Keep your community. Expand what it can do.

A community lives on its people meeting: racing each other, talking about it afterwards, a rivalry that carries into next week. That is what brings someone back, and it is the hardest part to build.

The usual answer is more of your own: another server, a bot, a leaderboard. But all of it only sees what happens on your servers, locking your members in. And they don't only race there: the moment they race somewhere else, they drop out of your community's sight, and out of its conversation.

And how would one community ever run every track? For five friends who just want to race together, running servers at all is a lot to ask.

Give your members the freedom to race wherever they like, and keep the community features you want.

Every kind of news goes to the channel you choose: results, the week's quickest, new reports and verdicts, races called off, changes to your lobbies, and a summary of the week every Sunday.

Nobody has to post them, and the conversation stays where your people already are.

Your community gets its own best times per track and car class, and you choose what it counts.

By your servers: the quickest laps on your servers, guests included, so a visitor's time is something for your members to beat, or a place for your community and your stream's viewers to find themselves in.

By your drivers: your members' best laps wherever they drove on BDR. The club's own ranking, even without a server of its own.

Your members can race any track on any evening, in another community's event or an open lobby, and it still counts for yours*: distance, pace, rating and rivalries land on your page and in your Sunday summary.

* As long as those races report to BDR too. But the basics are covered: there is an open lobby for every track, always on. Check them out

So your community doesn't need servers to be one. Add them later, or never. You and four friends are a community.

Your branding, not ours: your logo, banner and colour on your page, your races and lobbies under your name, your Discord invite for new members. Link the page from your Discord and you need no website; already have one? It keeps getting every result.

Today every community is an island: its own servers, its own times, its own rankings, and drivers who rarely meet the club next door.

We want BDR to be where communities meet: comparing notes, racing in each other's events, and sharing the work instead of each trying to do it all alone.

More communities on BDR means more people to race, for every one of them.

The jobs that used to take an evening run by themselves, so the few people who keep a community going get to race too.

• Sign-ups, and splits by skill when the grid is too big
• Each split's server set up for you: track, sessions, name and entry list
• A race with too few sign-ups called off, your Discord told why
• Results, points and standings without typing anything
• Stewarding by your own stewards. Drivers can accept a penalty within 48 hours for 25% less Safety Rating, or appeal a ruling to ours.

The community side is the same for everyone. What differs is whether you race on servers of your own, and who runs them.

• Just the community Self-serve

  No servers. Your page, Discord and members' stats from the open lobbies and everyone else's events.

  How it works

• Your servers Self-serve

  Connect your machines with one agent; BDR sets up each race's server and collects the results.

  How it works

• Just results Set up with us

  Keep your servers exactly as they are; their results come to BDR.

  How it works

• Our servers On request

  Your season and an open lobby on BDR's machines, under your name.

  How it works

Four things worth knowing before you set anything up.