Here is a quick list of the commands. The rest of this guide gives a lot of superfluous context and detail to an issue that was previously undocumented. Unless you are curious of each command, you more than likely don't need the entire guide.

kickban 0
callvote g_gametype 2
callvote ruleset turbo
callvote map_restart
; change map
g_startingweapons 145
dmflags 28
g_respawn_delay_min -1
g_respawn_delay_max -1
g_startingammo_rl 2000
g_startingammo_pg 2000
cg_autohop 0
; suicide

The first thing we need to do is start a local match. On the top bar, under the tab labelled "Play" is a "Practice" label. This allows us to create a local bot match; however, it only allows us to choose gametypes of FFA, CTF, CA, TDM and Duel. We can modify the gametypes later, but for now just choose whatever mode and start it up.

Every command here can be inputted into the console via the tilde (~).

Once you have started a server, there will probably be bots in the game. Use
to retrieve the integer IDs of these bots and kick each of them with

Our next step is to change the game mode. The "callvote" console command lets us callvotes on modifying certain features of the game:
The first one is the game mode, `g_gametype` . We want to modify its value to the race mode, which is hardcoded as the value 2:

The physics is still in the default mode, which will need to be changed to turbo via quake's rulesets.

After you do these two things, you must reload the map in order for the effects to be applied:
After this you are free to change the map to whichever race map you want to play

There are still a couple issues, the first being that you are not starting with the rocket launcher or plasma gun (vital tools in race!). We can modify the variable g_startingWeapons to fix this; note that we do not use "callvote" to modify this value, that is because callvote is to modify variables that other players/clients can modify, while g_startingWeapons and others can only be modified by an admin. Unfortunately, the only thing this really means for private servers, is that every time you change map, you must reinput the values of these variables.

The value of g_startingWeapons is a bitmask[en.wikipedia.org]. The masks necessary for the starting weapons are listed below.
since (1 OR 16 OR 128) == 145, we use:

And then respawn. Now that you have these weapons, you'll quickly notice that you will take fall and splash damage. There is another bitmask variable `dmflags` that will resolve this issue.

Finally, the starting ammunition for each weapon is too low for racing. To fix starting ammo for each weapon is simple as well.

And there you have it. Begin to race; thanks for reading ! Be sure to give me a comment if I left anything out


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As an aside, here are some things that I also like to do:

Remove respawn delay
Setting respawn delay to -1 is the same as 0 but it gets across the fact that I don't
like respawn delay :)

Turn off Auto-Hop