Creating and releasing an application

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Creating and releasing an application

I love sim racing, so I thought it would be an interesting exercise to create an application that makes use of Assetto Corsa Competizione (ACC) telemetry.

The basic operation is this:

The client sends a registration message to ACC
ACC replies and starts sending telemetry messages

This is all done over UDP.

ACC messages

The first step was to create a library that could parse the message byte streams. There is a little bit of documentation in the way of some C# code and a ServerAdminHandbook.pdf that can be found in the ACC installation.

Introduction to F1

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Netflix

Drive to Survive is a great introduction to F1, where you can get to know something of the drivers and teams. But you won’t learn much about the sport itself.

Podcasts

One of the best ways to catch up on a lot of information is via the Shift-F1 podcast. Every year at the beginning of the season they publish a Primer in which they’ll “explain how F1 works and who everybody is, all while assuming no prior knowledge of racing”. See the 2026 season primer here .

Simracing on Pauls Blog

Creating and releasing an application