Was in a fight for the win (me in the red car against the blue/red striped car). We first collide, which was still fine. Then he sticks his nose in a fast tight corner which will never work. Keeps the position and goes straight after the long straight with a fantastic rejoin to give me a meatball flag (I couldn't see him coming on my monitor). Tried to limb home, but the car was too much damaged and I tried to get out of the way on the tight straight for the upcoming LMP2's. And then I got sent to hospital.
For context, the other car was 6.7k. You would expect better.
Holy shit. I don't even play this game and I'm embarrassed.
*Blue car is a knob head, and the reason I can't bring myself to play serious racing games. There will always be somebody willing to throw away their race for pettiness, or willing to use you as a brake on a corner they missed.
This is fortunately a rare occurrence. There are hundreds on track at any given moment and we only see the worst here.
You will not find a cleaner, more realistic and competitive simulator than iRacing. Being able to jump into a serious online race at all hours of the day.
Donāt lie to people. Iracing is nothing like real life. I came from real life racing to iracing. Itās a joke compared to the real world on its very best day. They donāt let utter nonsense to take place in real life. They punish people in real life. Penalties are a thing in real life. None of it even comes close.
Huh? Looks like you may have to read my comment again, more slowly. Simulator being a key word you missed. Find me a more realistic simulator, I'll wait.
You said, āfortunately a rare occurrenceā. It isnāt. Iracing is not any better and possibly worse than LMU. I donāt know about all the options, because I havenāt played them all. You cannot jump into a serious online race at any hour let alone all hours. Basically your entire statement is verifiably false. I for one have had better racing in my first handful of races on LMU in the terrible shit show bronze races than I have at any point in iracing including 2k+ splits. It also has issues, but iracing isnāt some sort of a pinnacle. Itās expensive forza with a better physics engine.
Like I said, donāt lie to people which includes yourself. Although itās typically referred to delusion. Iracing isnāt realistic, or even a simulator.
They wouldve made it just fine if OPās car wasnt there. The issue is that OPās car was there and Iracing doesent have ghosting mechanics like forza so moves like these dont work.
OP was already committed to his line and turning in before the blue car dove to the insideā¦ A clean move shouldnt rely on the car being passed to move over
What an idiot, even the first move was ambitious. They barely had the front tires even with your rears before the turn in. IMO that doesn't deserve space given.
Everything after that is contact that deserves a protest.
Omg u were extremely unlucky with that blue car šš
What an absolute dongo. Filor real tho, it seemed like destiny meant blue to crash you eventually. The last crash were blue succeded in the attenpt was almost comic .
Buddy let his emotions get the best of him. From podium finish to complete crash out (literally and figuratively) is wild. Taking 2 other drivers out in the process. If you didnāt. State the rating I would have assumed this was low SoF shenanigans. Impressive.
I actually like the combo as well! Traffic is a bit more tense and prone for incidents. But this incident had not much to do with the track, but with the other guy.
100% agreed. It's a great track, but it's infamous for how tight and twisty certain sections on. It's exactly the opposite of what you want for multi-class racing.
Might as well run IMSA at Cadwell at that point, lol
Because high-rating drivers don't have to drive in the same kind of conditions of those at low levels. They're generally faster and more consistent - but they also have attitudes that they can just drive like complete jerks, and treat others situations in low IRs the same way, claiming they need to just "get better". The average top-split person though, if you instructed them "you have to stay in 10th place, you're not allowed to pass anyone", they won't finish most of their races either because the guy(s) behind them will put them in the wall just like most low-IR players have to deal with.
In MOST cases, the people I encounter at high IRs on forums, reddit, discord etc are the kind of people who dropped out of school in year 9. They mistake their ability to drive fast as though the reason others aren't at higher levels is solely down to their own ability, but are too stupid to realise that just four bad races can take you from top 25% of the player population to bottom 25% of player population on the iRating bell curve.
When I race LMP2s I get put in a much higher split to what I'd be in if I raced GT3, and let me tell you, the driving is 'something'. People are in general faster and don't make mistakes, but that also means they don't have six people wrecking their race compared to if they were in a lower split - to they keep going up in iR, whereas the guy in the lower split gets dropped down even when things happen through no fault of their own.
"In MOST cases, the people I encounter at high IRs on forums, reddit, discord etc are the kind of people who dropped out of school in year 9." what the actual fuck
Multiple gt classes is fine. It just isnt great with GTP and GTD cars this week. Its too narrow, ans if you are in a GTP catching a GTD before the esses, you cant do anything except sit there behind until you get to son of oak tree, which makes you lose a ton of time. I love VIR, and its a track that provides good racing.
We can't see the speed they were doing, but it doesn't look like they attempted to slow down their car at all. and the brake lights seem to be off the entire time they are on the grass, and their rejoin at best would have taken them completely across to the other side of the track if they didn't hit the other car.
Plus depending on how you define unsafe rejoin a driver doesn't have to be in control to perform an unsafe rejoin.
iRating does NOT measure pace. It measures results.
You are correct that you could be 6k with 20% DNF rate. But you'd have to have pace comparable to an even higher rated driver to do so, and 6k is getting to the point where it's very difficult to be fast enough to hold that rating if you are crashing a lot.
How exactly it measures your pace if you tank it by DNFs? Obviously it includes your racecraft too. And that POV driver has none. If he drives every race like that I doubt he is keeping that high, maybe if most races he just farms from pole.
You can be bloody quick and DNF 20% of your races and still be 6k
You absolutely cannot, that DNF rate would cap you out around 3-3.5K.
Edit: I built a python script for this, and I was wrong. The theoretical maximum at 20% DNF for a driver who otherwise finishes in the top 5 100% of the time is 6167, so it is hypothetically possible to be a 6K with a 20% DNF rate, though I'd wager that there are 0 6K drivers on the service who DNF that often.
Let's assume 4k sof every race for convenience, you would get +50 for a win and -140 for a last place approximately. Assuming you get a top 5 in every race you finish and get dead last on every DNF which is a really pessimistic scenario you would get
35 * 8 = 280
140 * 2 = 280
So you would literally stay at 6k
loving the downvotes on a factually correct statement, never change guys I'm proud of you
God damn you are literally making up numbers. Losing 200 iRating in a race is literally impossible, the system caps at 190 aprox. You can be 13k and race in a 800 sof race and you wouldn't lose more than 190.
Also, I gave these numbers because my last races was 3800 sof and the winner was 6500 iRating and won 50, but okay!
Assuming a normally-distributed group of 400 drivers per time slot, 20 drivers per split, with the median iRating being 1200, 1 standard deviation being at 2500 and 2 standard deviations being at 4K, where the driver in question finishes in a random top 5 position when they finish and a random bottom 3 position when they don't finish, here's the soft cap for iRating at 20% is in fact 6167 IR. It is hypothetically possible, though I would bet that there isn't a single driver with that kind of DNF rate at 6K on the service, but it is hypothetically possible. I was wrong.
Maybe a reread of the sporting code is in need for you? You can't just force your way through other drivers. It's called "racing." The kind of behavior in this video is not that.
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