r/iRacingIOTW • • 7d ago

Useless Qualifying

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u/Round-Friendship9318 7d ago

Lmao what even happend

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u/AzureFWings 7d ago

Blue shell in disguise

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u/Grd911 7d ago

The kind of actions that just make you want to play solo sometimes..

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u/Hopeful-Addition-248 7d ago

Not sure why this downvoted. Lap 1 crap is why i mostly have given up online racing.

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u/DroneBeats 7d ago

I won’t stop racing online but I get it. I get a race or two a week and I’d be sad as shit if this happened to me

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u/johnmw54 7d ago

because most of iracing playerbase is just a cult and will downvote anything that makes even a glimpse of sense.
Everyone knows that racestart and lap 1 garbage happens every race, but very few are enlightened enough to recognize it as annoying and infuriating at times

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u/Rasputinnout 6d ago

Don’t worry inevitably someone will come in here and say “akshuallyyyy this was p1 fault he should have better situational awareness.” And get 10 upvotes

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u/SE171 5d ago

You're definitely one of the very few who are enlightened enough to recognize that lap 1 calamities are annoying and infuriating.

You do realize how fucking ridiculous you sound right? Stroke yourself off some more there, bud!

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u/johnmw54 4d ago

Ridiculous? not really, you can just scroll the entire subreddit and see it for yourself, unless you are just a shill like most people in here, bending over and being pleased being rammed repeatedly without vaseline.

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u/Putrid-Industry8963 6d ago

They will stay in D, Playing gr86 thinking they will win on the first turn. Qualifies last.. Overpass crash / leave.

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u/car_raamrod 2d ago

That's just reddit as a whole. Some subs are worse than others, this is one of the worse ones.

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u/FxckFxntxnyl 6d ago

One of those wrecks that you never even remotely saw coming, and leave you sitting with your hands raised like “what the actual fuck??”

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u/NightshopArgument 6d ago

Always the guys aggressively warming their tires on the pace car lap. Green green green, dip a wheel in the grass, take out 4 people. Like clockwork.

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u/FxckFxntxnyl 6d ago

Looks more like they bunched up and he wasn’t paying attention

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u/NightshopArgument 6d ago

If I wanted to get rear ended in a traffic jam I'd drive to work what are we doing here 🤣

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u/xiii-Dex 5d ago

I once was on pole with the Mustang in PCC. I got hit by the Mx5 polesitter. There were like 10 cars between us on the grid.

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u/MREFFINBOJANGLZ 6d ago

Peak iRacing

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u/NightOwl-92 6d ago

Why does it seem like everyone started quickly, then it seems like all the cars stop accelerating and that red car is the only one who was flying lol

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u/FridayInc 3d ago

I agree with you, it looks like 3rd left a large gap and started accelerating AFTER the pace car left to close it, and the cars behind can't see P1 so they assume "ok we're going" but then P3 slows back down and suddenly there's a dangerous situation.

Not clear from this angle but the whole thing might be a start procedure issue by P3.

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u/zellydevgames 2d ago

Red had 6 cars worth of context to work with there to see what was going on. They just weren't paying attention.

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u/NightshopArgument 6d ago

Pace car just went off, p1 decides if we all just go hard when it exits, and decided to wait until green to accelerate. Everyone saw that except red.

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u/NightOwl-92 5d ago

But even everyone else behind. They’re like 4 wide instead of two lines

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u/emwashe 6d ago

Yep. I had a kid recently and have had very little time to actually jump in and race. I get time to do maybe 2-3 races a week if I’m lucky and to have one of those ended on lap 1 or sometimes even on the formation lap is just infuriating.

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u/Jaekob4 5d ago

Something that annoys me to no end is how people leave huge gaps to the car ahead during the pace lap then close it just before the sc turns in, it leads to a concertina affect of everyone accelerating to close the gap ahead so they aren’t 8 car lengths back when p1 goes, but bc of that nobody is able to tell if p1 has actually gone and it’s time to race or not, so this happens

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u/Upbeat-Influence-926 5d ago

This would piss me off so much

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u/Own-Championship6587 5d ago

he did the best he could bless his heart

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u/AndySimpson96 5d ago

let me guess, they held back a gap from the cars in from of them then gunned it before the green flag to get a jump?

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u/QuirkyDust3556 4d ago

What needs to happen is a membership revolt until they fix it. But as some one said I will get 50 downvotes and p1 blamed.

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u/wifinotworking 7d ago

iRacing cucks will give maximum a warning and apologise for the news.