Live strategy, spoken radio and a clearer view of every lap. Run the engineer on your Windows PC or your Android phone or tablet. Each app receives the game directly, runs the same telemetry engine locally, and keeps its own session history. Android does not need a laptop.
Both apps are free. No code, no account, no subscription. Optional AI and voice use your own paid API account.
For F1 25: 2026 Season Pack on PS5 / PC. Check device requirements.
The telemetry receiver, strategy engine, dashboard and session library run on the device you choose. Android is not a remote screen for Windows, and Windows does not need a tablet.
Your engineer alongside the game.
Play on the same PC, or receive telemetry from your PS5 or another PC over your home network. Launch from the Start Menu; the dashboard opens in your browser while the engine runs on that computer.
Leave the laptop out of the setup.
The native Android app receives the game's telemetry directly and runs the same engine on your phone or tablet. It keeps its own recordings and uses that device's microphone and audio output.
Devices using 16 KB memory pages are not supported. This is a signed APK, not a Google Play listing.
Keep the app visible and screen awake for live racing. Screen-off reception can be interrupted by Android battery management.
Choose the app that receives this race. Point the game's UDP destination at that device. Using both is optional; transfers and forwarding are separate beta features, not automatic cloud sync.
One place to read the race, make a call and find the next improvement. Both apps use the same engine and dashboard; device permissions and audio setup are configured separately.
Timing tower, gaps, tyres, fuel, ERS, damage and speed, throttle and brake traces. Recorded lap history is distinguished from current inputs and a stale or paused feed.
Ranked pit plans, tyre choices, traffic and undercut estimates. Edit the stint timeline, explore alternatives and use wet-weather estimates to inform the next stop.
Ask about a gap, rival or strategy by voice or typed message. Enable proactive calls for changing race conditions. Spoken radio needs an OpenAI key, internet and working microphone/audio permissions.
Compare recorded laps by distance. Review braking, apex speed, exits and racing-line differences against a suitable reference. Findings depend on the clean laps and samples available.
Find your circuit setup, read the settings in garage order, then compare changes using your recorded laps.
Reopen recorded sessions without the game running. Review stints, available traces and post-race summaries. Control storage budgets; retained history depends on those settings.
Set the engineer's name, voice, wake phrase and radio verbosity. Arrange Drive cards, tune proactive calls and choose the optional, explicitly profane Brutal mode.
Use OpenAI, Claude (Anthropic), DeepSeek, Kimi or a configured OpenAI-compatible endpoint for model-backed answers. The spoken radio always uses OpenAI. Manage provider keys in Connection.
See whether the receiver is listening or receiving fresh packets, find the device address and inspect connection health. Test credentials, microphone input and audio output as separate checks.
Find your setup values, see the next stop at a glance, and open the detail when you need it. Test Engineer keeps your runs, notes and comparisons together.
Choose Stable or More rotation, then Race or Quali. Read aligned settings in six garage groups, with sources and adaptations available in expandable details. Explore Setup Lab.
Drive and Strategy lead with your next stop and current tyre condition. Forecasts and alternative plans sit behind details; urgent wear, weather, damage and compound warnings stay visible.
The radio explains when the engineer service times out, needs attention or is temporarily paused. Recent failure diagnostics survive the next successful reply, making intermittent problems easier to investigate.
Earlier compound samples remain available through longer later stints. Strategy details distinguish saved laps, usable samples and estimates, so uncertainty about the race plan does not hide the practice data you already have.
Returning to the pits creates a short review of clean pace, consistency, observed pace trend, temperatures and the next test. Save your objective and conclusion with each run.
Define Stint A, B and C by exact laps or ranges, or suggest 2–12 chronological groups and adjust them. Compare medium versus hard stints or use a stricter matched setup test. An isolated slow lap stays in its run.
Tell the engineer why a lap was compromised. Saved lap notes are reviewed with air/track temperatures, fuel, tyre age and traffic evidence. Edit notes and exclusions later; measured telemetry remains intact.
A/B comparison works within one session or across saved sessions at the same track, keeping each run’s notes and exclusions. The setup test matches compound, tyre age, fuel, weather and temperatures. Matched sector differences show where time changed.
Strategy ranks rivals by projected finish gap, including estimated remaining stops and tyre age. Forecast uncertainty stays visible.
Export automatic runs, custom lap groups, setups, measured conditions, reported notes and conclusions as text or JSON. Android saves through its system file picker. Session Review opens the report for any saved session.
Changing session, restarting or rewinding cancels obsolete radio work and clears live analysis. Delayed packets from a retired session cannot restore the previous track.
Pace trends include fuel and driving effects; they do not isolate tyre degradation. Older recordings may lack the evidence needed for matched setup comparisons. Read the Test Engineer guide.
GPT-6 Luna handles everyday radio questions; GPT-6 Sol handles deeper strategy. Turn on Realtime radio in Settings for live voice conversations you can interrupt. It is off by default, applies immediately and may increase API costs.
Set up your dashboard before the game starts. Labelled sample values let you choose instruments, arrange cards and save your layout without UDP. Touch-friendly editing gives you more control over the numbers you see. Android fills the screen with swipe-to-reveal system bars, and Drive explains your tyre pace trend and the evidence behind it.
Add your API key, copy the UDP IP and port to your game, map L3 and try Mark.
Explore driving, strategy, lap analysis and Setup Lab. Skip anytime or replay from Settings.
New installs enable proactive calls, all-car recording and full trace detail. Existing preferences stay unchanged.
See an update flag when a newer release is available. Nothing installs automatically; no automated emails.
A new Driver Dashboard tab brings Cockpit, Race Focus, Battle, Endurance, My Layout and Phone views to live telemetry. Keep the numbers you need within a glance.
Automatic profiles adapt to folding, rotation and resizing. Manual options cover Galaxy Fold, Galaxy Tab, iPad sizes, laptops and monitors. Your preferred layout stays saved.
Prominent steward flags, safety-car information and connection warnings stay visible. Rival race gaps, car numbers and lap comparisons show the current battle.
Choose instruments, resize cards and drag them into place. Build your layout with sample numbers before the race, save it, then switch to live telemetry.
Try Driver Dashboard · public demo Download offline demo (.html)
Windows 5.3.2 and Android 5.3.2 (revision 34). The dashboard demos use labelled sample data. Live telemetry and the walkthrough are in the installed apps. See the Android Bluetooth stability note.
On Windows or Android, code computes the telemetry and strategy results. When you ask for model-backed interpretation, the model receives compact context and selected computed results, not your raw recording database.
Receiving telemetry, recording sessions, calculating race data and reviewing saved laps do not require an AI subscription or an internet connection. Local answers can report gaps, temperatures, damage and strategy status without a model call.
Your recordings stay on your device unless you explicitly export or transfer them. Available analysis depends on the quality and amount of recorded data; missing inputs are not a promise of a complete result.
Model-backed interpretation uses the provider you configure. Spoken radio uses OpenAI speech services; it needs internet and your own OpenAI API key. Provider usage is billed to you separately.
Cloud transcription sends audio clips to OpenAI. Optional Realtime voice streams microphone audio to OpenAI while a radio session is active. Configure voice on each device and check where its sound plays.
Each app works on its own and owns its own library. Pair only when you want to copy saved sessions or forward a live feed. Neither is needed to receive the game directly.
Pair two devices on the same private network using a QR code or invitation, then choose completed sessions to copy. The receiver checks the archive before importing and skips matching history already present.
This is a manual history transfer, not automatic cloud sync. API keys, microphone permissions and live telemetry are not synced. Stop telemetry on the receiving device before importing.
Copy saved sessionsOptional UDP forwarding sends live game packets to another app or device. It is best-effort: a sent packet does not confirm receipt. Check incoming telemetry on the destination before relying on it during a race.
Forwarding does not copy the saved library. Use trusted destinations on your private network and avoid forwarding loops or duplicate feeds.
Set up beta telemetry forwardingA full send bar is not an import receipt. Very large libraries can still hit archive limits or timeouts: start with small batches and keep the originals until the receiving Library is checked. Previously pruned samples cannot be recovered by transferring a session.
Setup Lab is shown on an Android tablet running 5.3.2. The other captures show earlier desktop builds, including a recorded Las Vegas race. Both apps use the same dashboard.
Hungaroring, sixteen laps left, running fourth on old hards with a quicker car three seconds behind. Box and lose the position, or stay out and defend? Everything below is the running application: telemetry arriving over UDP, the strategy engine doing the maths, and the engineer's own voice answering questions asked over the radio.
No sound needed — this one is captioned. It is the dashboard during the closing stint of the race described above, recorded from the running application.
Turn the sound on — the engineer's answers are spoken by the app's own voice. No engineer response was written for this video. The race is synthetic, generated as genuine F1 2026 packet structures and sent to the real receiver; the software reading them is not.
Your Pit Box itself is free. The engineer's voice and reasoning run on your own account with the provider you choose — OpenAI by default — so those calls appear on that provider's bill, not mine. Local answers need no model call. Voice and model-backed usage costs depend on the provider and how much you use them. You set API usage and billing controls on the provider's own dashboard.
Windows and Android downloads are available. There is no macOS, iPhone or iPad release available. The Android APK is not an iOS app.
The same split applies to both apps. A local game connection is still needed for live telemetry.
| Capability | Connection needed | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Live telemetry & local strategy | Game feed on your device or private network | No AI key required |
| Library, lap comparison & local analysis | None for saved data | Uses retained sessions and available samples |
| Spoken radio & model-backed answers | Internet | Your AI provider usage; OpenAI for speech |
| Saved-history transfer · beta | Paired devices on a private network | Manual copy, not cloud sync |
| UDP forwarding · beta | Reachable destination on your network | Live packets, not a library transfer |
Free, with no code and no account. Choose the device that will receive your game's telemetry. You can add the other app later; it is not required.
Install for your Windows account, then open Your Pit Box from the Start Menu. The engine runs on this PC and opens its dashboard in your browser.
PitWall-Setup.exe · 35.0 MB
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For a historical installer only. If the installer was built before Your Pit Box went free, it asks for an activation code. Use the code supplied below. The current release needs no code.
The Windows button offers an optional email signup for release news. Skip it to download without subscribing.
Windows installation & first radio checkInstall the native app on the device beside your wheel. Reception, strategy and recordings run there; no laptop or Windows installation is needed.
5.3.2-android.34.apk · 73.2 MB
Android 7+ · 64-bit ARM or x86 · 4 KB memory pages only. This release does not support 16 KB memory-page devices. Direct APK download, not a Google Play listing.
Keep Play Protect enabled. Grant installation permission only to the browser or file manager used, then turn it off after installing. Do not bypass a security-policy or incompatible-device block.
SHA-256: 41f5cb7ffc8eff59893bb8098fbc6561be32fc30fed02ad005ebb9782afc5107
Already have the test app? The production app installs separately and starts with its own library. Keep your test app and history until you have made a backup and checked the transfer.
APK installation & test-app migration guideFirst time? Follow the skippable in-app setup, then try the app tour. Both are available in Settings. Prefer a page? Use the illustrated setup guide.
Upgrading from 4.11.0 or earlier? Install this update manually once to get future update flags.
If a download fails, contact vale.scott00@gmail.com. For earlier Windows installs that used an activation code, activation diagnostics remain available.
From people who have raced with it. I read every review before it goes up, and I do not edit them.
PS5 / PC describes where the game runs. Windows / Android describes where the engineer runs. Send the game's F1 2026 UDP feed to either engineer over your private network, or use loopback when the game and Windows app share a PC. Android does not need a Windows host. The receiver uses the same packet parser; packet-format support does not guarantee every router or device setup. Follow the setup guide for your chosen app.
Your Pit Box reads the game's exported UDP telemetry; it does not send driving inputs or modify game files. Check the rules of any league or event you enter: this is not a guarantee of permission in every competition.
Less than most people expect, because the common questions never reach a model. Gaps, tyre temperatures, damage and strategy status are computed locally and cost nothing. What costs money is open-ended conversation and deep strategy reasoning during a long race. You can monitor API usage, use prepaid credits and configure billing alerts on your provider's dashboard — OpenAI's by default; Your Pit Box keeps working without the radio if the key stops.
Yes, for the engineer's reasoning. Paste that provider's key on the Connection tab and pick it as the engineer's provider — it applies immediately, no restart. The spoken radio (speech-to-text and the engineer's voice) always uses OpenAI, so without an OpenAI key the engineer answers typed questions on the dashboard and stays silent on the radio. Local OpenAI-compatible servers work too, via the custom endpoint.
Compact situation summaries and selected computed results go to the AI provider you configured when a question needs model judgement. The database and raw trace files are not uploaded to the AI provider. Cloud transcription sends recorded audio clips to OpenAI; optional Realtime voice streams microphone audio to OpenAI while a radio session is active. With beta history transfer, explicitly copying sessions sends their saved history and available traces to your paired device on the local network; it does not create a cloud account or sync your API keys.
No. Each device records and stores its own sessions. With beta history transfers, you pair devices and choose which completed sessions to copy. A history transfer does not forward the game's live UDP feed: point the game at the receiving device's current address shown in Connection, or separately configure beta UDP forwarding. Do not start an import while that device is recording.
Not for Your Pit Box itself. There is no activation and no account: telemetry, strategy, analysis and the dashboard all work with no connection. Only the spoken radio and model-backed answers need internet, because those are the parts that call your AI provider.
Yes, and there is no catch. The download is the complete application, nothing is held back for a paid tier, and nothing expires. The only running cost is your own AI provider usage, billed by that provider to you. If Your Pit Box earns you a position, buy me a coffee — a thank-you, not a purchase.
Yes. We keep aggregate daily counts of Windows and Android download starts, plus first/last start timestamps. These counters do not store visitor IP addresses, names, emails, user-agent logs or tracking cookies. They measure download starts, not installations or unique people. Separately, newer app builds offer an optional choice to share basic usage statistics; it is off until you choose it and can be changed in Settings. See what data goes where.
The Windows download prompt asks for an email address, and you can skip it. The Android APK link downloads directly. If you give one, it is stored with the date on my Cloudflare account and used for exactly one thing: telling you when a new version ships. No newsletter, nothing sold or shared, and a reply to any of those emails removes you. The app itself never sends me anything.
Older installers were built before Your Pit Box went free and asked for a code the first time they started. The current download needs no activation code. Download the latest installer and run it over your existing installation; your sessions and settings are kept.
Your install keeps working exactly as it is, and the code stays valid on that computer. Whenever you like, download the current installer and run it over the top: your sessions and settings are kept, and it will never ask for a code again. Thank you for backing it when it cost something.
Your Pit Box is free to download and free to keep — no code, no account, no subscription. It is a one-person project; if it earns you a position, a coffee keeps it going.
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A coffee is a thank-you, not a purchase: nothing unlocks and it is not refundable. The only thing that ever costs money is your own AI provider usage, billed by that provider to you.
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