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  • New to iRacing New to iRacing

    • From: Mark Fox
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      Hi all,

      My first blog here on iRW, I have only been on iRacing for about a week now and I am finding it very enjoyable to say the least but the learning curve is pretty steep. I wonder can anyone give me some good rookie tips or pointers to help me work on my lap times and race craft?

      You all should know I am partially sighted and sim race because it is the closest I will ever be able to get to driving for real. I have a Logitech G25 wheel which makes the experience so much better with the H pattern shifter :)

      Any tips and pointers would be very appreciated so I can start racing well on iR instead of being a nearvous wreck while sat on the grid :(

      Anyway take care all and thanks in advance.

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  • Mark Fox

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  • A Small Introduction A Small Introduction

    • From: Liam Hatchell
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      I've not been iRacing long, couple of months at least - but I've been signed up since late 2008.

      It's only recently I've been taking to the track more often in what is widely regarded as the most advanced simulator for four-wheeled vehicles to date.

       

      My online racing career spans right to the present from September 12th 2008. Before that, I was a teenager racing Gran Turismo and ToCA on a gamepad. My wheel wasn't great; I had a Madcatz Xbox 360 wheel that turned a riveting 270 degrees lock-to-lock. Not pleasant! Needless to say, after half a year of incredibly frequent racing (maybe 4 times a week in a professional league for rFactor), it was time to upgrade. It was then that I bought my Logitech G25.

       

      I do admit, I wasn't keen on iRacing way back then. I didn't like the way races were run, I didn't like the physics (yes...) and I didn't like the safety rating system. I'd raced rFactor so many times, I just couldn't finish a race here.

       

      Another year passes and I begin to grow bored of rFactor's poor and wrongly-praised tyre physics. I wasn't getting much satisfaction from winning races left, right and centre (well not quite, but I had a string of podium finishes of over twenty with no DNF's, but that became boring too). And so, in April/May 2010 I rejoined iRacing to be greeted with a whole host of super-quick guys and found myself learning a whole new learning curve. The car felt perfect, like I would drive any other car. It was predictable, controllable...I just wasn't 'quick' in the status I'd presumed to be in rFactor. I loved it. I loved learning it all again. I loved battling in the middle of the pack, keeping out of trouble and seeing my safety rating go up. If I'd had a poor race, spinning off or hitting another car or a wall, I'd see that safety rating drop and it would annoy me, and therefore I would go at it even harder than before to build it back up.

       

      Now, all I need to say is that defending a position and winning a race in iRacing means much more to me than it did in rFactor, or any other sim. I get the adrenaline, I get the desire to push and I get the desire to defend my position and gain more positions no matter what it takes.

       

      I'm an iRacer. Smile

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    • 4 weeks ago
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  • Richard Casteline

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    • Since: 2 months ago

  • Willyans Suhr

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  • Paul Lord2

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  • Sergei Kuznetsov

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  • William Andrew Rylance

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  • Afranio Florence

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  • Jurassic Solstice Jurassic Solstice

  • iRacing: Pontiac Solstice - La iRacing: Pontiac Solstice - Laguna Seca 1.46.719 Race

    • From: Nikita Gorlov
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    • 4 months ago
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  • Graham Watson

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  • Cody Larson

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  • Robbie Johnston

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  • The Wheel and Lime Rock arrive The Wheel and Lime Rock arrive....

    • From: Robert Mahoney
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      Awesome the UPS man bring my wheel by in the afternoon and I get it all setup. Since the Solstice is moving to Lime Rock that evening I decide to test there while I am working on fine tuning my wheel to suit me. Setting up my G27 went pretty smooth. I had already been reading the forums and I had a good idea what everything needed to be set at. All in all i had my wheel pretty much in sync with me within about 20 mins. 

      I then decide to work on getting my speed up at Lime Rock. All I had been doing was puttering around the track to make sure I liked the wheel settings up to this point. I run a good number of laps and have what I feel is a nice smooth line that does decent time. So then I go check out the forums again to see what people are saying about a good time for Lime Rock. Yep what i thought was a good time was not all that good...go figure. I then found a few replays of people at the track to watch their line and watch their shift points. I figured out shift points was hurting my time a ton. So back to the track I go.

      Now did I mention that for a good time at Lime rock in this Solstice you apparently need to be good at drifting? That is what i feels like anyway lol. So a drifting we will go. That night I was able to get into 3 races. Finished toward the front in all of them and actually lead for for about 7 laps. I finished 2nd in that one. Now to do some more time trial and hopefully get out of this Solstice. I do not like this car at all. I have tested other cars on the same tracks as I have this one and the other ones just feel better even with base setups. 

       

      Till next time...zoom..zoom

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    • 6 months ago
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  • Dan Pratt

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  • Mark Shaffer

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  • Craig McInnis

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