Crew Chief Skills

Crew Chief Skills

Role Overview

Each driver has a dedicated Crew Chief who directly influences on-track performance. Crew Chiefs are generated alongside each driver.

Crew Chief Skills

Crew Chiefs have three skills that sum to 100:

Strategy Skill

The Strategy skill determines how much the crew chief can reduce the car's lap time penalty. First, calculate the effective strategy:

effectiveStrategy = level x (strategy / 100)

This is then used to find the strategy factor, which is the percentage of the penalty that remains after the crew chief's work:

strategyFactor = max(0.6, 1 - min(effectiveStrategy / 25, 0.4))

In plain terms: a crew chief with effective Strategy of 0 gives no help (factor 1.0, no reduction). One with effective Strategy of 10 or higher cuts the penalty by the maximum 40% (factor 0.6). Here is how it scales:

This reduction applies after all other penalty adjustments, so it is a direct across-the-board improvement.

Mechanics Skill

The Mechanics skill affects three things: how fast pit stops are, how fast repairs happen, and how bad crashes are.

First, calculate the effective mechanics:

effectiveMech = level x (mechanics / 100)

Pit stop time: the base pit stop is 25 seconds. The crew chief's Mechanics skill can reduce this by up to half. The formula is: pitFactor = max(0.5, 1 - min(effectiveMech/20, 0.5)) Final pit time = 25.0 x pitFactor plus or minus up to 1.5 seconds random, minimum 18 seconds.

Repair time (when the car is damaged): higher Mechanics skill means faster repairs. repairEfficiency = max(0.3, 1 - effectiveMech x 0.015) Repair time = damage percentage x 0.6 x repairEfficiency plus or minus 2 seconds random. Damage is reset to zero after the repair.

Crash severity: the crew chief's Mechanics skill reduces how severe a crash is. High skill means less damage from the same incident. The reduction is subtracted directly from the crash severity score: minus up to 15 points, based on effectiveMech x 1.5.

Effective Skill Formula

Both Strategy and Mechanics work the same way. Multiply the crew chief's level by their skill as a percentage:

effectiveSkill = level x (skillValue / 100)

For example, a Level 5 crew chief with Mechanics 60: effectiveMech = 5 x 0.60 = 3.0

Pit Crew

Each driver also has 4 Pit Crew members. Their combined skills contribute to pit stop efficiency alongside the Crew Chief's Mechanics skill.

Head of Engineering

The team-level Head of Engineering uses their Engineering skill to influence:

• Part upgrade success rates in Engineering
• Initial setup estimate accuracy in Practice