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[Eric.]

Eh, I'm really not concerned with it. Plus I kinda like my stats.


So, the Skip Barber is a fun little thing.

 

[left888]

I renew on Black Friday, you get a year for $49. Remember you only need to buy content once, I would purchase 3 cars and 3 tracks at a time. Now I have 99% of the cars and about 70% of the tracks.

 

[superbike81]

If you think you are going to stick with the game and run both road and oval, I'd suggest buying everything if you can afford it. Buying all content gets you 25% off at purchase and 25% off all new content as well.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

So the discount is 3 cars and 3 tracks? Not 3 cars or 3 tracks?

And can you renew on Black friday even if your time isn't up?

 

[superbike81]

Any 3 items. Bigger discount on any 6 items and 25% discount if you buy everything. You can extend your membership at any time.

 

[Eric.]

That's a LOT of money up front.

 

[superbike81]

But if you are going to buy it all eventually, you save in the longrun. I already know I love iRacing and will likely play until the service completely dies, so it's no big deal for me.

 

[swiftwilly]

Back to Mosport:
Skip laps down to 1.34.
I found where I am losing all my time and trying to nail that corner...I probably can get high 1.33 but thats it. I normally add 1 - 2 seconds to estimate my lap times for a race and see where the competition is

 

[livemusic]

Back to Mosport:
Skip laps down to 1.34.
I found where I am losing all my time and trying to nail that corner...I probably can get high 1.33 but thats it. I normally add 1 - 2 seconds to estimate my lap times for a race and see where the competition is

I'll try to race there tonight, don't remember what my time used to be but the Skip is way faster in some tracks this season. I lowered my PB by over a second on LRP last week.

 

[left888]

You don't need to buy everything at once, buy in 3's or 6's, does not matter if it's cars or tracks, could be 4 cars and 2 tracks. Maybe 2 cars and 1 track.


As mentioned you can update your sub at any time.

That's a LOT of money up front.

So the discount is 3 cars and 3 tracks? Not 3 cars or 3 tracks?

And can you renew on Black friday even if your time isn't up?

 

[GTP_FastM3]

I spent another 1.5 hours on LRP last night and got so I could run consistent 1:02.xxx laps. I was still putting an occasional tire off, but could do 5-10 laps in a row without an incident. So I thought I'm ready for a time trial.

Dooooh. Track had already switched to Okayama Short. So I did some testing on that track for a couple hours. Man that track is so much easier than LRP. It's amazing how much difference bumps and hills make on a racetrack. I can only get into the 1:04.xxx, but I can easily put together 10 laps consecutively without incident. It took me 3 hours of practice on LRP before I could do 10 incident free laps in a row.

I think I'll do a Time Trial and Race tonight on Okayama. Next week I'll have a head start on LRP with all of this weeks practice.

BTW I did get reverse to work. I don't know why I couldn't get it into reverse the last time. Thankfully I didn't really need it anyway. I'm still not sure about a reset button. I need to read more I guess, but it's hard to spend time reading when I could be driving instead.

One more question. Is there a way for a family member to buy me an iRacing gift certificate. I see the section where I can buy other iRacers credit, but of course my family members won't have access to the site. My birthday is coming up in a few months and I think it would make a good gift.

 

[Nastradamus87]

Eh, I'm really not concerned with it. Plus I kinda like my stats.


So, the Skip Barber is a fun little thing.

I like it. It's hard to drive at my limit without losing control, so it's very rewarding when it happens.

As for the difficulty of Mosport, there is little room for error when pusing hard. Most corners have zero runoff area, so if you go even a meter wide your on the grass and about to meet the wall. As far as high speed tracks go, I like Mosport much more than Watkins Glen. I still like Brands Hatch the most at this point though.

 

[isamu]

WOOOHOOO!!!!!!!!​

Just got my first win in iRacing, and only started playing it Saturday!!!! I know you guys have always seen me here asking questions about iRacing and I've always been skeptical about the service, but I said the hell with it and decided to jump in head first Saturday morning. Man am I glad I did!

Had a race in the Mazda Cup at Okayama just now, and after many many attempts, I got my first WIN after starting 7th on the grid!!!

Would have had a win at Lime Rock Sunday but spun out and lost. Man this game is awesome!!!

 

[Jav]

WOOOHOOO!!!!!!!!​

That right there is why I love this game so much! It can be hard, brutal and frustrating at times, but my God is it a rewarding experience!

 

[superbike81]

Best thing about rookie and low split races is you don't really have to be amazingly fast to win a race, you have to be consistently quick and safe.

Congrats on your first win! It's a great feeling huh? You feel much more like you actually accomplished something versus winning a race on GT5.

 

[livemusic]

Woo, now I can record videos with Fraps at a decent framerate while playing iRacing. Here's one I did with the Skippy at Mosport:

 

[Eric.]

To me, the Skippy feels very easy to drive up to the limit. And at the limit, it reminds me a lot of my MR2. The biggest thing that has caught me out is the quicker steering ratio. I'm used to dialing in way more countersteer, and it looks like the steering wheel goes full lock at 180 degrees.

Down to a mid 1'34 last night for qualifying.

 

[swiftwilly]

Loving Mosport, 1.33 is in sight. Low 1.34 now and I know where to cut it, compared to LRP where I got no idea how top racers were beating me by 1.5seconds on such a short lap...

Looking at top splits, it seems you need <1.35 average to get a good position. I am sure this would be lowered by end of the week.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

At Lanier in the Legend I'm running a consistent 16.08x to 16.10x second lap, and my best is 15.8xx but I know there's another 4-6 tenths somewhere but I can't figure it out, (I'm using Test mode if that matters), any pointers?

Thanks superbike and left888

 

[superbike81]

At Lanier in the Legend I'm running a consistent 16.08x to 16.10x second lap, and my best is 15.8xx but I know there's another 4-6 tenths somewhere but I can't figure it out, (I'm using Test mode if that matters), any pointers?

Thanks superbike and left888

I'm having pretty much exactly the same issues. I asked a couple people yesterday what they are doing to get 15.2's and they said a combination of trailbraking and getting on the gas early + running it all the way to the walls. I can handle trailbraking and getting on the gas early, but whenever I start drifting towards the walls, I get scared and let off the gas. I think for me, it's just being new to oval racing. My PB at Lanier is 15.8 too.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

I can't effectively trailbrake with the DFGT very much or I spin. I've tried both extremes in bias and lower front brake bias seemed a bit better.

However I have tried just about all of my real life oval setups to the best of my memory and I am definitely convinced it's me just not seeing it, I went back to the iracing setup with minor tweaks

As for the wall, you just need to go for it (in tests)and most likely you'll notice wall effect (that's what I call it, it's very similar to ground effect on aircraft) at least that's what it feels like to me. If it's a four wheel drift that's common, but I just get on the gas too early and I get understeer


Also, I still haven't had the time to join a race but when you are searching for a race is there a way to filter a list, I've been looking at what races pop up in the join a race menu and I can't seem to find a legends race

 

[Eric.]

Unless you really really really like the Legends, I'd just get your SR up to 3.0 and move on to Street Stocks. The Legends aren't any fun to me, there's no feel and no traction. They're fun to play with on road courses like the last Week 13 though.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

Unless you really really really like the Legends, I'd just get your SR up to 3.0 and move on to Street Stocks. The Legends aren't any fun to me, there's no feel and no traction. They're fun to play with on road courses like the last Week 13 though.

That's mainly what I got iracing for........ ( as I double check my avatar ) and why do I need to get it to 3.0 as I can already use street stocks? It came with the basic 1 month package for $5 (PR-GTP5)

 

[superbike81]

I never thought I would say this, but I'm an idiot for not playing NASCAR and other oval racing games a long time ago. I enjoy road racing of course, but I've never quite had such close and exciting races as I have in the week or so I've been doing oval racing. My last race in the Late Model was amazing, I was a good 10 seconds behind the leaders, but we were having an amazing battle for 5, 6, 7, and 8 positions. All of us within 0.1-0.3 seconds of each other, 4 wheel drifting, passing then getting passed back, going three wide somewhere that we really shouldn't have, etc, etc. My heart was beating so hard throughout the last 10 laps of this battle. I went for 5th on the last turn before the finish and fishtailed, overcorrected, fishtailed the other way, overcorrected, but still managed to hold 6th across the line. All of this 15 lap or so battle without a single incident between the 4 of us. Amazing!

Oval racing is awesome. I'm a changed man.

Oh, then I went and drove the Ford GT in the Intel GT series and ended up with 12 incidents and -0.25 or so SR. LOL, guess I need to put some practice laps between my oval and road races.

 

[Eric.]

Street Stocks and the inRacingNews Challenge (Spec Racer Ford, MX5, Solstice) are the Advanced Rookie series. You have to have a rookie 3.0 oval or road rating, respectively, to race in either.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

@ superbike lol GT5 did the opposite for me, I have opened up to road course recently but ovals are where I'll be for a long time as I've never raced a road course IRL, I used to swear by Nascar Dirt to Daytona and Nascar 2003

Street Stocks and the inRacingNews Challenge (Spec Racer Ford, MX5, Solstice) are the Advanced Rookie series. You have to have a rookie 3.0 oval or road rating, respectively, to race in either.

So I can practice in them but not race if I understand right

 

[Eric.]

Yes. You can test in any car you own.

 

[superbike81]

@ superbike lol GT5 did the opposite for me, I have opened up to road course recently but ovals are where I'll be for a long time as I've never raced a road course IRL, I used to swear by Nascar Dirt to Daytona and Nascar 2003



So I can practice in them but not race if I understand right

I think we grew up as polar opposites. My dad started me real life racing karts at a very early age, and then open wheelers shortly after that. So I've been road racing my entire life. My dad disliked NASCAR and oval racing in all forms and he passed that on to me. Took me about 30 years to change I guess.

 

[swiftwilly]

Roush, I highly suggest you read the various guides available on iracing.com and their forums. Also watch the iracing school videos on the website.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

^that was pretty much what I had planned on doing but I forget to do that each time I'm online

@ superbike, exactly, I grew up on quarter midgets oval track racing