The amount of energy any car, even a low power road car get gain within a car length or two from stationary is huge. Going into the back of even the car directly in front can cause big damage to both cars and is potentially large enough to cause injuries or rupture fuel tanks.
I love how the Mexicans give him a police escort rather than just being boring gits stopping Makinen from driving 3 wheeled and handing out speeding tickets like our lot
I think what is going to kill them isn't the price of the subscription itself but the addon content. I think a lot of people won't have a problem with paying for the subscription, I myself am considering whether it is worth it.
The price of the extra content is ridiculous though, I was looking at paying $15 at getting the Skip Barber car, until I realised that to actually race it each week I'd have to spend a further $45 on tracks...
The price of the extra content is ridiculous though, I was looking at paying $15 at getting the Skip Barber car, until I realised that to actually race it each week I'd have to spend a further $45 on tracks...
AFAIK there is no penalty for withdrawing from a time trial/practice/qualifying when you've done your laps so you don't have to wait.
I've got to make a choice Advanced Legends or Rookie Solstice?
This thing is seriously evil, having decided I wasn't going to stay up for the midnight Solstice race I'm now considering respraying my Legends car pink and going oval racing in it
The friends thing seems to work, well at least I ended up in a race with another pink car 
Unfortunately I'm having a bad day with controllers, following the sticking brake pedal my steering wheel decided to unscrew itself from its boss resulting in another early finish in the Solstice.
Unfortunately I'm having a bad day with controllers, following the sticking brake pedal my steering wheel decided to unscrew itself from its boss resulting in another early finish in the Solstice.
Done another oval race and I'm worryingly starting to enjoy oval racing a bit too much, races seem the right length (unlike the Solstice) and the car is much more fun to drive, if it wasn't so expensive I'd consider going oval racing in iRacing because it is refreshingly different.
What do I have to do to get to the advanced cars/up a license level? Is it just getting the safety rating thing to 5?
You also see quite a few of them about driven by Americans who think they're cool
What do I have to do to get to the advanced cars/up a license level? Is it just getting the safety rating thing to 5?
You also see quite a few of them about driven by Americans who think they're cool
What names are people racing under? Would be nice if we could have a list of LFS forum users so we can be grouped to crash into each other 
All that needs to happen is add four times as many races, hardly something that couldn't be automated to meet demand.
I've just tried qualifying in the Solstice, got it into the 6s and can see where the time can be made up, beginning to like the challenge of driving it on the limit a bit more though. What is really annoying me is that the brakes (when they're not jammed on) are ridiculously strong and I'm using the 911 wheel pedals which have short travel, I'm routinely struggling not to lock up at the end of the straight and can't see anyway to reduce there strength.
I've just missed the Solstice race so I'm going to qualify instead, stupidly the sessions are put at 10 past the hour so lots of people haven't qualified because they're racing instead.
My third race ended on the second lap at the first corner where my brakes jammed on and I went straight into the wall, I'm not sure whether this is an iRacing or controller issue, but I've never had them jamming on mid session in any other sim.
My third race ended on the second lap at the first corner where my brakes jammed on and I went straight into the wall, I'm not sure whether this is an iRacing or controller issue, but I've never had them jamming on mid session in any other sim.
Personally I'd much rather pay by the race or time in the sim, personally I'm not going to subscribe to it on a routine basis because apart from the cost of it and having to race things I don't want to race or pay for to get to the cars and tracks I'm interested in I simply don't have enough free time and there are times when I won't touch racing sims.
I don't understand what it is with people starting, this isn't a difficult car to start, lots of revs and dump the clutch will see you safely off the line and you can't stall it, yet people still seem to just sit there, in the second race I did I drove straight into the back of the car in front of me on the grid and in the first I managed to bring my car to a complete stop whilst the Sunday drivers in front of me got going.
It still has no place in a sim.
The months trial is a subscription of $20 a month, you have to choose to cancel it if you don't want to keep paying. If you don't want your invite you could try giving Tristan your code, it asks for name and e-mail in the sign up process so I think anybody can probably use any code.
I refuse to use a reset button, if the car is undrivable it should be race over what they were thinking when they put a reset button into a serious sim is beyond me.
It doesn't matter who is at fault for an individual incident if you get more frequently 'taken out' or in more incidents you 'can't avoid' then chances are you're half the problem, pushing too hard not backing off when things start to go wrong in front of you.
Does anybody know what the rookie rating is based on, I only seem to have one rating atm is it performance or safety or both? and do I go up a level when I get it to 5?
I still think the race format is very wrong, the grid is too small, the race too long and given the stats and current lack of races there is an incentive not to retire. Driving round for 20 minutes in a car that is a handful on the straights trying to avoid other equally damaged cars isn't fun. I think if it was a 10 minute, 20 car race with more frequent races most people would finish and those that don't would likely just park it rather than becoming an pain for everybody else.
I would completely disagree with you there, the starter cars are slow and easy enough to go straight into racing with a few laps testing so long as people drive sensibly, after all a lot of racers have never been on a track before there ARDS course and go straight into a race meeting after getting their license in harder cars to drive than we've got in iRacing.
I did an oval race, much better than the Solstice, the grid was still pathetically small though and I don't understand why if over 100 people are signing up for the oval race there isn't one starting at least every 30 minutes, which would mean people could get action with a few minutes of pause between.
I did an oval race, much better than the Solstice, the grid was still pathetically small though and I don't understand why if over 100 people are signing up for the oval race there isn't one starting at least every 30 minutes, which would mean people could get action with a few minutes of pause between.
Just done my first race, the system itself seems good, maybe I was just lucky but a short wait then short warm up is just right. The actual format of the race itself is awful, 10 cars and a 20+ minute is not what beginner racing should be about.
Off the start line I had to bring the car to a complete stop because both cars in front of me either stalled (not sure if that is possible in iRacing) or didn't bother reacting to the lights. After picking a way through, into T1 I drove straight into the back of a car driving round at pedestrian speeds, partly my fault but this guy was going ridiculously slowly. At that point it was effectively race over, damaged car (but still drivable) and lost the best part of a lap recovering.
Later on the muppet I hit seemed to be less damaged than me and caught me up with some interesting understanding of the concept of overlap took me out twice in as many laps, I think he genuinely was clueless about what is and isn't acceptable but given the ban on sorting things through chat there's little one can do to try and explain. After that it was just an exercise in limping round tripping over cars limping slower and being lapped. Only 3 cars finished the race on the lead lap, and only the front two cars seemed to have a race.
There also don't appear to be any blue flags in iRacing which leaves it a bit of a guessing game who is in your mirrors.
It also appears it is only one race every two hours
Off the start line I had to bring the car to a complete stop because both cars in front of me either stalled (not sure if that is possible in iRacing) or didn't bother reacting to the lights. After picking a way through, into T1 I drove straight into the back of a car driving round at pedestrian speeds, partly my fault but this guy was going ridiculously slowly. At that point it was effectively race over, damaged car (but still drivable) and lost the best part of a lap recovering.
Later on the muppet I hit seemed to be less damaged than me and caught me up with some interesting understanding of the concept of overlap took me out twice in as many laps, I think he genuinely was clueless about what is and isn't acceptable but given the ban on sorting things through chat there's little one can do to try and explain. After that it was just an exercise in limping round tripping over cars limping slower and being lapped. Only 3 cars finished the race on the lead lap, and only the front two cars seemed to have a race.
There also don't appear to be any blue flags in iRacing which leaves it a bit of a guessing game who is in your mirrors.
It also appears it is only one race every two hours
5 minutes away from a race at Lime Rock in the Solstice...
I can't find pretty basic information though like how long the race is or how many have entered, or what the pit speed limit is (despite the fact there's lots of info about not breaking it and where it starts).
Having done a few test laps I'm not really sure what to make of it, force feedback and basic physics seem alright, but the gearbox simulation is non-existent, something that I thought should have been high on the agenda from N2003.
The car seems incredibly dull to drive and I can't really make any comments on the sounds because the engine barely makes any.
I can't find pretty basic information though like how long the race is or how many have entered, or what the pit speed limit is (despite the fact there's lots of info about not breaking it and where it starts).
Having done a few test laps I'm not really sure what to make of it, force feedback and basic physics seem alright, but the gearbox simulation is non-existent, something that I thought should have been high on the agenda from N2003.
The car seems incredibly dull to drive and I can't really make any comments on the sounds because the engine barely makes any.
It takes Debit cards for all the Europeans who were under the impression it only takes credit cards and that we'd have to mess about borrowing cards then sending e-mails to get names changed. In fact it took my details very painlessly, so it seems iRacing is good at collecting money. The license agreement is rather scary and installer is only 158mb, although I have a suspicion I'll be installing more files before I'm racing.
EDIT - after the installer the free content adds up to 590mb, downloading just the Solstice, Lime Rock and Laguna Seca for now which is 245mb.
EDIT - after the installer the free content adds up to 590mb, downloading just the Solstice, Lime Rock and Laguna Seca for now which is 245mb.
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The old NSX was an under rated and extremely stylish car, hope the new one keeps what makes the NSX different to typical fat bloated modern sports cars.
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