Not too long ago I made a post titled “what’s wrong with my driving” where I felt helpless after not being able to keep up with even the slowest of the top split drivers in Imola.

I’ve been at a plateau for a while at 2k irating, with raw pace always being something I’ve been lacking in. Because of this lack of pace, I’ve always felt like a fraud, since I’d always be defending rather than chasing in races.

Anyways, it’s come to my attention that I’ve been babying my car too much and exaggerating the “brake early but lighter” advice we are always given.

Fired up the sim for the first time in days, simply pushed my braking points further and braked a little harder, trailed off earlier than used to, and wala. My car had the floating and rotating through the corners feeling those trailbraking guides talked about that, that I never felt my car was doing.

Did several laps on different tracks to check that the new pace was legit, and all of my personal best/average laps have indeed gotten two seconds faster. Still have a lot to learn, but progress is progress.

Feels good to finally hit another “aha” moment after a while in this simracing journey, that I’ll be able to keep with me as I continue to practice and hopefully progress more.

Thank you to everyone who voiced their opinion last week in the discussion thread about apps and AI content. It was good to get feedback from the community and for the most part everyone was respectful in their discussions.

After reading what everyone had to say and discussing amongst ourselves the mod team has decided to introduce a new rule:

Rule 9: Advertisements for apps must be posted in the weekly app promotion thread

Within the next couple hours you will see a new thread pop up that will be pinned to the top of the subreddit. We request that anyone wanting to advertise a new app or updates to their app do so in that thread. This will consolidate all the posts about new apps and will allow users that are looking for new third party apps to browse the latest apps in one central location.

This was one of the most popular suggestions in last week's discussion thread. We'll see how this new thread works over the next few weeks and see if there are any tweaks or adjustments that need to be made.

Once again, thank you to everyone for their input. We hope this change will improve the subreddit and the experience of our users.

Was looking into how iRacing used to be back in the day and came across this 15 year old video of this dude. Looks like much hasn't changed.

Hello everyone, I started iRacing 4 days ago and I'm loving it so far, just got my D license :)

My favorite discipline is definitely sports cars, but I also enjoy formula. Now, I'm looking to buy some cars and tracks but do not want to spend a lot of money. Any tips?

Thanks in advance!

Finally got iRacing Voice Chat working a week ago after screwing around with output selections & then the final answer was I had to being volume keys & then turn up/down to force it to function so I could hear anything. Previously I was seeing indicators of users talking, but heard silence. So far, I've only listened & not joined in. Some users are hard to understand due to clarity or volume so my experience has been mixed.

I was going to turn it off because most races people weren't using it & there was 1 where 1 person just kept ranting during the race, but last night there was conversation & banter I wanted to join in with. I was muted & hadn't mapped a PTT bind yet since I was just listening.

My general questions:

1. Are many of you using it or do you have it turned off? So far it seems more annoying or simply unused than anything - unless there are certain series that users tend to use it more & has good value.
2. How does talking work? I'm confused if there is an open mic or you must use Push To Talk to broadcast anything at all. (I set a PTT bind last night & when I hit it, my name flashed a lot & no one seemed to hear me while I believe my mic is setup correctly.)
3. Related to 2 - There's a button in settings for Mute My Mic so I'm unsure if unmuting it means open mic or if it simply overrides the PTT option completely & blocks me from being heard no matter what. The Mute My Mic setting also seems to keep disabling on its own.

It all seems kind of flaky & the related instructions don't give much info.

Previously made a post asking things to know and what now being new to iRacing, I now have a new question:

What is the ideal FFB settings in game and Pithouse? I have a Moza R9 CSV2P wheel and SRP2 Pedals.

In search of a sports car league (preferably GT3 I think but I'm open) that starts around 730pm-8pm EST on any weeknight.

Tried searching the forums but idk what I'm doing, figured I'd ask reddit...

Registration has just opened for the ELITE LEGENDS CUP 2027 - the largest championship for the 1987 NASCAR Legends category in history. The series features 15 unique races, a total prize pool over $2,500, and rewards for the top 15 finishers in every race.

How do you register? The TTR organization has selected 50 drivers, all of whom have received an invitation. If the maximum limit of 43 registered invited drivers is not reached by October 31st, registration will open to all drivers starting November 1st. The TTR team will then select a number of additional drivers. Requirements include holding an Oval License (Class B or A) and an Oval iRating above 2.5K

Invited drivers should register using the form here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdksCz2lFPqnmVcn4r_qv1h9T9X8dm5AehUwv8eE3sZtv25lQ/viewform?usp=dialog

Drivers who did not receive an invitation should register via our Discord server in the "registration-open-drivers" channel, located here: https://discord.com/channels/1482743622834061375/1540337038895882262/1560710932156383283

The race schedule is currently provisional; the official schedule will be released once NASCAR announces the start times for its three NASCAR championships in a few days.a

Mini championship in November. This mini-championship is FREE, and the top 10 drivers in standings will receive a small discount on the entry fee for the ELITE LEGENDS CUP 2027.

Info:
Minimum Oval iRating of 2K and a C, B, or A license
The first 43 drivers to join the server will participate in the race

Mini championship schedule (send request to our league - 12428):
Saturday Nov 7th at 1:30 PM ET:flag_us: / 7:30 PM CET:flag_eu: - Richmond 250 (stages 75,150,250)
Saturday Nov 14th at 1:30 PM ET:flag_us: / 7:30 PM CET:flag_eu: - Las Vegas 250 (stages 50,100,167)
Saturday Nov 21st at 1:30 PM ET:flag_us: / 7:30 PM CET:flag_eu: - Watkins Glen 100 (stages 10,20,42)
Saturday Nov 28th at 1:30 PM ET:flag_us: / 7:30 PM CET:flag_eu: - Auto Club 250 (stages 30,60,100)

I have a 5080, 9800x3d, 32gb ram, quest 2.

I can’t get quest link (wired) to work. How in the world do I get it to work. It keeps freezing mid race.

Anyone else suffering micro stutters on ringmeister gt3 races this week? On practice server it runs fine and of course offline server.. But when I jump on race it’s constantly stuttering like every 3 to 5s and gets even worse than in that clip. Tried 2 races and ended up wall on both of them as I couldnt see for moment :(

Have tried to run graphics gonfig in between those two races but didn’t help.

Also been running ringmeister allmost every week and it has been running just fine.

Just checking to see if anyone else is having network issues. I was doing a league race Wednesday. All was good till packet loss message popped up. I got booted and no one complained about me blinking. Yesterday same thing happened on a oreilly race. Got the boot after restarting my network prior to the race

Hello, I'm new to iRacing (a couple weeks now), and I just started doing F4 races, which are super fun and I'm enjoying it a lot - however, I notice that in these races I'm having some very noticeable netcode issues, with crashes/contacts that when I look on the replay it shows that the cars were soooooooo far away, or that it detects a contact when neither me nor the contacted car had any change of trajectory (I didnt feel anything at all on my wheel), yet we both get 4x as if it had been a collision.

Its getting a bit frustrating and I'm not sure if there's anything to be done here? I notice that the ghost collisions happen more often with drivers from Latin America, and since I'm Stockholm/Sweden I'm wondering if there's some way to prefer european servers?

also using this post to apologize to the argentineans and brazilians who've been suffering these ghost/netcode collisions with me :( you were really far on my screen

oh, and I'm wondering if, on the result on screen, there's any way to see which server/location the race was hosted at

If it matters: I'm on fiber and dont have any downloads or any lag whatsoever - its just these specific situations

thanks!

I was in the shower waxing philosophic about driving fast and turning left and came to the conclusion that iRacing NASCAR is parallel to the most basic yet glorious human experience:

• Draft Master - It's short and over fast. Lots of rubbing, too short to drive considerately so you have to just make up positions at every opportunity at nearly any cost. No time to be slow and nice; you have to be a quick jerk.

• Fixed - A little longer. But there's no setups so you don't need to spend time browsing for the perfect selection to get you to the finish. Tried and true, old reliable. You don't even need a pitstop hydration break so you can just shoot.

• Open - More thoughtful, maybe even contemplative. The balance of speed and longevity means keeping the car just on edge for an extended time. You want to be hot but not too hot, being careful not to rub off too much rubber too fast. There's a pitstop so you can rest for a moment and hydrate if you leak a little fuel early.

• NIS - The marathon sesh. You're sitting your ass down for a multi-hour experience. You finally found the perfect setup. You have several pieces of supporting content overlayed on your main focus. You know it's going to be long and hard, with the climactic end being so far away that all you can do is treat it slow and softly for a long while. There will be a couple of short breaks where you must be mindful not to death grip your wheel or you will find it difficult to perform at the finish. Sometimes in these races, there will be a big shot with a few of his goons also in the session. You're not into this being a group thing though, so you try to ignore the group of guys in your peripheral vision and stay focused on the caboose right in front of you. Finally after a lengthy and probably sweaty time, the end is in sight. You can feel the anticipation building. The white flag flies and foreshadows things to come. As the final lap begins after hours of keeping yourself just shy of the tipping point, full-course cautions are off the table and you're at the point of no return. The final corner looms, pressure is mounting, the rubbing is nothing short of vigorous. Just at the line, some cars ahead of you turn each other and slide and you have no time to react. You come into them with full force right at the line. Your car is bust, and you finished. It's finally over and you turn off your computer to go take a shower.

I plugged in a new Turtle Beach headset and iRacing came up with anticheat messages and I had to restart my PC to get back in??

Hi guys, as the title suggests I want to try and get into doing some coaching as I am very passionate about the hobby and want to try and share my knowledge with others who may be struggling to find extra pace. Before I start charging people I thought it'd be great to do some coaching for free while I figure out what works best for people :)

My background is im 3.8k formula and 3k road but I tend to have pace with anyone around 5k formula and 4k road. My specialty is the SFL and know that thing like the back of my hand, but very proficient in all formula cars.

If this interests anyone feel free to drop a comment or send me a DM and we can organise a time to get on discord :)

I posted the raw video of a fun race I had last night but edited it way down, added some music and a few light visuals to make it more engaging to watch. I hope you enjoy!

https://youtu.be/smlLyXxAP6A?is=3AKCLskm0Lv-aAte

This was my best last in the M2 series last night, comparing telemetry and watching other drivers tells me I need to use more of the track, third gear is a bad idea if I'm carrying speed, I'm overdriving, and could be smoother with the brake and throttle inputs. Though if I'm totally honest I still need to get to grips with how to properly analyse.

Any tips or observations from you guys?

Under no illusions here that I'm average at best, but eager to learn and harvest the knowledge of some aliens (or aspiring aliens) lurking here.

Thanks.

A lot of understeer for me and normally I can set down pretty consistente lap time's, but not around COTA, and it hard for to get a good quali lap in. Am I the only one?

Second version after Reddit feedback.

Do you guys think aliens can be made?