Virtual and sim drives

Not every drive happens on a road. Marque can record a lap from a racing simulator, and it can read extra data from your real car through an OBD-II dongle. Both give you a report just like a normal drive, but a sim lap is always kept clearly separate from the real world.

Sim drives

If you run a racing sim, Marque can capture a lap from it: the world-space line of the track, plus the telemetry the game exposes, like engine speed and the g-force you pulled. The lap shows up with a route, stats, and everything else you would expect from a drive. Setting that up is its own walk-through: connecting your racing sim.

OBD-II - richer data from a real car

A drive on a real road is recorded from GPS by default and needs no hardware. If you want more - engine speed, throttle, and other channels the car itself knows - you can pair a Bluetooth OBD-II dongle plugged into your car’s diagnostic port. Marque reads it live during the drive and folds it into the report - see connecting an OBD-II adapter for the pairing steps and the battery-drain warning that comes with leaving a dongle plugged in.

What you need

• For a sim - Forza, F1 25, F1 24, Gran Turismo 7, Assetto Corsa, Competizione or iRacing, and both ends on the same home network. Step by step, per title: connecting your racing sim.
• For OBD data - a Bluetooth OBD-II dongle in the car’s port, paired once: connecting an OBD-II adapter. Without one, GPS recording works exactly as normal.