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New game — Pick a team or create your own with its colours and livery

Headquarters — The headquarters: your base between races

Qualifying — Knockout qualifying: Q1, Q2 and Q3

2D race — Live races with a top-down 2D view

Race strategy — Real-time orders: pace, engine, pit stops and strategy

Career record: your numbers as team principal, season by season

Achievements — 25 achievements to unlock, across all your saves

Market with search, filters and a profile for every driver

Contract negotiation — Negotiate salary, length and signing bonus with the agents

The game

You are the new team principal. The board has set you a target, the budget is what it is and the championship starts in two weeks.

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Run your own team

Three categories with promotion and relegation: only the champion goes up and the last team goes down.
Pick one of the teams or create your own with its name, colours and livery.
Meet the board's targets or you'll be fired.

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A living world

30 teams, 60 drivers and 23 circuits.
Drivers with their own personality and morale.
Rule changes every four seasons.

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The race weekend, minute by minute

Pre-season testing and free practice with car setup: wings, suspension, gearing and brake balance.
Knockout qualifying (Q1, Q2 and Q3) with live sector times.
You decide when they go out, how many laps they do and how much risk they take.

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Live races: 2D or 3D

Top-down 2D view or 3D camera, as you prefer.
Real-time orders: pace, engine mode, pit stops, strategy and team orders.
Pause, speed settings and zoom.

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Anything can happen on track

Rain and wet tyres.
Safety car and virtual safety car.
Contact, damage and failures.

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The factory: R&D and facilities

Small, medium or large R&D projects, each with its own focus.
From mid-season, work on next year's car.
Six facilities: factory, wind tunnel, simulator, pit crew training centre, test bench and hospitality.

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Engines, market and academy

Four engine manufacturers with their own philosophy, one- to three-year contracts or your own engine factory.
Driver and staff market with release clauses.
Young driver academy.

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Sponsors, finances and the board

Sponsors with performance bonuses and a budget cap in the top category.
Board targets, sackings, job offers and your reputation.
Press conferences and three difficulty levels.

System requirements & installation

Everything is played with the mouse. No installer and no internet connection.

Requirements

Minimum

64-bit Windows 10 or 11
Graphics card with DirectX 12, Vulkan or OpenGL 3.3 (older ones in compatibility mode)
4 GB RAM
300 MB free disk space

How to install

Download the file from the button above (it comes compressed as a .zip).
Extract it wherever you like.
Open PaddockChief.exe. No installation needed.

Saved games are stored in %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\Paddock Chief\saves.

Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" because the game is not digitally signed. Click "More info" and then "Run anyway".

Languages & controls

Languages

English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Simplified Chinese.

Controls

Everything is played with the mouse.
Space: pause / resume · 1-4: speed.
Wheel: zoom · Drag: move the camera.
Click a car: follow it · Double-click: full view.
C: change camera (3D view).

What's new

Release notes for every version.

Paddock Chief