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The 305 and 360 I can keep good control on, but I'm not anywhere near the leaders in the top split. I need some more time in the car because I can't really figure out where or how I'm losing the time yet. The 410 I can barely keep on the drat track. Also, wheelies.
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If you can tear yourself away from dirt, Nürburgring 24 is in just over two weeks. Four classes, Audi, Porsche, Kia (lol), and Mazda. Sign up here if you're interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PXAGd7pa8CV8PUOrx-0X3eicHwescrffNlkTZOsyGyY/edit#gid=1858028113
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Is there a way to judge how fast a track will be before starting a race/qual/practice in dirt? Currently I just see what happens but there have been races (street stock/USA) where I run 25.5 without really trying too hard and ones where I struggle to keep the average above a 26 flat but they were all during similar conditions temperature/humiditywise/daytime. If track conditions shouldn't really influence times heavily I think I'll just blame my drinking or trying too hard. Does overdriving a SS have similar effects on tire temps/grip as in road cars? Anyway, still think this is an aweosme update, though rallycross is kind of meh as a concept it could be great in Iracing judging by current mud physics
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I don't think you see until you get into the qual session. What determines how the track is with dirt? Is it random for the session or set for the week or what? I was doing a practice before a race and was doing great, getting 14.5s easy. Then the race session goes up and it seems like the track is totally used up and I'm running in the 15s. It was pretty annoying.
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With the dirt Sprints you wanna keep the wheel as straight as possible through the turns. But with the Street Stocks, you wanna go ahead a crack that wheel into full lock.
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It sure feels like the actual track usage is random, but I don't have enough races to say for sure.
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What they do is telepathically uplink with your brain to find out what you're most practiced on, then make it as different as possible, that way you can never ever feel comfortable.
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Apr 6, 2017 02:28
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Is there any gooncar stuff this evening?
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Just been driving a few cars about the 'Ring to see what one I'd want to run for the 24 hour race: the Porsche is actually pretty fun. I'll probably end up binning it somewhere during the race if we run it because of the lack of any driving aids because I'm bad, but I'd have fun doing it!
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The hardest thing in iracing is driving the DW12 on dead tyres; especially since on the 1.5 mile tracks where that's like after 30 laps (a fuel run is 50ish). In the last race I ran we had a 50 lap green flag run; I was running third and mid stint the two cars ahead of me pitted for tyres and I thought that I'd stay out, thinking that I'd be able to lead all of the way, or at least until a yellow came out when I'd be able to pit for tyres before anyone unlapped me, After 20 of the hardest laps I've ever run (Texas is normally simple since its flat all of the way around but on done tyres its incredibly hard, you have to lift and be incredibly precise with your steering or throttle application off the corner or you'll just spin like a top: like I'm pretty sure being out by like 10 degrees will cause you to spin) I get passed on the back straight on lap 71; three laps from the end. I gained a position and honestly it was fun if rather nerve-wracking; but had a yellow happened on lap 71 I'd have probably won rather than finishing 7 seconds behind the leader - that's how much slower those old tyres are. Its what makes the DW12 actually interesting on the big ovals: adds a chunk of strategy rather than it just being a foot to the floor draft-fest.
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I reinstalled last night, missed it. My keyboard lights up like a shift light now? Anyone know more about this? Anyone know how to customize it a bit?
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Apr 11, 2017 00:32
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It might be a manufacturer thing, my Logitech mouse does the shift light thing.
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Apr 11, 2017 11:34
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They added some Logitech stuff a while ago that lights up your devices.
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I've got such an itch to play this again. However it's been 4+ years since I last touched it, and it involves transporting all my stuff up from my parents house where it's stashed to my new place and then convincing my girlfriend that it totally doesn't take up that much space in the office, so in light of all that effort I have some questions: Still good for casual racing? I should be able to manage a couple of races a week. Is the Skip barber still popular? Is my G25 still going to do the business once I get the layers of dust off of it, or do I really need a new wheel/pedal set? Any additions in the last 4 years to sweeten the deal? I saw something the other day about dirt racing, hows that playing out?
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NtotheTC posted:I've got such an itch to play this again. However it's been 4+ years since I last touched it, and it involves transporting all my stuff up from my parents house where it's stashed to my new place and then convincing my girlfriend that it totally doesn't take up that much space in the office, so in light of all that effort I have some questions: 1. Yes 2. Yes, nearly every race goes official and most have multiple splits in my (eu) tz 3. Yes, g25 and 27 are both still servicable. The g29 isn't an upgrade really so I'd stick with what you have unless you want to get much higher quality stuff 4. Theres a Porsche now (singular for the time being, more coming), the Ring is a great addition if only to put in some chill practice laps, graphics are improving steadily, windscreens get dirty, VR support is very good. Tire model has been improving steadily, I think 4 years ago car feeling was significantly different. But i can't tell since it happened slowly and I've only been subbed for 2 years. Dirt has been added and while it's still too early to gauge long term popularity it definitely got off to a good start. Some neat car/league additions, audi gto and nissan gtp imsa being significant 'recent' examples. It appears a new damage model is being worked on but obviously no eta except for 'at some point'
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NtotheTC posted:I've got such an itch to play this again. However it's been 4+ years since I last touched it, and it involves transporting all my stuff up from my parents house where it's stashed to my new place and then convincing my girlfriend that it totally doesn't take up that much space in the office, so in light of all that effort I have some questions: Might be worth mentioning that iRacing just upgraded to DX11 so if 'all your stuff' includes an old PC to play it on make sure it will be compatible.
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I just added my name to the 24 hour race. I will actually be coaching / driving that weekend IRL, so I am busy during the days, only the evening / night I am free.
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It's time to talk about New Gooncar Seasons and I've got some plans. Sunday Gooncar The traditional slot, keeping the Skips going but trying a few more free/slam dunk purchase tracks to try to keep numbers up. Sorry about Richmond but I made a bunch of people buy it so they're getting at least 4 seasons before we decide not enough people will buy it for it to be worthwhile (even though it owns. But buy Iowa first). April 23 Okayama Full* April 30 Phoenix 2007* May 7 Summit Point Full* May 14 Iowa May 21 Road Atlanta Short May 28 Richmond June 4 New Hampshire road + oval double header The main change I'm thinking about here if any is putting Laguna Seca in place of RAtlanta for ~numbers~ reasons. Now I'm sure a bunch of you are all "but where is Oulton? That track fuckin owns mate" and I'm glad you mentioned it, because next up: Friday Gooncar We don't get good numbers for this so I have a plan to fix that. First, a track list: April 21 Brands Hatch GP April 28 Oulton Park w/o Hislop May 5 Donington National May 12 Silverstone International (the cut in half one, it's quite good I promise) May 19 Brands Hatch Indy May 26 Donington GP Yes, this is me shamelessly making a series calendar out of all the tracks I know super well. It's a theme, shut up. Now I know we haven't been pulling the numbers on Fridays, so I was thinking: how about we open the league up to pubs, at least for a little while until we can farm some regulars to fill out the grids? Who knows. Come up with a better idea, idk.
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Might be worth mentioning that iRacing just upgraded to DX11 so if 'all your stuff' includes an old PC to play it on make sure it will be compatible. Good shout, thanks. My PC is a lot more up to date than my sim rig luckily so it can handle it. It took four hours of driving and a pain in the rear end shuffling the office furniture around but everything is set up now! Had time for a lap around Lime Rock in the Skippy then remembered that without good FFB/rotation settings the G27 feels really weird to drive with. According to this site the process has changed since last time I raced (no more 106% Overall effects etc). Anyone able to confirm if these are mostly up to date? I vaguely remember for the Skippy at least it was better to lower the degrees of rotation so that it "locked" at 160% or something but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
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I run with full rotation in logitech profiler, iracing autolocks the range to the correct value. Ff is fiddly, basically trial and error is my usual approach.
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Just set your wheel lock to Max and do the calibration in game, iracing will figure the rest out. As for ffb, drive around the track at full speed making sure to stay on track and don't hit any curbs or big bumps. I forget which, but one of the black boxes has ffb strength. After you drive a few laps it will calculate what your strength should be and pop up a check box that says auto. That will set your ffb strength to what it thinks it should be after your laps. Do that a few times and it should dial everything in.
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 https://www.dropbox.com/s/9tjcr7lgx7e4zr6/nurburg24race.sto?dl=0 nurburg 24 miata setup, feels like it gets a little too squirrely a couple laps in, might be worth looking into it, but it's pretty fast.
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 Wingless sprints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEwM77kWyxs
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IOwnCalculus posted:
They are also scanning Knoxville Raceway and a dirt Modified car right now according to Steve Myers' Twitter.
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Practice session for the 24hr in 4hrs 20 mins from this post (2200GMT/2300BST) get in and git gud
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I don't have time to edit the spreadsheet but I'm not around tomorrow afternoon, playing Cricket. What are we driving anyway? Been practicing the Mazda and the Porsche a wee bit
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I can't find the sim racing thread so I thought I'd ask here. I found this at a cheap surplus store and was wondering if it was a good deal for what's included http://i.imgur.com/a8GU9FFh.jpg Quick googling would say yes but I thought I'd run it by you all first.
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dentist toy box posted:I can't find the sim racing thread so I thought I'd ask here. I found this at a cheap surplus store and was wondering if it was a good deal for what's included Yes that's a killer deal
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dentist toy box posted:I can't find the sim racing thread so I thought I'd ask here. I found this at a cheap surplus store and was wondering if it was a good deal for what's included If it all works, that looks like a solid deal. Sim racing thread: Here, or come hang out in the Discord channel
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Vando posted:April 23 Okayama Full* So, did this not happen?
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I posted that calendar for thoughts and nobody had any thoughts so I assumed people wanted a break from iRacing for a bit
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I haven't played since December. 
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Time Attack and a new UI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkFpfQm1TM Is this replacing the Time Trials?
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Probably not. Time Trials is just a way to get SR for whatever car/track combo you like that week. This looks like hand picked combinations.
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Very down for time attack
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It's gonna be real fuckin' dumb if I have to launch the game just to look at schedules or check my stats or whatever. Hopefully the new interface is still web based and it's just all accessible both in game and via browser. Time attack seems cool though.
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I just picked this up with one of the discount codes in the OP, thanks! I just completed my first race at PIR in the MX-5 and wasn't completely horrible, so it was a good start. I still have no clue how I'm supposed to do the first set of corners off of the oval, though. Where do you go to find recordings of fast laps to see the actual race line? On youtube there are lots of uploads but it's tough to find ones from good racers in the rookie cars.
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The iracing forums, while often terrible otherwise, have decently active rookie series subforums. Very likely there are weekly guides and dast/medium/slow times posted for whatever track you need. Rookie tracks don't really change so there's also a lot of older stuff, the lap times won't be comparable but general advice is.
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Also, turn 1 at Old Phoenix Road is just a pain. Not much in the way of reference points.
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welp I"m back.. after going to the races and watching a few I've got the pretend racecar bug.. Kinda sad that promotions are nearly nill at this point, I figured i"d get an e-mail or two since I ran out of subscription in November. maybe they are going to my junk mail. Maybe I"ll give dirt a try.
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