Types and Personal Tags

Types and tags organize the whole setup, across all its versions. They help you name its intended use and find it again; they do not change the setup file, create a version, or say what the car objectively does.

Setups is in Public Beta and requires a personal Plus or Ultra plan. A Team seat alone does not grant access.

One Optional Type

A setup can have one type, or No type:

Type	Use it for
Training	Practice runs and setup development
Qualifying	Short, qualifying-focused runs
Race - Sprint	Short races where outright pace matters most
Race - Endurance	Long races, stints and endurance events
No type	You have not classified it yet

The type is optional. A new setup starts as No type unless you choose one.

Wet is not a type. Weather can apply to training, qualifying, a sprint or an endurance race, so create a personal tag such as Wet instead. You can then combine it with any type.

Your Personal Tags

Tags are reusable labels from your own vocabulary: Wet, baseline, safe, Spa 24h, long stint, understeer or even 🌧️. They are private to your account and are not translated.

• You can keep up to 100 tags in your personal vocabulary.
• One setup can have up to 8 tags.
• A tag name can contain 1–30 Unicode code points, including spaces, punctuation and emoji. Some combined emoji use more than one code point.
• Leading and trailing whitespace is removed, repeated whitespace is collapsed, and equivalent Unicode forms are normalized.
• Names are unique without regard to letter case: Wet, wet and WET are the same tag. Accents and punctuation still matter, so Braking Lab does not silently treat seco and secó, or Wet and Wet!, as equivalent.

Braking Lab never translates tags or guesses that two differently named tags mean the same thing. Wet, Lluvia and Mojado remain separate unless you choose to merge them.

Add, Find and Filter

Choose a type and tags while uploading a setup, or change them later with Edit setup in the setup detail. You can select an existing tag or create one inline. Editing this metadata does not touch the file or create a new version.

Cards and setup details show the type and tags. Text search also matches visible tag names. Type, tag and other active filters combine with AND. When you select several tags, a setup must contain all of them to appear — selecting Wet and Safe does not include a setup that has only one.

Manage Your Vocabulary

Open Manage tags from the Setups library, or follow the same link from a tag picker. The manager shows every tag and how many setups use it.

• Rename changes the visible name everywhere the tag is used.
• If the new name already exists, Braking Lab offers to merge the two tags and asks for confirmation. It never merges them silently.
• Delete asks for confirmation, then removes the tag from every setup. It does not delete any setup or version.

These operations act on your reusable vocabulary, so their effect is global to your Setups library rather than limited to the setup currently open.

Metadata Is Not Evidence

Type and tags are metadata declared by you. The Race Engineer can show and filter them, and can say “you tagged this setup as understeer” or “you marked this setup for endurance.” It cannot turn either field into a measured fact, technical diagnosis or performance conclusion.

In particular, type and tags do not affect:

• the derived Draft / Ready / Tested status;
• setup identity or automatic session matching;
• whether two setups or versions can be compared;
• confirmed-session evidence, telemetry or an A/B judgment;
• the parameters a remix changes or the recommendation it makes.

If you tag a setup fast, that records your wording — it does not prove the setup is faster. The file records the configuration. Observational evidence about how it performs comes from confirmed track sessions and your explicit evaluation. See Setups and your sessions and Measuring a setup change.