Spoken alerts about the car directly ahead or behind you — not a generic beep, a specific line for what actually happened to that specific car.
Race Engineer watches the car immediately ahead of you and the car immediately behind you, by class position, and speaks up when one of them gets a black flag, is disqualified, or is called in for mandatory repair. iRacing shows your own flags on screen, but has no on-screen indicator of what flag a specific other car is under — this fills that gap with a spoken line, so you don't have to guess why a rival suddenly slows or pits.
The alert only fires for the car that's actually relevant to you right now — the one exactly ahead or exactly behind, by position. If a car already had the flag active before rotating into that slot, you still get told once when it becomes relevant to you; a car that keeps cycling in and out of the slot with the same still-active flag doesn't repeat the alert every time.
The car directly ahead or behind just received a black flag.
The car directly ahead or behind was disqualified.
The car directly ahead or behind was called in for mandatory repair — iRacing's repair flag, not a voluntary pit stop.
These lines are real recorded audio in English and Portuguese — not a synthesized voice reading text aloud. Any alert can be replaced with your own recording at any time; a missing file just means that one alert stays silent, the app never crashes over it.
No — only for the car directly ahead of you or directly behind you, by class position. Flags on cars elsewhere in the field are not announced.
No. Each alert fires once per car per flag transition — if that car keeps the same flag active while cycling in and out of the ahead/behind slot, you're not told again.
No — these are recorded audio files in English and Portuguese, not a synthesized voice.
Yes. Any individual alert can be silenced by removing its audio file — a missing file just means that one alert stays quiet, nothing else is affected.