iRacing's Dave Kaemmer gets ready for his turn on camera.
Dave Kaemmer and I spent a few days in Indianapolis last week filming portions of the soon to be released iRacing Driving School. The shoot was great, the weather, not-so-much. I could have driven back to Boston in less time than it took to fly!
We are still several months away from launching the school but it is shaping up nicely. The iRacing Driving School will feature about a dozen separate chapters, each being its own stand-alone video on the member site. Many of the chapters will finish-up with exercises designed to help you practice what you just learned.
The basic idea of the school is to help iRacers become better racers. Many iRacers have no formal racing education and that often leads to reaching a plateau where no matter what you try you don’t seem to get any faster. There are also many iRacers who are completely new to the sport and by teaching them the basics right from the start, we think it will improve everyone’s enjoyment of the service. After all, faster racers means better racing for everyone!
iRacing Driving School host, Chris Agos, gets ready to read through a script in front of the green screen.
The school actually began taking shape last year. We started first with the idea; next we needed the curriculum, scripts and exercises. Having just filmed the on-camera instructor we are now ready to move to production and begin incorporating in-sim footage so students can see what we are talking about.
Chapters subjects will include:
• Vehicle dynamics
• Fundamentals of the racing line
• Using your eyes
• Braking
• Shifting
• Race-craft
• Race starts
• Pre-race – practice, qualifying and time trials
A lot of work remains to be done on the school to get it ready for launch, but we are excited to have made it this far already. Look for an announcement later this spring for the launch date.
Really good idea, this will be a very welcome addition to iRacing. Looking forward to it!
Exactly what I’m looking for. Keeping a close eye on the development of this.
Great to hear.
That’s great to hear. Looking forward to it.
Very nice. I look forward to it with great anticipation.
Bravo, iRacing!!
Looks good but I hope we get more then standerd brake here and turn there explenations.
Lots of people need advanced, almost private teaching.
Great idea and I sure to use it, but I would also love to see you add a video set-up guide
Great to see that this is coming.
Yes this is true. This covers a lot of the basics, which are needed, but I would also love to see some more advanced teaching for driving techniques and setup work.
This will be fantastic. iRacing just keeps improving, responding to the needs of its users. Thank you!
Great to see this finally nearing fruition! I know you guys at iRacing have wanted this in the software since you were in beta still. I hope it becomes what you always hoped it would. Personally speaking, I can’t wait to check it out!
Best of luck!
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cant w8, hope i can take part…
Very good idea.
A thing like this can only help. Espacially in setting up a car for qualification and racing.
Thank you Iracing
I’m looking forward this!
If I can bring a suggestion,
(do not delay the release for this but) I would love it if we could show subtitles as option.
English isn’t my language and it’s difficult for me to understand spoken English and stay concentrated. My reading skill is much better. Also, you could (or let fans do it) translate the English subtitles in many different languages.
Why not release it episode by episode instead of waiting to finish all 12?
Excellent!!! I am very much looking forward to it!! I think Vitalogy has an excellent suggestion. I think having subtitles/transcript in other languages as well as other languages would be extremely helpful not just for people whose first language is not English but those of us (like myself) who don’t have great hearing. Also, as Lincoln said, releasing them episodicallyy would also be nice. (I realize though these may not be logistically or financially feasible.)
Subtitles would be good for people who dont have english as there first language.
I really hope the school will over more then just the basics.
Very nice addition to the servcice.
What I acutally would add is a tutorial on how to build half way decent setups.
No matter what I am tweaking, I am not getting way faster. And always rely on the virtual crew chief page doesn’t help my understanding getting better.
An idea whose time has come. Hope to see a nice implementation. The Rally School in Richard Burns Rally was well done, with theory, instruction, a demonstration, then goals to achieve yourself on the track.
Even the Gran Turismo tutorials about line were quite instructive, with the various medals based on times through a set course.
I hope you include a section titled something like:
“Driving mistakes so very, very bad that making of of them will leave you way more embarrased than that guy who sh*t his pants in the second grade.”
Show replays to demonstrate them.
I hope you’re going to add a class on chassis setups!!
I think along with this it would be awesome to have a detailed setup guide for each car, and explain how each setting works in the sim.
The combination of these video’s and those guides would make iRacing that much more of an immersive experience
Just don’t stop improving
great stuff iRacing!
Nice, Cant wait to get in the seat lol
AWESOME!!!!
It would be awesome to be able to drive a track (split screen side by side) and see the “pro” synchronized with you.
good news.. think a lot of folks have been lookin forward to this…
take ur time do a 1st class job on it please!
JT
Teamdraft
Cool Deal! I’ll take all the help I can get.!
Keep up the great work iRacing!
This is great news. I’m going to agree with a number of comments here; please, create an IN-DEPTH chapter(s) on setups!! It has been my experience that many of the skills taught in racing schools would actually come naturally from just doing laps. Car setup is a different matter, and in my opinion is one of the main reasons for the “plateau”.
Most of the cars on iracing are tuned quite well, there are a few that are b…a…d! It would be great to learn more about this “dark art” of racing. (I’m aware of the setup guide pdf. It hasn’t helped me at all, and many of the effects I see and feel from tweaking while using the guide are opposite to what the guide says should happen.)
Also, it would be great if we had ghost cars. I’ve always found them very helpful in improving my times. It’s just an idea.
Thank you!
Great, great, great!
But don’t forget the idea of the video set-up guide.
I just hope there’s Road Racing instruction
Nice idea and i’m sure like everything else in iracing, it will come with a price tag
Set-ups should be the “principles” of set-up. And than let the member work and practice these “principles” to achieve set-ups that work for the individual members driving abilities..
We need chassis set up training also PLEASE
Yes, Setup Training is very much needed. I think each series should have its own setup class as each car/truck is somewhat to extremely different. Depending on how it’s made up and how long it takes to make everything you could have a class for each course, teaching breaking points on road courses and what the preferred line at the ovals are. I would also recommend a class on passing, what not to do and when to let the other person go by. That would help a lot of the rookies out I think.