The control panel tab is the first and main tab of the controller.

At the very top of the control panel tab are five target text boxes. They are:

• The target car number
• The target driver name
• The target camera group
• The target reason
• Camera switch timer

The target is the car and driver that iRacing-TV is trying to focus the iRacing camera on. If this car is not in the game (indicated as “OUT”) then iRacing will tend to switch to the scenic camera, or freeze the current camera.

The target reason would be one of the director rules, or “manual” if the camera is being manually controlled by you.

The target camera group is one of the camera groups in iRacing, such as “Blimp”, or “TV1” or “TV2”. Some camera groups have only one camera (Blimp) while other camera groups have multiple cameras (TV2, etc.)

The camera switch timer indicates how much time is left on the current camera group before it will be allowed to switch to another camera group.