Chapter 5: Heats and mains

Move drivers between heats

Use Edit Heats to move a driver to another heat, balance heat sizes, shuffle, or add an empty heat. Heats already run are locked.

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Sometimes a driver needs to swap heats: they are marshalling, sharing a radio, or a parent is in the next heat. Edit Heats lets you move people without redrawing everything.

Before you start

  • Heats generated.
  • No heat running.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Open Edit Heats

    The Heat Editor shows each heat as a column, with Unassigned on the left.

  2. 2

    Pick a driver

    The hint changes to "Moving ... choose Put here on a heat."

  3. 3

    Put here

    They move straight away. Drag and drop does the same.

  4. 4

    Balance

    Add Heat makes an empty heat to fill by hand.

  5. 5

    Done Editing

    If a driver now races twice in a row, RaceLyx offers Space them out.

Tips

  • Drag a driver onto a heat, or click them and then Put here.
  • Drop at a position inside a heat to change their grid spot.
  • Balance spreads drivers evenly; Shuffle mixes them at random.
  • Esc cancels a pick.

Troubleshooting

Edit Heats is greyed out.
Stop the running heat first, or save or reset the finished one.
A heat says "Already run. Locked."
Results that are run cannot be changed here.

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