PC Racing Simulation

I ran two races at Daytona this week in the Nationwide car. In the first race I was wrecked before I even crossed the start-finish line at the beginning of the race. I was hit so hard I couldn't continue at all.

Second race, I decided to try and qualify up front so I wouldn't have to deal with the crazies. It didn't matter, I was hit pretty hard on lap 4 and had to spend the rest of the race struggling with a crippled car. I kept it on the lead lap and ended up finishing 9th out of 20 after some heavy attrition in the field.

D-Class, Female Doggoes! Planning on running the Mazda Cup repeatedly through the next two "mini-seasons" but I'm also shooting to get to D in Oval either fast tracking or through the promotion in four weeks. So, anyone want to run some laps and show me the ropes?

D class has the skippy and the SCCA ford - both of which are great cars to drive. If you want to do something during the day on either saturday or sunday, I'll be available. I'll look for you in the iracing thingy.

Sunday I have events in a training league, not sure how well it would go over with the wife to add to that. I can probably get in some time on Saturday though.

I've been trying to decide where to go next season. I have both the SRF and the Skip, I guess I really need to put some time on them to see how they feel.

The Skippy is awesome. It's still one of my favorite cars.

Huh, I just logged into iRacing and got a popup about being a Chevy Impala owner so I got $11.95 in iRacing credit. So that purchase worked out well.

[Edit] Ah, I guess it's because the new Gen6 basically replaces it.

LiquidMantis wrote:

Huh, I just logged into iRacing and got a popup about being a Chevy Impala owner so I got $11.95 in iRacing credit. So that purchase worked out well.

[Edit] Ah, I guess it's because the new Gen6 basically replaces it.

Not basically, completely...lol

I can give you some pointers on oval if you like. Not sure how much different things are from when I was going through the ranks, but it can't be too much different. The better you are at avoiding the idiots, the less wrecks you get involved in, the better your SR, the better you finish, the better your IR.

MountaineerWR27 wrote:

I can give you some pointers on oval if you like. Not sure how much different things are from when I was going through the ranks, but it can't be too much different. The better you are at avoiding the idiots, the less wrecks you get involved in, the better your SR, the better you finish, the better your IR.

I got out of the rookie races by starting from the pit lane every race.

ChrisLTD wrote:
MountaineerWR27 wrote:

I can give you some pointers on oval if you like. Not sure how much different things are from when I was going through the ranks, but it can't be too much different. The better you are at avoiding the idiots, the less wrecks you get involved in, the better your SR, the better you finish, the better your IR.

I got out of the rookie races by starting from the pit lane every race.

Good strategy. I always hated that until you get to like level C, I think, all of the series run with no cautions. I understand people possibly being brand new and pacing around all of the time isn't going to get them better, but neither is teaching them that you can't slow up if there's a wreck in front of you or you'll lose the lead pack and have no chance of competing. Dumb.

Mountaineer,
Do they still have the car resets too?

I'm thinkin tomorrow - around noon. Texas time - I'll get online in whatever practice they have going this week in the skippys. If y'all want to come out and practice with me, that'd be great.

I figure depending on how many show up, if we wanted to do a little practice and race on a private server, I'd host one up. If not, we can just race/practice on whatever iRacing is offering up.

Sound good? No? Oui?

*edit* - time of event - wife says I got a haircut earlier in the morning so had to bump it back.

I might be able to show up for a little while. I have GSC practice races at noon EST.

I should be around tomorrow morning. I was going to create a Sim Racing channel on the GWJ Vent server but I need to get my admin access restored. I figured that might be a good way to show you're interested in racing something and give chat for the other sims.

LiquidMantis wrote:

I should be around tomorrow morning. I was going to create a Sim Racing channel on the GWJ Vent server but I need to get my admin access restored. I figured that might be a good way to show you're interested in racing something and give chat for the other sims.

Sounds good!

P.S., I took a stab at painting my Nationwide car last night:

IMAGE(http://f.cl.ly/items/0K0T2p2B2m3y2q2f0z3O/image_car.png)

Vent channel created! Sim Racing, way down at the bottom.

Liquid: Cool - I will log in there tomorrow as well. I like this idea

Chris: want me to take a shot a paint job for ya, or are you just wanting to do one yourself?

Nyxs,
Thanks for the offer, but I like doing them myself. I just don't have the patience to make them great.

19 minutes to showtime and I've got to bail out. I've just been informed that I need to travel to the other side of town this afternoon. I'll be free this evening or tomorrow all day if anyone is interested in banging some fenders then.

Cheers!
Nyxs

Hey, all you iRacing fans, not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but iRacing is on Project Greenlight, meaning they're trying to get on Steam. This could potentially be awesome, because it could mean the sim and it's DLC tracks/cars could be in on Steam sales, not to mention steam community, auto-patching, and other nice Steam features.

Please vote "Yes" for iRacing, and help it get on Steam!

direct link

LiquidMantis wrote:

Vent channel created! Sim Racing, way down at the bottom.

Awesome! When I was using the Awesomenauts channel for the 500's, I didn't think I would have to worry about anybody jumping in there, but there were a couple people that jumped in right as the race on Saturday was starting. Thankfully, they were nice enough to jump on another channel, since I didn't have a way of switching channels, but I thought for sure no one would be playing Awesomenauts lol

Jeff-66 wrote:

Hey, all you iRacing fans, not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but iRacing is on Project Greenlight, meaning they're trying to get on Steam. This could potentially be awesome, because it could mean the sim and it's DLC tracks/cars could be in on Steam sales, not to mention steam community, auto-patching, and other nice Steam features.

Please vote "Yes" for iRacing, and help it get on Steam!

direct link

That definitely sounds interesting. I hope it would work out.

From what I gather on the iRacing forums, they don't intent to use much, if any, of the Steam infrastructure. If you launched iRacing from Steam it would still take you to the iRacing website. They mostly want the a Steam presence to help get the word out.

It'd be a lot like how Tribes is on Steam. Steam just launches the Tribes launcher which handles patching and all purchases are handled in game, not through Steam.

ChrisLTD wrote:

From what I gather on the iRacing forums, they don't intent to use much, if any, of the Steam infrastructure. If you launched iRacing from Steam it would still take you to the iRacing website. They mostly want the a Steam presence to help get the word out.

It'd be a lot like how Tribes is on Steam. Steam just launches the Tribes launcher which handles patching and all purchases are handled in game, not through Steam.

That's good to hear. It's just so much different than 99% of the other games that are on Steam that I just didn't see how it would work. I'm all for getting the word out though; from my experience, I think they don't advertise well enough outside of the sim racing pipeline. I haven't done any other sim racing programs, nor did I follow anything like InsideSimRacing or inRacing News or anything similar, so the only way I was going to get exposure to it was outside of the sim racing world. The way I ended up finding out about it was at Bristol; I was up there for the UNOH race and the truck race, and I was watching the UNOH guys qualifying. The guy that won the pole had never even set foot on the Bristol property, and the announcer said something about how he had practiced through iRacing. Not 2 weeks later, I had ordered a cheap wheel/pedal set and bought a promo "3 months for the price of 1" at iRacing and was in heaven.

Moral of the story....Promote at NASCAR races, iRacing!!!!!! And I guess secondary moral of the story, iRacing owes money to whoever that announcer was, he started what has been a pretty steady cash flow for them.

I don't really follow their promotional strategy now, but they do have an official partnership with NASCAR (iRacing has a series sanctioned by NASCAR and promoted on NASCAR.com) and they were taking racing rigs to races to get fans interested.

ChrisLTD wrote:

I don't really follow their promotional strategy now, but they do have an official partnership with NASCAR (iRacing has a series sanctioned by NASCAR and promoted on NASCAR.com) and they were taking racing rigs to races to get fans interested.

Ya I knew about the NASCAR partnership, but they don't ever promote it other than the section on the website that has the stadings and schedule for the DWC. And I've heard about them taking rigs to races, but I go to both Bristol races almost every year and I've been to at least 4 other tracks since iRacing started ('08 right?) without seeing the first mention of iRacing. I've seen some sims, and I've done most of them, but I heard no mention of iRacing at all. And aside from the announcer mentioning that during QUALIFYING of a UNOH race (my dad and I were 2 of about 15 people in the stands), I haven't heard about or seen iRacing anywhere. I do know they had a big setup at the Indy 500 a year or two ago, but I think it was just the one year that they did it.

And that got me completely side-tracked on what I came here to post lol

I think I'm going to do a couple races tonight, so anyone feel free to jump on. I'll be on Vent, but if I haven't made it known yet I am pretty much exclusively an oval driver; I've done a few road races but found no enjoyment in the races or in that Miata, but that could also be because I'm dreadfully terrible.

Jeff-66 wrote:

Please vote "Yes" for iRacing, and help it get on Steam!

direct link

While you're there... maybe throw in a vote for Assetto Corsa too?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...

Glad to see people are getting into iracing. I have been a member for a a few years and generally race the in C and D class. Hit me up with some friend requests. User is Neal Sherman

Ford Fusion Gen6 is out!

Also, I hate Las Vegas >:(

Las Vegas, at least in the Nationwide cars, seems to only have one fast line. I haven't run a race yet, but I assume there will be lots of cautions as people fight for the same small bit of track.

In the A class it's been complete chaos. Idk if it's the new cars or people not taking the time to get used to them before jumping into a race or if it's just Vegas, but they are loose as hell. I include myself in the group of people not taking the time to get used to the car; I jumped into a race and the only practice I had was a few laps in a test session waiting on the race to start and then the 5 minute warm up period before gridding. End result: I barely touched the apron in turn 2 of the first lap and wrecked. I didn't take anybody else out, but I was the first person out of the race and ended up losing like 100 iRating.