With the 2010 Season 3 build, iRacing unveiled a new transmission model that introduces a much higher level of realism to the online racing mix in terms of shifting options. Previously, clicking out of a gear or into another gear would instantly do just that - regardless of whether or not such a gear change would actually be physically possible.
All of this talk about fixed setups got me to thinking, and when it comes down to it, I realized that I don't really have a good idea of how fixed setups would impact me, personally. So as an experiment I ran an online race in the Rookie Solstice last night, just to see what jumping into a fixed-setup race
When iRacing unveiled the 2010 Season 3 schedule they also announced the addition of two new fixed-setup series -- both of these fixed-setup series will be B-Class series, featuring the C6.R Corvette on the road course side, and the Impala SS Class B on the oval side. These new fixed-setup series will run in addition to the existing open (adjustable)
My old buddy Abe was a tall imposing guy; kind of scary-looking in fact. I found out how scary one time when I asked him to remove a tree for me. I came back hours later and he was still getting his axe ready. You see, Abe was kind of a bit crazy about preparation. His axiom was “give me
I have always been confused by sim racers who complain about the tire temperatures being meaningless and wrong in iRacing, as I have always had the opposite experience since they tweaked the tire model last year. In fact, I find that reading the tire temperatures is vital when trying to tweak a setup. There are a couple of things to
Welcome to tips from a human sim-racer. Unlike the alien iRacers I only have two eyes, two hands and two feet. I don’t have eyes in the back of my head and my reflexes are only slightly better than average. This article is designed to help you increase your iRating and lower your lap times. While many of you don’t
William Blake said that only blockheads copy each other, but obviously he’s never tried to set up a racecar, real or simulated. While working on setting-up the Dallara for the iRacing.com Indy 500 event, I was struck by some of the detailed advice Dale Jr had made on the iRacing forums about setting up the COT, which was a great
We are often in search of the perfect setup, for obvious reasons. But doing a lot of tinkering in the garage can be quite intimidating, and at the end of it all there may not be a perfect universal setup since driving styles can differ from person to person. So a setup that feels optimal to one person may be
Well, Black Friday came and went and left me with an Eyefinity upgrade project which I finally was able to tackle a couple of weeks ago. Unsurprisingly I found it necessary to upgrade the CPU as well since my frame rates in testing were, shall we say, challenged. Of course, I can only really notice slow frame rates during testing
A cop pulls over Heisenberg, and asks him “Do you know how fast you were going?” and he answered “No, but I know where I am.” It’s a geeky scientist joke about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which states the more precisely you know the location of something, the less you know about its velocity, and vice versa. [caption id="attachment_18378" align="aligncenter"