Paddock Chief

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.

In Paddock Chief you run a single-seater team in a world with three categories, 30 teams, 60 drivers and 23 circuits. Pick one of the teams or create your own (name, colours and livery) and start from the bottom: in every category only the champion is promoted and the last team is relegated.

Every weekend is yours. In free practice you tune the setup by listening to your drivers. In qualifying (Q1, Q2 and Q3) you decide when they go out, how many laps they do and how much risk they take, with traffic, limited tyre sets and live sector times. And in the race, which you can watch in 2D or 3D, you give orders in real time: pace, engine mode, pit stops, strategy and team orders, while the weather changes, the safety car comes out or a rival closes in.

Between races, the factory: R&D projects to improve the car (or next year's), six facilities to upgrade, the driver and staff market, the young driver academy, sponsors and finances. Choose an engine supplier (four manufacturers, each with its own philosophy) or build your own engine factory.

Meet the board's targets or you'll be fired; build your reputation and the top teams will come calling.

Features

• Three categories with promotion and relegation: only the champion goes up and the last team goes down.
• 30 teams, 60 drivers and 23 circuits. Or create your own team with its name, colours and livery.
• Live races in 2D (top-down) or 3D, with real-time orders: pace, engine mode, pit stops, strategy and team orders.
• The full race weekend: pre-season testing, free practice with car setup (wings, suspension, gearing and brake balance) and knockout qualifying with live sectors.
• Rain and wet tyres, safety car and virtual safety car, contact, damage and failures.
• Project-based R&D (small, medium or large) 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.
• Four engine manufacturers with their own philosophy, one- to three-year contracts or your own engine factory.
• Driver and staff market with release clauses, a young driver academy and drivers with personality and morale.
• Sponsors with performance bonuses, finances and a budget cap in the top category.
• Board targets, sackings, job offers and your reputation as team principal.
• Press conferences, rule changes every four seasons and three difficulty levels.
• Seven languages: English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Simplified Chinese.

Installation

1. Download the .zip file and extract it.
2. Open PaddockChief.exe. No installation needed.

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

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

Controls

Everything is played with the mouse. On track:

• 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)

System requirements

Minimum: 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 · Graphics card with DirectX 12 or Vulkan support · 4 GB RAM · 300 MB free disk space

Recommended: Dedicated graphics card (for the 3D view with shadows and anti-aliasing) · 8 GB RAM · 1920 × 1080 display

Credits

Made with Godot Engine (godotengine.org, MIT license). Barlow and Rajdhani fonts (SIL Open Font License).