Release Notes
What's new.
Full release history for RaceTrackDesigner. The app launched on March 1, 2025 and is actively developed.
Your Input Drives the Roadmap
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Many of the features below started as user suggestions. If there's something you'd love to see in RaceTrackDesigner — or something that isn't working the way it should — send it over. I respond to every single email.
Version 2.7.0
October 6, 2026
- NewElevation analysis: Tools ▸ Elevation reads the real terrain under your track and shows an elevation profile with range, total climb, steepest up and down gradients, and net height change on stages — hover or drag along the profile to find that spot on the map (shortcut: E)
- NewHills now matter: with Elevation on, climbs and descents feed into lap times, the racing line and the race simulator, and the stats panel shows how much time the hills cost or give you
- NewGradient line colouring: a new Gradient option colours the racing line from blue downhill to red uphill
- NewGPX and KML exports now include elevation for every point when Elevation is on
- NewNew race class: Formula E (Gen4)
- NewRace type picker: browse every class as a card with its description, powertrain and key specs, plus bars comparing top speed, cornering, acceleration and braking against the fastest class
- NewRace setup: build your own field with up to 4 classes and 40 cars, each with its own driver level (Pro, Pro-Am or Am — Elite, Club or Recreational for runners), or start from a preset such as Le Mans, GT3 Pro-Am, Open-wheel showdown or a running wave start
- NewRace by laps (1 to 20 or full distance) or by time (5 minutes to 1 hour), with standing or rolling starts, a qualifying, random or reversed grid, and adjustable pace spread and overtaking difficulty
- NewIncidents in the race simulator: crashes, contact between cars, spins, wall hits, punctures and wing damage that send cars to the pits for repairs, and mechanical failures — each set from Off to High
- NewRace control: safety cars, virtual safety cars, full course yellows and cautions, matched to how each series actually neutralises a race
- NewF1 overtaking aids in the simulator: DRS, or the 2026 Straight Mode with overtake mode, using the zones you have marked or placed automatically on the long straights
- NewPit strategy: let the simulator choose, or fix every car to 0, 1, 2 or 3 stops
- NewSearch for any location in the world from Settings ▸ Change Location — a country, city, street or landmark, or jump to your current location. The 2026 Grand Prix venues are still one tap away
- NewClearing your design can now move the map to a new location in the same step (Clear & move here)
- NewA What’s New card now appears the first time you open the app after an update
- UpdateSimulated cars now drive the optimal racing line instead of the centre of the road
- UpdateLive timing in the simulator now shows class tags, DRS and overtake-mode indicators, flag status, race-control messages and retirement reasons, and the results list class winners and retirements
- UpdateA few of the project’s supporters now turn up on the simulator grid — thank you!
- UpdateBrake and throttle colour legends are now labelled from Light to Full