Places, machines and earlier tools

Venue context in the notebook

Your account's home K1 and the venue you are browsing are separate choices. Venue details shows saved catalogue information, reviewed names, timezone and official links. Viewing another venue does not change your home preference. A listing does not guarantee opening hours, all configurations or every email format.

Public location and track references are dated snapshots. Follow the official link before a visit. Garage, track following, owned vehicles and broader discovery remain in More tools, as described below.

Find somewhere to drive

Use Discover with your saved home area for nearby options, or switch to Trip mode for a temporary destination. Follow a place you want to keep without pretending you have already driven there.

Always confirm hours, booking requirements, age or height rules and track availability with the venue before traveling. A directory result is not an endorsement or a promise that an event is available.

Keep places in Tracks

Tracks combines followed places and venues from your saved driving history. When the first supported result arrives, Driver OS should update the existing place rather than create a duplicate. In the wide review, View sessions opens that exact track/layout’s history; the selection remains visible under More filters and can be cleared for all history.

For recognized K1 tracks, View official track map opens the verified official track page in a new tab. Separate View weekly best times and View 30-day best times links appear only when the exact venue, layout and racer-class page is known. Otherwise, the card explains what is unavailable and retains the official directory link where known.

These are external K1 pages. Driver OS does not load K1 track artwork or leaderboard results. K1's current layout or lists may change; your saved official timing, history and personal best remain in Driver OS. An automatic source connection remains disabled pending written permission or a supported connection.

Optional home track

Driver OS offers Home track & starting view in Tracks and Profile. Choose a track from your recorded venues and optionally start new tabs at Home track or All venues. Until you choose, Driver OS keeps your existing view. Your home city remains a separate Discover preference.

The Venue control carries the browsing context across Home, Sessions, Progress and Coach. Summaries and evidence suggestions use that context; newer visits elsewhere remain linked. Direct Session and Event links open their own evidence. Saved coaching priorities remain available across your journal. Venue changes do not rewrite history, goals or your opening preference.

Driver OS saves the opening preference for this account in this browser only. Reloading keeps the current tab's view when browser storage is available. It does not sync between devices, and clearing browser data removes it. Layouts, class and purpose still determine which results can be compared.

Keep machines in Garage

Use Garage for owned karts, cars and other machines that belong to your driver record. Rental fleet activity stays connected to the venue and should not appear as an owned vehicle. Opening a vehicle or fleet’s history in C keeps that vehicle/fleet selected; clear it under More filters to return to all driving.

In session setup, expand Change vehicle context to choose between Rental vehicle, an account-owned Garage vehicle, and a Temporary/team/borrowed vehicle for the individual session. A temporary vehicle does not enter Garage automatically. Its description may initially be unknown; optional car number and team details can be added later.

If a temporary vehicle later belongs in your permanent Garage, open its details and explicitly choose Save to Garage with a Garage name. This creates one permanent entry without rewriting the context of earlier sessions. Synthetic Demo vehicles cannot use this conversion path.

Use Edit to correct an owned vehicle's name or type without changing its existing session links. Delete requires a separate confirmation and is available only when no session still links to that vehicle. If a vehicle has linked history, open its linked sessions and reassign them first.

What success looks like

Each session keeps the correct venue, layout and machine context. You can move across rental karting, karting, sim racing and track activity without comparing unrelated raw lap seconds.

If a place or machine looks duplicated

Check the exact venue, layout and ownership type before changing anything. A followed destination, a venue from imported results and an owned machine represent different kinds of context.

For two accidental copies of the same owned machine, keep the one with linked history and delete the unlinked copy. Driver OS also blocks a new owned vehicle when its name and type exactly match one already in Garage.

Prepare the next action Review a session

Setup choices and recovery

Setup can suggest a few existing directory places after you choose a city and interests. No match does not block setup. Owned karting and car interests can add one optional vehicle at Finish using the same Garage as the rest of Driver OS. Rental drivers can skip Garage. Later preference edits do not recreate deleted vehicles or restore places you unfollowed.