App AI-based Virtual Race Engineer incl. automated Pitstop Handling

Release 7.0.1

The Release of this week is focused on the Driving Coach:

- Several bugs has been fixed.
- Available reference laps from the community can now be loaded automatically and must not be assigned manually by name.
- A lot of new analytical data for the corner performance if provided to the LLM, thereby enabling high end models like GPT 5.5 to come up with even more useful instructions.

Here is a short example with a coaching session using GPT 5.5 (coaching starts around minute 4:00):



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Release 7.1.0

- Support for a new language arrived this week. Russian can now be used for the UI and of course also to communicate with the Assistants.
- And timings for invalid laps are now grayed out in lap lists in "Solo Center" and "Team Center".
- Lastly, some important bug fixes are also included.

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Release 7.1.1

Two major additions this week:

• Suspension related issues like bottoming out or swaying can now be handled by the "Setup Workbench".
• The 2026 DLC for F1 25 is now fully supported and the UDP connection can use either protocol version.

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Release 7.1.2

This one is all about running large language models locally on your machine. The local LLM Runtime, which can be installed from a DLC, has been rewritten and now supports tool/function calling, which is required to run custom actions by the Assistants. Performance has been improved as well.

Beside that a new function allows you to modify the text returned by an LLM, for example, to remove unwanted test decorations generated by smaller LLMs, which will increase immersion.

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Release 7.1.3

Today we introduce automatic detection of bottom out events in the "Setup Workbench".



The function is still under development, not yet tested and calibrated for all simulators, but already working quite well for LMU, ACC, AC and rF2. More is to come with the next release.

The same handling and suspension information is also available to the Driving Coach. See the attached conversation transcript for an example of a discussion with the Coach about handling problems.

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Release 7.1.5

Next step in bringing the "Setup Workbench" to the next level. You now have an inspector for suspension dynamics:



But all this is only the preparation for the big new feature which will be released in a week with the 7.2

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Release 7.2

I am proud to present a new milestone in our ongoing journey. Today we release a new AI Assistant, the Setup Engineer as part of the "Setup Workbench" tool. The "Setup Workbench", which has been around for several years now, has been using an old-school expert system architecture with an integrated rule engine to derive setup changes from detected handling issues. But the with the Setup Engineer a new level of detail is possible. The Setup Engineer will analyze your telemetry data and will come up with a detailed assessment of your car setup as sometimes also your driving technique. The result is presented in a detailed report. Here is an example:

http://simulator-controller.selfhost.co/Attachments/Telemetry Analysis.html

Once the analysis has been created the Setup Engineer can also be asked to apply any recommended setup changes automatically to a loaded setup which then can be saved for your next run. All this is demonstrated in this short video:



Beside this groundbreaking new feeature, there also some other additions and fixes, so don't miss to read the Release Notes.

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Release 7.2.2

The Driving Coach can help you now to keep your motivation and focus during a race. See this short video for an example (sorry for the audio, somehow the microphone had a problem):



Beside that, we have support for many new cars of Automobilista 2 in the "Setup Workbench" and the meta data for several cars of Le Mans Ultimate have been fixed.

Lastly, a new speech synthesis engine name "Piper" has been added, which runs locally and is in widespread use in home automation installations.

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Release 7.2.3

The release this week is all about the "Setup Workbench". Beside some very useful workflow optimizations, the "Setup Workbench" can now read, manipulate and write setup files of *Assetto Corsa EVO*. Even full AI-based creation of setups is supported.



To check out what the "Setup Workbench" can do for you, take a look at the documentation:

https://github.com/SeriousOldMan/Simulator-Controller/wiki/Setup-Workbench

And we found a clever optimization in the rule engine for some very special rules in the position and gap calculations. This increases those rule sets by factor 10, now making a full AI round trip for all four Assistants possible in lesse than a second. This will give you even more accurate and in-time alerts and information than before.

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Release 7.2.4

Lots of new game data this week All track names have been updated by @inthebagbud UK for Automobilista 2 and RaceRoom Racing Experience. And we have a bunch of new cars of Assetto Corsa EVO for the "Setup Workbench".

Lastly it is now possible to define multiple sets of units (for example "Metric", "Imperial" and so on) to be used while using different simulators.

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Release 7.2.5

Second release in a row with lot's of new stuff for the "Setup Workbench".

- Many new cars are supported for Assetto Corsa EVO, most notably the GT4 cars. With this, all GT race cars are now available for the "Setup Workbench".
- All cars of RaceRoom Racing Experience are now visible in the "Setup Workbench", even if those cars have never been driven yet.
- A new option in the Setup Editor of the "Setup Workbench" allows you to restrict the number of setting increments when applying recommendations to a setup file.

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Release 7.2.6

We have some important improvements for the telemetry subsystem this week. Also included are another bunch of car definitions of Assetto Corsa EVO for the "Setup Workbench" and a couple of importatn bug fixes. See the Release Notes for more information.

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