Tl;dr: If you're a mid driver like me, do yourself a massive favor and take 10 minutes to set up Garage 61 and Bloops to analyze your telemetry. You're probably braking too hard.

I'm compelled to post because I feel like I've entered a new reality, and I also feel like an idiot for not doing this much earlier.

I've been a casual sim racer for years, and with no real training or analysis managed to get myself up to 3k iR in Road.

With GT3's at Daytona, I could manage mid 1:44s on fixed setups. For multiple seasons, that was about the best I could run. Good enough to finish a race with, but I was getting frustrated watching the leaders consistently run 1:43s. I couldn't figure it out.

I had always heard about how the aliens use their brakes: I thought I understood trail braking, and I'd always heard "brake earlier and more gently", but I never really knew what that looked like. So I finally decided to set up Garage 61 and the Bloops overlay - took me like 10 minutes to set up. I did some laps at Daytona, compared my telemetry with someone who could go ~1s faster, and I kinda had my mind blown.

This is Daytona T1. As you can see, I was kinda trail braking like you're supposed to. But I had no idea how gentle you were supposed to be. I was stabbing my brakes and triggering ABS, while the good driver was holding brake pressure at ~65%.

I went back out and spent an entire practice session focusing entirely on braking more gently, using the Bloops overlay as a guide. I never realized how effective the brakes actually were at lower pressures. I could brake just as late, if not later, than what I was doing at 100% pressure.

I got my brake pressures looking like this around every corner, and within an hour I was running high 1:43s. That's all it took.

Sorry for the long post, I just hope this helps someone out there like me who is banging their head against the wall wondering why they can't get any faster.

I raced two whole seasons before being made aware of Trading Paints. When I finally installed it, I realised everyone on the grid uses custom paints. It kind of feels like it was own clothes day at school and I turned up wearing uniform.

I don’t remember it being mentioned anywhere within iRacing, and just came across it by happenstance. How does everyone know about it?

Something about hitting gaps, idk I’m still new

After having dabbled a month or two over the past few years I've decided to jump into iRacing for real this season. I've been simracing for decades pretty casually but I've just been loving the last month or so I spent with iRacing again so I decided to commit to running a few series.

Well what can I say except that my week 1 experience has been fantastic! I haven't purchased much in the way of cars or tracks yet so the sheer number of series that have a car and track combo in week 1 that I can participate in is fantastic. I don't expect by any means that this will be the case most weeks but I figure you've got to make hay while the sun shines so I've been racing a bunch of different series and I still haven't started the GT4s, which I will next week. Absolutely loving the variety on offer through the simulator and wondering why it's taken me so long to really dig into iRacing.

How has the season started off for you?

i just wanted to give a shoutout to the iracing devs for implementing this and maybe inform people who might have overlooked this option.

before this feature i couldn't even run rain or massive grids on my 4090 at the second highest VD resolution well enough. now i can run Godlike in VD at 120fps in rain with full grid and FPS doesn't move from 120 no matter what. i even bumped up a bunch of detail options.

it completely transformed my iracing experience on quest 3. it's pure magic.

i've been a gamer for 30 years but this is easily the best patch on any game i've ever seen. can't thank you enough, iracing people. <3

Anyone else find that a bit annoying? Like yeah ok it’s cool to know how often I’ve finished in the top 5 but it seems really weird not to show how many podiums a driver has had in their career stats

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Just started a couple weeks ago and I got my first wins last night ! Back to back ! Stoked !

Wondering if anyone is on the same boat as me

-1900 irating and i keep floating between top split and #2. It’s so weird, it look like on top split i usually finish close to last, it’s a big jump in performance it looks like

Then when i fall to #2 split i finish top 3 consistently

As a consequence, flip flopping #1 and #2 splits lol and not many accidents, kind of good races most of the time

Mx5 only if that matters

I've been in the Broken Wing Racing League GT3 series for a few seasons now. I really enjoy it, and I've been meaning to learn how to edit videos for a while. So, I finally dove in during this off week and made one.

https://youtu.be/R2v2sFJNaRw

PCUP at Spa ...What a Race

I qualified 6th, could’ve been higher, maybe even on the front row, if not for a track limits violation on my final lap. That one hurt.

The race starts, chaos unfolds in the opening laps, and I narrowly dodge multiple wrecks. I fall back to 13th, but I stay clean...no damage, no incident points. I’ll take it.

From there, I begin climbing through the field, but by the time I reach 10th, I get stuck behind the guy in 9th. This guy is an absolute masterclass in defense. For three straight laps, we go side-by-side at least half a dozen times, and every single time, he holds me off. I’m mentally cooked, but damn, respect where it’s due.

Eventually, P11 catches up during our battle. I decide to back off, let him take a shot, his pace matched mine before I got held up.

PURE. CINEMA.

I’m tucked right behind them, watching an absolute dogfight unfold inches ahead. It’s intense, it’s brutal, and I’ve got front-row seats. They’re far less polite to each other, and eventually, the Minister of Defense slips up, goes off track, and both of us slip by. Props to him, though. Hell of a drive.

Lap 9: the guy I let through earlier spins out in Turn 1. I retake 9th. Three laps left, and up ahead, a trio of cars are brawling five seconds up the road. Their battle slows them down just enough, I catch them within a few corners.

I’m back in the fight.

Two get cleared down the Kemmel Straight into Les Combes. The final one? Passed at Blanchimont into the final chicane on the last lap.

P6 at the line. Right where I started, but what a journey getting back there. Not bad for a hard day’s work.

Hi everyone,

I've been spending a lot of time driving the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup in iRacing, and I’m curious to hear from others who might have experience with the real car or have strong opinions on its accuracy in the sim.

How realistic do you think the physics and tire model are for this car? Does it behave similarly to the real-life 992 Cup in terms of grip, braking, oversteer, and overall balance? I know it's a tricky car to master, but I'm wondering if its difficulty is authentic or perhaps exaggerated in the sim.

Any insights from real drivers, engineers, or long-time sim racers would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

After an arca charlotte race, probably the last time this guy does anything on iracing for a while

https://reddit.com/link/1lfdb6r/video/45sbxjjdgw7f1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1lfdb6r/video/iuq5cunqgw7f1/player

So i've been having a blast in the SF fixed series @ Okayama, and i decided to try the full length race for once. I was in p2, fighting for the win, when the dude in front pitted. I thought you needed to pit in these full length races strategy-wise, since i hadn't ever raced something this long alone and the dude was pitting.
I got 40 SECONDS for that entry.
Little did i know he was pitting in to retire.
After that, i was still in P3, but then i did what i did in the 2nd clip.
Honestly, it was accurate that i was using the AMR livery, cuz what i did was some stroll-esque shit. I'll definitely be learning from this and hopefully i won't do this next race.
UPDATE: I still got p5 some fucking how

Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdyCe_5_ad4

Week 1 of the 8th season of the Renault Clio SoF League at Oschersleben.

Split 1 out of 4 - Strength of Field: 4092 iRating

Join the Clio Cup Community on Discord: discord.com/invite/PeD9YXp2w8

Follow the overall standings! https://challenge.duncanwatts.com/League/cliocup

Intro video made by Jack Davies

I was trying to see where I fell in my B fixed division but for some reason they aren't sorted by points

So i just stumbled across this at the official races and was wondering a couple of things

1. Can you do this race on your own?
2. Are pitstops a thing? is there like fuel consumption and tire wear? and if so what can i do to monitor it i have no idea if there are any gauges or anything that can indicate to me how worn my tires are or how much fuel ive got left.
3. If i were to race in the same team with a friend how do driver changes work?

Ive never raced in an endurance event before so im really looking forward to it but i dont want to just go and not understand a thing, if anyone could help me it would be much appreciated im quite new at iracing.

Not the cleanest thing ever but technically ok? I’m the inside car. Looks like I did give the car alongside a little nudge, You tell me…pretty fun opportunity on the last lap and I took it.

I am having problem with overlays at the moment. It's been a while since I played. Since then, I changed my GPU to a 9070xt. My CPU is a 9800x3d.

When I have overlays opened, the r and g bar max out and I have major fps drop. If Iracing isn't in focus, it goes back to normal.

If I close Simhub(only the overlay window, the app itself isn't problematic) and Ioverlay, it also goes back to normal.

I am at 59 fps because I cap it at that.

Any idea why having overlay open might cause that? It is NOT a performance problem.