I just didn't like iracing. After a dozen years with GT I grew disenchanted with the number of noobs online in the early months of GT5.
Spent I $2k on a hot pc, signed up with iracing for a year, bought everything and spent 6 weeks in it.
Some aspects of the physics are better, but I did not like being restricted to the inside view of the car, I don't find that view helpful when racing in either. Actually I found most aspects of iracing slow to develop as a positive racing experience. Worse noobs were in virtually every race, they reckon their system is designed to inhibit them, but when a single control loss excusion off track will usually cost you a decent finish in the 20 lap race. And like all the noobs they tend to strike in the first lap or two. Boring.
Perhaps it is my short attention span, but I soon longed for a wider range of tuneable cars, a more frequent and varied racing experience.
So the youngest son scored the pc and I went back to GT5. Yes, I would rather GT5 had the scope in tuning that is available in iracing... there you can set a tyre grade by wheel, and change the weight of the car's balance on individual rims. Neat. Detailed, deep.
But in all I was glad to get back to GT5 and pleased to note that most of the noobs have grown up in the game. Well done fellas.
I find both iracing and GT5 to be a long way from my happy experiences of blasting real cars down highways, back roads, bush roads, on skid pans and around race tracks. I call them both simulators, they are both good (different in quality only to a small degree), but both have a long way to go.
Each offers a drivers vision that is much smaller than in real life and consequently one cannot drive them with the same accuracy and repetitive precision of real life. Coding to enable quality 3 screen setups would create better drivers vision, no doubt it is on the agenda, it would be nice to have now.
ps the Thrustmaster T500 felt slightly better in iracing, the loss of traction was signalled better through the wheel, but the brakes were crap. And I do miss the revolving paddles of the G27 in both.