Right after we covered Factory Seat 1.3 last week, developer Doc Holliday shipped the companion app's biggest milestone yet this morning: Factory Seat 1.4 "Full Push". Still 100% free and open source for Windows and Linux, the update builds out the endgame for single-player Le Mans Ultimate drivers without touching your existing career saves.
Installing 1.4 over an earlier version keeps your active seasons intact and even credits your driver for achievements you already completed in previous seasons.
From Factory Seat developer Doc Holliday:
"1.4 is the endgame: achievements, a trophy room for everything you've won, and the ladder again with the easy settings gone."
What is new in v1.4?
Once you finish a season of five or more races in your starting class, you can retire your driver into the Hall of Fame and start a fresh career mode run from LMGT3 back up to Hypercar with much stricter rules:
- Class-Scaled AI Strength: Every round sets its own AI band with High aggression (LMGT3 90-95, LMP3 92-95, LMGTE 93-96, LMP2 95-98, and Hypercar 99-104).
- Real Track Rain Odds: Roughly a third of your calendar rounds run in the wet based on each circuit's real-world chance of rain.
- Mandatory Damage & Wear: Invulnerability is off, mechanical failures are enabled, and fuel and tire wear must stay at 1x real or higher.
- Result File Verification: Factory Seat checks your local LMU result XML against the required difficulty floor. Drop below the floor three times in a season and the save converts into a standard career.
- Mid-Season Firing Risk: Penalties, disqualifications, and heavy DNFs cost reputation. From LMP3 upward, a team will drop you mid-season if your reputation tanks.
- Hall of Fame Head Starts: Past achievements grant starting perks for your next run, including a reputation boost, a front-running seat, an extra sponsor, or keeping your old car number and team name.
3D Trophy Room, 20 Achievements & Season Cards
Version 1.4 gives you a permanent 3D Trophy Room where every circuit has its own trophy on the shelf, complete with an engraved base plate for each class win at that track and championship cups along the top row. You can click any trophy to pull it forward and rotate it in 3D, toggle between your current driver and your all-time career shelf, and check your personal record book (most wins and poles in a season, longest win streak, biggest title margin, fastest climb to Hypercar, and total hours raced).
There are 20 achievements to chase: 15 open to any career and 5 tough challenges exclusive to New Game+, such as Hurley Haywood's Crown Jewels (winning Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans at full length in one career) and Both Sides of the Pond (winning the WEC and IMSA titles in the same season). At the end of each campaign, the app also generates a one-image Season Card with your round-by-round results, records, and achievements that you can copy or save as a PNG to share on Discord or Reddit.
Briefing Tweaks, Calendar Shuffle & Streamer Overlays
Beyond the endgame additions, Doc Holliday packed several community-requested upgrades into 1.4:
- Hidden Press Outcomes: Media interview choices now hide their reputation effects until after you answer, with an optional "Roll the dice" toggle for randomized press outcomes.
- Season Calendar Shuffler & Briefing Length Control: A new Shuffle button deals a randomized season calendar from the tracks you own while keeping 24-hour crown jewel rounds in place, and you can now adjust race length directly from the pre-race briefing.
- Smarter Pit Plans & Sprint Fuel Logic: Short 15-to-20-minute sprint races where a single tank lasts the full distance now automatically skip pit stop requirements, and Lusail fuel stints are calibrated to ~58 minutes in LMGT3 and Hypercar.
- OBS Browser Overlay & SimHub Integration: Streamers can generate a live OBS browser source showing race stakes, standings, and team principal notes, alongside a dedicated Settings row for Milky28's SimHub Companion overlay.
Factory Seat 1.4 is available right now in eight languages for Windows and Linux. Download the installer and read the full release notes on GitHub.
