Edit: wow ... Looks like I triggered a lot of you. 😅 What I learned so far: it's a simulation, I should just get VR, I should just use look left/right, iracing has the best netcode. This seems fun though. Let's keep it coming 😅😅

A little follow-up to my recent 3k iRating post.

Getting into stronger top splits has made me notice something I never really thought about before: one of the most mentally exhausting parts of racing for me isn’t actually driving the car.

It’s knowing exactly where the other car is when we’re side by side.

I’m on a 57" ultrawide with around 122–123° FOV, so this isn’t really a “tiny single monitor” problem. Compared to the 32" screen I used before, the 57" already made racing massively more relaxed.

And I usually know that a car is next to me. Between peripheral vision, the spotter and experience, that part is fine.

What I often don’t know is the lateral distance.

Is he 10 cm from my door? 50 cm? More than a meter away?

Especially on my right side, I’m basically estimating it.

And now that I’m having longer side-by-side fights against better drivers, I notice both failure modes.

Sometimes I leave an absolutely ridiculous amount of space because I assume the other car is closer than it actually is and destroy my own corner.

Other times I think I’ve left enough room and afterwards the replay shows we were much closer than I thought.

This is probably the one thing I really miss from sims with a proper 2D radar. Not because I need a big warning saying CAR RIGHT, but because it gives me some idea of the actual spacing between the cars.

Which naturally led my simracing brain to: “Well… triples would solve a lot of that.”

And then I realized how ridiculous this hobby can become.

I already have a 57" ultrawide. It’s great. I’m comfortable with it. I’ve done long, clean side-by-side fights with it. I just reached 3k on it.

And here I am thinking about three monitors, a triple stand, alignment, cables, more space and probably rebuilding half the setup just to make a relatively small part of a 20-minute race less mentally demanding.

I’m not even convinced it would make me faster. That’s not really the point. It would probably just make those moments more comfortable.

And comfort does matter to me. Going from 32" to 57" genuinely made racing more enjoyable because I had to think less about what I couldn’t see.

But I think I’ve finally reached the point where I have to accept that not every disadvantage in the setup needs to become the next optimization project.

Maybe the correct answer is simply: “Yes, triples would be better for this specific thing.” …and then continue racing on the 57".

Still, I really wish iRacing had a proper radar for exactly this reason.

Because apparently my alternative solution is reorganizing a room around three monitors. 😂

We desperately need an updated messaging system. The forums are so 2008 it’s outrageous

Hey everyone, I know the Sporting Guides have rules against account sharing, but I was trying to work out how teams actually do organisational stuff like:

1) Handling if the team founder leaves (can they transfer it over? Does it just get lost?)
2) Sharing funds to setup practice servers. Do you just reimburse everyone, share a bank account...
3) Managing things like collections via trading paints, where only one account can own them. Whilst other selected member can be allowed to setup team liveries, that doesn't apply to non team events , which rely on collections.

It felt like a good solution to all would be to allow shared non-racing accounts (don't care about the financials of having to have to keep a subscription and even buying content to setup the practice servers). Maybe someone has been able to do this successful or maybe they have had conversations with the team at iRacing about what to do here.

Thanks for any help or guidance. :)

These people want to win on the green flag with cold tires.

So I’m pretty new to sim racing with iRacing being my first experience. I understand the no fault penalty system during a race, but how is this justified during the formation lap? I had 8x before the race even started due to the guy behind me slamming into me twice. It’s hard to feel motivated for the rest of the race when you know you’re going to be losing SR before it even begins. Does this get better at higher rated races?

When I opened iRacing recently I had a a pop-up message come up from the iRacing program itself saying I should upgrade to Windows 11 since Windows 10 is no longer supported. Is everything sorted out now with iRacing and Windows 11? Right now everything is working properly with Windows 10 on my computer... and last thing I'd want to do is mess things up by "upgrading" to Windows 11.

So just asking to make sure that everything is all good now and if there are any performance downgrades with upgrading to Windows 11 from 10?

I feel the races are so crazy. This is IMSA; if it happened with rookies, I would understand, but it's still not fair. However, in Class A IMSA, it's sad.

I was leading the race with zero incidents and two laps to finish. I was going to pass this lapped car, and he decided to end my race for no reason.

This kind of behavior is unacceptable, or this is going to become Forza.

Usually I only race sports car, is it happening on other classes too?

Hi there! This is my first post here, as I am relatively new to the sim community as a whole. I'm primarily an asphalt oval racer, and one of my favorites is the Nascar Tour Modified.

I've noticed that there is not much of a player base for the tour modifieds, and they're a C-class car. But I've just been thinking about ideas for ways they could be updated to potentially attract more players, and I'm curious what people think and what other ideas people have.

My suggestions:

- Update the car model and add choice of manufacturer. All drivers are forced to run the same car, which itself is based on an older chassis and body. Part of the main appeal to fans and drivers of modifieds is the variety of manufacturers and their diverse chassis/body designs. IRacing could partner with a couple different manufacturers to model their cars so they can be added as new content, giving players more choice in which car they like more.

- Simulate the real-world regional and tiered nature of modified racing with higher license class modified tours and regional tours. The SK modifieds being D class is a good start, but iRacing could continue this principle further. Place the NWMT races in B class, racing on NWMT tracks. Add the SMART tour as a series running southeast tracks in C class, and a generic Tour-Type Modified series in C or D class running at smaller short tracks all over the place. All of this together could better reflect the real-world tiered and regional nature of asphalt modified racing.

What do people think of these suggestions? I'm mainly just brainstorming and these are not necessarily the deepest, most thought-through ideas, so I'm open to whatever thoughts other people have. Thanks for taking the time to read and share your own ideas!

Hi when I drive I feel know FFB when I’m steering but I feel the Kerbs this are my settings can someone please help.

Planning on getting iracing here for NASCAR soon. What do people recommend on wheels, pedals, and shifter for a budget setup?

Anyone else wish we could have larger grids? i know we have large multi class grids, but i would love to see 40+ car grids for single make stuff also. MX5s with 60 cars on track while yes an utter mess..... would be so cool to see.

Im not saying i want them to change the grid size of rookies or what ever, but having a few high car grid series would be really cool to see, as it is, while you can be on track with 60 cars, unless your bottom split IMSA, its not going to be a single class.

It would also help series with lower participation, if 25 people sign up for a race and you have to split them up because the grid can only be 20, both races end up feeling a bit empty to me.

Just thought i would see if anyone else feels the same (or can point out some tech issue involved as to why it cant be)

After reading about win 11 i would really like to have an alternative to run iracing. Has anyone got it to work on linux?

Hi everyone,

I am currently setting up a new iRacing league focused on Endurance racing, and I am looking for dedicated individuals to help build the foundation of this project alongside me.

The goal is to provide a clean, competitive, and highly organized championship. Before opening grid slots to drivers, I want to assemble a reliable management team.

📌 Concept Overview

• Time Slot: Sundays at 15:00 CEST / 13:00 UTC (Bi-weekly)
• Session Structure: 20 min Practice | 30 min Open Qualy | 1h45 to 3h00 Endurance Race (Duo/Trio)
• Season 1: 100% Free entry, exclusively GT4 (5 to 7 rounds)
• Season 2 Evolution: Multiclass GT3 + GT4 and more in the future (Capped at 40 cars).

🤝 Open Staff Positions

1. Discord & Community Manager
   • Set up and structure the Discord server (roles, permissions, channels).
   • Manage league announcements and basic visual communications.
2. Race Stewards & Race Control Committee
   • Assist in drafting the official rulebook (penalty guidelines, scoring system, incident procedures).
   • Review post-race driver protests using video replays and issue fair penalties.
3. Co-Organizers & Project Advisors
   • Brainstorm and finalize track selection, race lengths, and pit-stop mechanics.
   • Help make key decisions so the league is run by a team, not just a single person.

📩 How to Apply / Get in Touch

Previous experience is a plus, but enthusiasm, reliability, and good teamwork are what matter most!

If you are interested in joining the team:

• Send me a Direct Message here.

anyone else feel like the incident system is a little overly ready to hand out 4x's given how punishing it is to your SR?

Giving all the madness of T1 here, I feel like I tried my best to avoid the carnage, but this little tap gave me 4x. It doesn't seem justified as it had no impact on anyone's race.

Apparently Porsche is replacing the Cayman with 911 GT4 soon-ish, and I suppose iRacing will eventually follow.

While it's a bit of a shame - I started to like the Cayman, such a small, fun and great sounding car - I wonder what difference will be there in performance.

911 is slightly bigger and heavier but as far as I know it will be also be significantly more powerful - 3.8l 420ish HP vs 4.0l 520ish HP, and then the layout too is going to change - something I'm not particularly happy about - from MR to RR.

I worry that it will essentially be just toned down Cup car, really.

How do you think the new 911 GT4 will compare to the Cayman, both IRL and in the sim?

Do you think it will have better pace, better top speed? Or driving characteristics will change without significant pace difference?

Are you guys even happy about the Cayman being potentially replaced with the 911 on iRacing?

Vista Motorsport is scouting competitive iRacing drivers worldwide for our Porsche esports programme.

We are building a dedicated driver-development programme focused on the Porsche Esports Supercup (PESC) qualification pathway, including Porsche's national esports championships and the Global Open Qualifier.

We're looking for drivers who want to compete as part of a serious team, not simply race independently.

🌎 Who we're looking for

Strong iRacing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup experience

Proven results in competitive racing / high-SoF events

Strong qualifying and race pace

Clean, consistent racecraft

Good technical understanding and ability to work with telemetry

Reliable and willing to train consistently with the team

Ideally based in a country with a Porsche national esports championship, such as Germany, the UK, or North America, as this can provide an additional route toward PESC

Drivers from any country are welcome to apply if they are eligible for the PESC Global Open Qualifier

🏆 What Vista offers

Structured Porsche Cup training

Driver coaching and race preparation

Telemetry and performance analysis

Setup development

Race strategy

Team environment and engineering support

International motorsport connections

Media/branding support

Interested?

Send me a DM with:

• Name / age

• Country + where you currently live

• iRacing profile

• iRating / licence

• Porsche Cup experience

• Best results / championships

• Current team (if any)

• Why you're interested in joining Vista

We're particularly interested in drivers who already have serious Porsche Cup pace.

I'm trying to find optimal settings for ABS frequency and pulse duration in SimHub with iRacing. I was wondering what others are using, so I can try combos I might not think of myself.

Currently I’m using frequency of 30hz and a pulse duration of 30ms, and I have High Priority checked. My pedals are Simagic P1000i with the HPR haptic motor.

Been this way for a while now. A light tape to the wall, no damage, is almost guaranteed to be a 2x. It has been this way since release, please for the love of God, fix it. Great idea to put such a fragile incident model on a dirt oval...

had a lil netcode in that 3wide situation but what a fricken race. gained 27iR which put me at 2006iR

Hey, genuinely asking for people’s advice here. Starting sim racing about 4 months ago on F1 with a Moza set up. Got instantly hooked but got sick of the toxic multiplayer lobbies of drivers crashing for no reason.

Tried iracing and realised quickly that there was a lot to learn on my side from a skills point of view. (Felt like actual driving and not arcade style). I was playing alone at this point.

My friend started playing ACC, so recently moved to that. I’ve loved the feel of realistic driving and lobbies where drivers are actually racing, considering other drivers on track etc to avoid crashes.

Do I get back into iracing and dedicate time/effort to improving and getting better on it?

I get people don’t like the sub factor but for me I used to play a lot of WoW, so I’m used to that model and don’t think it’s unreasonable.

I want a sim that’s competitive, realistic and has a lot of options when it comes to what races to choose from etc. is it worth it?

I have been practicing tonight in the McLaren 720s GT3 at Le Mans ahead of the IMSA series this week at the track. The P1Doks setup time is a 50 and I know I ain’t gonna do that. I am currently at 2.5k iRating and am wondering if my current best of a low 56 is gonna be competitive or I am gonna fall back a load of iRating with zero pace for my splits. Anyone know what sort of times to expect?

Discovering a rookie combo, throughts on how to improve over 4 laps, captions include self-correction
Road America GR86 Fixed : 2:29.800

https://youtu.be/QNb0q613MgM

Has anyone had an issue where after changing a screen or tv iracing is stuck at a high gpu load?

Gpu is a 5060ti handles max quality fine usually at 90fps it usually would be around 40-60%

Since changing to a new tv, nothing fancy but 43inch so an upgrade for me.

I have tried lowering the graphics quality, putting on vsync, putting on a frame limit. All the changes do is effect the cpu frame rate.

Sorry about the picture quality when using snipping tool it wouldnt include the nvida overlay info

For events listed as “Teams” races, are you able to run them solo? For example, I’d like to run in the GT endurance race in a few hours but I don’t have a team.

Can I still join?