Turn your iRacing races into a racing career.
Grid to Podium is a career mode for iRacing. Sign with teams, race full seasons, earn prize money and work your way from a Rookie licence to Platinum. Each season exports to iRacing as an AI season and roster, and every result you bring back counts.
Get a place on the grid
- series
- 42
- cars
- 45
- tracks
- 114
- teams
- 56
What a career looks like
Teams come to you
Your manager forwards team invitations to your inbox. Accept one to sign a season-long contract, with your salary paid when the season ends.
Once your reputation is high enough you can ask a team for an offer yourself. At Gold and Platinum, teams from other regions start calling too, and moving costs money.
A whole racing world, running at once
All 42 series run their own seasons with AI drivers, on calendars from March to November. While you head to your next race, the rest of the world races too.
Points follow each series' own table, and results uploaded from iRacing use the championship points iRacing awarded. You can race more than one series at a time.
Race it in iRacing
Export for iRacing turns your season into a .zip with an AI season and roster. Choose the AI's skill, racing style, cleanliness, weather and race length, then load it into iRacing's AI Racing.
Afterwards, upload iRacing's results file and your finishing position, grid, incidents and fastest lap feed straight into the championship.
Money, licences and a reason to stay clean
Every race pays prize money, and the top ten in a championship earn a bonus. Incidents above a free allowance cost you in repairs. Buy the next car from the dealer when you can afford it.
Your safety rating moves with your incidents. Rack up races, keep it clean and finish high in a championship to step up from Rookie to Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.
How it works
From a new career to a result in the standings.
Start a career
Enter your iRacing display name and date of birth, then choose how much experience and money you start with, from Rookie with $25,000 to Gentleman Driver with $2,000,000. Pick a home region, a discipline (road, oval or formula) and the tracks you own.
Sign with a team
Team invitations land in your inbox. Accept one and you have a seat, a car and a season-long contract.
Continue to race day
Continue moves the calendar to your next race. Every other series races on the way, and their results appear on the World screen.
Export the season for iRacing
Export for iRacing builds a .zip with an AI season and roster for your series. Copy the folders into your iRacing documents folder and the season appears under AI Racing.
Race it
Run the race in iRacing against the exported field.
Record the result
Upload iRacing's results file, type the result in or simulate the race. Standings, prize money, repair costs, safety rating and experience update straight away.
Who we are
Grid to Podium is built by a small team of software engineers in India. We've spent more than ten years building software for a living, from mobile apps to AI systems.
This app gets the same care as that work. It's our gift to the sim racing community, and we're here to keep maintaining and improving it, not to move on after a few weeks.
Built by people who ship software
The same engineering we do every day: reviewed changes, automated tests and careful releases.
Maintained for the long run
Fixes and new features keep coming. Report a bug from inside the app and we read it.
Made for sim racers
Free to use, independent and built around how you actually race in iRacing.
Questions
Do I need an iRacing subscription?
To race your seasons, yes. Grid to Podium runs the career; the racing happens in iRacing, so you need an active iRacing subscription and the cars and tracks you want to race. When you start a career you can pick the tracks you own, so your calendars only use those. You can also enter or simulate a result, which is handy for a race you missed.
What does it cost?
Joining the waitlist is free.
What do I need to play?
A web browser and a Google account to sign in. Your careers are saved to your account. Exported seasons are copied into iRacing's documents folder on the PC you race on.
Does it connect to my iRacing account?
No. Grid to Podium never asks for your iRacing login. Results come from the results file you download from iRacing and upload yourself, or from what you type in.
When can I play?
Grid to Podium is open to a small group of invited testers for now. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when there's a place for you.
Is this made by iRacing?
No. Grid to Podium is an independent fan project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations.
Ready for your first season?
Join the waitlist and we'll let you know when you can start.