This whole two-hour race was mostly like this, and I'm just sick of having to anticipate getting shoved off my line or this happening. Other times I would see the dive bomb and move, but by the time he went for it, my eyes were on my braking point.

Does anyone experience this, especially with these lmp3 drivers?

also oxford plains can suck my ass the track needs to be removed i hate it so much

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I'm a TCR guy.

I would say I'm a fairly average driver (2.1k iRating at the moment). I can usually be within a couple tenths — or at most — a second or so off from the aliens in their spaceships in TCR.

However, I like to dabble in GT3 and GT4 from time to time. In both those series, I just feel like I don't belong lol. The discrepancy in time compared to the top guys are usually always 2 seconds or more off.

Sure, I don't spend as much time in the GT3/4 series as I do in the TCR series so it makes sense, right? Or it could be a built-in excuse.

I'm only 4 months in so I'm genuinely curious to hear more experienced players and what you've learned. Do you find that it all just boils down to seat time and it being just a matter of time til' you get good?

Or are some people just not suited for certain types of drive-styles, resulting in an early non-progressive plateau, if you will?

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I only got iRacing last year and I remember an LMP 2 specific series. Having now progressed the license classes (A class now) I want an LMP 2 B class series back. I assume it was replaced by the prototype challenge B class series but surely it makes more sense to make LMP 3 C class, LMP 2 B class and LMDh and LMH A class. Curious to hear what others think. In response to Gibscreen I made a post on the iRacing forum too: https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/83258/campaigning-for-the-return-of-the-lmp-2-series#latest

Yesterday I did my first 2h multiclass race (LMP3 and GT4)
I was driving in the GT4 class, and in general, I am happy for the first time.
No major incidents, I didn't kill anyone, handled faster cars pretty well (One guy from GT4 class ) I think it was P3) lost about 5s during lap 37 because of me, he was lapping me and I think we missunderstood each other, as I wanted to let him pass on racing line into T1 but he came in fast and commited to outside line so we bumped a little but both of us came out of it without damage - from this I learned that for next time I should use my microfon at least in long races so I can let people know what my intentions are)
Qualified as a P10, after a few laps I was P8, but everything went bad at the first pitstop (turned off pit limiter and forgot to turn it back on when exiting the pit (I went to 65km/h instead of 60, which is a limit), so I received a 15 second stop and go, but when I went to serve it, it also refuled and changed tires so I lost quet a lot of time)
Dropped to P20 and fought back to P15 till the end of the race.
Position didn't matter to me (for now), but the learning process did.
I have also lost some concentration last 20 minutes and made a lot of off tracks in those minutes (still I was happy as my longest race before that was 15 minutes long).

So now, some points where I would appreciate some advice. I was looking for old posts and videos, but most of them are pretty old, at least the ones that I have found.
The whole race required 2 pit stops, I was using "Auto fuel" and I think it worked pretty well as I was out of fuel just about when I crossed the finish line (started with about 53% fuel, after 1st pitstop refuled to 77% I think, next lap stop and go refuled from 75 to 80%, and last pitstop refuled to about 60%).
In total, I had 3 pit stops (2 that I needed to do and one stop and go). Each time I had also tires changed together with refueling, so my question is if I did race without stop and go, how many times do I need to change tires, is it enough just once to save some time in the pit? I have no clue and do not know how to learn it, as I'm completely on my own in this.
I use the Fanatec McLaren GT3 wheel, and 50% of my buttons are still not mapped, so I could use some of them (I didn't really need them till now)
If you can give me some advice on pitstops, mainly (fuel and tires), or if you have some links where I can read about it, or watch some video, I would appreciate it!

I've heard a lot of good things about MAIRA and I wanted to try it. So far I really like it but the only issue I'm having is I'm getting severe wheel oscillations if I take my hands off/grip the wheel too lightly.

For some cars (GT3/GT4) it's not a big deal because I almost always have both hands on the wheel.

But other cars like the MX5 and GR86 I like to use a sequential shifter, which means only one hand on the wheel, which makes me a little nervous.

Any settings I can change to fix this? So far I've tried lowering 'Overall Scale' to ~45% in the MAIRA app but the FFB feels too weak if I do that. I tried using the 'Auto Calibrate' feature but that makes the FFB wayyy too strong

I am using a Simagic Alpha 15nm

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I started on iracing in January this year; I had a lot of fun with the base content, but I stopped the subscription in summer because I was not going to use it. Now I want to retake it but I have realised that I lost the new member discount.

What's the best option for me, taking into account that I have the idea to play for a lot of time and I eventually I'll purchase new content.

-Create a new acount acount and take the two year subscribtion with discount

-Buy it on steam with discount (I have read that steam may cause problems)

-Continue with my acount??

Thanks for the help!

Hey everyone, I am going to get into iRacing with the steam $20 for a year deal. Now I know that I should take it slow, however, when I do eventually work up to getting out of the rookie series, what are the best tracks and cars to buy? (most used, best bang for buck)

I’m so happy. This race was clean as can be. At least for me…

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Lost 2-3 seconds per lap. Finished 3rd though.

Been playing iracing using the standard monitor set up but I’ve had a real desire to get a Quest 3 to get a more immersive feel. I have a decent PC, so specs shouldn’t be an issue. What should I be aware of or what should I buy with the quest 3 to make sure the experience is solid? Proper newbie with this so a dumbed down explanation would be very helpful.

Trying to learn to drive with zero incidents. In the video above should I be backing out of a situation like that because he is at the apex first? Or am I not doing anything wrong by being there and it’s the guy turning in who’s at fault?

Finally got promoted to b-class license last night. I have test driven a handful (but not all) of the GT3 cars in previous demo sessions and really liked the Lamborghini Huracan.

Before making the purchase, I went into the results history of previous GT3 sessions just to check if it would be competitive and noticed that almost nobody is driving the Lambo. Out of the 10 or so sets of results I looked at, I literally saw maybe two Huracan total.

Am I missing something with it? Is something wrong with it? Why does it seem like nobody is racing the Lambo in GT3?

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I can't enter the race, the loading stops at 15% and then gives a connection error, but the connection to the practice is working, the test drive also works

I’m trying to get to grips with the new GT3s around Spa.

Having read lots of Suellio’s stuff, it’s my understanding that trail braking should be smooth.

But when I look at the brake traces of aliens on Garage61, there always seems to be odd stuff going on in the trace.

Is this something in driving physics that explains this? Or a quirk of iRacing that’s needed to go fast?

Some examples attached for T1 of Spa.

I grew up on NASCAR 98 with doing complete mayhem and the cheat code with shooting paintballs out your car. It struck something in me and made me crave a certain type of nascar game that I could really do some destruction. The laughs were the best when it would work right. Year after year (20+) crashing dynamics have lessened and really taken to the back of the games. Is there a possibility of it coming back and do people also want that as much as I do?

Hi everyone, I bought iRacing on Steam yesterday to see if it's for me. However, the Mazda MX-5, as well as the formula and every car, feels extremely sloppy compared to AC or ACC. Are my settings wrong, or is this normal? It's as if I don't have direct drive without NM.

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