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I don’t understand why people are treating ITested as similar driving standards to week 13? It’s not even counting IR and it’s basically free SR if you are careful while driving.

I checked some of the results of the ITested series and the majority who participated in the series has lost SR. Why aren’t people just treating this like a track day and being extra careful since the results don’t matter?

I've been building this on and off for a while and finally got the desktop app to a usable state, so figured I'd share.

parcferme.cc — setups for iRacing, LMU and ACC. Free, no paywall, no subscription, browse without logging in.

The desktop app is the part I made for myself: click EQUIP on the site and the file goes straight into the right car folder in your iRacing setups directory. No downloads folder archaeology.

It's early (v0.2.0) so there are rough edges. If you've got a non-standard iRacing install path I'd especially like to hear about it.

Servers are down, demo drive is on, but I don't remember seeing any announcements for maintenance and usually, any work is done by the time I get home.

Anyone have any idea what's going on at the moment? No announcements on the iRacing forums either, last one was for yesterday, 21 July.

Hi guys,

right now Im trying to decide which GT4 car to buy. I checked the splits of the last days and saw that like 95% are BMW and Mercs.

I drove the Mclaren in test drive and thought its pretty nice.

Is there any major downside to it? I tried the same tracks with the GT4 porsche, merc, bmw & mclaren and I had the feeling that I made the most "progress" in the mclaren.

Is it because its easier to drive? I can imagine that its maybe harder to "learn" the merc and bmw, but in the end they are faster?

I wanted to ask if anyone else has experienced what I experienced these last few weeks.

A little background information: I’ve always been primarily a GT3 racer and when I bought iRacing, I basically did whatever I needed to do in order to improve my SR to get into the GT3 races as quickly as I could. At the start of this season, my SR rating was high enough from last season to earn automatic promotion into A-class. This prompted me to try out the GTP’s, specifically in the IMSA series, and after a little bit of figuring out how to drive the GTP’s quickly during the Spa week, I’ve fallen in love with these cars and quickly found myself driving at a pace that far exceeds what my iR indicates what it should be.

Before this season, I refused to drive GTP’s/Prototypes on any other racing game I used to play because I hated them. They’re now my favorite class of racing. I’m hovering around a 1700-1850 iR, but my raw pace is that of drivers who are rated at 3k-7k depending on the track.

In GT3’s, I generally feel that my iRating is rather accurate for my pace/racecraft ability, or at least I’m at the pace of a 2k-2.2k driver, but this isn’t that large of a difference as compared to the GTP’s. I will add too that my driving in GT3’s is better now because of my practice with GTP’s which has made my driving inputs much smoother.

As an example in the fixed IMSA series, my PB on Interlagos was a 1:22.5, and my current PB on Road America is a 1:50.9 and I can consistently hit those lap times to within a .5 of a second (still improving my consistency), but the only drivers who are consistently hitting those same lap times or better in open practices/races are significantly ahead of me in terms of iRating. Just in the past week, I finally won my first IMSA race and it so happened to be the top split (which is my first top split win ever), and I beat out drivers who had well more than double my iRating.

Has anyone experienced this after moving to a faster series?

I haven't had a chance to try out the newly released league yet. However, I was drinking my morning coffee and two questions came to mind:

1. What happens when two cars crash or get left behind during the GTP formation? Do the two following formations come to a full stop?
2. What happens if the GTPs get the green flag, but someone in LMP2 crashes or gets left behind? Do the GT3s come to a halt while the GTPs catch up with them?

Knowing iRacing and other multiclass races, it's probably just a case of going around the crashed car while the pace cars just phase through the collided cars. But maybe someone has already experienced such a scenario, hence my question to feed my curiosity. Thanks

Trying to see if I did this correctly, I currently have a RS50 and the wheel outputs 8NM. Under wheel force I marked it at 8NM and then under strength I moved the slider to “43 8NM” which means that the game matches the output of my wheel to make it feel 100% accurate to FFB of car meaning it’s 1:1 scaling? Or am I getting this wrong?

I was originally playing with the slider all the way down and I was always wondering why iRacing felt like I was using powered steering with every car but now I’m down a rabbit hole with for feedback settings and I think I have it right where it’s at right now.

I did my first online race last night and loved it. Was excited to race again today but we’re hit with emergency maintenance.

As someone who is very new, very much in rookie, and has only used the MX-5 online, what would be a good car to try that is used a lot in higher class races, and what track is good to learn while we have Demo Drive available?

Almost witnessed a massacre at Spa in F4. Enjoy😇

First; i’m aware i should be going based off schedules, but im the kinda person that likes to just have the tracks/cars i love.

Been reallllyyyy getting into ovals and already have a few like the superspeedways, kansas, iowa, homestead miami. I was wondering if I should buy these tracks based on onboards i’ve seen as well as things i’ve heard about em:

- Las Vegas
- Texas
- Auto Club
- Michigan
- Chicagoland
- Darlington

Now i’m not into the short tracks all that much, but I know these have a bit more braking involved and wondered if these were also good:

- Nashville
- Bristol
- Pocono
- Richmond
- New Hampshire

As for cars, I was wondering if I should get the Gen4 and/or 87s? I wonder if it’s worth it based on participation as well.

Feel free to leave any suggestions based on the hot laps of each track, how the racing is (single vs multi groove), and any other tracks you think have good stuff. Thank you everyone, and have a nice day!

Edit: Is it worth getting the legacy version of these tracks? Especially if i’m planning on buying 87s

Lmp2 team preferably 0900 am cet start time. I am around 1,4k ir. Gt3 Ferrari team could also work

I bought a buttkicker pro some months ago and tried out some settings from a YouTube video. I have just not been feeling it tbh, the car feels completely off, it shakes no matter what you do and loud, I know it’s supposed to be loud but not while doing nothing. It would be nice if I could get it to work on curbs, engine vibration and changing gears but I get nowhere when I make the changes in simhub.

The Brickyard 400 isn't a separate race we should see, right? It's just the Nascar iRacing Series open of fixed?

I have found recently that my pace is absolutely nowhere when I am racing alone (ex: any quali laps or if there is a big gap in front and behind).

When I am within a second of cars ahead I can very easily match and usually beat their pace, but the second I find myself in a situation where I am just alone, my pace falls off so much.

I find it very difficult to increase my pace based off of a relative instead of basing it off an actual car in front of me, and as I am increasing my IR, this is becoming more and more of a problem, I am now in 2.8-3k SOFs and if anything happens where I separate from group ahead, the race is practically over already for me it just turns into a practice session and frustration sets in when I see my laps fall off more and more.

Any tips on actually how to practice would be helpful, I know I need practice but maybe I’m going at it the wrong way.

I’m POV
When I made this move I couldn’t believe it. I had a lot of overspeed on the car in front and was three wide so I felt I had to go for it. Exit was a little rough but I held onto it. The only thing that really leads me to believe it was dangerous was the contact with the two cars behind me. Though it seemed the red car just didn’t slow down enough and bumped the blue.

Edit: Maybe this is a bit of a humble brag. I was very proud of this move. But As someone who’s fairly new to sim racing I’m actually trying to learn what’s acceptable and what isn’t. And my overtaking isn’t usually this strong. I’m usually very anxious behind the wheel and don’t go for a lot of opportunities especially not like this. Which is why I thought maybe it was dangerous. With that said it seems that the consensus is it was clean. But dangerous in the sense that I took a risk with other drivers around me. And I was lucky we all had decent spacial awareness. Thanks for all the genuine feedback and positive reinforcement. I definitely learned something today.