About Openwheel Racing
From ModrinthA Minecraft mod on 1.21.11 for openwheel racing (F1), including track building and car driving!
Openwheel Racing is a Minecraft Forge mod for Minecraft 1.21.11 that adds an open-wheel racing progression loop: craft and assemble a prototype race car, tune its setup, build circuits, refine crude oil resources, and race laps with timing, tyre wear, and crash damage.
Primary control:
- W throttle, S brake, A/D turning
- I upshift, K downshift, 0 DRS, J adjust ERS strategy
- C toggle TC, V toggle ABS
- B toggle map editor
Alternative control:
- Mouse L-click downshift, R-click upshift, M-click toggle DRS
- 1,2,3 mapping to ERS strategy _Harvest_, _Balanced_ and _Attack_.
- Joystick & wheel setup available in Openwheel Setup
Available in Openwheel Setup:
- Keybind
- ERS strategy thresholds
- HUD display settings
- Joystick & wheel setup
- ...
From version 1.3.0+ (car remodeling update), we attribute the car modeling to "NEW F1 CAR 2026" (2026) by Abu Saif is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Upon the honored original author's work, we remeshed it to 10% the original mesh density and used quad remesh to produce ~50000 quad faces easier for livery editing.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Built for Minecraft 1.21.11.
Loaders
Runs on Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Openwheel Racing on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Forge, NeoForge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.20.2, released 2026-10-31
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.21.11 | 1.21.11 |
| NeoForge | 1.21.11 | 1.21.11 |
From 8 recorded builds of Openwheel Racing.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.20.2 | 2026-10-31 | 1.21.11 | NeoForge |
| 1.20.1 | 2026-10-25 | 1.21.11 | NeoForge |
| 1.19.2 | 2026-10-09 | 1.21.11 | NeoForge |
| 1.19.0 | 2026-09-30 | 1.21.11 | NeoForge |
| 1.18.3 | 2026-09-27 | 1.21.11 | NeoForge |
| 1.18.2 | 2026-09-22 | 1.21.11 | Forge |
Run Openwheel Racing on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogVehicles & ships
Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Openwheel Racing as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- ForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.11
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorPilotRaikonnen, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseCC-BY-NC-4.0Free
