The iRacing Iceberg

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#simracing #enascar #nascar #formula1 #gt3 #crash #hacker #glitch #cheat #lore #documentary
Intro: 0:00
Tier 1: 1:30
Tier 2: 11:00
Tier 3: 22:26
Tier 4: 34:00
Tier 5: 44:16
Tier 6: 54:03
Tier 7: 1:04:25
Honorable Mentions: 1:16:16

[@VernKlukas]

I heard you’re looking for answers. Why “Yours, Vern? Well, I’m old. So old that the first e-mail account I had was when the internet was still an experiment between universities. It was a summer job at college, and the e-mail was strictly a local campus thing. The department I was in had exactly one e-mail address, so the boss wanted everybody to sign the e-mails they sent to keep track. After that job, a few years went by before I had a e-mail again - it was either a AOL or a Compuserve - and I just kept signing my e-mails. Yours Vern

[@diigdugg]

absolute legend :)

[@GavinRopchan]

I knew it

[@asdfreii]

Keep on keeping on! I had a similar experience, there is a person in my community who uses their initials NEM in capitals to sign off posts. Has done for 30 years. :)

[@RyanHellyer]

Thanks for sharing! Yours Ryan

[@crazylegssw]

Whattup Vern! Holy s/

[@rampant5139]

"-Yours, Vern" refers to a popular forum user Vern Klukas who ends every message with "Yours, Vern" He's in pretty much every thread so it's a very common sight

[@DJYeeJay]

TY!!

[@CesarHernandez-fw4pp]

he was in my sebring 12h split, nice to share track with him

[@LithFox]

vern is sweet

[@ADX77]

someone once calculated how much time vern had spent typing Yours Vern at the end of each post. his posts were in the multiple thousands, so it was a significant amount of time.

[@lucasbulldogs7]

Oh hi Nate

[@benjohnson5222]

Another part of the 'mic check' thing is a little game of when you enter a pre-race practice session and spot somebody named Mike or Michael, you get on the radio and say "mic check' and hope it's the guy named Mike who responds with 'loud and clear' hahaha

[@Boss-Possum]

My name in iracing is Michael and I never thought to do that. Every single time from now on I promise. 👍

[@Grimoire44]

“Mic check” is really nostalgic for me every time. Years ago before I had my own account, I would play on my dads, who’s name is Mike. Every time somebody would ask for a mic check, I would always reply “I’m here!”. Now that I play on my own account I can’t do that, but it’s a nice reminder of my first days of iRacing.

[@Metal_junk]

I even saw someone named Mike Czech lol

[@BarkingPenguin-jt3br]

Amazing

[@OleMisss]

@@Boss-Possumyou’re the man lol. hope to see ya out on track.

[@TeamI5G]

Thank you for the video. I know of someone who contacted iRacing Support chat asking how time trial rating was calculated. They were told to please use support for serious inquiries only and never to ask that question again!

[@DJYeeJay]

Bro it's simple read the sporting code: "If a ttRating update for you is warranted, the ratio of your new Time Trial Best Time to the best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for any customer at this Car Class / Track Configuration combination is computed. This “normalizes” this Time Trial Session’s contribution to your ttRating by putting the value for this Car Class / Track Configuration combination into the same “units” as for any other Car Class / Track Configuration combination. That is, its contribution is just your “percentage” of the best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for any customer for the given Car Class / Track Configuration combination. If you just set a new best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for that Car Class / Track Configuration combination, your “percentage” will be 100. If you were 1.5% slower than the best-ever, your “percentage” will be 101.5. Your ttRating for the license type in use is then computed by combining your “percentages” for each of the most recent 8 Track Configurations for which you registered a Time Trial Best Time using the same license type, regardless of which Car Class was used. Your combined percentage is then scaled to put it into a similar set of units as iRating. Since your ttRating only includes your most-recent 8 Track Configurations, this can lead to some unexpected ttRating changes. For example, though you might have just set a better Time Trial Best Time at this Car Class / Track Configuration combination than you had previously set, your ttRating could actually decrease if the new calculation has dropped a previous better overall performance from the calculation, or if the new calculation has dropped your previous Time Trial Best Time for the same Car Class / Track Configuration combination. Your ttRating might also decrease even if you set a better Time Trial Best Time using this Car Class / Track Configuration combination than your previous run if in the interim someone else has set a new best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time of any customer on the service at that same Car Class / Track Configuration combination. In this case, even though you set a better personal-best time, your “percentage” became worse, because it’s now being compared against an even better reference time. As ttRating is a measure of competitive performance skill for time trials, it is only adjusted up or down whenever a time trial event is completed."

[@Aunini]

@@DJYeeJay Actually doesn't sound *too* tricky - it seems essentially that the rating is determined based on who is closest to the best times set of their last 8 time trials. For instance, if your 8 times were all 105% of the best time, your total would be 840%. Someone else who set 7 best times and an eighth that was 140% of the best would be equal, as their total would also be 840%. It also says that improvements might still make your rating worse if it bumps out a now-ninth time trial percentage that was better than the newest one, if it bumps out a percentage from the same exact combination that was better, or if your improvement on the current attempt actually resulted in a worse percentage because someone lowered the best time by too much. 🙂

[@OkieDokieSmokie]

Worlds best iracing oval driver is using laptop and wooden chair…..ok. I give up.

[@falconeye577]

Arca is Nationwide Class B Yes, that is how it came about In fact, I had my letter back then with iRacing were I suggested that they make this happen We went back and forth across many emails that made this happen The first season of this new series came about I raced it and used a spreadsheet to track points As a result I won my division by a very small margin of points that season Yes, I have the Cert from the Season James Falcon Pratt

[@DJYeeJay]

Very cool! Thanks for the info

[@RDMracer]

27:07 Le Mans is largely a street course, so the time window to scan it is narrow, but when the steet course is in use the Bugatti circuit is often something else so it cannot be scanned. Previous years it was a campsite and this year it was the concert area for instance.

[@edn0]

So much stuff going on on those tracks since the F4 GP Explorer organized by French KZbinr Squeezie.

[@PhotonBread]

I’ve watched probably 50% of your videos and it took an Iceberg video for me to realize I never subbed. That has been fixed

[@DJYeeJay]

Thank you!

[@utters4515]

Same

[@bombplayz2053]

Omg same bro. I’m so surprised

[@SyffRacing]

i can’t appreciate enough how much effort you put into this video!

[@DJYeeJay]

I appreciate you appreciating!

[@snail3]

@@DJYeeJay And I appreciate you appreciating appreciation

[@FK121FK]

@@snail3 And I appreciate you appreciating appreciation of the appreciation

[@tommale4935]

Great video mate! I never realised how much lore there was over on the oval/dirt side of iRacing before watching this. Was happy to help out with the video too!

[@DJYeeJay]

Same here I knew there were a lot of road stories, but there was definitely more than I thought. Thanks for helping out!

[@NR_88]

My joke entry for the bottom tier would’ve been Dale Jr and Steve Myers are trapped in iracing (spy kids 3d style) and the ones in real life are clones

[@TracksideViews]

Max probably finds iRacing more exciting and competitive than real F1

[@user-yt8vj7kh5u]

They have equal cars so that’s a no brainer

[@afternoonview]

He even confirmed this that sim racing in general is his true passion. Just type his name and add ''sim racing is not a game''

[@swordmasterdante4797]

Whaaa whaaaa whaaaa... That's all I read, did you meant something?

[@pawelkusmierek109]

Vern Klukas is one of the most active iRacing forum members. All his post are signed: Yours Vern

[@KumaKaori]

hah, yeah. Knew what it was as soon as it came up. If you're not on the forums, it wouldn't parse.

[@akaWook]

Loved The iRacing Iceberg video - I know you covered a few but would love to see an entire video just like this on iRacing memes, sayings, etc… like “Send it”, “Use the chrome horn”, “Get on the loud pedal”, “Checkers or Wreckers”... 👍

[@macyt6913]

Most interesting iracing videos on the platform, easily. Well done mate. Keep this up and I can easily see you being huge in the iracing space 💪

[@DJYeeJay]

Thank you!!!

[@TracksideViews]

I believe a video on how exploits are discovered would be an interesting video. Some exploits seem so absurd I often wonder how anyone even finds things like that.

[@steveduerr6367]

I absolutely can not stand cheaters. Why play at all.

[@androidken]

@@steveduerr6367 I hope you aren't a NASCAR fan...

[@theKashConnoisseur]

@@steveduerr6367 when it comes to competition there's a saying: "If you're not cheating, you're not trying."

[@DukeTheRebel]

It was awesome to help you out man hopefully people can come through with more of the iRacing beta footage stuff. And I’m glad i able to be apart of the research process too. It was a really cool experience.

[@DJYeeJay]

Thanks a ton!

[@BlazeXCrawford]

My favorite video you have posted so far. Even being very involved with the Competitive side of oval there was a ton on this list I didn’t know about

[@DJYeeJay]

Thank you!! GL in rd 2

[@JDMcHaley]

Such a great video man. You're gonna be getting that 100k plaque in no time.

[@DJYeeJay]

Thanks JD!! We'll see idk if that's possible hahaha

[@kieroneil]

This is an epic video. I appreciate tou spending the time and effort to put this together. I've been using iRacing for almost three years and learned a few new things.

[@TheRealStoku]

Over 1 hr of content to enjoy, heck yes!

[@ri1288]

I’ve been around iRacing a long time and you had some things that I learned about. Good stuff and great video. One thing to add from the old forums was “Party at Salma’s”. It was name that was originally on Abbas Ladak’s account. Your story about him in the Daytona 24 reminded me about that. 😂

[@schizoidforjesus]

Brodie Kostecki actually did a year of K&N East back in 2014 (with 3 starts in 2013 as well). His best finish was 5th at Dover.

[@racingwithrob]

aka Paul Covic?

[@TorstenBehle]

Greger Huttu was featured a few years ago because he was so unbelievably fast in Grand prix Legends, that people wanted to see what he can do in a real car. Nice video with a sympathetic young man from Finland in far away US land.

[@GarageRCR]

this was awesome! I watched this whole thing while building a new pc for Iracing!. It made me realize that even though i've only been a member since 2020, I remember a lot of those other things you mentioned from just being into motorsports in general. Its awesome to see how far sim racing has come. You did a great job my friend!

[@matthe.w5]

i never knew iracing had lore, but it seems interesting. excited to watch this!

[@HOOTwheelz]

i was working with Podium during the controversial 500. there were a lot of people who worked on that broadcast trying to make the most out of a really wacky situation, and i give my respect to them. aside from the post-race results situation, the production crew were on their A-Game and throwing down some entertaining broadcasts. Some of the people involved in the broadcasting (not the organizing, just the visual and audio elements of the event) even moved on from it and actually work on official iRacing broadcasts today. as messy as the result shenanigans were, the crew was top notch and i miss working with all of em.

[@DJYeeJay]

I was actually Lake’s spotter that day and I’ll prob make a vid about the story eventually haha. Was a crazy few days

[@dirtyair6305]

Make sure you reach out when you do.

[@woldenracing7370]

😂Yes, yes I did listen for 80 minutes..😳 Thank you for explaining things in such a way that “pre” iRacing users such as myself can understand and not ask for a mic check. 😂 Seriously though thank you for spending so much time divulging all this content, it really does help to prepare for the world of iRacing & is much appreciated. Great content, keep it up. 🤙

[@DJYeeJay]

Mad lad!!! No problem thanks for watching!

[@AgtWashingtub]

Sometimes my PC will change audio input devices, either on a system level or iracing specifically, so I often ask for a mic check in my first race of the day. However, my 'mic check' just involves me finding a Mike or Michael in the field and asking if they are here. Prevents me from being 'that guy'© and now I have like 42 Mike friends.

[@racingwithrob]

Great work on this!

[@DJYeeJay]

Thanks a lot!

[@SquiggyWigginz]

I didn't know you had a KZbin channel. Raced with you plenty over the years. Liked and subscribed. Tim Rengers on iracing.

[@deltazero3796]

Cool iceberg explanation, thank you for that sir^^

[@FastCashCulp]

Great video like always Justin, Glad to help out on this!

[@DJYeeJay]

Thank you!!!

[@W.Eric.Anderson]

Enjoyed your work. Thanks!

[@TheChris1500]

such a great video. thanks for all that work you put in doing it.

[@DJYeeJay]

Thanks I appreciate it!

[@TracksideViews]

I was in the garage at Martinsville the day iRacing teased dirt and ask Clint Bowyer if it was true and he confirmed it was. I think I actually have it on video. I’ll have to see if I can find it.

[@DJYeeJay]

Thats a cool story! leave it to clint to leak

[@bobinternationalvocalreact8025]

Great video, lots of work congrats.

[@buddhapest]

stayed to the end. learned a ton. ty!

[@PuckADV]

Just off the bat, as someone with laser scanning experience, it definitely has to add to the experience, the data which you can get from a scanner vs traditional methods is night and day

[@DJYeeJay]

I'd definitely believe just based off of number of data points

[@turbo_marc]

i clicked before i saw the video length my adhd brain cant handle all this 💀

[@DJYeeJay]

The best part of these videos is you can watch a few minutes at a time and come back later haha

[@turbo_marc]

@@DJYeeJay i'm still gonna watch it all the way through

[@turbo_marc]

a month later i finally finished it

[@DJYeeJay]

@@turbo_marc insane hahahaha

[@AgtWashingtub]

#dirtconfirmed is probably some of the funniest stuff I have ever seen in an actual serious release. When dude starts eating the dirt when they are talking about learning 'everything' about a new type of surface. On tanking, on paper, it looks a lot like I did that. However, I used to run just the tracks and series I was good at and worried about irating more than fun. Now I run even the tracks I should still be practicing on and have lost almost 2k irating and do not care. It is where I 'belong' and the racing is way more fun. But instead of competing for top 5s at the tracks I am good-ish at, I am running away from the field.

[@DJYeeJay]

With tanking there are people who will literally sign up for races and not joining. Joining something you’re bad at and just having fun is great. I don’t do that enough myself

[@TylerBonenfant]

don't forget to add the link to the abbas ladak thread and thanks for adding that, made my day lol

[@DJYeeJay]

oh yaaaa thanks

[@edzzz7555]

awesome stuff i cant believe how much information you know. Im new to iracing got to D class oval with about 34 races going to be getting into ARCA tonight super pumped!!

[@DJYeeJay]

I didn't know that much of this, it was a community effort! GL on arca feel free to ask the discord with questions

[@blackmac1970]

I thought this was another 10 minute video when i started. After 15 minutes i checked to see when it was going to finish, only to discover it went on forever. Great video though, learned quite a few things despite being on iracing since 2008.

[@jasonputman5792]

Wooohooo hell yeah broski great run and great win! Hopefully the victory party is still going on cuz I’m gonna be late!

[@qmajc18]

Video looks insane. Can’t wait

[@zurggriff481]

School configurations have made their way into official races before. The Production Car Challenge last raced at Summit Point in 2020 Season 3 and at Lime Rock Park - 2008 and Laguna Seca in 2019 Season 4. When I first saw this in 2020, I thought it was a track update; the track just comes with cones now.

[@KRobertsonGaming]

That brake, nothing, accelerator graph and the quick explanation was perfect. Simple and effective 👌

[@jimwardlow758]

Very interesting Information thank you for putting it all together.

[@idkplayer]

Great video!

[@DJYeeJay]

Thank you!!! Glad you enjoyed mr tier 2

[@talladegajunkie1439]

Loved this video! With this in mind, would you consider doing an iceberg video for NASCAR as a whole?

[@tnwhiskey68]

I would've watched this as a 3 part series. I'm up to tier 3 but have to bail now. Good info!

[@sstalder5]

Great video! I listened while practicing for an Assetto Corsa private league race. Can't say I'm particularly compelled to switch out of fear of being sued, banned, or robbed through microtransactions. Interesting stuff though!

[@rickdubbink]

Actually listened to all 80 minutes as I signed up last thursday for technically the same time. These are great for learning about the game, or should I say sim. Also, subbed to ya

[@martin-hall-northern-soul]

Wowzers, a true behemoth of a video, in the niceset possible sense! We have a phrase here in Britain that a person's blessed with a 'mind full of useless information', but I certainly wouldn't say that about myself after watching this smorgersboard of virtual wisdom. A must-watch for the iRacing gen and a record for the ages has been forged.

[@zanetti20]

Such an interesting video.

[@mikedeanellis]

Dude. This is over the top encyclopedia Britannica over the top.! Holy cow well done. We’re definitely gonna mention your video on the podcast tonight. Would love to have you on the talk about it. …? 645p est?

[@DJYeeJay]

Thank you! I’ll still be at work sorry 😞

[@iamthedrumandbassfarmer8735]

Never knew about Irwindale Rallycross - it might have come about as it was the first ever race of the first season of Global Rallycross in 2011, which iRacing partnered with as the official sim in later years before the series folded. It would have been the only RX course in the game with a crossover gap jump (that is if they planned for the 2013 X Games version which used a simpler layout). Nothing remarkable really especially when it would have been just another short-oval dirt+water barriers rallycross track, but very interesting nonetheless

[@bhixracer]

For Next Gen Chevy not having correct decals, I think they may have meant the Next Gen Ford. On the Ford only, manufacturer decals are not required like most other stock cars, so you can run custom manufacturers like the ARCA/Gen 4. So you can make a Dodge, or Audi, or Honda Next Gen, but only on the Ford body.

[@dalton7728]

the safety rating thing is really good to know that its calculated with the amount of corners Thanks for that

[@matthew-qj1vt]

Amazing video

[@lordjuvenile9068]

You should definitely chapter this, but other than that great vid!

[@DJYeeJay]

Just added ones for the tiers

[@Perjoss]

awesome video, thank you

[@1888Wyatt]

We need lance gomez jr always typing “clean race from nyc” before races that he’d usually cause about 3-4 wrecks

[@DJYeeJay]

ah crap we were talking about clean race from nyc at one point

[@1888Wyatt]

@@DJYeeJay no big deal lmao 10/10 video

[@Sethsimracing]

This was such a good video and so worth watching! Now gotta get my dad to by iRacing, and we'll watch this together!

[@WoddCar]

Iracing certainly is one of my favorite simulation type racing games like other just as realistic games such as gran turismo and forza

[@evanhenry3940]

This is gonna be a blast

[@loudpedaltv588]

Where can I play on the Salem Track in the clip at minute 10:12? That is my home track for the ARCA Series and would love to run virtual laps.

[@Double5Racing]

It is finally here

[@Vanixe]

i was a driver in the 2023 peccgb, the time gained was insane doing those laptimes, at the time i didnt know about this, in our practice sessions i was running mid-high level laptimes, and then when it was time to qualify the whole track was just blocked by the drivers doing slow outlaps, making it almost impossible to qualify properly without being blocked or causing a crash. it also did give a huge pace advantage since i was doing PB's and i was running near the back in quali. we tried to sort this out with the admins but it was really shady, they didnt want to listen to our advice and just wanted to stick to their own ruleset, making the whole competition a huge shitshow and not fun to drive.

[@DJYeeJay]

Admins ruining a competition? Never heard of that one before 🤣

[@Vanixe]

@@DJYeeJaythere was some really crazy shit going on in that league hahahaha, too much to write in a single paragraph ahahaha

[@philstraforelli2923]

One recent exploit was in regards to the NDM for the Pcup introduced in 2023S2 and how in a hosted league race someone interntionally lost their front bumper, and it turned out to gain them an incredible amount of speed on the straights. I can provide you with more information about this if you would like.

[@notyou2935]

During downtime you can only drive cars and tracks that you have downloaded. What that means is if you race a multiclass series and have downloaded all cars for that series you can drive them in test drive during downtime but not on the official servers unless you paid for them. You can only drive on tracks that you have paid for during downtime in test drive. There is an exception to this. If you joined via Steam when iRacing first became available there, all tracks and cars folders were downloaded to your local machine. So for those people all cars and tracks, except new ones, are available during downtime on test drive even if they never purchased them. New cars during a season don't become available for test drive until the season after they were introduced or you purchase them.

[@SizzlingPopcorn]

Matt Malone doesn’t drive multiple accounts for the Daytona 24hr. He races the 12 hrs of Bathurst solo and gets disqualified (negative iRating).

[@DJYeeJay]

ahhh I thought he did the multi account trick my bad

[@SizzlingPopcorn]

@@DJYeeJay Many have

[@giulioforcolin5077]

​@@DJYeeJay He did that at least once at Bathurst, but I think iRacing eventually decided that they didn't want people doing that any more and made rules against it

[@rarewhiteape]

Rence the Fence did both Bathurst 12hr and Watkins Glen 6hr solo this year and won both events, but was disqualified.

[@gballtheway22]

This was awesome!!!

[@danlangowski929]

@55:00 I once called iRacing and asked them about the tax. It was explained to me that they have to add the tax(at-least in the US) in states that they have remote employees working.

[@dirtyair6305]

Glade to see I made the iceberg lol.

[@TChapman500Gaming]

Did I see an NR2003 clip of an addon track during the explanation of "ARCA Brakes"? Also, "I'm just here for SR" is the scariest thing someone could say. Where's the NR2004 download link?

[@donovenbruntmyer7702]

i do a lot of "grip flicking" in dirt rally and didnt really even think about it until someone talked about it

[@TheChris1500]

i really wish they would add flat karts, i know they scanned Millridge but never got on iracing.

[@otisthecow]

"every copy is personalized" is a nod to the super Mario 64 iceberg that started the trend of icebergs. its more true for PC games as most run a optimization check to give you the best settings possible.

[@Grandreaper601]

On the membership page it's good because you can block 🚫 people who are trolling people or making problems for others. I hope that they don't take that way. On iracing ui you can't block people or be able to stop racing with them.

[@LoganRacing]

Note about the mercedes paint schemes at 44:10 you can have custom paint schemes but only the iracing default 3 color ones that are uglier than the mercecedes one anyways (small and unimportant just thought i would throw that out there)

[@DJYeeJay]

Makes sense thanks! That's why they AI cars could have it

[@kylethacker4421]

I had Grand Prix Legends. It was so advanced for its time. Makes sense now why iracing is so good

[@47racing79]

XQC played iracing? oh boy im sure that went great

[@DJYeeJay]

It went as expected

[@A.P._eRacing]

@ 2:43 Triple screen tube monitor setup..... Nice!

[@mista_bone6193]

I still have the Beta test software FIRST on CD. Been racing since HAWAII dial up and long distance charges days, Then TEN (Total Entertainment Network) NROS Series, beta test FIRST which then became IRacing.

[@FuddButter]

I was in that Max Bantz with the sprint car! I didn't know about the track cutting till too late :(

[@androidken]

Kinda weird that iRacing fixed a certain exploit that had been in the game for awhile a few years ago and several NASCAR pro series drivers suddenly started running poorly and couldn't run well enough to even stay in the pro series much less win races. Makes you wonder...

[@MrSimber1]

Just a quick correction for the Coke series drop week, there was also a drop week added for the Charlotte week where the Chevy was worse than the other 2 cars.

[@DJYeeJay]

I think there mightve been 2 drop weeks in the last couple years thats what a couple of the coke drivers remembered

[@curtyos]

the mic check thing isnt only new players i race in vr but generally play other games as well so when im spotting i use my normal headset mic when im racing im on my oculus gotta make sure my mic works

[@triggeredemoji298]

23:14 for anyone wondering, this was Speeds turning point, who then later was an absolute badass driving for Subaru in Nitro Rallycross.

[@mistertheking]

Btw for the iRX series the reason it's no longer around is iRacing doesn't have the resources to do both that and the Pro2/Pro4 championships, they were initially gonna rotate year-on year-off with them but the popularity meant that the off-road truck championship is staying for a little bit.

[@brandono6718]

The Bathurst jump! Nobody has pointed it out, but that missed the list. Since the recent gravel and grass update, I think the gravel slows you down too much for it to work anymore. Also another bathurst related thing, I'm not sure how many cars this happens with (I remember it being pretty bad in GT3 a couple years ago) but when you go through the "Dipper" at speed, the car will take front bumper damage. I drove the F4 around bathurst yesterday and even taking the turn 20+km/h slower than usual, the front wing still gets damaged even when fully raised and stiffened. It happens lap after lap getting more and more damage. Obviously the front ends hitting the ground but its the only sim where this happens and it seems incredibly hard avoid

[@BanditOwO]

Probably been mentioned already but you can paint the merc f1 cars using the paint booth

[@unsolve9162]

the old chevy silverado truck (like 2015-2018 era) is available on test drive ( or at least it was)

[@LithFox]

Just gonna make this a thread as I'm watching! Finally finished: Gonna say for 80 minutes of random facts about iracing, this was REALLY WELL DONE! I provided some small tidbits below that may be helpful to folks wanting a little more insight or just my opinion on a few things you said (because I do that.). Also included some other random facts and a neat little "exploit" you can do in the iRacing UI that I think is just fun [In testing, might work in hosted?]. Anyway, starting with the "Spa 24" below. (Source: Myself) I was stuck in this race.I remember the spa 24 incident bug actually being 44 incident points. This was because they set an incident cap of 300, but the limit was held in an integer format that only allowed for a max of 256, where it would roll over to 0 [Eg: 0-255, 256 would be 0]. They fixed this at a later date when they realized this mistake. The cap was made unlimited becuase they didn't know what was causing the bug. One of my teammates and I call it the "Spa 44" for this reason. (Edit: Also a few more random posts to people who responded to you! There is so much more missed, including a lot of issues people don't even remember. Like Quaternions making laptimes faster, Le Mans super-speed bug that would just CTD entire games, the fact that the sound engine even in DirectSound was good enough at dopplar that someone launching into space at mach 1 would... well... sound like it. All the way down to how the NTMv1-4 tire model's "iceRacing" was so bad that you would literally slide down the track from the top of Daytona's turns if you weren't on the brakes) Also really surprised no one brought up POGO, NTMv5 compounds on NTMv6 cars, that time iRacing tried to fix oval racing tire temps after spinning with a bandaid fix that broke Oval since, etc. THERES SO MUCH MORE TO THE ICEBURG

[@LithFox]

I'm going to mark things as unsourced if I do not have a source I can easily pull up. (Unsourced) Austin was generally being negative towards other users as well. For the record, when he was banned I believe he mentioned on his own blog that he was offered a full refund.

[@LithFox]

(Unsourced) Scott Dixon is a MUCH deeper rabbit hole than even you'd want to get into. It may be partly why Indycar left... [Imagine being Penske and being told iRacing was threatening a star of yours with a ban for their behavior.] iirc they just weren't taking it seriously either which was impacting other drivers on the service, but its been too long for me to recall.

[@LithFox]

(Source: Just logic of the car.) Meatball in rallycross - You can't pit, so you can't get a meatball [A few places don't even let you back into "pit road"]. You can absolutely blow your engine by hitting a wall too hard or other things. It's not indestructible. Just, well, if you can't pit, it can't tell you to go pit :D

[@LithFox]

(source: it was somewhere on the iRacing forums) BOP on new content: They have strictly stated this doesn't happen and provided datasets countering it on the forum. A prime example of this is the Lambo GT3 which required them to actually lower the performance of all the other cars around it to balance the BOP, iirc. I won't say it's 100% true it doesn't happen (as you said, they are a business), but I wanted to point out that they DID address it directly (and actually sounded quite sincere to me) I'll see if I can find this one. But they have stated a number of cars were actually worse than older cars upon release and did provide examples. Whether folks accept that as evidence or not is not the point of me saying this.

[@LithFox]

(source: Secret) Indycar's issue with the tire model was that it was too hard compared to real life. You couldn't lean on the rear right of the car at all without losing it. This has been since fixed since the NTMv7 updates as well as later tweaks. It was actually in quite a good spot, from my understanding from some folks in Indy themselves prior to Indycar changing hands to MSG (which is why a lot of folks got really upset because it JUST became fun to drive afaik) NASCAR drivers were vocal about this as well, but the indycar folks got really scathing and insulting about it.

[@karhu07]

About the laser scanning, it is not exclusive to iracing. Most if not all modern sims use laser scanning or something similar.

[@DJYeeJay]

Ya you’re right but it was definitely a big deal to iRacing back in the early days and they still call their tech “proprietary”

[@TheFibreman]

Audition video for the Black Falcon / Bilstein 330i. "He's got the speed alright, just needs to learn gravity"

[@MichaelHeal99]

I loved Papyrus NASCAR 2003. I wish iracing didnt cost so much.

[@racingred8]

great video! where is that ARCA Farmer t-shirt from though?😍

[@DJYeeJay]

arcafarm.bigcartel.com/

[@racingred8]

@@DJYeeJay thaaaanks!

[@TeamAbrams]

"Yours Vern" - a guy on the iRacing forums who posts a lot and ends every single one of his post with "Yours, Vern" for some reason. Don't know who would be interested in that information, but there you go. 🤪

[@DJYeeJay]

ohh thank you! I don't go on forums much lol last time I did I got hardcore gaslit by an iracing staff member lmaoooo

[@bipolarkeyboard]

i'm only 4 minutes in and can already say i'm glad I gave this video a chance, don't play iracing but have had a interest in getting into a racing sim.