiser says so rather than when the last machine finishes loading.

launch

Interchangeable rigs

Drivers are drawn onto a different simulator each heat, so car, track and settings have to be pushed to every machine from one place — not set up rig by rig.

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Turn the room around, repeatedly

Pre-qualifying, two qualifyings and four races in one evening. Every one of them is the same sequence of standing the room up and sitting it back down again.

sessions

See the full feature list

Fourteen drivers.
Two groups.
Seven sessions.

Kraków Sim Racing League — Round 0