RACE DDU · THE BRAKING ALERT
A tiny base bar — five LEDs counting down to your braking point, plus the Push & Lift button — that you can leave exactly like that, or dock up to 4 resizable panels around it for speed, fuel, gaps, weather and more.
One .exe, no installer · for iRacing on Windows
WHY RACE DDU EXISTS
Most overlays drag in image libraries and background services just to draw a few numbers — weight you pay for every lap, on every car.
RACE DDU is standard Python + tkinter only — not even Pillow. The carbon-fibre housing and the logo are hand-drawn without an image library. It starts in a blink and stays out of your frame time.
Full dashboards are great until you only need one thing and the rest is clutter between you and the track.
It starts as a base bar you can shrink to almost nothing: 5 LEDs counting down 3 · 2 · 1 · BRAKE and the Push & Lift button that lights up with your inputs. Dock a panel only the day you actually want one.
Most desktop tools assume a monitor. Getting them to behave in a headset usually means extra software and extra failure points.
--vr mode gives it a real window border made for OpenKneeboard and
similar mirroring tools — pin it once, and every lap after that you just glance
at it. No re-setup, no weird workarounds.
DOCKABLE PANEL CATALOGUE
SPEED, GEAR, RPM, pedals, FUEL, DELTA, position, GAPS, flags, weather — plus the predictions: Brake Alert, reference-lap delta and estimated iR/SR gain. Load a reference from a Garage 61 CSV, record one live, or use the built-in demo.
PRICING
The braking alert, plus dockable panels.
Founding price — the first 1000 accounts get lifetime access at these prices. After that we switch to subscription-only, at a higher price.
Want all three DDUs? See SUIT ALL — RACE, COACH and ADVANCE under one licence.
questions? see the FAQ · our Discord