NewsRelease Notes 172016Scheduled MaintenanceNone at this time Official Schedule Setup GuidesPopular SitesPopular YouTube ChannelsLeaguesWant to race against fellow redditors each week?Promotions New MembershipsCurrently 40% discount on all new membership packages as standard.PRNASCAR10193 months for $10PR-GRIPTV193 months for $10 for new membersPR-GSR3 months + Ford GT (Old) for $12 for new membersPR-OUTLAWS12 months for $49PR-HOTLAPS3 months for $4.78PR-eNASCAR20193 months for $10.00 Renewalsnone we're aware of at this time. Fellow simracers,I may finally get into iracing:So far I've played various racing games / 'sims' for a decade, and with a FFB wheel (DFGT) for four years. Having played Assetto Corsa, Dirt Rally, F1 Challenge 99-02, Grand Prix Legends, GTR2., Live for Speed, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season, NASCAR Sim Racing, Project CARS 2, Race 07, rfactor, Richard Burns Rally, Simracway and various others, I have touched pretty much every form of car racing but mostly limited myself to singleplayer games. Variety, usability and the realisation that I am not the reincarnation of Jim Clark.Today, I am on the brink of giving iracing a shot. Finally, singleplayer racing has lost some of its appeal to me even though I greatly enjoy rallying.This is what held me back so far:- pricing: 50$ of annual subscription fee equals the asking price of any other modern racing sim.
Are there 50% discounts for existing members as well?- pricing II: 12$ per car and 12$ or 15$ per track (that I then have to subscription fees to use!) is twice to ten times as much as DLC for other racing sims.- lack of (wet) weather conditions. Not a (big) issue for oval racing but inexcusable for simulating road racing.- esports: simracing is a hobby to me. I will never be truly fast but enjoy to 'race' various cars around various tracks against (AI) opposition.This is why I want to give iracing a shot:- it is said to be the best multiplayer simracing experience out there.I hope to not start a war and look forward to your replies. Thank you.Best,Jag.the best game I have ever played. I'll give you one example, among many I could have brought up, on why it's absolutely worth it in my opinion.The 24 hours of Le Mans.
In the last month, I've spent probably 30-40 hours preparing with my team for a single, once-a-year experience. We've practiced, worked on a setup, and practiced some more. And we practiced at night, because iRacing has an incredibly well implemented day/night cycle, and the track gets dark. Where the fuck is that apex-dark. Then, we made a schedule and a strategy based on our team members strengths, weaknesses and schedule.
In the last two days before the race, I started forcing myself out of bed earlier and earlier, because I had to be able to fall asleep at 23:00 so I would be able to be not only awake, but also alert at 04:00 Sunday morning.At 15:00 saturday, along with over 900(!) other teams, I was assigned a split with 55 other teams in three different classes with seven different extremely well-designed virtual race cars, where the teams of my class match the level of our team. I was to start for our team. I felt a very real nervousness, akin to what I've felt before the start of other very real team sports' events. 15:33 I was on the grid, chanting 'don't fuck up, don't fuck up' internally.
I was on P4 in my class from qual. I knew we had the pace to fight for a podium, maybe even a win. If I did the next two hours like I knew I could, I could hand of the car in a good position, maybe even the lead. The start went, I lived through the first corners, and the adrenaline high was awesome. Then, reality set in. I'm in control of what we've worked for all month.
One misstep, one lapse in concentration at the wrong time, and we're fucked. I've got to keep myself together for almost two hours before I let someone else take the wheel. Two hours, 26 laps of one of the world's most famous race tracks. It got the better of me, and I couldn't keep the pace I knew I had in me, but I got through it, in P3. Relax, breathe, get yourself together, another 26 laps and you're back in.Mishaps from other teams, and an awesome pace from my teammate, and 26 laps later I drove out of the pits in a car that was in the lead. Shit, nervous again. Did I remember to pee?
Yes I did, nothing to do about it now anyway. We extended the lead. My teammate kept telling me I was completely destroying the opposition, 1, 3, 6 seconds a lap! Shit was going well. So well that at the end of my second stint I lost it coming out of Tetre Rouge, and cost us two fucking minutes of limping and repairs. I went from the top of the world to deep despair in moments. But it could have been worse, and we came out in second.
By the time I went to bed, we were gunning for first again.I got up at 04:00, only to find out the car was in bits. My teammate had to use his backup headset as his battery headset was dead, and the change in feedback made him loose concentration in the night and the car was useless. That sinking feeling was deep. It was a very real feeling of crushed hope. I went back to bed, and tried to get some more sleep.iRacing is so much more than a game, or even a sim. It's a framework where you can experience stuff like this, with 3788 other real life drivers. The planning, the effort and the consequences of mucking it up makes all the difference.
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It's a real sport, with the emotions, efforts and skills found in any other sport. And this is just one of a whole bunch of motorsport variations iRacing offers. There's dead serious (and not so serious) races every hour, there's a multitude of oval variations, road races, rallycross and leagues for all of them, in addition to the official stuff.The best bit? The 24 hours of Spa is only 8 weeks away, and we get to experience this all over again, hopefully with a few lessons learned.:). You don't need to take it this seriously, but you can, that's the beauty in what iRacing has built.
Heck, you can even take it even more seriously and compete for 100 000$ prize pools. Or, you can do what I did for the first two years, just jump in to whatever takes your fancy and do some half-serious racing with people who (most of the time) try to actually complete the race rather than make the most spectacular crash. At least give it a shot, I seriously doubt you won't enjoy it. Sure, in theory. Well, almost. Thing is, it would require a hell of a lot of organization, and a really good server, only to get 60 cars to do that. We had 900, ordered and split by skill-based ranking, on professional level servers.
And iRacing offers this several times a year.iRacing has all the difficult bits arranged for you, they sim works great with lots of people, and they have decent servers. The main thing though is that iRacing has all the racers willing to do this seriously, and a framework to make it easy to race against them, all day and every day. And once a year, for 24 hours of Le Mans:).
It's hard not to agree. But some people like organizing events or custom championships that allows tailoring for specific needs. But yeah most accept players with various skills. One league I joined enforced 20 laps or so of practice time before race.
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It's not much, but they could easily add maximum lap time criteria or something similar.But I agree this kind of multiplayer service is unique to iRacing and works well. RFactor 2 is working on online competition system kinda similar to iRacing, but for now it's userbase is much lower, they have outdated UI and other issues. As any sim it has some strong points so maybe people who aren't so much invested in iRacing will chose it. So far it didn't happen in pCars2, although it has ranking system.For me iRacing content is quite cost prohibitive, as I don't devote so much time for one sim. I get ultra accurate, laser scanned tracks are expensive, but I'm 99,9% sure I never race on a particular track I'm playing. Car's handling is more important, because that's where we have big discrepancies in sims. I know iRacing cars are not bad in general, especially GT, but tires have significant issues.
I will wait how the NTM7 updates will turn out.
I installed my old F1 Challenge game on the PC, and am having a blast, now that I actually know enough about racing sims to compete without assists.If you've played it and/or know anything about it, I have a couple of questions.1) Any idea where I can find the (once) popular DTM 2002 mod? I've followed 10-15 trails, and they all end up in broken links.2) I downloaded a car setup that handles like a dream, but after about 3 laps, I get a warning that says something like 'your engine is overheating, try to shift less.' Another lap or so, and the engine blows. What settings do I need to change to fix this? I'm assuming it's in the gears, but even when I set the gears back to defaults, just keeping the handling settings, I get the same results.Thanks!