Have you thought about changing BB during the lap? Downhill into T5 you'll need more front BB, uphill like T3 you can go rearward on BB and have more rotation. It's also a great skill to learn if you can change settings effortlessly. It will help you if you ever want to race prototypes with enrgy and fuel management. Another point is that you can dynamicly alter BB with your downshifts. The faster and earlier you downshift the more enginebraking will help the rearwheels under braking. So you could expiriment with slower downshifting into T5 and faster into T13. Good luck, I love the idea of the series. Improving methodically is a good path. Once you discover the way to improving in one skill, you'll find that you can use it with almost every other thing you want to learn.

Good stuff, great effort! I would recommend you should still pay attention to the track state, generate will not give you a stable track state to begin with and you will have different amounts of rubber on the racing line (0-100% / clean -> maximum usage).

I am in the same grind but in F1 24 haha

Hey man, great video! Its good to see your progress. Couple of things I wanna point out is that the BB shouldnt affect the tire tempts too much, if you are not locking up / engaging abs. If I were you I'd be more focused on what BB makes me feel comfortable for a race stint, BUT, and there is a really important but I dont know if you know this but tire temps and especially their increase is very very different in a test drive then in a race or even a public practice. When I was running the ferrari 296 in algarve earlier this season I was baffled how my tire temps were through the roof after 3-4 laps, because I was practicing for the race before the week started, since it was my first D class race aswell. But once I jumped into a race the tire temps felt a lot more controlled and easier to manage. Ofc iRacing in general is very unforgiving in the tires department but keep that in mind. Also I wouldnt compare myself to other that much other then getting a benchmark of where the faster guys are. I did this for a long time in various sims but in the end its just gonna burn you out, instead keep your laptimes in mind and focus on the gains you made. But of course only when you feel comfortable in the car. And also my ffb is also peaking in the high downforce cars. I have a g920 and I main the porsche cup right now and the peaking is really low since its not a particularly high downforce car, however once I jump into a gt3 car its start peaking very much. I am not affected by this a ton, and it doesnt bother me. I know its not ideal, but I'd rather have it like this then feel like a gt3 is a porsche cup based on the ffb. And its just nitpicking at this point but I would explore different camera settings, black box positioning and overlays. I found that I am more consistent with a lower FOV and with the pedal controls visible near the center of my screen. But I know that its only preference and that everybody is different its just what helped me. And lastly there are various great videos on car control that really helped me before I even started iRacing. In my experience Danny Lee's videos coached me through many hours put into sim racing and they helped me a ton. But you said that you are only experimenting with settings / in car controlls and its a great thing to do honestly. I really wish you good luck with your jurney! (sry for the reddit thread sized comment I just cant stop once I start to type out something)

This is an awesome series, not just for what it already is. This is great for rookies and beginners. Having a plan and correct approach to practicing is what helps you learn, rather than just doing thousands of laps at once and building bad habits.

2:01 i'm not sure what you mean, but just in case, im going to warn you that bb only changes how the car behaves under braking, it has no effect on its handling whatsoever while youre using the throttle

What pedals are you using?

what track conditions are you driving on?

+5 points for raising the topic -1 point for wrong apostrophe use in the title 😎

Ive just hit 2.21.5 in spa. Its one week of practice from 2.24.0. I dont know how people are able to go over 270kph after 'en rouge'. Which part of setting up should i look out for?

Just hire a coach for 1 hour and you'll learn more of your driving mistakes than if you were to continue doing 1,000 laps every day alone. Sometimes it takes a second person looking at your driving to notice things. Even Max Verstappen has a coach. Also, practice on other cars. It will make you faster on all cars. Go back to the mx5 every now and then too because it will make holes in your fundamental skills more apparent.

Without using static conditions you will not be able to make informed changes. The differences between just a bit humidity or wind can be massive in time.

Hi Achillefs, always cool to see fellow iRacers on their journey and see them improve. I've analyzed your miracle lap and there is still time to be found. - Exit of T1, you put the left side of the car on the curb. You can take a lot more curb here increasing your radius. Bigger radius means being able to take more speed through the corner and on exit. - You lift going up the hill in T3. You can do this flat out and go a little bit more over the curb giving you more exit speed onto the straight. - After the hairpin you short shift into second losing you time (delta goes from -0.10 to -0.05 and keeps falling). After you've clipped your apex you can just accelerate out and take a little bit more exit curb if you need to. - Going up the hill you keep on the inside of the exit curb. You can almost completely position your car here, putting your right wheels on the exit curb without getting an off track. Bigger radius = more speed on apex and exit. - After the hill going down you place your car on the right curb. You don’t have to do this, the corner is easy flat from the middle. Increasing the radius here without taking advantage of the speed this gives means extra meters without extra pace. This means you lose time here. - After the long right hander you can position the car with the right wheels on the red exit curb. Bigger radius...well you get the point by now - After the downhill hairpin you position your car on the exit curb. Use this reference for the above where I mention you can take a bigger radius. Getting as good or better as Max Verstappen does not mean you have to do 1000 laps. It means you have to make every lap count. Be critical of yourself, watch your laps from multiple camera views. Check where you leave track space on the table (most time can be found here) then focus on technique. Suellio Almeida has made a complete course just to check where you can find extra time in certain phases of your driving skills development. I would highly recommend it if you want to make your laps count. Furthermore, look into tools like garage61 with which you can compare your telemetry with 1000 of other iRacers from all different skill categories. See where you can brake later etc. Hope to see you on track, preferably in my rear view mirrors ;)

You’re living proof practice makes perfection

Hey there.i feel like mclaren is easier to have a pace cause is more secyre and forgiven car

I had something similar happen to me once, in ACC on Barcelona - I was lapping consistent 1:47-1:48 laps and then suddenly, outta nowhere, I dropped a 1:46.9 and I haven't even scraped close to a 1:47.0 since. No idea what I did differently!

When you had that lap you were have very good transitions between braking and throttling. It was very smooth but with a good speed.

If you had a Hymo setup you would be like a half second faster, I can garuntee you the difference is mad.

The best advice I got in relation to how much oversteer is still fast was to aim for no countersteer past the center point.

It was a flow state. I've had laps like this sometimes. Suddenly you just read the car perfectly and everything you do just goes perfectly every corner. You know beforehand what the car is going to do and you don't do any unnecessary inputs. I had this in league race weekend's qualifying in Interlagos. Was 7th out of over 30 drivers. I lost the pole by 5-7,5 tenths I think. Doesn't sound that impressive but mostly people are 1-1,5 seconds away from the aliens.

congrats on the proggers man!

Thats awesome mate.

Im no proffesional, but my reccomendation: Try and get some exposure in sim racing, then you get the entitlement to do coaching 😂 See where coaching brings you.

You and you're bb xD Brake bias is not that impactful if you really want to see a huge improvement in a short time you have to optimize you're setup or just drive more

When I look at the delta, I think you have put more emphasis on the exit speed.

Nice video. Changing BB will not affect anything unless you are on the limit. Also please stop shortshifting you are losing so much time.

Nice video. Congratulations on the evolution, you will get there

Please show, Live Telemetry/ pedal input graphs 📉📈 .. Pendal input visualisation with Bars 📊 feels inadequate.. Also there should be steering input line with brake & gass, (ffb if possible.)

The grind is real 🙂 Would you mind sharing your session settings? So could maybe throw in a lap or two to join the grind, haha. I'm currently learning how to drive the 296 fast, based on Suellios Academy drills I am so much more worse in GT3 than in other cars. Decided to attack the weak point because my theory is that if you practice the thing that you are worst at the skills will transfer to the more comfortable areas/cars. Even though it feels demoralizing at times 😀

What you said about stressing the tyres is right, I think drivers like max get around this with a really loose rear to get good rotation and then they master the rear wheel slip around corners, so they are just on a feathers edge of grip Looking at your onboard here, I don’t know for sure because I can’t feel what you feel, but it almost feels like you have too much grip, I think you should practice with as little rear df as possible and practice chucking the car into corners and slipping a bit more Easier said than done ofc, but if you watch Verstappen on board you can feel him doing this to perfection

Your FFB is clipping when you turn

Nice video! You can save way more time, when you take a look into your laps you have done, through Garage61, as example. You have done a lot of laps, some more clean, some lesser, but there will be sectors of each lap, which put together are going the faster than you achieved so far. Keep up the good work!

Just a quick update. I am kicking myself. What I said in the end of this video about stressing the tires was correct. HOWEVER, I didn’t realize that the brake bias that I had was a BIG part of the tires being stressed out. This is really funny to me, but as soon as I increased my brake bias towards the front, again, I was LITERALLY 3tenths quicker. I’m learning…slowly but surely. More on that on part 3🚀.

Keep this series going! Was a fun watch

Ur ffb is clipping btw

I switched to stiffer springs on my brake pedal on my Simagic P1000's and trail braking became so much easier now and increased my times to being top 10 of the grid now. My 2nd thing that made me faster was tire wear, as this video mentioned. I learned to read tire data and focused on keeping my tires in the 180s-90sF temp. This video is 100% legit.

Also would have worked with "it's raining men"

yeah that's my problem, I drive the GT3 cars as if I'm driving a no-downforce car, like the MX5 where you point it in and then sort it out with lots of inputs to create a 4-wheel drift

can i ask how you are able to visualise your pedal inputs during the replay?

Do you ever get into a ''slump'' or have a burnout? And what do you do about it?

Are you using just the fixed setups?

Any temperatures we can shoot for in iracing for GT3's? I've always known I overdrive the car and overheat the tires, but I don't know exactly how not to and how to identify that I have. I think seeing the live temps can actually give you an indication of that, but I'm not sure what exactly I'm shooting for.

Lol…. There’s no epiphany here! The tire model has always been trash. Iracing forces you to drive one style UNDER DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!! Iracing is the least realistic sim …. Ppl are still not getting it. Hahahaha (BTW) the verbiage you’re looking for is driving (Neutral) which again is unrealistic. All racers in real life say the same thing about the tire model every year and next year it will be the same. Lol

Your video depressed me. I have been tinkering with new gear and getting eye in with the lambo ready for some Simgrid action. I’m faster in the McLaren but I don’t like easy or following the crowd. However you make a good point, McLaren is easier to drive fast and is ultimately more competitive in race conditions.

Hi bro, sorry for asking. But does the car need clutch? Or we drive it like GT car? Thanks.

Smooth is always faster. Too many times I see folks driving GT3 like a formula car, thing is, the aero is way lower. You can't wait until the last 50m to brake and throw the car in, you compromise your grip mid-turn doing so and the whole upcoming straight line following. In a sense having too much oversteer does the exact same thing.

You should start with the fundamentals of FFB. Like, your F meter is red a lot of the time. Maybe you like it that way, ok, but the meter is there for a fundamental reason. To make it easy for you iRacing gives you the option to just select auto to set the FFB levels to be within a functioning range without excessive clipping. So, with better FfB sense you should be able to feel the tires in more detail and not numb out in clipping.

This is one of the main weak points of iracing for most people. The tires are way too sensitive and overheat way too quickly. You should be able to have a little over/understeer when driving at the limit and still be quick (Though you were still overdoing it a little). IIRC Josef newgarden talked about it on stream. He could "hustle" his IRL car a lot more than he could the iracing car. I'm pretty sure iracing is updating the tire model for most cars, so hopefully they tone that down a bit.

Just a quick update!! So far, this theory is holding up!! I was able to do a CLEAN lap of 1: 43.785 🚀🚀. As I am keeping in mind not to (SLIGHTLY) overheat the tires, my laps are getting better and better! Conclusion: PAY ATTENTION TO THE TIRE’S SURFACE TEMPERATURE!

How do you know if your tyres are overheating in iracing?