Can I Survive My First Oval Safety Car in iRacing?

[@Sethsimracing]

Hey, great video as usual! The reason they're weaving in-and-out during the caution flag/pace laps is to keep their tires warm, and clean to get a good start. Also, caution flags are basically that long IRL to clean up debris and give people time to pit, so iRacing is simulating that too, even though it doesn't have to be as long since there's not very much standing debris in wrecks in the game. The "lucky dog" is a NASCAR/oval racing rule, where the first person who's a lap down gets to go by, and gain a lap. So for instance, if there's 10 people on the lead lap, then the person who's 11th would get the lucky dog. If he was only 1 lap down, that would put him back on the lead lap, but if he was like 2 laps down he's only gain one lap and still be 1 lap down. And that incident at 20:30 I think could be considered a racing incident. You moved down to give space to the guy above you, while the green car moved up a bit to give the white car on the bottom space, and you sorta came into each other. The safest thing to do would be for one of you to have lifted, and tucked in behind the guy in front, but that almost never happens in oval racing. 😂 Anyways, it was fun to watch! Loved it as usual! Oh, you don't mind me giving these answers right? IDK if it comes across as rude or something; if it does ofc I won't!

[@costangracing]

There's a ton of good info in there! I definitely appreciate the help as I have no experience whatsoever outside of what I have up on the channel lol I've learned a massive amount just through the comments alone so please feel free to keep the tips coming!

[@brewerplayz]

Drafting is under appreciated as a skill for sure. Other trucks let off to stay in line and manage the run they get. its all about timing and about the amount of vehicles you can have with you.

[@costangracing]

Thanks for pointing that out! I think I started to see some of that when I was watching the race back. I don't really know how the strategy behind that works yet, but I'm definitely going to pay attention to it in upcoming races

[@Rayz0268]

Have you done some motion smoothing? The video looks much nicer and not a s shaky as most vr recordings are lol

[@costangracing]

Yeah I use a tool that Oculus has where you can stabilize the image by cropping in. You lose a bit of FOV but it looks much nicer than the wild shaking lol

[@Rayz0268]

Dude we should do some oval together sometime, I have a slightly lower irating than you and I just got promoted to c class and I’m eager to do one of these races when I own the content

[@costangracing]

I was actually thinking about maybe doing some community races in the future! If I get around to that I'll definitely let you know!

[@TrainMan_2010]

The weave is to keep the tires warm

[@costangracing]

Honestly, I'm not sure why that didn't cross my mind lol