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superbike81
You don't HAVE to spend a ton of time with it. If you want to truly be competitive, you pretty much stick with one or two series max and get really really good at that car.

For the rest of us who enjoy fighting for 3rd or 4th or 5th (or even 14th) we don't have to spend 40hrs a week messing with setups and extracting every single 0.01 seconds there is to be had. I play this game a maximum of 10hrs a week, and that's including a 2-3hr endurance race with my league on the weekends. If I stopped playing Grand Prix Legends (which I won't) I'm sure I would spend about 15-20hrs a week playing. I don't bother with setups, if it's an open setup series, I go to the iRacing forums or any of the setup sites and download a few setups that have already been made and use whichever one feels best for my driving style. Each time a track comes up that I'm not completely familiar with, I'll spend maybe 30-45 minutes doing laps that gradually get faster and then I'm done. The rest of my "practice" comes during actual races.

Didn't mean for my post to be that long, but to truly enjoy the game, you could probably spend 2-3 hours a week and have just as much fun as anyone else. If you are the type who can't handle not finishing in the top 3 the majority of the time, yeah, you are going to have to spend some time with it, especially as you get to higher licenses and more serious series.
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+1 for this.

I'm pretty much the same; I don't have a whole lot of time to dedicate to iRacing (usually a Saturday or Sunday; sometimes both) and I'll practice a new track for an hour or so and jump into a race (I don't bother to qualify; I'll start at the back and stay out of everyone's way!) Like Superbike, my real practice starts then.

I still have a lot of fun racing though, on Sunday I had an epic battle in the Mustang at Spa for about 6 laps jostling for position (9th and 10th btw - you don't need to be in the top three or whatever to have fun!). Really, really great stuff :)
 
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superbike81
You don't HAVE to spend a ton of time with it. If you want to truly be competitive, you pretty much stick with one or two series max and get really really good at that car.

For the rest of us who enjoy fighting for 3rd or 4th or 5th (or even 14th) we don't have to spend 40hrs a week messing with setups and extracting every single 0.01 seconds there is to be had. I play this game a maximum of 10hrs a week, and that's including a 2-3hr endurance race with my league on the weekends. If I stopped playing Grand Prix Legends (which I won't) I'm sure I would spend about 15-20hrs a week playing. I don't bother with setups, if it's an open setup series, I go to the iRacing forums or any of the setup sites and download a few setups that have already been made and use whichever one feels best for my driving style. Each time a track comes up that I'm not completely familiar with, I'll spend maybe 30-45 minutes doing laps that gradually get faster and then I'm done. The rest of my "practice" comes during actual races.

Didn't mean for my post to be that long, but to truly enjoy the game, you could probably spend 2-3 hours a week and have just as much fun as anyone else. If you are the type who can't handle not finishing in the top 3 the majority of the time, yeah, you are going to have to spend some time with it, especially as you get to higher licenses and more serious series.
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Maybe I'll just practice non stop whilst i am busy and not race at all. Do those ghost practice sessions and later in a few months when I have more time, do a race.
 
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swiftwilly
Maybe I'll just practice non stop whilst i am busy and not race at all. Do those ghost practice sessions and later in a few months when I have more time, do a race.
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good idea. I followed the advice of iRacing members and ran many TTs until I could run a full-length race without any incidents. After that I joined some practice servers that had other pilots. This was a good way to learn how to drive in traffic.
I believe I started from the pits for my first few races.
(in fact, I grabbed a podium spot (3rd place) in my first official race! not by speed but by being gifted the podium when 10 pilots in front me crashed out! LOL)
:)
 
Sweet, so I got the Division 7 title for Grand Am Rolex series for both TTs and Races 👍

@Rob, yeah I think I try to practice bout an hour per day. But the time required for ramp up reduces the more & more you see a track. I sometimes place about 5th-6th place (or rather I usually lose iR my first time at a track and then gain more & more each other visit). It's all up to the individual. Many time you'll just get all kinds of lucky and place favorably by just driving smart & safe.

Honestly I still wonder how people drive so fast!!! I can hit like high 2.07s at SPA but dudes like Jav can hit 2.05s and beyond! It's amazing I do as decent as I do cause I'm kind of a turtle :scared:

Granted it all depends on the track. On highly technical tracks like SPA I might be way off pace but on other simplier tracks like Phillips Island, Infineon, etc I can do wayyyyy better and get closer to the leaders

edit: On weekends I do try to practice all I can when I'm not busy with the family & friends. I try to practice til my incidents in the practice sessions at least reduce close to 0
 
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sandboxgod
Sweet, so I got the Division 7 title for Grand Am Rolex series for both TTs and Races 👍

@Rob, yeah I think I try to practice bout an hour per day. But the time required for ramp up reduces the more & more you see a track. I sometimes place about 5th-6th place (or rather I usually lose iR my first time at a track and then gain more & more each other visit). It's all up to the individual. Many time you'll just get all kinds of lucky and place favorably by just driving smart & safe.

Honestly I still wonder how people drive so fast!!! I can hit like high 2.07s at SPA but dudes like Jav can hit 2.05s and beyond! It's amazing I do as decent as I do cause I'm kind of a turtle :scared:

Granted it all depends on the track. On highly technical tracks like SPA I might be way off pace but on other simplier tracks like Phillips Island, Infineon, etc I can do wayyyyy better and get closer to the leaders

edit: On weekends I do try to practice all I can when I'm not busy with the family & friends. I try to practice til my incidents in the practice sessions at least reduce close to 0
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Yeah!! Congratz on the championship! It feels so much rewarding to win a championship on iRacing than in any other plataform!
You should've seen the pace on the Spa 2.4, the front row was 2:00.5!!! Now that's blistering fast! My PB is 3 seconds behind that in the open setup and there's guys that are even faster wich is just mindblowing!
 
Yay I finally did a clean spa race with 0 incidents!!! :dopey:

Just had to dodge the smoke and overtake the slower hpds. Intel GT is almost as dangerous as the normal prototype & GT series lol

Yeah 2s flat at spa would be so awesome. I dream, I dream
 
I am edging closer....I am asking on some other forums about a check on hardware costs as I will need to buy a PC.

Economy is pretty **** and my job is very tied to it so I might hold out if it costs a lot. Also I have a crap load of stuff to do in the earlier half this year so its a bit hard to sell with the wife...expecting our child due in August to so am I asking too much? haha..maybe I will just stick with GT5..
 
So I stopped playing for a while right before the NTM and everything came out in August. Started back up again a few weeks ago and I've just been doing practice sessions and my own test sessions. Grabbed Suzuka and finally picked up the Radical tonight. Oh my god is that a fun car to drive. I'm pretty terrible with most of the faster road cars so I wasn't sure what to expect, but I'm looking forward to running the hell out of it the next few weeks to try to get up to speed.
 
Im trying to figure out if my steering is setup right...
Im using a g27 and I had no idea what i was doing in the calibration. It asked me to turn 90 degrees to the left(I really prefer not to have to eyeball measurements.....and dont have a protractor). for the two seering degrees that it shows one above the other.

The top one say "197"
The bottom says 360 at high speed.

I dont want the game to do any of that progressive steering at low vs highspeed nonsense so I want to make sure....
what do the steering numbers look like for you guys using wheels?
 
When you do the calibration and turn 90 degrees to the left its just for the game to calculate the full rotation of the wheel. Just turn until it says 900 degrees (which is the max for the g27). So if you start with your hands at 3 and 9 oclock they should end up at 12 and 6, they just make what ever tiny adjustments until it reads 900 degrees and hit done.
 
dchPSUone
When you do the calibration and turn 90 degrees to the left its just for the game to calculate the full rotation of the wheel. Just turn until it says 900 degrees (which is the max for the g27). So if you start with your hands at 3 and 9 oclock they should end up at 12 and 6, they just make what ever tiny adjustments until it reads 900 degrees and hit done.
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Hmm. I had my steering way off...I had turned it until it said around 190 degrees.

edit: I think the real issue was that in My logitech profiler the wheel was only set to allow a maximum 200 degrees.

I accidentall blew up the engine! :) I love this game haha
 
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Thanks dchPSUone, after reading your post I did a proper calibration. I was running the G27 at 1080, and the lock to lock slider would only output 1080. I knew something wasn't right when I set it a few days ago, but never gave it another thought... until now.

:cheers:
 
Ok im totally new to this. How do I pick a series. Or how do i go about moving out of rookie? Can i just enter any of the races?

Are there no series for the MX5/solstice available? I dont see them on the homepage
 
To get out of rookie you will need at least 2 races on a rookie car, this week that car is the Legends car. My advice, get those 2 races under your belt and move on to the Intel GT Series. Get your SR there! I've raced long enough with you to know you'll be just fine with some practice on the HPD. If you don't have the content just do the Legends Road race, start from the pits and guaranteed you'll make up a lot of possitions while staying out of trouble. Ealier today I was watching Tissimo race on Limerock and he had the perfect race going till some jackass decided to come out of the pits right into the racing line and got into him. That's exactly what you want to avoid, starting from the pits will get you clear of the morons when they crash into each other!
Do NOT pass anyone on the first chance you get, take your time to study and obsere them, 99% of the time they will crash from the pressure.
Happy iRacing!
 
Jav
To get out of rookie you will need at least 2 races on a rookie car, this week that car is the Legends car. My advice, get those 2 races under your belt and move on to the Intel GT Series. Get your SR there! I've raced long enough with you to know you'll be just fine with some practice on the HPD. If you don't have the content just do the Legends Road race, start from the pits and guaranteed you'll make up a lot of possitions while staying out of trouble. Ealier today I was watching Tissimo race on Limerock and he had the perfect race going till some jackass decided to come out of the pits right into the racing line and got into him. That's exactly what you want to avoid, starting from the pits will get you clear of the morons when they crash into each other!
Do NOT pass anyone on the first chance you get, take your time to study and obsere them, 99% of the time they will crash from the pressure.
Happy iRacing!
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This game is impressive! The legends car is so much fun trying to find the limits. I'm currently practicing online in the legends. Trying to improve my braking. I love thy physics and the ffb in this game! Im a believer now hahaha. Graphics look superb even though Im using laptop If the legend car feels so accurate i wonder what the hpd feels like :drool:
Ill get there soon Jav.

is it possible to adjust brake bias in the legends racer?
edit(found this in settings for brake bias)

Also, I cant get the pitlane speed limiter to work. I mapped it to the leftmost red button on the g27 shifter but i cant tell if its on or not...

edit(ppk this mystery s solved too. I think the limiter is too high. the game said 45 but the car went to 49.
 
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The Legends doesn't have a limiter, I don't think any of the oval cars does. Brake bias, I have no clue!
 
Jav
Cool! Any racing yet? Remember the track resets to Okayama tomorrow night at 0 GMT!
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Yes my first race!
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W13 Legends Race at Charlotte speedway Road Course

Didnt qualify as you guys suggested(I started on grid however. Dodged an epic turn 1 mess and came out in 6th. Passed for 5th. 4th spun out then i was in 4th.
Then I wrecked in turn 1. At first i was wondering why the brake distances seemed to be getting longer then i realized I was so nervous that i was not pressing the pedal hard enough to stop like i had been doing in practice...So had to get a tow after bruising the wall and sat for repairs and fuel for maybe 3:00mins. Came out of the pits in 8th spot then tried to close in on 7th but the gap remained steady at 12 second until he had two incidents one bringin him within 3 seconds and the other allowing me to pass! All in all fun race. Traffic was very nice about just letting me through. . Had a fairly quick pace against the other guys and somehow managed to have the fastest average lap time.

+.22 on my isafety

Also to be clear. In order to move out of rookie, all i have to do is run 2 races in the Street Stock Car and 1 more race in the Legends car? Heve not tried the street stock and am not looking forward to it. I can get on pretty well with the Legends however
 
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Nice job Blaze :)

To advance you need 4 timetrial or races at your level to meet the MPR and have SR >= 3.0. If you get to SR 4.0 you get an instant advancement other wise it bumps you up at the end of the season.
 
Well done Blaze! I thought that for Rookies was 2 races but if Red says it's 4 then by all means go for the 4 races and make sure you are over 3.0 before Monday, that way you'll be promoted to D License and will be ready to start the season out of rookie! The Grand Touring Cup will start the season in Daytona, I'd suggest you use that series to get out pf D license and on to C that way the only thing you'll need to buy is the track.
 
the legends race is so hard for me! i ca do a few laps but i always mess up once. the bumps just disrupt me so much or dramatically decrease my laptimes, i FLY in the Mazda down to the 59.s but just dont get the legends at all. (i think having FB on full is really hurting me in the car, but still)
 
I can't handle the Legends either, I practiced last night a bit with the Road setup and I could do a couple of laps, but I would never go into a race without at least an hour of practice!
 
Awesome blaze! soo much better then gt5... Just have to be super careful and watch for retards. Then legends are much more fun to drive then the MX5 imo. Lol while in the Race warmup I found that you could change the setup from oval to road, made it 10000000x better, and much more enjoyable. It was a nightmare taking right handers with the oval setup, :lol:
 
I've been an iRacing member since the beginning (with a 18 month break in the middle) and I have still never touched the oval side. I think I ran a practice session in the Legends car one time on an oval, couldn't understand why people think driving that way is fun, and went back to the road side within about 3 minutes.
 
superbike81
I've been an iRacing member since the beginning (with a 18 month break in the middle) and I have still never touched the oval side. I think I ran a practice session in the Legends car one time on an oval, couldn't understand why people think driving that way is fun, and went back to the road side within about 3 minutes.
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I admit I have not done much oval racing in any game, but in iRacing I do find it fun. Its also very challenging.

I find road much easier though.
 
Guys are very stubborn in the oval. They'll constantly block you even though they're laps down. Just had a race like this, I'd go inside on them and then exit they'd force me to hug the inside wall while they drove down to the low lane on the exit. Maybe its just the rookie series, but it makes it nearly impossible when you only gain .06 SR per race because people not staying in lanes.

Does 0x contact count towards your SR? Last race I had only 1 4x contact when a guy drove down hard on me in the inside, and several other 0x when they only slightly taps... but only gained .06 SR that race. The previous race (only have done 2 oval) a guy spun infront of me (I was exiting turn and he was at the entrance of the next) and his car disappeared then reappeared right as I got to the spot (t-boning him). It gave me 4x car contact but no damage, but gained like .12 SR.
 
tissimo
Guys are very stubborn in the oval. They'll constantly block you even though they're laps down. Just had a race like this, I'd go inside on them and then exit they'd force me to hug the inside wall while they drove down to the low lane on the exit. Maybe its just the rookie series, but it makes it nearly impossible when you only gain .06 SR per race because people not staying in lanes.

Does 0x contact count towards your SR? Last race I had only 1 4x contact when a guy drove down hard on me in the inside, and several other 0x when they only slightly taps... but only gained .06 SR that race. The previous race (only have done 2 oval) a guy spun infront of me (I was exiting turn and he was at the entrance of the next) and his car disappeared then reappeared right as I got to the spot (t-boning him). It gave me 4x car contact but no damage, but gained like .12 SR.
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Yeah. I have lost many races to people doing that
 

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