Coming soon: SmartRace for SCX Advance

Some time ago, the manufacturer SCX (known as Scalextric in Spain and some other countries) introduced a very promising digital slot racing system in 1:32 scale: SCX Advance. The system offers some very interesting options compared to Carrera Digital and other digital systems and is available for a fair entry price. Through some very friendly …

What you need to know about SmartRace 3.15

When you open SmartRace after you downloaded the 3.15 update on iOS, you will probably notice the app seems to have reset to the default state. Although all your drivers, cars, tracks, records and so on are still there, it is true that all other settings have been reset. Unfortunately this was unavoidable due to …

The SmartRace Champions Club

Since SmartRace 3.11, there is a new feature called the SmartRace Champions Club (SCC). The SCC is the easiest way for you to get access to all available add-ons of SmartRace without having to invest much money, but instead as a very reasonable monthly subscription. And the best thing about it is that you will …

Coming soon: a separate version of SmartRace for Carrera Go!!! Plus

For the small racers, Carrera provides a system called “Carrera Go!!! Plus”, which is basically an analogue track which can be connected to a tablet/smartphone via bluetooth. While the hardware is kind of nice, the software seems to bother many people who express their anger by giving very bad reviews on the stores (even worse …

Changes to the damage simulation

Due to feedback of several users, the damage simulation add-on will be slightly changed for the upcoming version of SmartRace. In the future, lap counting will continue as usual for damage cars. This is how it is going to be working now: If a driver exceeds the configurable target lap time, their car will be …

SmartRace no longer on Amazon app store

After SmartRace has been available on Amazon since August 2016, I decided to cease the native support for Amazons Fire devices. It turned out that the effort that it takes to maintain and update the app for another platform is much higher than the gains. I never expected the demand to be high, but in …

New SmartRace website has been launched

After several months of work, the new SmartRace website has finally been launched. The old website was created in the early days of SmartRace and was never intended to be as big as it had to be (including manuals, being bilingually, etc.). Especially the manual was done hastilly and suffered from a bad user experience. …

About in-app purchases in SmartRace

SmartRace 2.8.4 introduced in-app purchases for some features. You may have asked yourself “why on earth should I pay for new features when I already bought a full-price app?”. Well, this is a valid question after you already paid a considerable amount of money for the app itself. The answer is simple: the market for …

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