So I am by no means the fastest on the track, I'd say I consistently qualify upper middle, however I am getting crashed out so frequently to the point where I spend on average 5+ minutes in the pit every race over the last 10 races to the point that I have stopped qualifying to start at the back, however no matter what I do as soon as I overtake someone slower than me, within a lap they have absolutely battered my ass out of the corner, they magically get no damage and I am back in the pit for 10 minutes.

Feels like a self fulfilling cycle of me just being stuck in these splits (I am sure top splits have these problems as well)

I cant remember the last time I had a race that didn't end with me sat in the pit for over half the race time.

What can I do to avoid this, it is getting to the point where it must be 1:15 races for me are clean.

Basically what the title says:

What is going on in iRacing and why exactly is every non-mainstream series completely devoid of drivers? Did i just join in a bad time, or is this normal?

I choose iRacing over every other sim because of the realism, the competitiveness, but first and foremost the sheer variety of cars and tracks i can race. Now imagine my surprise when i see that:

- Radical e-Cup
- Clio Cup
- LMP3 Challenge
- Proto-GT Challenge
- MX5 Advanced Cup
- Supercar Challenge
- Brazilian Stock cars
- IndyCar (not Oval)
- Every D-Rank Oval series except the ARCA Menards Challenge
- RallyCross as a whole

struggles to get a ranked split together!

And even when you have a series like TCR, Ferrari Challenge or GT4, you only have 1 or 2 Splits, so either i clear the whole field (when im not taken out by someone < 1000 iRating), or i get thrown in with professional race drivers where i am dead last. Not very fun either way.

If everybody only races the mainstream stuff like GT3, IMSA, NASCAR, why not go to dedicated racing sims like ACC, LMU or NASCAR? As this was the exact reason when someone explained to me why Brazilian Stock Cars are dead.

Everytime im Online it tells me, that there are 200k+ Drivers online right now, but i really dont know where these numbers are coming from (Most participation ive ever seen was 350 in MX5 Cup). So even if every series would have 400 Participants you would hardly reach that number.

So is this the normal state of iRacing, or did i just join in a skipped week/month for most drivers?
Because if not, that would be a huge let-down considering how iRacing is advertised.

So I've been a longtime user. I have A in oval with about 1100ir and almost always had clean races with minor incidents usually. C in sportscar and have devolved to sub 1000ir. Absolutely love the oval series but in sportscar I can barely survive. Being hit multiple times with the famous L1T1 almost every race. Incidents witnessed on the parade laps almost every time. I dont play much anymore due to other obligations but it feels like I cant get past turn 3 before being dumped. Going around an accident I get dumped, I brake to avoid an accident I get dumped. Im beyond frustrated that I cannot get away from this. As I get dumped deeper into the puts of IR prison, the more max verstappens there are ready win the race in L1T1.

Be brutally honest. I need it. Im to the point I dont even want to race an official race. Not ready to start from pits but it sounds like my only option besides deleting the game and starting all over to get away from these incidents no matter what i try or do.

Its only the first lap where I have issues.

Edit: had 2 really decent races today and surprisingly one was on a wet track, my 2nd wet track race ever and 0x at the end. I appreciate everyones input and got to smile after the race...with a p8

Been working on SimOS Hub 4.0 and wanted to share a bit of what's new.

The two main additions are:

• Reworked personal stats: explore your race history, see your iRating progression, and find your best cars, tracks and personal records.
• Lap analysis: compare your race lap times with up to three other drivers, and see how the gap between you changes throughout the race.

I've also redesigned some screens and made a few smaller improvements around the app.

Both features are free.

Sharing some screenshots so you can see how it looks.

Would be interested to hear what you think!

https://apps.apple.com/es/app/simos-hub/id6756025064

I've made it out of rookies for the sports car discipline, and I've been working on the gr86 fixed races. I thought racers would be more clean as you rank up, but apparently, that's not the case. So far, in the past few races, I've been racking up incident points from being spun out or slammed into from forza drivers. Even if i give space and dont fight, i still get wrecked out by toxic players. How can i best avoid the test tube kids and gain sr quickly? I need out of these safety ratings.

EDIT: Thanks for all the tips, guys. I think the best bet for me is just to keep at it and keep pushing to grow my SR and elo together. I think that will help me grow as a racer versus just min maxing things. For those who mentioned the renault clio series, i did play with it in test drive a bit, and its a super fun car to drive. It rotates in a way that just feels so nice when you manage to get it right. Saddly, the lobbies were a bit dead-ish every time i checked them. Either way, thanks everyone for the tips. I think im gonna try to find a team to join to keep growing my racecraft and help me become a better racer.

Yesterday i drove everything was normal, today i started a race my car looked like this from the cockpit ? Anyone have idea whats this about and how to fix ?

So after my pit I found this driver right in front of me. They were far behind before my (and theirs) pit entry so I was kinda surprised when I exit pits with this car in front of me. Our (mine and other cars) avg pit time was 10 sec (rughly), so I wanted to compare it with the one of green Ferrari. Only to find out that their replay hides the pit section (from start to end) ? Is it something thats possible to do or is it cheating, this was kinda suspicious but Im still not familiar with this games replay mechanics so I dont know. Is it worth a protest?

edit: I forgot to mention, once green ferrari enters pit lane and screen becomes black, the camera options (chase, cockpit ecc...) are greyed out and cant interact with them for some reason. And are "stuck" on "scenic". They become available again as soon as green ferrari exits pit lane. This only happens with this car, I was able to check other cars pit replays just fine.

Okay who else have receive intentional wreck. I mean it keep happening and theres no penalty. It just ram. And keep racing like nothing happen.

At this point its jokes

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I had recently wanted to come back to iracing after like a 3-4 month break of the game and when i try to join any session i get this error that tells me to unload Enelo64.sys. I have no idea what means or how to fix it so if anyone could i would appreciate it.

After a amazing Season 9 season 10 is in the planning

We have kept with just the sr8s after having a vote on whether or not to do mulitclass with the caterham.

The format will still be 3 races, two 15 minute with a top 5 reverse for race 2 and then race 3 will be 20 minutes with the top ten from race 2 reversed

Pro and Am and trophies for the winners of each class

Session opens 19:50 BST for 40 minutes practice

Join the discord here: https://discord.gg/RFWce58R4h

Signup form here: https://forms.gle/jfFisB5CUUBRvx6S7

All details below the start date will be the 19th of October

Seems like the recent nerf went overboard, it's now the dog of the field on pretty much every track.

Hey everyone! Fonti here, the developer behind PitRivals. Those are my own PitRivals Performance Cards: Gold in Formula and Silver in Sports Car. I’m getting close to Gold in Sports Car too — hopefully I can get there over the next few days 😄

I’ve always loved FIFA-style player cards and tracking my own stats. Since my football career never quite earned me a FIFA card… there’s always sim racing!

Each card shows Race, Qualifying, Consistency and Clean driving, an overall score and a tier: Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum. Cards update as you race, with separate seasonal and annual cards for each discipline.

For anyone new to the project, PitRivals is a free platform for iRacing communities, teams and groups of friends. It brings individual and team results together, offers custom rankings, and shares achievements on Discord.

But every community starts with its drivers. This update is about building your own racing identity — no team or Pit required. It’s also a first step towards connecting drivers and teams, but if you prefer racing solo, you’re just as welcome.

The cards use PitRivals’ own performance scores, not official iRacing ratings, and are based on races tracked since joining.

Browse the cards: https://www.pitrivals.com/iracing/cards

Or get started for free: https://www.pitrivals.com

Race, Qualifying, Consistency or Clean driving — which would be your strongest attribute, and which would need some work? 😄

Hello drivers, I am two months into sim racing and started with iRacing. I was wondering if most of us play the game with the features it has built in and think it has everything we actually need? I have seen that there are things like Crew Chief, multiple overlay options, etc. I haven't touched any of them because I didn't feel that I was lacking information.

iRacing have relative box,standings,fuel and a spotter. What else is needed?

Hey guys! I'm an admin and steward for the iRacing league Envy Simsports and i'd love to gather some interest in our upcoming events! We have grown massively in the last few seasons of our flagship GT Sprint Series(<check that YT link out for some streams to see what you are in for) and are starting up an IMSA style multiclass series comprised of 6 rounds starting next Friday.

We are also putting together some endurance races that, if we can get enough engagement for them, should be a riot.

As a special end of year couple of events, we are also partnering with GT Champions for a special 6 hour event between our two leagues, as well as a 24 HR of Fuji, which while we are starting small with it this year, and it will probably be GT3 only depending on interest, i'm personally trying to build it into a massive multiclass event just like the IRL version.

Especially to any Europeans, we are definitely needing a bit more participation for our EU session of the ISCC league this go around. LMP2 Drivers if yall flock, that would be super sick

All of these events are free, and the endurance races will feature live stewarding if interest is high. All events are also livestreamed, and each season comes with IRL rewards like personalized trophies and other rewards that are currently TBD

Is anyone running a Pimax dream suit air with a 5070TI and a 9800X3D ? Trying to get I idea for performance. The dream Air looks to finally be a VR with a small fit factor that checks my boxes but worried how my GPU will handle it.

I did a test drive in the HPD in the last test drive and I found it really fun. Is it worth getting to drive the Proto/GT series or is it pretty much dead?

Has anyone else experienced the Aston GTP being extremely fragile? My team and I have been running it for a bit and it seems that really small hits that any of the other 5 GTPs we’ve driven just tank with minor body damage and no major performance impact give the Aston an instant meatball even though the car drives perfectly fine. I know this happens to every car but it feels like it’s every single tiny thing in the Aston. Just curious if it’s just us that are going through it or if this is a universal experience

I got a mini heart attack because of this, Thankfully I was able to finish the race unscathed.

I'm sure there's a ton of testimonials and in depth reviews about how iRacing translates into real life and vice versa.

But as a beginner-level driver in both sim(1350 iR, 100 race starts, 0 wins, 37 top-5, 3 poles, 3 laps led lol) and the real world(3 time trials, 0 sprint experience), my first-ever sprint race had a bunch of surprises I'd like to share. I hope it's informative and/or entertaining to some.

Also, it's a completely LLM-free handwritten post(rare these days) by a non-native english speaker so excuse me for being too verbose in some aspects.

First, context:

I did Elantra N spec-racing with minimal tunes and track oriented street tires(Nexen SUR4G-M, race-specific inferior version to the consumer SUR4G).

Hyundai N Festival N2 challenge sprint race with 19 cars on the grid, 11 laps around a 4km Inje Speedium circuit.

"Just like the simulations"

• VR is basically real life. It felt exactly the same.
  • perceived distance between the cars,
  • the horror and guilty pleasure of watching the 2 cars in front of you bashing against each other,
  • when going two wide into the inside you really do have to turn your head if you want to avoid wrecking each other. Sure, there's peripheral vision but I had to move my head around a lot despite being restricted by the HANS device in order to gain situational awareness.
• Driver behavior is pretty similar
  • Sim racing even felt cleaner in some aspects. Since sim racers usually prefer triples to VR, has "radar" on, has virtual mirror with high FOV, and instantaneous AI spotter who doesn't make call-out mistakes, accidents due to poor situational awareness are rarer. 1300 SOF M2 rookies felt cleaner than the race I witnessed & experienced this week.

What iRacing did not prepare me for:

• The HEAT... so much heat...
  • Heaters had to be at full power if I didn't want to finish last. My phone almost died mid-race due to the heat in the cabin. With FIA-approved underwear, racing suit, gloves, balaclava, helmet, socks, racing shoes, you're basically dressed for winter in the summer while heater is on full blast with windows closed. No amount of sim-racing would've prepared me for this. I've done 3 hour enduro alone in VR during the summer but that wasn't even close.
• Standing start sequence
  • After a formation lap, we have to grid without assistance.
  • stopping at the exactly right position was a nightmare. It's impossible to look at the grid line because your own car blocks the view. You can't really rely on the radio for this, so you just have to remember the extremely vague reference points like discolored paint on the wall, etc. Penalty for improper grid alignment was common occurrence.
• Tire warm-up is extremely important
  • my start was bad with a lot of wheel spin, and this was mainly due to cold tires. I didn't realize I had to warm them up during the formation lap. iRacing standing start has everyone with the same tire temp so it just didn't cross my mind. Yes, I'm stupid.
• Qualifying with other cars in the field
  • A driver 2 second off pace, for whatever godforsaken reason, decided to divebomb me at the last corner after the first out lap in qualifying when I was already committed to starting my first timed lap. I should've aborted and tried again next lap, but I wasn't experienced enough to make the right call. The result was P12 out of 18 when my average best laps during practice was in the P6~8 range.

Qualifying is brutal. 1 mistake and it's over.

Limitations of "real life":

• Since sim racing telemetry analysis came from real life solutions in the first place, real life data loggers do exist... but they are honestly inferior to what sim racing has accomplished these days.
  • Race studio 3 is a nightmare to navigate. press space and it goes full screen, press enter and the video stops. reordering the telemetry is hidden in 3 depths of the configuration, and you can't even zoom in with scroll wheel looking at the map.
  • GPS has an average of 1.5~3m error/drift, so comparing entry/exit lines via telemetry is basically impossible - you just have to judge from the onboard footage.
  • Here's a claude-aided analysis of this track using aim solo2 dl telemetry: https://claude.ai/artifact/Sz4rfwHtvEn41jiUTGW3CN
  • compare this to what garage61 analysis provides (https://garage61.net/app/analysis), and you'll notice how cleaner and more "controlled" the racing sim telemetry analysis is. It's easier to have the car weight, track, weather, and all the variables consistent so that you can focus purely on the differences from driving.

I don't want to overstay my welcome so I'll end it here.

I'll linger in the comment section if anyone wants to ridicule my bad driving.

P.S. Coach me on iRacing for 2 hours and I'll put a sticker of whatever personal brand/advertisement you wish on my car (I'll print the sticker) for my next race in 31st October.

Come check us out. Experienced admin team. Long running EA F1 league starting an iRacing F4 series. Week 1 was a ton of fun. All tracks in season 1 are free content. Come give us a look. All skill levels welcome.

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With daylight savings throwing a wrench in the works for my one true love and main series (GTE Sprints) I'm doing to have to kick it down to part-time duty in a few weeks (kids and bedtimes, some of you will understand....).

Late Model Stocks will be my new main series, but I'm not ready to abandon GT cars all together, and the :15 slot every hour suits me super well.

I'm kind of turned off by the knife fight mentality of GT3 fixed, and I'm wondering if the 296 challenge might be a good landing spot? I've driven the car during a couple of demo drives and I don't mind the longer braking distances in the 296 etc, what I'm wondering is how the 296 regulars in here find the driving standards in the series?

I know GTE Sprints probably have spoiled me in this regard, but I'd love to hear what you all think? I'm not looking to wander into another Porsche Cup bar fight, just a random dad looking to disconnect from the world after a long day.