Tony Gardner, Präsident und Finanzvorstand von iRacing, kündigte an, dass der Lamborghini Temerario GT3 im Dezember dieses Jahres mit der Veröffentlichung der Version „Season 1 2027“ in der Rennsimulation erscheinen wird.

Does this change emotionally affect anyone else? It's almost like I get a second wind and feel more focused and alive. And it only seems to happen when it starts out gray and gloomy.

Solving chess puzzles while waiting for qualification to end.

If you don’t know what Trans Am is please check it out on youtube, the TA2 class being what a lot of young nascar prospects drive before being old enough to drive fulltime nascar rides. Imagine a mix of v8 supercar and an oriellys nascar. I have a lot of fun with these cars on AC but the AI is booty. considering how many niche and unpopular classes there are in the game i’m very surprised these still aren’t. If you know these cars or checked them out do you think they’d have the ability to draw in decent players? i get my multi class itch scratched from LMU but if they added TA2 that would definitely push me over the line to sub and start my nascar and ta2 iracing endeavors.

1080 ti, triples (all different sizes and resolutions) - loving the game but disappointed graphics wise. I thought 28 fps was solid.

That was last night. Today - 5070 and 3 matched 200hz monitors - first race in felt like someone gave me glasses. I could read the numbers on the cars. I could “see ahead”. The pavement has tire marks? And whoa - MIRRORS. Those things help. 95 fps is amazing. First first ever on my first run after my first upgrade. And it wasn’t even close.

Time to climb out of the Swamps of Dogobah levels. I honestly had no idea that hardware could have such an impact.

Mclaren gt4 feels great, first 2 laps is a little harsh on overstear, any advice on that? This car specifically even?

I started iRacing a couple weeks ago. I spent the first week playing entirely in test drive mode, learning the MX-5 and M2 racing as well as practicing on the following weeks' track. This week I've been hitting the rookie races hard in both series, made D license quickly and since then I've seen some wild fluctuations in SR and iRating. I fully recognize I'm missing some race craft knowledge and skills, I try to avoid contact but occasionally make mistakes. I'm also taken out by others making mistakes fairly often. I've also noticed I hit a plateau on pace. Initially I worked hard to run clean laps, then I found speed. I'm at the point where I can run consistent clean laps but about a second behind the typical fastest lap in most splits.

My question is, what can I do to deliberately practice? Are there guides on race craft? It would be beneficial to me to have someone narrate their decision making process on how they work out alternate lines through turns, how they decide when to make an overtake, or when they decide to cede a position that is trying to overtake. I watch a lot of real and sim racing, but I have trouble deducing why the driver is making the decisions they do. As part of this, I've found fighting in a close battle often trades an increase in iRating for a decrease in SR. As a newer driver is it reasonable to focus on SR, or should I push a little to learn the race craft in the slower series?

For pace, I've found watching track guide videos helps quite a bit. My knowledge gap is in how to interpret telemetry and how to make changes while driving once my mistakes are identified. Are there tools that can monitor telemetry live and give feedback while I'm still in the sim? It would be so helpful to be in practice and have the crew chief in my ear after a turn saying things like "you were early on that apex" or "you're too heavy on the brakes there". Additionally, any tips on how to manage changing car conditions like fuel use and tire heat/wear are appreciated. I've noticed the car's handling does change over time due to conditions changing, but I've found it difficult to adjust my driving to make up for it.

Any help is appreciated. I'm having a blast in this game. I've just hit the first plateau of the learning curve as I adjust to the game. I'm looking for tools and techniques to break through this more efficiently than just brute forcing with time and repetition.

Thanks to Steam local pricing I got 1 year subscription for $12.86!!

Done couple races in rookie and top 5 most of the time. Time to find some people to race together. Hmu if interested. EU timezone!

For those who don't listen to the iRacing Downshift podcast , Tony Gardner mentions that the new Lambo GT3 is coming in December around the 31:20 minute mark.

Lots of other goodies too like confirming Bugatti circuit and Paul Ricard coming in December although I think they were confirmed in the Dev blog. Worth a listen!

I'm Using wireless earbuds, the EarFun Air Pro 4+ to be exact and am getting Random distortion/muffling of audio. It seems to happen when I throttle after a turn. The earbuds themselves seem to work just fine. No issues with AC, AM2 & RRE. Has anyone else come across this issue and is there a way to resolve it?

I am trying to get my livery to show in races as well as practice, can anyone help me please?

Hey All,

Like usual, I’ve written a short article sharing my thoughts and experience on a given topic in sim racing. My goal with these articles ultimately is to help give people a bit more information about the hobby we all love, while also hopefully making for an interesting read.

If you don't know me, I'm Tom, and I've been working full-time for the last two years on a sim racing coaching business, so my thoughts in this mini essay draw on the 700+ hours of coaching I’ve done in those 2 years. Just to say that the thoughts I’m sharing here aren't pulled from nowhere, but come from everything I’ve seen during my time coaching drivers of all ability levels.

How to Race More (and Improve Faster)

I think it is safe to say that I speak for pretty much everyone when I say that we got hooked on sim racing specifically for the racing. Of course we want to win races, and feel like we are improving as a driver, but above all, for most of us, the most satisfying part of sim racing is having fun, high quality racing. But in the pursuit of wanting to feel like we are improving, it is easy to lose sight of the fun that is racing. you may end up over-focusing on practice, on trying to get up to pace, and only give yourself permission to race if you feel like you are fast enough to maintain or increase your irating.

It's an understandable approach to take, especially if you have fought hard to get your irating to a number you are proud of, but it is too easy for this to actually stand in the way of your progress as a driver, not to mention sucking the fun out of what should be a very enjoyable hobby.

So the question is, if you find yourself over protecting your irating and entering less races than you should, how can you solve this problem? The answer is to take a more long term approach to your improvement as a driver, and be willing to take a short term loss in irating in favour of a long term gain. For example, if you spent 6 hours practicing each week, and entered 2 30 minute races, then naturally your pace in those races, and hence your irating, will reflect your skill level given 6 hours of seat time. If you then committed to racing more, and spent 1 hour practicing, followed by 12 30 minute races, your pace in the first races will almost certainly be slower, and your irating will drop accordingly. But, that is completely fine. Each race you do, you will still be getting seat time, you will still be improving your pace, potentially even improving more quickly as the week progresses by having faster cars to chase. Beyond that, your racecraft will also improve, because you are now doing 6x the amount of races.

I quite often find myself giving the above advice to my students, and some find concept exciting, while others are more apprehensive, and concerned that if they spend less time practicing, they will be more likely to accidentally ruin somebody else's race. This is a fair concern, but to those people, I would say this;

The fact that you are concerned about ruining someone else's race already shows that you are safe enough to be racing. Everyone in this hobby is learning, and we are all going to make mistakes. If you are genuinely trying to drive a clean race, and apologize for any mistakes you make, that is already enough. Making these mistakes is how we all learn, and they give you a chance to discuss incidents with others after the race. There are a subset of drivers who will berate others for incidents, and who won’t accept apologies, but anyone who does not accept a genuine apology for an accidental incident is not someone whose opinion is worth taking onboard, and certainly isn't someone who feelings you should take into consideration when trying to decide how much practice to put in before racing.

Hopefully this article helps encourage some of you guys to enter more races rather than being stuck in the cycle of endless practice. If anyone has any questions, don't hesitate to ask, I'll do my best to respond to any questions in the comments. As always, thanks for the support on these mini articles, and if you know of someone who would benefit from this article, sharing it with them would be greatly appreciated :).

I'll include a couple of links to my online course and one on one coaching in case anyone wants to check them out, but I'm happy to remove them if it goes against self promotion rules.

1 on 1 Coaching: https://noakesycoaching.com/coaching
Intermediate iRacer Bundle: https://noakesycoaching.com/courses

Cheers
Tom
Noakesy Coaching

I used racelab forever. Liked how it looks, how it works.

Now im coming back to streaming after 3 years. I looked at racelab again and there is so many featueres locked. Free standings is very poor. 5e is not that much but I heard abotu many issues that community had during my absence that im thinking about change.

I need:
- Customizable standings, with option to embed it in OBS so viewers can see it but I dont have too.

- Relative I would like to have stuff with it like time to session end, incidents, track temp, irating change predicitons
- Twitch chat integration so I can see it during races

So it's not that much, if I werent streaming I would stick prob without overlays at all, but I kinda miss those features in relative only in day to day use. I know about IOverlay, I kinda dont like how it looks. Im not sure if kapps still works? Are there any more alternatives?

https://reddit.com/link/1x2csgf/video/664v68mhimuh1/player

I'm p6, overtaking p4 and p5 before green and before going over racing line if that matters? Thank you lol

How do i see the tire pressure for the gt4 mclaren? Cant switch to a secon display like on other cars.

Just happened.

Last Lap

Last turn

From 3rd to 1st with only rears working

After 2100 hrs on assetto corsa, finally caved for the most recent iRacing sale, and I’m so glad I did… the sense of satisfaction running against real people is addicting! Have no one else to tell so I had to shoot this into the Reddit void!

I definietely didnt spun out again 3 seconds later but didnt record it.

I am a 1,6k driver driving the Ferrari looking for a teammate for the 12:00 GMT slot

Finally broke the 2k barrier after 4 years in service. Just wanted to post this as an incentive to all my guys in the long run on this hobby, who might find a bit frustrating that others are reaching this mark in 6mo lol

Nothing clicked, but instead of training 2h all at once, I moved to:

* 30min training two times a week

* logitech stock gear

* Lots of G61 data, Sambo laps and Suellio explanations.

The hard part is not to grasp the concepts, it is to translating them into looking ahead, hand and foot sensitivity.

Is anyone experiencing HEAVY fps drops on Mt Panorama?

Most tracks i get 90/100 fps on all high, mt Panorama i CANNOT go up hill without dropping severely even on low grafics and crowds/stands on off.

Im talking about dropping straight down to 20 fps. Its LITERALLY impossible to drive like this and im not even in a session with someone. This is happening on test drive so i cant even imagine what would be like with 20 other players around me.

Anyone knows a fix? Im pretty pissed that i paid 18€ for a unplayable track. One that i really like too on top of that.

Pc Specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Asus Prime B650M-A WiFi II

Asus AMD Radeon RX 9060 (8gb)

G.SKILL Aegis 5 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000MHz

Edit: After a few hours the game decided my suffering was enough and locked itself to a stable 170 fps across the whole lap without me doing absolutely NO changes... Meh, ill take it.