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[Kamuifanboy]

i demand there be an achievement for that!

For what?

 

[Dhalism]

For what?

two identical 5 lap averages

 

[Kamuifanboy]

two identical 5 lap averages

Oh wow! That is impressive then!

 

[noshog]

i demand there be an achievement for that!

Well if you pulled that off in a race your achievement would be at least a podium
But seriously, nice work 👍
What combo were you running ?

 

[Silver-Sylph]

Did a WSCS race at RA with the FGT and wow the brakes were so touchy I barely held on to the car for 45 minutes, i tried toning the brake balance back but the thing kept squirming under braking and wanting to lock up even at the smallest brake input.

 

[katpeeler]

Hey guys, new to Iracing and have a quick question. I have been doing alot of Testing with my little Miata and was thinking it was time for my first race. I keep seeing race time at 3 hours. Is this how long an average race is?? Just trying to alot the amount of time it takes for an average race. Along with this I plan on going the Road Race Career. How long are the Road Race's on an average??...Thanx

 

[richidoo]

Rookie mazda races are usually about 30 minutes long. Multi class series go off a time based system so that is easy to know and lapped based races can vary from 30 minutes to an hour.

 

[katpeeler]

Thanks for the info...The iracing website is a little overwhelming, and the how to videos are a little dated and couldnt find my info....30 min is good

 

[velly]

took a win in the SFR last night at Donington

 

[Silver-Sylph]

Thanks for the info...The iracing website is a little overwhelming, and the how to videos are a little dated and couldnt find my info....30 min is good

Most road races range from 45-25 minutes except in a few series where there is the occasional enduro weekend of 70 or 75mins. In the race section that just shows the time the race starts and the rookie mazda series has races every hour. Most races open about 30min before the race for registration. The website is a bit confusing at first but you quickly catch on and is simple to use.

 

[Christian_C]

Anyone racing in the GTC? You'll see me in the Mustang

 

[iamsupernasty]

I'm pretty new to iRacing, so I just have to rant about some craziness I heard about the other day. I was in a hosted room and I heard some chat about a kid who purposely racked up hundreds of incident points in TT events at the end of season 2 in order to demote himself back to D class on purpose! Just so he could race in Rookie events and farm iRating. Such a cowardly way to play the game... Silliness like this almost makes GT6 look like a better game!

 

[Silver-Sylph]

I'm pretty new to iRacing, so I just have to rant about some craziness I heard about the other day. I was in a hosted room and I heard some chat about a kid who purposely racked up hundreds of incident points in TT events at the end of season 2 in order to demote himself back to D class on purpose! Just so he could race in Rookie events and farm iRating. Such a cowardly way to play the game... Silliness like this almost makes GT6 look like a better game!

People will play how they want to but when he stops racing rookies i doubt he is very competitive so he would lose all that irating he gained and eventually level out to what he really is if he went like normal

 

[Kamuifanboy]

I'm pretty new to iRacing, so I just have to rant about some craziness I heard about the other day. I was in a hosted room and I heard some chat about a kid who purposely racked up hundreds of incident points in TT events at the end of season 2 in order to demote himself back to D class on purpose! Just so he could race in Rookie events and farm iRating. Such a cowardly way to play the game... Silliness like this almost makes GT6 look like a better game!

Farming iRating, in upper levels isn't that hard either. Just finish a GT3 race and your bound to be in the top 15 if it is a full field. Then you at least gain some iRating every race

Worked for me at least. Went up from 2500 to 4200 in a year and a half of just trying to finish races.

 

[noshog]

I'm pretty new to iRacing, so I just have to rant about some craziness I heard about the other day. I was in a hosted room and I heard some chat about a kid who purposely racked up hundreds of incident points in TT events at the end of season 2 in order to demote himself back to D class on purpose! Just so he could race in Rookie events and farm iRating. Such a cowardly way to play the game... Silliness like this almost makes GT6 look like a better game!

Guys like this don't bother me too much, as @Silver-Sylph said, these guys will get found out eventually when they venture out of the rookie series.
It's the ones that bomb their iRating to get in a lower division that are the worst. Basically robbing championships from guys that actually deserve the division they are in.
I guess it's been discussed numerous times in here before, but iRating is what it is, just race as hard as you can and you'll be where you should be.

 

[Paul33993]

Guys like this don't bother me too much, as @Silver-Sylph said, these guys will get found out eventually when they venture out of the rookie series.
It's the ones that bomb their iRating to get in a lower division that are the worst. Basically robbing championships from guys that actually deserve the division they are in.
I guess it's been discussed numerous times in here before, but iRating is what it is, just race as hard as you can and you'll be where you should be.

I'd say iracing needs to create splits based on time ranges. If that means some splits have more/less drivers, so be it. I've never done the above, but let me tell you, when you get stuck in No Man's land, it really sucks. I'm constantly the worst of the better drivers (instead of being competitive with the best of the worst). When you enter a race, and realize the majority of the field is 2 - 3 seconds faster than your personal record on the track, it's depressing as heck. You know if you run the race of your life, you might move up 2 or 3 spots. Otherwise one mistake and you're guaranteed last place. And that's when you've run a ton of practice laps and have topped out on your personal record.

The tweeners should get their own splits. My one hope is that I know I don't use all of the track in sim racing. And I was hoping VR would allow my brain to react like it does in real life (regarding lines into turns). And if Live For Speed is any indication, I'm going to be significantly faster now. I'm not going to be an alien, but I'll be able to use the whole track which means I should be much more competitive against the racers (that caused me to abandon iracing last time). As soon as DK2 support is added, I'm giving it another chance.

 

[Dhalism]

If youre talking about divisions than yea i agree, the split should be regional. Iracing is already small and split into various classes, being further down split by your skill(or lack of thereof) makes winning them really meaningless. At least if i get 10th in New York, lets say, that matters to me, but when i get 1st out of 10 equally talentless drivers that's a bit too ribbon for everyone in my opinion.

 

[dsgerbc]

Points, IR, I stopped caring. I'm not qualifying this season, my SR is tanking, one the flip side, I'm having a crapload of exciting side-by-side racing.

 

[fatkrakr]

That's how I have been racing iracing all along. Could careless about IR or SR. If a go off track, don't care its part of racing. IR be dammed, if it gets to low I just go to a lower split. Who cares those guys are still racing to win just like the top split. If Im too good for that split I will only be there for a race or 2 and then back to the proper split, if not then Im in the split I belong.

 

[carracerptp]

Points, IR, I stopped caring. I'm not qualifying this season, my SR is tanking, one the flip side, I'm having a crapload of exciting side-by-side racing.

I did the same, but I do qualify if I know that mid-pack is too much of a demolition derby to pass cleanly.

 

[thunderjolt]

I'd say iracing needs to create splits based on time ranges. If that means some splits have more/less drivers, so be it. I've never done the above, but let me tell you, when you get stuck in No Man's land, it really sucks. I'm constantly the worst of the better drivers (instead of being competitive with the best of the worst). When you enter a race, and realize the majority of the field is 2 - 3 seconds faster than your personal record on the track, it's depressing as heck. You know if you run the race of your life, you might move up 2 or 3 spots. Otherwise one mistake and you're guaranteed last place. And that's when you've run a ton of practice laps and have topped out on your personal record.

The tweeners should get their own splits. My one hope is that I know I don't use all of the track in sim racing. And I was hoping VR would allow my brain to react like it does in real life (regarding lines into turns). And if Live For Speed is any indication, I'm going to be significantly faster now. I'm not going to be an alien, but I'll be able to use the whole track which means I should be much more competitive against the racers (that caused me to abandon iracing last time). As soon as DK2 support is added, I'm giving it another chance.

I have that problem because my irating is just high enough to get me into the top split all the time. I run countless laps and when you get into a race and see people lap so much faster than you it just hurts because you are at your limit. Racing the RUF at Wakins Glenn 2 weeks ago I had that problem. The only spots I made were when I was smart enough to avoid almost all the wreaks in every race. Then I would slowly drop back down as the faster cars involved that didn't need to pit catch up. My highest finish so far has been a 4th so far in the star mazda I think.

 

[noshog]

I think what happens sometimes is when people swap over from GT etc and think iRating is like earning Playstation trophies, higher iRating is like earning more trophies. This is when people put unnesessary importantance on iRating, thats why I reckon just race as hard as you can and you'll end up where you end up, knowing you've done your best should be your trophy.
Although aiming for a higher iRating is not an entirely bad thing, because when you do start making higher splits and see the front of the grid a couple of seconds faster than you, you don't want to finish last so you push yourself that little bit more and start finding pace you didn't know you had.
A bit of back story here...I was lucky enough to make my national GT Academy finals back in 2010 when NZ was included, I heard lots of guys say 'thats about as fast as I can go' I believe thats where a lot of people fail, once you make a comment like that, that will be as fast as you can go ! My moto has always been 'always believe you can go faster'. You've hit all your optimal sectors to set a PB, sweet, there is stil a guy 1 sec faster than you, if he can do it you can do it, keep pushing for more !

 

[Kamuifanboy]

To continue with what @noshog said... There is an old saying in motorsports, I don't remember exactly how it goes but, it's something like this. "No matter how fast you are, you can never drive faster than the car."

 

[richidoo]

For us in the "teenage male oval racer" category, iRating is everything

 

[Silver-Sylph]

I do wish i could still race rookie street stocks though, that was always fun and you never had an advantage really. Also good practice for wreck avoidance...

 

[polarbear345]

Hey guys. I need a little help here.

I just moved into college and wanted to get some iracing going with my roommate. Using a g27 and the computer has windows 8.1. When I download the driver from logitech's website it shows up as a old blue wheel with only two pedals. The clutch, shifter, and rev lights do not work.

Can someone help me out maybe with links and pictures please? We still had a blast, but he wants to try the Mazda and stuff and that's no fun with paddles.

 

[richidoo]

Do you still have the installation CD that came with it? When I updated to windows 8.1 my profiler broke and I had to reinstall it.

 

[polarbear345]

Turns out all I had to do was unplug the wheel and plug it back in lol

 

[dsgerbc]

A random question: If the leader spins on a rolling start formation lap, does he get to keep his grid spot and what people around him should do? I spectated a Caddy race and saw the leader spin for the first time ever and realized I have no idea what to do were it happen to/around me, forum search and sporting code didn't provide any answers. My guess is that everyone else should keep going, but the spun leader will have to catch up?

 

[Silver-Sylph]

A random question: If the leader spins on a rolling start formation lap, does he get to keep his grid spot and what people around him should do? I spectated a Caddy race and saw the leader spin for the first time ever and realized I have no idea what to do were it happen to/around me, forum search and sporting code didn't provide any answers. My guess is that everyone else should keep going, but the spun leader will have to catch up?

In real life you lose your spot but in the game i think you might get black flagged but i would pass him personally.