HOW ERMO WORKS
ERMO is a persistent racing management game — there's no twitch control, no joystick. You prepare your team all week, then watch the results of your decisions play out live on race day. Here's the loop that drives everything.
ONE SEASON, 24 ROUNDS
Every league runs a season of 24 rounds, and every round is a full race weekend — practice, qualifying, then the race itself. Points accumulate across the season, and at the end of it teams are promoted or relegated based on where they finish in their league's standings. Then the next season begins. There's no defined "end of game" — it's a career you build over time.
WHAT YOU DO EACH DAY
Outside of race weekends, ERMO runs on a short daily loop. None of it is mandatory — skip a day and nothing falls apart — but there's always something meaningful to decide:
- Log in — collect your daily bonus (cash, staff XP, driver morale, and tire sets every 7th day).
- Check the queue — see what finished overnight: an upgrade resolved, research unlocked, training completed.
- Queue new activities — start the next upgrade, a training run, a practice session, or a marketing campaign.
- Handle the race weekend — submit a practice setup, lock in qualifying, or watch a live race.
- Manage the team — review finances, respond to sponsorship offers, pick staff perks.
A RACE WEEKEND, STEP BY STEP
Say it's Round 8 of your Grand Touring Championship season, and the race fires Saturday. Here's what your week looks like:
You submit a car setup for each of your cars — wing angles, brake bias, fuel load, tire compound. The simulation returns a predicted lap time with a confidence band, tire wear rate, sector breakdown, and weak-point analysis, so you can dial in the setup before it counts.
Qualifying fires automatically 24 hours before the race. Your submitted qualifying setup runs through three knockout sessions — Q1, Q2, Q3 — just like real motorsport, to set the grid. Once it's done, parc fermé locks in (series-dependent).
Before the strategy lock, you submit your starting tires, fuel load, and an ordered pit stop plan for each car. You can prepare up to three strategy options in advance, so if qualifying doesn't go your way, a plan B is already sitting ready.
The race simulates live at 20× speed — a full-length race plays out in roughly 25–30 minutes. You watch it unfold on the Race Center: a live track map with every car's real position, tire and fuel telemetry, safety cars, incidents, and pit stops, all driven by the same physics engine that computed your practice laps.
READY TO BUILD YOUR TEAM?
Pick a series, register your team, and you'll land in your first pre-season with time to recruit drivers and staff before Round 1 fires. Everything above — research, practice, qualifying, strategy, race day — starts from there.