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njsykora posted:Welcome to iRacing, please deposit your wallet in the burning pile of other wallets by the door. Also yeah, Just Race is the advice, especially in the MX-5. You can't get demoted from rookies, if your race does end on the first corner you only need to wait another 15-20 minutes for the next race and the sooner you get comfortable being around other cars the better you'll be in the long run. To add to this: Ignore anyone who tells you to start from the back of the grid or the pitlane to get out of rookies. Qualify your best and then race. You can still be sensible and keep your distance from erratic looking drivers or situations that look like they might turn into a big wreck. But if you do the often suggested "start from pits" strategy you won't learn what it's like to actually be racing against people and you'll just have an even harder time once you start in the D class races.
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V for Vegans posted:Yeah, all those videos about “how to get out of rookies fast” seem like they miss the point of sim racing. You do it to get better, not to just have the highest number next to your name. I mostly just wanted to get a feel for the car and learn the track so that I wouldn’t be the one responsible for the lap one pile up so I don’t get yelled at online. Yeah you're doing it right. Practice solo or in open practice sessions until you can do a full race length without crashing and you'll do fine. Just wait for that nervous feeling when you're waiting on the grid though! No other game makes me feel like that and it's part of why iRacing is so great.
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waffle enthusiast posted:Rookies is about slowing things down in your head by developing consistency, pattern recognition, and the ability to stay calm under pressure. As the cars get faster, all three speed up and so take more mental energy. Great tips. Especially staying calm. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've passed people by just driving behind them for a lap until they crack from the pressure. We've all screwed up while driving in the mirror at some point as well, especially when starting out.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:As someone who was vehemently against oval courses and was hugely pro-road, please try ovals. It’s great fun and that bumper to bumper tight racing that you only get once in a while on road courses can be stretched over an entire oval race Oval racing in iRacing made me watch and appreciate some irl NASCAR. Don't get much exposure to it in Scotland so was always kind of on the "sounds boring it's just turning left" school of thought, but there's a lot more to it than that when you get into it.
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SPACE HOMOS posted:Lower the FOV of the virtual mirror some. Before I did this I used to feel like I was about to get turned on every oval corner.
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