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Would this be sufficient for top graphics at 100fps? :dopey:
 
Do you guys know which are the most popular road series on iRacing? Can I find that info on their website?

I'm planning on which series to run next season and this time I'd like to avoid those less populated ones. This season I've been running just the IndyCar and sometimes it's very hard to get an official race done, be it the open or the fixed series. Since my free time has been pretty limited lately I've missed a few weeks because of that.
 
Most all of the mustang races go offical. Other than that its kind of hit or miss from the best I can tell. Bought the vette hard to get a offical race, then got the v8 same thing. Feel like I wasted my money on them cars. They do get offical races but only a few. I guess the v8 is more popular with the aussies, but for me its after midnight before they start joining offical races.
 
Skip Barber and Star Mazda seem to be the most popular outside of rookie class races.

Your best bet is to look at the individual series page and check the "Results" section. Then look back at each week and see which races have went official and/or split. Just try to figure out your racing schedule and see which series fits in the most.

Here's the Lotus 79 page for example (blank for week 10 because no races have been ran yet) use the drop down box and check week 9, and then individual days and you can see which races went official:

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/SeriesRaceResults.do?season=683
 
Imari
Try this. It's the same setup I've been using all season with track specific tweaks. I just adjust swaybars and front toe for each track (and fuel). Last week I had a medium front bar and no rear, at Oulton I'm liking the feel of firm front and soft rear. If you have time, it's good to try a few different things.

I don't know the track well at all, I've only raced a Skippy here once at one of the shorter variations, but after a dozen laps it's got an optimal of 1.42.5xx so I suspect it's probably competitive enough.

If you're finding it too much of a handful, try putting the rear bar back to none. I found that having it on soft gave me more rotation to be able to really chuck it hard into the corners and made it less wobbly going around some of the higher speed corners, but when you lose control you REALLY lose control. With no rear bar you just understeer.

If I can't get consistent laps with it by the weekend I'll be putting it back to none for racing. Gotta finish the race if you want any points. :) Besides, the Mustang is my series for farming iRating and SR for the inevitable hit I take in the V8 series each week. :)
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Thank you, I still suck bad, but not as bad lol I've improved! to doing 2 laps before I spin LOL, however I think I might have a semi-decent setup, I messed with the ARB and toe and this is what I got from messing with another setup of someone else and yours. by the way, You should typically have negative front toe and positive rear toe the other way causes understeer
http://www.racesetups.com/view/854 tell me what you think, I'm still slow but I gained 2 seconds with this setup(still in low 1:45 range)

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Re: toe

The iRacing values of toe are for degrees of toe-in. Therefore, negative "toe-in" is toe-out.

Toe out at the rear causes oversteer. Toe-in at the front makes for a quicker turn-in, but isn't something I've taken much notice of in the sim.
 
superbike81
Skip Barber and Star Mazda seem to be the most popular outside of rookie class races.

Your best bet is to look at the individual series page and check the "Results" section. Then look back at each week and see which races have went official and/or split. Just try to figure out your racing schedule and see which series fits in the most.

Here's the Lotus 79 page for example (blank for week 10 because no races have been ran yet) use the drop down box and check week 9, and then individual days and you can see which races went official:

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/SeriesRaceResults.do?season=683
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For participation you're mostly going to want to see this thread:
http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/1469002.page.

More specifically, you're going to want to see this page:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-UKMr423uKvO27zUToIlncTuIerFaCufYGK2eZsWiUE/edit?pli=1.
 
Wow the lotus has really come up was it because of the QA event?
Eric.
Re: toe

The iRacing values of toe are for degrees of toe-in. Therefore, negative "toe-in" is toe-out.

Toe out at the rear causes oversteer. Toe-in at the front makes for a quicker turn-in, but isn't something I've taken much notice of in the sim.
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Exactly, and Toe-in in the front will make the outside wheel turn sharper than the inside wheel which feels like the outside tire is folding underneath the car (compression of the sidewalls) producing understeer all the way thru the turn most notably on exit.

However excessive toe in either direction causes plowing which slows straight speed. The most toe I've ever used IRL is 1/4" toe out which was in my legend car on an oval
I have edited my setup

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Eric, I didn't mean for you to be bombarded with guys wanting setups :lol: and the funny part was you came up with a simple 90% baseline setup and you set the fastest lap in the room :lol:!
I took that setup and put 2.2 gallons while you used 15.4 gallons and followed you and gained 1.5 seconds on my previous lap just by using your line thank you and you were still .2 seconds faster.

As for the car, I am starting to relearn it's limits and although I can't hold a full throttle slide anymore, I now know how much you can slide it now and you actually have to counter-steer now, there is no more of the dreaded 2 foot mash glitch in the Mustang

For anyone else looking for help in the mustang this week check the mustang forum for this weeks thread has 2 videos that are great!

2 issues I have come across... 1st is that I don't have a clutch an I noticed how much crisper shifts the clutch guys have. I'd guess that's about .5 seconds a lap I'm losing. I hope to order those CSP V2's thursday.
2nd is that I'm not receiving text based messages through iRacing for whatever reason, I have to exit the track and check messages in the menu for whatever reason any idea why?

Also I have noticed that people freak out when I try to learn their line, I attempt to stay within 1 second of them and they either end up in the sand or just let me pass. Eric didn't do that so again thank you. If I am close behind anyone on this forum please just don't pay attention to your mirrors I will not run into you unless you stop even if that means early braking, I am a slow driver looking to improve nothing more, I am not trying to intimidate anyone
 
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The Mustang isn't very setup dependent. iRacing baseline setups tend to be on the "safe" side, so they give the rear too much grip and the front too little. Just a few ARB changes away from being good with the Mustang.

I was in a room with Trace McRae last night and did a decent job keeping up with him. I've only driven the Mustang about five times since the NTM. I'll probably do a full season with it for Season 3.
 
I just want to complete the required 8 races for my $4 and do a full season for S3 now, I wasn't originally going to do the mustang next season, with this info, heck I might even buy the V8 Supercar
 
I don't know if I've driven a full season of anything to be eligible for credits...I wanted to do the Ford GT earlier this year, but that thing is awful. Might just focus on the Mustang, Skip Barber, and Late Model for S3. I have no idea how to set up an oval car, so that holds me back. I don't even know what half the settings are for. :lol:
 
Caster can be your friend or your enemy in ovals think of it as the caster wheels on the front a shopping cart
 
Roush_fan_99
Wow the lotus has really come up was it because of the QA event?
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The Lotus has always been of limited popularity, however the hardcore L79 guys decided to make that Classic Team Championship which I think really brought up the participation. It gave people a "championship with a championship" to compete in as part of a team and that gives it a very authentic feel. While the cars are of course all L79's, you'll see all different manufacturer paint jobs, even Ferrari. So it's not 100% true to life, but it's as close as we can get in iRacing.
 
Eric.
I don't know if I've driven a full season of anything to be eligible for credits...I wanted to do the Ford GT earlier this year, but that thing is awful. Might just focus on the Mustang, Skip Barber, and Late Model for S3. I have no idea how to set up an oval car, so that holds me back. I don't even know what half the settings are for. :lol:
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The Ford GT isn't so bad. It's just dependent on really smooth and consistent driving. Now that I've been driving it this whole season I can jump in the car and instantly be fast. It's quite easy to drive I think.
 
Thanks for the info, guys.

The SM and Skippy seem to be the best options judging by that spreadsheet but I'd like to run a Class B or Class A series to get more credits. I ran a Lotus season on S4 2011, the car is fun but participation was low as well. It seems things got better this season. If they get the NTM ready for S3 it should get even more popular.
 
Just had a pretty nerve-wracking truck race. I jumped into a truck race, not realizing it was a open setup race and I had no setup, so I just ran fixed. Wife had a minor emergency and I missed the start of the race. So I started from the pits about a half a lap down. I was expecting a caution within the first twenty laps, nope, forty, nope, uh oh. Almost everyone else pitted on green and I used my trusty iSpeed to delay it till the last minute. With 1.3 laps of fuel left we finally got a caution on lap 61. I pitted, got fuel and tires and came back in 6th place. Worked my way up to 5th, but then got overtaken on the last corner and ended up in 6th. Pretty decent for starting from the pits and going a lap down on half the field.

I thought it was exciting!
 
Lovely, that is what I shall get so, thanks a lot 👍
 
What computer specs do you have?
Also have you got everything in the options set so your computer can handle it?
 
I'd recommend driving around a few tracks that you have... Okayama ...for a lap or 2 with low settings the set the quality to achieve a set frame rate after that, it usually gets laggy on new tracks or configurations for me but after a few laps it's fine. but you need to find a good custom graphics setting for your computer that runs at a good frame rate, then once you have achieved your goal frame rate, lock it there and take off just a little bit of quality to achieve a constant frame rate. the standard 83FPS isn't bad, but try shooting for 100 depending on your computer. also make sure you set the locked framerate while on Okayama since that's the biggest basic package track.
 
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Roush_fan_99
with low settings, I swear a higher frame rate will make you smoother which will make you faster
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Settings are already low, my laptop isnt very powerful. Its just enough to where i can see whats going on, kind of. I have a 15" screen too so i sit probably 2 feet from the screen and have to hunch forward a lot. One day when im out of school ill upgrade everything.
 
oh wow. I feel bad for you now. just to confirm what I said in my previous post, I turned my lock off and it jumped up to 140-180 and I gained a second in the Mustang at Oulton, I'm down to 1:43.4xx
 
:drool:

I would love a FPS like that, hopefully mine will be able to handle it :dopey:
 
So I joined today's 22GMT fixed race and got ran over by the same guy twice! Once in practice and then proceeds to call me out for braking fro T1 and the second at the end of lap 9 while I was leading the race by 18 seconds at wich point he proceeds to call me names and call me out for 'blocking him"?? Then starts to tell me I need to pracice and that I am "a bad pilot"!(didn't know we where flying planes here) Anyways, protest has been sent but probably it will just be dismissed as it always seem to happen here...
If you guys come across this individual out there watch out, he will wreck you without thinking about it twice!
Let me know what you guys think:



Marcello Bonacossa, cant believe this guy is an A 4.45 Licensed guy driving like that!
 
he acted like he was diving a miata in the first video, and the second, he just was too close too your door, that sucks
 

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