mental apex racing - get faster, faster | iRacing post-race coaching

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Get Faster, Faster.

The drivers who improve fastest are the ones who reflect on their races. mental apex racing is a complete post-race debrief system for iRacing that gives you a coach and the tools to learn from every session.

Your coach captures incidents, overtakes and lap times automatically from iRacing, so you can reflect on what happened and turn every race into real progress.

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Auto-Capture

Telemetry, incidents, overtakes recorded while you race

Easy Review

Directly jump to key moments in your replay. Your coach is ready to talk through it.

Coach Memory

Patterns and insights tracked across your sessions

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Simple Workflow

How Your Coach Works

Race with iRacing

Windows app connects to iRacing and telemetry files to capture race events as they happen.

Your Coach Watches Everything

Your coach identifies critical moments such as incidents, overtakes and best laps to organize them on a racing timeline.

Chat With Your Coach After The Race

Process what happened, spot patterns you couldn't see in the moment, and build your plan for next time. Your post-race debrief, ready when you are.

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Ready When You Are

Your Race, Ready to Review

The app captures telemetry automatically while you race, detecting incidents, position changes and more. Your coach already has the full context, so you spend time learning, not explaining.

Coach Just now

P7 from P12 at Road America. Nice climb through the field! I noticed a 4x on lap 3, and your times dropped a bit after that. How were you feeling in those laps?

You Just now

Honestly, I was frustrated after the contact and started overdriving trying to get the position back.

Coach Just now

That frustration-to-overdriving spiral is real. Let's break it down so you can get back to racing your race. Walk me through the moment right after the contact. What was going through your head?

Your Race, Already Organized

Automatic timeline with every critical moment: incidents, overtakes, fastest laps and more. See what matters most at a glance.

Race Timeline showing incidents, overtakes, and key moments

Patterns Across Your Racing Career

Your coach tracks your mental game across races to surface insights: "You tense up under pressure", "You perform better when focused on process", "Race start anxiety affects your first 3 laps". The patterns that are hard to see when you're in the moment become your personalized performance roadmap.

Mental performance insights and patterns

Jump to Key Moments

Click any timestamp to jump your replay to that exact moment. Spot patterns across races you'd never notice otherwise.

Click timestamps to jump directly to key moments in your iRacing replay

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Proven at the Highest Level

The Mental Game Matters at Every Level of Racing

How do F1 drivers develop their mental game? Through structured post-race debriefs. mental apex racing brings this professional approach to iRacing.

Mercedes, McLaren, and Red Bull all have dedicated sports psychologists. Nico Rosberg used mental coaching and meditation to beat Lewis Hamilton in 2016. Alain Prost called psychology "maybe bigger than the car itself."

Why? Because the mental game determines who executes under pressure. You face the same challenges: anxiety before race starts, frustration after contact, overthinking during close battles. The stakes are different. The skills are the same.

Who's Behind This

Built by a Racer Who Needs to Make Every Race Count

I'm a solo dev with a full-time job and a family. I love iRacing, but I get maybe 2-3 races in a week if I'm lucky so I need to make them count. I recently started open-wheel racing the FF1600.

Reflection helped me improve, so I tried using ChatGPT as a coach. But it was missing all the context. I had to explain every race from scratch, and it kept losing track of my goals across sessions.

So I built the coach I wanted. One that already knows what happened, helps me process it, and remembers coaching goals and patterns across races. This is a passion project I built because I needed it, and I think you might too.

Pricing

Free During Beta

Completely free while I'm building with beta testers.

After Beta

$15 /month

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FAQ

Questions You Might Have

Why not just use ChatGPT?

With ChatGPT, you spend time explaining instead of learning. Your coach knows you lost P3 at turn 7, had contact on lap 4, and ran your best sector times in the final stint. With ChatGPT, you get generic advice because it doesn't know what actually happened. And it forgets everything between sessions, so you can't spot patterns across your races or build on previous conversations. Your coach here captures your race, helps you process what happened, and remembers your coaching journey so every debrief builds on the last.

Does this replace Garage61 or VRS?

No, and it's not trying to. Those tools show you lap analysis, racing lines, and where you're losing time. mental apex is about the mental game: managing anxiety, processing frustration, building consistency. Complete performance needs both sides. Use Garage61 to find where you're slow, use this to actually execute under pressure.

Is my iRacing login safe?

Yes, you log in directly through iRacing's official authentication system (OAuth), so your password never touches our servers. This is the same "Sign in with..." pattern you see with Google or Steam. iRacing has to approve apps before they can use this login method, which is why we're listed as an official integration.

Can I try it before paying?

Beta is completely free. I'm not charging until I'm confident it's genuinely useful and high-quality. Join the waitlist and you'll get access as I expand testing.

How does this work?

A Windows app connects to iRacing and captures telemetry while you race. Since mental apex racing is registered with iRacing, you log in with your iRacing account and don't need a separate account.