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[Ardius]

I've got to a point where I feel I want to move on to Skip Barbers. I've done a week of racing MX5 and SRF and I *think* I'm ready to move up but I'm wondering whether its worth making the most of my free content still.

Firstly, can anyone tell me how much of a jump in handling is the Skippy from the Spec Racer Ford? The SRF has been pretty challenging to learn and race with, if the Skippy is a massive jump up, then I'll stick with the SRF to improve with. I want to progress through the open-wheel path (so Star Mazdas and then Indycars would be the aim after Skippys) so I feel racing the nervous, twitchy cars is the best way or learning car control before driving cars with more and more downforce. I understand the Skippys have barely any downforce and are quite loose so I want to prepare with the SRF properly.

Secondly, am I really ready to move up series so fast or is it best to spend a few weeks in the rookie series to learn tracks and make the most of the free content?

 

[zedfonsie]

I went from spec to the skippy. The skip barber formula car is way easier to drive then the spec.

 

[Coxis]

Ardius, the Skippy is a bit of a handful to drive, however driving the SRF is great training for it. If you feel ready, go for it. 👍

You could take advantage of the iRacing credits promotion currently in place.

 

[WedgeX]

I didn't find the SRF harder than the skip.... to me they are about the same..... but the skip has really improved with the NTM .... I think its one of the best cars for it, it seems like every update you get more feel and sense of what the car is doing - even the last update that only changed the tire squeal sounds helped me.

but the skip is a great car to drive, I have had some of my best races in the skip .... generally people are a little more careful to avoid contact so the racing is cleaner - but more intense because if there is contact the car is so fragile its easy to break

the only downside is that because it is so fragile if there is an accident (and there still are) you are almost guaranteed to be going to the pits where most of the rookie cars its optional

 

[Ardius]

So the consensus seems to be that the Skippy is around about the same as SRF? I might stick with SRF for a while then (perhaps till promotion day) and learn some more of the tracks I haven't raced yet.
Cheers for that guys, with it costing so much just to buy the car and a few tracks its certainly a lot to consider! I don't want to buy content that I then find I don't like or can't drive well with.

I'm sure I will like the Skippy as I do enjoy the SRF and many of the tracks (Oulton Park especially for obvious reasons) I already know I will enjoy. Its just I want to maximise the content I've paid for first. I still feel I have things to learn in SRF too.

I might take advantage of that promotion Coxis, but $75/~£45 is still a lot of money for potential tracks and cars I might not enjoy. I think I still need to find out if I'm a long-term member of iRacing or not before I start spending that kind of money. I think I'll stick to just buying what I need for series rather than stocking up on money or buying stuff just for the sake of a good deal.
I might make use of the $25 for $20 deal instead just to buy the Skippy and a couple of tracks. Then perhaps I can at least test the Skippy and get used to it while I finish off with SRF.

 

[cgr-10]

Finally got to 3.0 on rookie oval, I'm just going to wait out another week as I've got other stuff on IRL anyway, get my promotion to class D and not look back. Had a few scary races at Charlotte, some of those guys should be banned from the sim altogether; still a couple of podium finishes isn't bad.

Any opinions on the Nationwide cars? I figured if I bought the pair I could run the old car in the class D national series and run the COT when I eventually get into class B.

 

[MadRR]

What more can they add for the oval guys really? Only thing I can think of is dirt stuff and I can't see iRacing doing that because I remembered them mentioning that it will be a really long time before they even try other surfaces due to how hard they are to replica in a simulation matter.

Yeah I think that is the situation they are kinda stuck in. They have the entry level series like legends and street stock then into late models. There are 2 different modifieds and the old nationwide car is considered a K&N east car now. Then there are the top 3 nascars the truck, nationwide and cup.

There really isn't any more oval cars out there except the super late model or maybe an arca series car. There has been multiple threads and polls about them doing a super late model, but it just seems to fall on deaf ears. I for one would love to see them have it cause it's a late model that's a couple hundred pounds lighter and has a bit more power. I would assume the arca car would be pretty close to a super late model or k&n car. Guess only time will tell.

Any opinions on the Nationwide cars? I figured if I bought the pair I could run the old car in the class D national series and run the COT when I eventually get into class B.

They are both fun to drive now the old nationwide car has the new tire model. To save some money you could go ahead and get the nationwides since the old one is class d now. Me personally I love the late model and it's one of my favorite cars on iracing. Only downside I could see from trying to run the old nationwide is there are fewer people racing it so it will be fewer official races. There are always people racing the late model.

I don't drive the new cot car anymore really. I drove it for a whole season in the last league I was in. It's fun to drive and all, but it's so similar to the truck as far as lap times and stuff goes there isn't much difference in driving the two. The cot is a little harder I guess because it doesn't have the downforce like the truck does with a big flat bed on the back. The way you set up the 2 are different and the truck is easier to setup. I stick to the late model,truck and the cup car for oval, because when I go from the truck to the cot it feels the same really.

 

[plate88]

The NTM on the Falcon V8 is pretty good. If you have this car and haven't checked it out yet, shame on you. Seems to have a good balance of under/oversteer and can still slide around a bit. Not alot like before, but a little seems to be acceptable. I dont know if it was my setup(probably was), but after 5 or 6 laps the car became a handful in the back end. Maybe a little too much sliding and spinning up of the rear tires? I don't know, but it was fun nonetheless.👍

 

[lemansfanatic]

Yes, iRacing is working on dx11 update but as you can imagine it is an arduous task.

iRacing graphics as they stand are miles better then GT5 or any of the Forza games. Take the track Seebring, around the 2nd to last corner is about a 500m straight away. In iRacing as soon as you make that corner you can spot the traffic cones marking the turn to the home stretch. Try that in GT5 or Forza and see how close to the turn before you can make out the traffic cones.

Even at dx10, iRacing's graphics are amazingly clear. Try the 3 month promo deal, whether it is Road Racing or Oval Racing. That should help you decide if it's for you.

I didnt know they had anounced they were upgrading. do they ever give estimates about completion dates? will DX11 be this year? (sorry to bring this up again, just really curious)

 

[cgr-10]

They are both fun to drive now the old nationwide car has the new tire model. To save some money you could go ahead and get the nationwides since the old one is class d now. Me personally I love the late model and it's one of my favorite cars on iracing. Only downside I could see from trying to run the old nationwide is there are fewer people racing it so it will be fewer official races. There are always people racing the late model.

I don't drive the new cot car anymore really. I drove it for a whole season in the last league I was in. It's fun to drive and all, but it's so similar to the truck as far as lap times and stuff goes there isn't much difference in driving the two. The cot is a little harder I guess because it doesn't have the downforce like the truck does with a big flat bed on the back. The way you set up the 2 are different and the truck is easier to setup. I stick to the late model,truck and the cup car for oval, because when I go from the truck to the cot it feels the same really.

Thanks for the advice, I'll probably go ahead and buy the Nationwide COT and 2009 soon then. The National series appeals to me over the late models mainly because I want some variation between short tracks and intermediate ovals, not just all short tracks like in late models.

Also looking at getting into IndyCar when I reach class C, maybe even the truck depending on the money I have available.

 

[Christhedude]

Hey all,

im looking to upgrade my already modded G25 with a LED shift light.

I've seen many, but really cant recall any links where I can buy one.
Im sure some in hear have nice LED's and gear indicator boxes.

Could some please recommend good ones.

Chris

 

[Pingwhen]

I'm currently designing my own. But I'm a good few weeks away at showing it off. It's more difficult than I thought.

 

[noshog]

Hey Chris
You can check these guys out...http://www.symprojects.com/

 

[zedfonsie]

My first with the star mazda was my best race yet, not in performance. I came in 7th, but on how much you have to focus. For 26 laps, over 40 minutes I had to concentrate. It was really hard to keep the car in check, the first corner on oulton park w/o brittens is hard. If you turn in to early, you go into the inside grass, if you turn to late you run so wide that your entire car is on grass.

I love the star mazda! Fun car to drive!

 

[Mad94d]

The NTM on the Falcon V8 is pretty good. If you have this car and haven't checked it out yet, shame on you. Seems to have a good balance of under/oversteer and can still slide around a bit. Not alot like before, but a little seems to be acceptable. I dont know if it was my setup(probably was), but after 5 or 6 laps the car became a handful in the back end. Maybe a little too much sliding and spinning up of the rear tires? I don't know, but it was fun nonetheless.👍

Yeah, had a long steer on it last night and it's a lot better.

It seems to have a lot more mid corner understeer as I thought it might but I love it! You have to drive it exactly the way you think you'd have to drive a V8 Supercar which is great.

It's pretty good over the first 2-3 laps tyre wise and then it drops off a cliff and it really starts to become a handful. Lines, hitting apexes and throttle control have never been so important. The races will be interesting that's for sure!

 

[Matty]

Sorry if I'm off topic.

I want to get iRacing soon and I'm getting a new laptop, but what graphics chip would I need for it?

Just say bear minimum size and I will probably get a bigger one.

Sorry if terminology is wrong but I don't have any experience with graphics chips. 👍

 

[Eric.]

You're going to want a desktop to get good performance without a really high price. Laptops just aren't for gaming.

 

[Matty]

You're going to want a desktop to get good performance without a really high price. Laptops just aren't for gaming.

Well I have 500euro (I can stretch that) to spend, and for reasons only my mother can explain I can only get a laptop.

I have a thread up about it, will link if needed.

 

[left888]

The NTM on the Falcon V8 is pretty good. If you have this car and haven't checked it out yet, shame on you. Seems to have a good balance of under/oversteer and can still slide around a bit. Not alot like before, but a little seems to be acceptable. I dont know if it was my setup(probably was), but after 5 or 6 laps the car became a handful in the back end. Maybe a little too much sliding and spinning up of the rear tires? I don't know, but it was fun nonetheless.👍

I find that now with the NTM you really have to be careful with the brakes, apply them to hard and you lose the rear end in a hurry. I agree it still has a little slide in it but nothing like before. It will need to adjust my braking habits for sure.

I didnt know they had anounced they were upgrading. do they ever give estimates about completion dates? will DX11 be this year? (sorry to bring this up again, just really curious)

It was announced about a year ago that they had already started. They acknowledged that it was going to take some time before it made it to us. I don't know if you were an iRacer before they delivered 2.0 to us, it was a big deal when they did. The NTM was in it as well as many new upgrades. There was some speculation that dx11 would be in that upgrade, it was then when someone from iRacing told us it would be sometime before it would be delivered to us, perhaps in time for 3.0?

Well I have 500euro (I can stretch that) to spend, and for reasons only my mother can explain I can only get a laptop.

I have a thread up about it, will link if needed.

I don't know if 500 euro will cut it, definitely don't use a laptop. Maybe about 650 euro but that's just a guess. Get a good desktop computer. Many iRacers use triple screens, with a desktop you can upgrade in the future, laptops are almost impossible to upgrade GPU's.

 

[Roush_fan_99]

a little off topic, but on the "Velocity" tv channel, there is a show called something like Why we race: mustang challenge or something similar, I find it interesting, because not only is it the FR500s but the episode that I saw they were at mid-ohio, then mosport, then lime rock, and a track in new jersey. I'm pretty sure it was a rerun, as I just got this channel on my tv recently

 

[gorsad]

I'm getting iracing for my birthday but I have a few questions.

I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 13. It has a 256 MB graphics card and a Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz. I'm going to hook it up to a monitor obviously but what does iracing look like on the lowest settings without shadows?

Also, is the Cadillac a free content car. There's a picture of it in the base car list in the league website.

 

[Patrocles]

I'm getting iracing for my birthday but I have a few questions.

I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 13. It has a 256 MB graphics card and a Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz. I'm going to hook it up to a monitor obviously but what does iracing look like on the lowest settings without shadows?

Also, is the Cadillac a free content car. There's a picture of it in the base car list in the league website.

Hi,

iRacing is for the PC and not Mac (I believe I have read that people run iRacing on a Mac with bootcamp?).

http://www.iracing.com/membership/faqs/
from the iracing FAQ

• Windows XP or Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Hyperthreaded Intel CPU, AMD Athlon 64 CPU, or any dual
• core CPU
• 128MB Pixel Shader 2.0 (ATI 9700Pro or nVidia 6600 or better); 256 MB Pixel Shader 3.0 (ATI X1600 or nVidia 6800 GT/GS or better recommended) graphics adapter
• 1 GB system RAM
• 3Gb free hard disk space
• Steering wheel and pedals required
• Microphone optional, required for voice chat

Internet Browser Requirements

• Firefox 1.5, Internet Explorer 6, or newer
• Javascript enabled
• Cookies enabled
• Flash Player

Internet Connection Speed

• 56K dial
• up at a minimum, Broadband (DSL or Cable) highly recommended. Satellite broadband excluded.

Yes, the cadillac is free! Thanks GM!!

 

[Patrocles]

cool! This Honda Civic car sounds like I might be able to handle it on the track! LOL don't know about that powerful HSV-010.
"The Civic is a Front-wheel-drive touring car with a 2-litre turbocharged production-based 4-cylinder petrol engine, producing approximately 300bhp with a 7,000 rev limit, 0.8 bar of boost and inlet-restrictor. Its equipped with a 6-speed sequential semi-automatic gearbox"

superbike said their was an article confirming the Honda Civic at the iracing mainpage but I cannot find it? anyone?
thanks!

 

[Matty]

I don't know if 500 euro will cut it, definitely don't use a laptop. Maybe about 650 euro but that's just a guess. Get a good desktop computer. Many iRacers use triple screens, with a desktop you can upgrade in the future, laptops are almost impossible to upgrade GPU's.

I personally would, but my mom wants a laptop and in fairness she's going halfs on this.

Not to bothered about triple screen at the moment.

 

[gorsad]

Hi,

iRacing is for the PC and not Mac (I believe I have read that people run iRacing on a Mac with bootcamp?).

http://www.iracing.com/membership/faqs/
from the iracing FAQ

• Windows XP or Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Hyperthreaded Intel CPU, AMD Athlon 64 CPU, or any dual
• core CPU
• 128MB Pixel Shader 2.0 (ATI 9700Pro or nVidia 6600 or better); 256 MB Pixel Shader 3.0 (ATI X1600 or nVidia 6800 GT/GS or better recommended) graphics adapter
• 1 GB system RAM
• 3Gb free hard disk space
• Steering wheel and pedals required
• Microphone optional, required for voice chat

Internet Browser Requirements

• Firefox 1.5, Internet Explorer 6, or newer
• Javascript enabled
• Cookies enabled
• Flash Player

Internet Connection Speed

• 56K dial
• up at a minimum, Broadband (DSL or Cable) highly recommended. Satellite broadband excluded.

Yes, the cadillac is free! Thanks GM!!

Thanks, my computer meets all those specs. You can't run iracing on the Mac operating system but I've got windows on my mac.

 

[lemansfanatic]

It was announced about a year ago that they had already started. They acknowledged that it was going to take some time before it made it to us. I don't know if you were an iRacer before they delivered 2.0 to us, it was a big deal when they did. The NTM was in it as well as many new upgrades. There was some speculation that dx11 would be in that upgrade, it was then when someone from iRacing told us it would be sometime before it would be delivered to us, perhaps in time for 3.0?

Ok thanks. I sold my wheel and until I get a CSW I have time to kill and plan a new CPU. I know I want to try iracing and I am just trying to get history on where it is and where its going. So what is the deal with this 3.0 business now? Are we talking years away?

 

[Mattdemichele]

Does the csw actually have a release date??

 

[Kamuifanboy]

I'm getting iracing for my birthday but I have a few questions.

I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 13. It has a 256 MB graphics card and a Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz. I'm going to hook it up to a monitor obviously but what does iracing look like on the lowest settings without shadows?

Also, is the Cadillac a free content car. There's a picture of it in the base car list in the league website.

Being a current iRacer running on a MacBook Pro June 2011 15 I can tell you that my computer can run everything on max settings at 70fps no problem. Yours should have no problem at all running things on medium settings if not max.

Just make sure you have a way of cooling your mac book since they have horrible fans and cooling. I have mine sitting next to my window and often have the window open to get more of a breeze.

 

[gorsad]

Being a current iRacer running on a MacBook Pro June 2011 15 I can tell you that my computer can run everything on max settings at 70fps no problem. Yours should have no problem at all running things on medium settings if not max.

Just make sure you have a way of cooling your mac book since they have horrible fans and cooling. I have mine sitting next to my window and often have the window open to get more of a breeze.

Thanks a lot, I'll put it next to my fan while I play. Also, are you playing on a external monitor or the normal screen, was just wondering if I should get a bigger screen.

 

[cgr-10]

I personally would, but my mom wants a laptop and in fairness she's going halfs on this.

Not to bothered about triple screen at the moment.

For a small setup (like mine for example, just a DFGT and WSP), no big rig or anything like that, that kind of price range should be adequate. I run iRacing on a £500ish HP laptop that I hook up via HDMI to a 40 inch screen in our front room and it runs to a reasonable frame rate even on the factory fresh inbuilt graphics, no extra cards needed.