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I race IMSA GT3 and hover around the low to mid 2k splits, but I’ve noticed a lot of times, the GTP drivers are always the lowest rated drivers in the lobby.

All of the 2k+ iratings are in GT3, while GTP is 1.3-1.6k with most of the incidents. You’d think it would be the other way around with GTP’s being much faster and difficult to drive.

This results in lower rated drivers ruining others races with unsafe/unnecessary passes through traffic, or even entitlement because they don’t realize the GT3’s just have to hold their line, but not move and let them through.

I fortunately haven’t had any direct race ending collisions with GTP’s but have seen it happen to others in my races, and realize the danger some of these drivers pose.

Do you think there should be pre-requisites for driving prototypes in IMSA? If so, what should they be?

Every week that arca runs the official series runs somewhere else. This week they were at Chicagoland yet arca is at indy.

I know they don't run every week and those weeks would need to be interpolated but why is such little effort put into getting the schedules to at least be reasonably similar?

https://reddit.com/link/1uo942l/video/479wya35cgbh1/player

who was in the wrong

I noticed that the Steam version is only like $25 for a whole year. Is there a monthly fee on top of that too? And how do you cancel that subscription after the promotional period of a year?

All i hear is the spotter , no engines, no nothing other than the spotter. Yes the sound option both in iRacing and my Computer is set to the output of my headphones. How can I fix this? this only happens with iRacing. It happend before and I Forget how I fixed it and cant find the post that helped me fix it before but man this annoying this only happens with iRacing

Je joue uniquement avec un quest 3. Je n’arrive pas à afficher la black box. Est-ce que certain jouent avec un casque VR et auraient une réponse ?

Im in my 3rd year of iracing and have just gone BACK to MX5.

Im planning to do the full season driving nothing but mx5 (Rookies, Advanced and Production)

My irating is already improving and I am relearning car control, race management and close racing.

Hopefully ill have a little more knowledge in car setup too by the end of the season!

Discipline has to remain for a full 12weeks!

Anybody else stick to a single car?

I started Garage61 and Broop, and I was practicing while displaying telemetry.

I tried to drive the same as the reference telemetry , but I got unbelievably slower, from 1:59.xxx(P.B. without Broop) to 2:05.xxx.

How's that happening? what on earth should I do?

I was curious to hear everyone else’s stories because I’m not sure mine can be topped after what happened last night.

It was the IMSA Sportscar Endurance Challenge at Mugello.

I was driving the LMP3. Mugello is my favorite track in the world (I’m Italian), and even though I’m not highly irated, it’s one of the few tracks where I can match the pace of much stronger drivers (My best lap is, or was till yesterday, I didn’t check today, top 10 in Garage61)

I ended up in the lowest split (1.0 SoF), so it wasn’t the most competitive or fun race, as I was the fastest by over a second per lap. It was my first endurance race, and I was on my way to my first win in this serie.

Then, after about 1 hour and 20 minutes…

A f***ing* cockroach 🪳** ***, about the size of my middle finger, falls from the ceiling straight onto me.

I swear I’ve lived in this house for six years and have never seen a cockroach here before. I don’t even know how or where it came from (I live in Cape Verde, bugs here are pretty common but I’m on the second floor and they usually don’t get up here).

I completely freak out. I somehow manage to keep the car on track for a few seconds, but then I spin at Turn 1. No big deal, because I still had a huge gap.

My plan was to find a safe place to stop, kill the thing, and carry on.

Except it started running around.

While trying to keep an eye on where it was going so I could deal with it once I stopped… I lost control and drove straight into the wall.

Tow back to the pits.

I could have rejoined in second, only about 30–40 seconds behind the leader, so the win was still possible. But I had completely lost my concentration, so I just logged off.

Bonus: despite not finishing the race and ending up with 8 incident points (6 of them thanks to my unexpected passenger), I still gained +0.18 Safety Rating. I don’t even want to know how much SR I would have earned if I’d actually finished. I probably would have been promoted to an A license.

So… what’s the weirdest reason you’ve ever lost a race you were almost certain to win?

P.S. Sam, if you read this, you owe me one 😭

I need help with my wheel for whatever reason on iRacing I keeps reading the wheel input backwards but when I open the control panel for my wheel and base it’s reading everything correctly. I have the Thrustmaster TS-XW Racer base with the Ferrari 599xx evo wheel. Please any help is appreciated.

After starting sportscars and stuck with porsche cup/gt3 most of the time, short the odd mx5 race i decided to give the ff1600 a go.

What unbelievable fun those cars are!!! You can throw them everywhere and the emphasis on mechanical grip plus so light is a-ma-zing! I cannot recommend those cars enough. Going back for a run in the p cup at imola made me think: what is this understeery boat? Even gt4 feels so sluggish vs that ff1600. I cannot wait going up and doing some of the faster formula cars. Jeez i shoukdv tried this earlier.

Ive had quite a few races ruined in the recent month that ive been back to racing than i feel like I have ever before. When will iracing get stricter on this stuff? These days I only get to run maybe 5 races a week and its so infuriating that people have the ability to just rinse somebody's 30mins-2hours of time because of their moment of anger. Not only that, you then lose previous irating gained making the last race pointless if you had a good round.

I am always curious as to what these people feel like they have gained when their greed ruins other people's experience who maybe had nothing to do with the incident on track around them but get dragged into anyhow.

Being cautionary around a track in a race treating the car like a real one genuinely gives such a better experience of racing to me and ill never understand it and I hope it gets stricter.

Before you ask, yes half the lobby just crashed because of that one guy