Pit data & privacy
What gets uploaded
iRacing only, for now. Three things, each with its own switch in Settings, all on by default:
- Pit stops - car, track, series and the timing breakdown: time lost in the pit lane, how long fuel and tyres took, fuel burned per lap over the stint. This is what lets Gary tell you what a stop or a drive-through costs, and fuel you, at a car and track you’ve never driven.
- GPS for tracks that need it - at a track still missing corner data, one clean lap’s worth of position data, so corner names can be added. Most laps upload nothing at all.
- Tyre wear - one row per stint: conditions, tyre wear, lap times (with the fuel on board and whether you were in traffic on each lap, and how old the tyres were at the start), how hard the car was driven (cornering and braking load, how much of the braking was on ABS), the incident points picked up, and (unless it was a fixed setup) camber, toe and brake bias. Used to build a tyre wear model.
Nothing that identifies you is sent. No name, no Windows username, no driver ID - the upload is tied to a random per-installation token, not to you. Turning any of these off stops only the upload; everything Gary does locally keeps working the same.
What never leaves your machine
Everything else. Your settings, your logs, your lap and pit history — all local, all in %AppData%\Gary. See Where Gary keeps things for the full breakdown.
A log does contain personal information
This is different from pit data. If you ever send a log file (see Troubleshooting), be aware it can contain your iRacing customer ID, session driver names from the field, your Windows username (it’s in file paths), and your machine name. Logs are sent by you, directly, when something’s wrong - never uploaded automatically - but it’s worth knowing what’s in one before you paste it somewhere public.