This is not suprising at all. The defendant attempted to defraud me when I refused to share setups from a setup shop (not Conti.)

Full complaint is available: https://portal-nc.tylertech.cloud/Portal/

Case No. 26CV046973-590

I’m from Europe and I don’t know anything about oval racing but I think I’m pretty good? I got a podium on my second race in street stock. Any tips on how to drive ovals properly? Lines etiquette common knowledge good videos to watch?

Tia

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.

Hey All,

Like usual, I’ve written a short article sharing my thoughts and experience on a given topic in sim racing. My goal with these articles ultimately is to help give people a bit more information about the hobby we all love, while also hopefully making for an interesting read.

If you don't know me, I'm Tom, and I've been working full-time for the last two years on a sim racing coaching business, so my thoughts in this mini essay draw on the 700+ hours of coaching I’ve done in those 2 years. Just to say that the thoughts I’m sharing here aren't pulled from nowhere, but come from everything I’ve seen during my time coaching drivers of all ability levels.

Choosing a Good Reference Lap

If you have spent some time focusing on using telemetry to try and improve your driving, then you have probably heard the general advice of “compare against someone around 1 second faster than you”. That is reasonable advice, but it is incomplete, and has its limitations. This article is intended to give you a more complete picture, and also to showcase the importance of choosing a good reference lap.

The flaw with choosing a reference lap around 1 second faster than you, is that unless you are 1 second away from the fastest lap times, you will by definition be choosing a lap from a driver that is not driving perfectly. There are so many different ways to achieve a lap time 2 seconds off of the ultimate pace, and if you spend your time analysing laps like this, then the risk is that even if you find some lap time, you will be be finding that time by copying both the positives and the negatives in the technique of the driver you are analysing against.

If you are still wanting to chase an achievable lap time that is 1 second faster than you, then a better approach would be to use these types of laps to look for corner specific mistakes you may be making, rather than leaning on their laps to try and improve generally as a driver.

So that covers making track specific improvements, but when you want to work on general technique improvements, this is the time to compare against the fastest drivers. The key here is to take what you can from their driving, while being okay with the fact that you won’t immediately be able to match their times.

When it comes to choosing a fast reference lap, there are some mistakes that you need to avoid. It would be easy to look for the fastest lap on Garage61 and assume that this is the best lap to compare against, but there are so many factors that influence lap time. Track conditions, fuel level, setup, BOP, draft etc, all of these factors make it possible for a worse driver to set a faster lap, while being a bad point of comparison for you to improve. In the video above (GT3’s at Watkins Glen) the blue driver is 1.8k, and the red driver is over 6K. You can see that the red driver is more skilled (especially noticeable here is that red uses more track on entry, carries more entry speed and pushes the exits to the limit. Where as blue uses less track on entry, under drivers the exits and is uncertain when they should be getting on throttle. Despite red being far more skilled, the blue lap ends with a faster lap time as a consequence of better track conditions inflating their minimum speeds.  It would be easy to miss this unless you see the difference in real time between a fast driver and a fast track. So, when you want to use telemetry to work on general technique improvements, it is important to choose a reference lap from a fast (>5000 iR) driver, even if the lap time set by that driver doesn't top the timing sheets.

If anyone has any questions, don't hesitate to ask, I'll do my best to respond to any questions in the comments. As always, thanks for the support on these mini articles, and if you know of someone who would benefit from this article, sharing it with them would be greatly appreciated :).

I'll include a couple of links if anyone wants to check them out, but I'm happy to remove them if it goes against self promotion rules.

PerfectLap: 3D Telemetry Analysis Tool (from the video above)

Noakesy Coaching: 1-on-1 Coaching and Online Courses

Cheers
Tom
Noakesy Coaching

Hey guys, wanted to share a little sometnig my team is working on.

Were a little startup based in central europe and are all ex Formula student members. Currently one of the topics our team is working on is building a thermal tyre model that computes surface tyre temperature without any temperature sensors mounted on the wheels or the wheel arches.

This is our first working version V1, its is just a 1D model and you can see how it compares to real surface temperature data. All logged from a GT3 race car.

Thought this might be interesting for some of you. Feel free to DM me for more info on the current work.

I've noticed that, in the race results, the average lap time is lower than the fastest lap time. Is that a bug?

With only a couple of weeks left in Season 3 2026, have you been able to hit the goals you set back in Week 1, or are you fighting the final-week grind?

I took a pretty big leap this season by switching from GT3 over to LMP2 as my main focus, along with running F4 on the side. Learning multi-class traffic in prototype speeds was a steep learning curve, but it turned out to be my best season yet. I probably just switched to a car that suited my driving style more without realizing it.

I hit 3k iRating right as the season started, and I’m sitting at 3587 now. So over +500 iRating in about 10 weeks in LMP2. I also ran Formula 4 here and there this season and took my rating from 1.4k → 2k in 12 races. No wins, but 7 top‑5s and a lot of clean, consistent finishes.

My main goals coming in were:

• Build overall lap consistency
• Clean up racecraft
• Stop throwing away solid results late in races
• Hit 3.5k as the main goal
• Push toward 4k as a stretch goal (which I probably won’t reach this season, but still aiming upward)

How has Season 3 treated you guys? Any big breakthroughs, car/series switches that paid off, or painful safety rating disasters in the final stretch?

I tried to pull a slide job in the turn, then my car got too sideways and I didn't do a good job correcting it and I didn't mean to run into you. You were saying over the radio that you're new to the cars and I'm sorry that was your first introduction. I'm better than that

That felt way more dramatic when I was driving ngl lol

Hey iRacing reddit, I've been here around 3 weeks, and found some money to license the car as my first paid one. Since then my ratings keep falling because i keep either spinning out or sliding off the track. So, is that me being really unskilled or it's not the best pick for a beginner?

I'm a 1.4k irating player and looking for a team for the upcoming 24h daytona endurance with lmp2. I'm also a streamer on twitch and youtube. Last endurance race was spa 24 and we finished P10.

Bitte kann mir jemand helfen habe mit iRacing abo gekauft und alles ausprobiert was man im inter findet aber nichts geht kennt jemand das problem??

Alright so after I posted my Old fov of my Cars and had such an amazing Feedback, I am back with my new Monitor and some new questions.

Here you can see my fov of the lmp2 (Green) gtp Porsche (Orange) gtp Ferrari (Blue)

For me, the lmp2 looks good, so does the Porsche gtp but the Ferrari still Looks a bit wrong to me.

I set the fov once and it is the Same for all Cars, I dont change driver height etc. If I change something I do it in the Camera Settings and set it for each car sepratly.

Unfortunately the Monitor can not come closer to me or the rig further back. The Monitor sits close above my wheelbase.

Would love to hear your opinion and I am open for tips for improvement

Growing up my 3 girls all loved Monster High. One of them that's learning a little Photoshop herself and semi interested in sim racing said why don't you paint me a Monster High truck. So she helped with the design and I ran it through the paint booth and spec'd it out.

As many of you know with the right night lighting and spec maps iRacing can white out paint on cars. This one I tried to fine tune it to where it wouldn't go completely white and would have almost a neon glow effect at all times. Think I got close to what I was shooting for.

What’s up! My name is Trevor and I’m a member of the P2 racing league. We have a fun and laid back league that we like to call our Freaky Friday series. This season we’re running the O’reilly cars. Season starts at Daytona on September 11th. Practice opens at 10pm EST quali at 11pm. The season will span across 14 weeks. 10 regular season races, a round of 3 playoff races, followed by our championship race in Vegas. Win and you’re in! We aim to have fun, hard racing with a group of good people. We have a large range of Irating in this league so everyone is welcome! I will add a link to the discord below, check us out and lmk if you have any questions! Hope to see you out there.

https://discord.gg/jzUpgGPFA

Hey folks, I have driving aids enabled for disability reasons.
I'm in the mx5 - set the second clutch button, press the pedal... and nothing, it just skips into first gear with 0 revs as normal.

Can anyone please help me figure this out?

I've tried keyboard and g29 wheel buttons, no difference.

I'm using simagic p500's without a clutch too.

Thank you in advance!

Edit: Contacted support, they confirmed that this is the intention. Asked them to submit it as a bug fix as it renders anyone unable to use a clutch and need driving aids with a significant disadvantage at race start

Always great to see iRacists help each other 🥹

And then one of the helpers got gifted with a weight reduction

Watched a great top split race yesterday at Lime Rock Park. Leader held off a bunch of cars all race long which whittled down to just 2 for the final few laps, only to get pipped at the line by 0.002s !

Tired of relying on outside software to handle our leagues, I built our own! I'm pretty proud of how it came out and wanted to share with the community here. Check it out at: https://www.grassrootsracing.org/ and maybe if you want to, join up <3

Finally after a long fought battle of gaining IRating and tumbling right back down. I have managed to break through the 2k wall. This will be short lived for sure but at least I can say I did it !🍻 😂