GT5 vs. IRacing

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Am I the only one that thinks the claim that real life racers play games like Iracing and GT5, is completely false? They have better things to do, like race real cars on real tracks, I personally think they get a nice pay check just to say they play "simulators"

You are totally wrong. I have been doing IRACING since its inception and have raced against plenty of real world racers, including Earnhardt Jr. himself.
 
You are totally wrong. I have been doing IRACING since its inception and have raced against plenty of real world racers, including Earnhardt Jr. himself.

You are 100% correct Cargo.iRacing is based on the Sierra Papyrus engine that was from the best PC driving sim ever Nascar 2003.Many Nascar drivers used 2003 and still race on iRacing today.
 
We use NASCAR 2003 during the off season... it IS a great sim! Funny how a 8 year old PC game can still be tops in physics.
 
Ill take gt5 over iracer anyday. Cool you get like 20 cars and like 10 tracks. Look at what gt gives you. Go drive a real car if you want a real life simulation
 
Ill take gt5 over iracer anyday. Cool you get like 20 cars and like 10 tracks. Look at what gt gives you. Go drive a real car if you want a real life simulation

Ok so of the 20 cars you get what one do you think you could afford in real life?
It is a sim this is not.
 
None of them,your missing the point

Yeah and the 100 Nismo's 50 MX 5's 25 Imprexa's 25 Civic's etc,etc,etc.
So what point am I missing. GT5 is a video game, iRacing is a simulator,so don't make it sound like you get this wide variety of cars on here.If one person online in iRacing pulled some of the stunts I've seen on here in a race your account would be closed.That is the difference.Real drivers,yes real Nascar/Motorsport drivers and a real sim.Now you get the point.
 
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Am I the only one that thinks the claim that real life racers play games like Iracing and GT5, is completely false? They have better things to do, like race real cars on real tracks, I personally think they get a nice pay check just to say they play "simulators"

I wish I could afford to be running real tracks every day of the week...
As many have already pointed out, many many pros use iRacing or rFactor or any of those other sims to learn tracks and get a little extra cheap practice before a race. Heck, before the first time I raced Road Atlanta I borrowed my friends XBox and rented Forza so I could run around the track a few times to learn some of the braking points and get a little bit of an idea of where those blind corners go.

<--- NOT a professional. But, If I'm going to pay to race, it's going to be on a real race track... so iRacing is out. If I want to have some fun time on a decent game, GT5 it is. You don't have to be a professional career driver to enjoy a Sim/Game/Whatever you want to call it.

Try rFactor bro. It's free, has a good amount of variety, and I think much more accurate.


$295 Entry Fee, 18 Gallons of 91 octane for the car, 20 gallons of 85 octane for the Tahoe, Food and Drinks for the weekend... usually it's about a $400 weekend. Sometimes less, sometimes more.

I feel ya there, been going through about 20 gallons of 110 Octane at ~$9.00, Lord knows how much is going into the rig, and all the rest. Racing sure ain't cheap.


Now, back on topic. I happen to love GT5 (aside from what they did to my Spitfire :grumpy:), and it was well worth the money in terms of the amount of fun I have had playing it, but unless you find the right set of drivers it will never come close to the level of competition and realism in iRacing, or my new favorite rFactor, not to mention the much better selection of tracks in the two PC sims.
 
Cool... is rFactor on Steam? I think I remember seeing it on there.

And, YIKES! 110 octane!
 
Yeah, it's ridiculous. I'm running 13:1 compression, so I can't reasonably go any lower :\

http://rfactor.net/ as a matter of fact.
Paid the $50 for the download (I think that was the price) and then gone to town on all of those fancy add-ons :)
 
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Ok so of the 20 cars you get what one do you think you could afford in real life?
It is a sim this is not.

Basically in a nutshell,im saying i would rather play gt instead of iracer cause of the content. Iracer you dont get that much content
 
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.
 
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I just signed up for iRacing last week after spending many hours researching it. Comparing it to gt5 is hard. One is a consol game and one is pc. iRacing took some getting used to as well as a lot of tweaking with controls (force feedback and such). In my research I have found many people saying you have to give it some time not just jump to conclusions.

All pricing aside iRacing is very much addictive. Two wide in a corner on iRacing, and im holding my breath. Where as on GT5 its a regular occurrence. I find the racers on iRacing very respectful. Nobody is trying to push you off the track and completing a pass feels very rewarding. People wait for faster cars to go buy and when merging back on track in iRacing most people wait for open track. I find myself feeling guilty if I take another driver out on iRacing and when in doubt i try and go off track and let the others take the lead.

As far as pro racers in iRacing I havent seen any, however im just a rookie. I do work at a racetrack and have found some of our regular drivers on it. For 10 bucks id say try it for anyone that is questioning it. I will defiantly be signing up for a longer subscription.
 
Nobody should waste money and time on iracing.

SimBin racing games on PC like GTL, GTR2 and others ... are great with mods avaliable.

Try Netkarpro. rfactor with mods. rfactor2 which will be released some time next year probably, should be really good. If you already make payment now you can take part in beta which will be announced soon. rfactor2 is like GT5 taking forever :lol:
 
Nobody should waste money and time on iracing.

SimBin racing games on PC like GTL, GTR2 and others ... are great with mods avaliable.

Try Netkarpro. rfactor with mods. rfactor2 which will be released some time next year probably, should be really good. If you already make payment now you can take part in beta which will be announced soon. rfactor2 is like GT5 taking forever :lol:

A little late to the party, you guys ;)

iRacing is legit and beats the pants off simbin games, in my opinion. It's a little costly, then again it isn't ungodly expensive if you like it. About the same monthly price as netflix.

GT5 is like a toy train for a kid. Fun, everyone can play. Looks like the real thing. Can spend endless hours with it from one Christmas to the next, and if the toy company comes out with new toy trains adding to the collection helps the fun continue on with friends and even all by yourself.

iRacing is like model trains for a hobbyist. Costs a lot, not everyone understands the obsession (the toy trains don't look that different from the models and they cost less if you're just willing to sacrifice a little of the realism), but it sure is pretty when it all comes together.

When rFactor2 comes out I'll be singing a different tune, likely.
 
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