This Car Raises The Bar For The Whole Of Sim Racing

[@Flociety]

In other news, an abnormally large amount of new iRacing accounts have been made in the Milton Keynes, UK area

[@OMDolton84]

KEKW

[@Freddedonna]

*Verstappen furiously trying to get Abu Dhabi working in iRacing*

[@TheBlazingRiver]

That’s because I live there, LOL

[@kenkalajdzic]

@@harrybirchall3308 Doubt it. Commercially available games aren't even remotely accurate enough to provide any meaningful data to F1 teams. Hell, Hamilton himself isn't a fan of their own multi million Pound simulator as it doesn't feel exactly like the real thing ...

[@kenkalajdzic]

@@harrybirchall3308 I agree it's unprecedented level of info shared - especially because it's current car. I'm just saying that all that data doesn't mean too much because the main limitation is still game's physics engine. It simply can't provide results accurate enough to properly reflect how the car would react in real life. And yes, some people have surely tried it, but probably solely for entertainment purposes and to satisfy curiosity. There's no competitive advantage to be gained here; the team already has better data from their own observations and simulations.

[@Thomas-et9ts]

iRacing F1 driver: You need a lot of money It's hard Real F1 driver: You need a lot of money It's hard Very realistic stuff!

[@thebolsta]

I've got a Reverb G2 with a CSL DD and the rig to run it... But IRacing is too rich for my pocket.

[@Thomas-et9ts]

@ان شاء الله that's not possible

[@Thomas-et9ts]

@@thebolsta iRacing is for people richer than f1 drivers

[@bertbert277]

@@thebolsta damn the $11.50 did you in good

[@Thomas-et9ts]

@ان شاء الله lmao fair enough lad

[@kibbo0]

Back in 2006/07, in the beginning of Kubica's career in F1, I remember me and my dad getting interested in this sport and watching races together over the years, with young me not even thinking about being able to drive one of those cars on my pc in any racing game. But here we are, today, we have a car, that this coming weekend might make a history with a first driver to win 8 WDC titles and us bedroom racers can throw this car around in the virtual world. I'm wondering what my dads reaction to this would be, if he hadn't lost to pneumonia 3 weeks ago, I would really love to show this to him.

[@OMDolton84]

T_T

[@toto-wolff]

🥺

[@carl8790]

Condolences

[@autisticguitar]

im so sorry man. hope you're doing good now

[@NITOPSMOVE]

Condolences 🙏

[@FormulaMontages]

8:52 that is because there is a limit of how many times you can change the deployment of the battery per lap

[@Jimmy_Broadbent]

I found this out after recording! 4 changes per lap

[@Tommeh_Gaming]

@@Jimmy_Broadbent i was confused why it was limited

[@Excludos]

@@Tommeh_Gaming Prolly to stop it from being a de facto push to pass button that drivers can just switch on and off as they want out of every corner, like you can with the R18

[@smlgd]

I think they should change it to 4 direction changes per lap. Going from Attack to Build is 3 changes on its own, and if you misclick it's 2 changes. If it was per direction change, it wouldn't be a problem

[@Wingyy1995]

@@smlgd and you *can* click the menu and change in 1 selection, but like we have time for that while racing...

[@charliethomas9173]

you know for a fact max verstappen is downloading this to see exactly what it's like compared to the red bull lol

[@admkbldwn]

to be fair, we still don't know Mercedes' setup info for this thing, so we still don't _really_ know how it drives for Lewis or Valtteri

[@paulcole]

He should download it then take a selfie touching the rear wing on the screen - total boss! 🤣

[@liam7989]

“Fucking shit car”

[@jamesharrell9277]

@@liam7989 "It's a shit box"

[@cbrunnem6102]

You're high as a kite if you think this can be used to gain an advantage

[@Some1Gee]

With iRacing getting an F1 car and presumably already having Monaco as a track, the triple crown is officially in reach.

[@ppiness1940]

oh hey there :)

[@neiltristanyabut]

triple crown refers to what?

[@Some1Gee]

@@neiltristanyabut the triple crown is a thing in IRL motorsports. You can achieve it by winning the Indy 500, the 24H of Le Mans, and the Monaco GP. It's named that because those are the three 'jewels in the crowns' of their respective sports.

[@hugocorreia8039]

What about the f1 McLaren?

[@Bearical]

@@Some1Gee only one person won the triple crown, Graham Hill. Alonso probably is going to win it if he retires from F1.

[@5tuartGuy]

To be fair Lorenzo Colombo who did the .39 is an FIA F3 driver

[@lukemontgomery9683]

The only words i have to describe how it drives is perfect. It just blows me away.

[@FormulaMontages]

13:04 I mean he is a Formula 3 driver

[@Wingyy1995]

I think the fact that Mercedes were SO stead fast on getting this car to look, sound and feel as close as possible to the real car is why it's so great. Yes the ability to instantly flick from build to attack would be awesome to make the most of our 4 changes per lap, and yeah it may be easy to drive but so many IRL drivers say these things are so easy to drive since 2017 because of the bulk grip. It does suck that we can't have unique paints for the car, and that does worry me for the full season calendar next year, but if that's the sacrifice we need to make to have this car, then I'm ok with that Now we just wait until Jimmer brings back the Nords lap in this car.................

[@skelegames6892]

I thoroughly enjoyed this stream, including the waiting, it was very fun for everyone I think, and definitely worth the wait

[@athannotoudas1032]

Jimmy pretending to be tired so that we don't realize he's lying about being an adult

[@AbsoluteBarstool]

Shoutout to that "spicy water" as well

[@chug4083]

Would love to see a comparison video between this, the F1 2021 version and the RSS Hybrid 2021 version...pros and cons for each

[@mcgherkinstudios]

Yes! Particularly the RSS

[@tonyyimbo]

God bless RSS

[@Alex_zer0_Shoveller]

personally i find this much better, so much more detail through the steering wheel (on a dd1 with f1 rim) rss just gets heavy at high speed but you don't really feel the wheels "gripping" as much

[@ajax5197]

@Ermin Hamidovic

[@tigerbattle]

@@Alex_zer0_Shoveller That’s just a quirk of the AC physics/FFB engine, as you get faster it attempts to limit your steering more

[@The12thdetor]

13:00 I think the person who did a 1:39 is an F3 driver for Campos.

[@pocholo151299]

Yes!! I was like, jummm that name...I know that name, and you are right!!!

[@JTJT-dt2ul]

Indeed

[@ChrisIreland23]

The reason the deploy mode gets stuck as you only have a certain amount of changes per lap, 4 I believe, if you have a look in the top left it shows how many changes you have

[@toddb8951]

Been a sub since just past 50,000 and now you're up to 750,000 subscribers. Congrats Jimmer. Your personality and your passion for things with wheels (sim and IRL) is why we flock to you and keep coming back for some wang. Onward to the million.

[@mackenziejohnson8427]

Love the F1 car i actually cried a little bit after placing a pretty competitive lap time thats relativly close to what the actual F1 guys did at Monza lol i cant wait to run official races in the car!! Also congrats to you Jimmer on the 750K subscribers!!!! Was blessed to be able to be at your stream last night to witness it!!

[@TheMarineGamerIGGHQ]

But that only comes to show how much of a difference the physical aspect of racing can make. It's amazing

[@du6ee]

@@TheMarineGamerIGGHQ The last corner at Monza would probably rip most of our necks off lmao

[@TheMarineGamerIGGHQ]

@@du6ee yup

[@sauldula]

you didnt cry keep it real

[@Cagefighter]

BABY

[@ianstowell230]

Mgu-k can only be changed 4 times a lap, it locks up after 4.

[@jakeb2008]

I was there for 750k!!! 😁 well done Jimmer totally deserved. Here to 1,000,000!

[@Glitch315]

Looks great. You can almost sense the grip through the video just by how the steering inputs are matching the cars movement. Looks a lot like a real life on board. I was worried this video was gonna be about the new RSS f1 car on AC. Seems like they are suffering from the same problem you mentioned of "artificial grip" where the grip is huge but you don't really feel it.

[@escalator9734]

I feel like this one has mor grip than the rss 2021, just by looking at the vid. Times seem to be the same though. AC for me feels a bit weird sometimes grip wise, like there's not progressiveness, especially in tight cars like f1's, where I don't even get anything in my ffb. But that's maybe due to the t300

[@utkarshchaurasia2233]

@@escalator9734 also the kerbs are deadly AF

[@escalator9734]

@@utkarshchaurasia2233 God yes these damn kerbs. one rear wheel on those and you spin at 20% throttle

[@sidepocket1]

If you scroll to the right in the paint shop, you'll see there are a few paint-by-numbers templates where you can at least change your color scheme and design a bit (i.e. red car with black stripes).

[@maxleitschuh7076]

For comparison, pole in 2020 was Hamilton at a 1:41.2. Race fastest lap was Ricciardo at 1:47.4.

[@bertram-raven]

The paint template is already doing the rounds.

[@pete4e]

While you still have to be careful with throttle application. I found that the iRacing version has way more grip on throttle than the codies game which is interesting.

[@theglitch312]

Real F1 drivers have said that the codies cars are more difficult to drive than the real thing. Needless to say, more difficult doesn’t equal more realistic.

[@Deltaexe190]

I never realized how delicate f1 cars were in slow speed corners, took a lot of adapting to get use to the iracing one

[@JBWRacing]

first thing i did last night was hook up the oculus, its amazing 12/10, great video jim, i managed to take pouhon flat using the iracing spa qually setup

[@AntaresSQ01]

7:20 that is absolutely insane to watch. I race a LOT of GT3 on Spa and you start braking right about where the kerbs begin, and I mean hard, smash the brakes sort of braking, then when you go through that section you literally have to feather the throttle not to get the rear to step out on a front engine car, that Merc went through it with basically a lift. And GT3 cars are not slow at all... it's truly insane.

[@Kyarago]

I know that making an intro takes effort and by itself it was quite cool, I'm really glad that you changed it to starting the video immediately. Always felt bad skipping it

[@blublublabla4545]

"I might suck a bit" after setting a 42,3 on your first hotlap 🤣 took me 4 hours just to get to 44,3 🤦‍♂️😂

[@F1DrivingZombie]

This was the first time since I first drove the IndyCar on road courses in iRacing that I was sweating and out of breath from driving a car on my sim. It is absolutely INCREDIBLE. Watching on TV you know it’s fast, but actually being able to experience that speed is another level of mind blowing. After spending hours in the car I still find myself braking way too early and not carrying enough speed through the corners

[@humandroid53]

Watching them at Saudi Arabia it was incredible. They looked like slot cars. I think these and WRC cars are about at the limit of being able to be controlled by a human.

[@Deltaexe190]

Even on a sim it’s tiring and intense

[@aberamagold7509]

As someone who's only Driven an F1 Sim game once (I felt turning the steering wheel was much harder, and lacked control, than it should have been but maybe that's just how it is) and just for an hour or so at that, it kills me how Jimmy makes it look so fucking easy.

[@phoenixl3g3nd73]

another thing, on the top left there is a number that says deploy, the max it can be on is 4. everytime you change the mgu-k deployment during the lap, it goes down by one for each change. meaning you can only change your ers 4 times in one lap, so you have to be strategic with how you do it.

[@JonB83]

Man, I did this a test drive in VR and it was exhilarating, definitely looking forward to getting faster and racing this car.

[@Pilot.0101]

Odd...just saw a "Christian Corner" with a rookie license driving in a practice session...oh wait! Unbelievably "Adrian Oldie" has joined...what's this, "Flatcap Marko"...something fishy 😉😂

[@sirbeepboop2101]

That car around Suzuka would of been beautiful, hopefully it comes back soon.

[@Decebalus]

The guy that set the 1 minute 39s lap is probably the same Lorenzo Colombo that races in real life FIA F3. Congrats on the 750k too Jimmy!

[@pjr_84]

8:50 You talk about the engine setting getting stuck, you are only allowed to change the setting 4 times a lap. After that it will not move, so don't do it wrong.

[@carsunhinged1]

grats on 750k last stream jimmer - all the best!

[@Kyuubii999]

the details on the rear wing when you switch from high to low downforce are just nice to see

[@nfg_racing7968]

Enjoyed the stream last night thanks for bringing laugh when needed I throughly enjoy your content pls keep it going

[@wild_lee_coyote]

I hope they do the same for the 2022 car with all of the aero changes they are making. Glad they released it.

[@samkwant4050]

Yes they announced in the iRacing podcast that they'll do next year's car as well

[@tomrachellesfirstdance7843]

Surprised more teams have not done this already the sponsors must love it as it gets the brands everywhere. Teamviewer must love it

[@ButeSound]

All the f1 drivers have to do laps with identical setups and weather to compare

[@ajsteffen41]

I was thinking this watching the stream on Tuesday. It reminds me a lot of the Red Bull X2010/11 in just the way information comes at you so fast that my brain couldn't keep up. If anything it just shows how impressive F1 drivers really are. Like I learned that LMP2 and lower is kind of my speed, my brain just doesn't process things fast enough to do series above that.

[@kivanccelik51]

CONGRATS FOR 750K!! 🥳

[@michaelcallander7085]

That would be F3 race-winner Lorenzo Colombo, hence the 1:39.9.

[@NEWBkiller646]

Mercedes ran a similar livery set up with the W08 in GT Sport, either full Merc livery or a solid colour eith no decals allowed. They probably caught onto what people done with the Lotus F1 car in Forza

[@The_Maiz]

It even has visor tearoffs! I love it.

[@Nathan0A]

If you use a VR cover, silicone or cloth + some witch hazel on a cotton swab to wipe your face off after using the headset it helps a LOT

[@silentblacklist]

Hey Jimmy, I know it's probably been mentioned already, but while you can't run custom template tga on the car, the car DOES still support the ingame 3 color paintbooth, they're way on the far right of the variant liveries.

[@huzefaraja6638]

Jimmy the person that did the 1:39 is Lorenzo Colombo, the F3 driver. He won at Spa this year.

[@rjc39]

Love the CarThrottle "choppy choppy!" Splice 🤣

[@f1jones544]

Now RBR can redo their homework with Albon to see if Hamilton really could have made Copse. New protest pending...

[@ScorpionIsGoofy]

0:08 same bro

[@ASRA177]

Truly a great job by iracing and merc. Cant leave out the tcr cars though. Theyre a blast.

[@iLiftr]

Honestly i've been on the fence about iracing ever since i upgraded to a capable rig, pedals, and base but with this coming out i think im finally ready to spread these cheeks to finally have a realistic simulation of an F1 car in a multiplayer format.

[@skullbroski]

@@mattmurphy7030 its a pretty expensive game considering you have to pay for a subscription and almost all the content separately. Most people probably stick with assetto corsa since it only needs to be 10% as good as iracing to be the same value

[@skullbroski]

@@mattmurphy7030 yeah if you want to play online iracing is definitely the way to go if you can afford all the mandatory dlc

[@mx_nana_banana]

Now we can do the ultimate multi class race: nascar vs f1 vs lmp1

[@pokeboi5438]

13:00 that’s Lorenzo Colombo, he drove in FIA F3 this year for Campos

[@iceman590444]

Thank you Jimmy!!! Bless you! 🙏

[@miguelangeloeiramartins6241]

The W12 is so fast, it's mad fucked to think it's basically a neutered version of the W11.

[@TheGrinningSkull]

7:01 Simulated tear off. I did not expect that!

[@MrBerru]

Racing Point would be proud of the job they do

[@mkaczynski4]

Great video as always :) It would be cool if you could do a comparison against the older McLaren and Williams F1 cars :)

[@bwest6275]

W12 is SO BEAST!! Amazing stuff!!

[@laccelo]

and Codemasters F1 games be like: Turn, Look at the gas pedal, look at a curb -> SBINALLA

[@AbsoluteUnit1337]

Yeah driving in f1 2021 is half the time like driving on ice

[@brandonpurguy650]

Would be closer if you kept the halo, really not hard to drive with it on and gives u better feel of what current drivers have to deal with

[@vjollila96]

I wish iracing would include full moveable dash HUD copied from cars with screens so I could get all fo the info thats on dash right now i cant see deploy mode or battery status because they are too low

[@Cagefighter]

These sort of cars are perfect for Iracing because as we all know the famous fall off the end of the cliff tyre model

[@dyrwk8022]

You are sitting too high in the car and seeing more than you should, but this looks awesome.

[@Matty.Hill_87]

Someone needs to let jimmer do a few laps in a f1 like Hammond did

[@phl2009]

Drive to Survive will go viral with the amount of excitement around F1 this year. We will see yet another influx of new Sim Racers next year.

[@aboutthatpart]

Congrats on 3/4 million Big Man. Come long way from 19,500 when I subscribed

[@PncK64]

Love the Scott pilgrim censor sound in the beginning, good job editors

[@OverTake_gg]

Who wants to see Jimmy drive a real F1 car in the next video? 😂

[@thesimulant6993]

Jimmer, who has driven an actual F1 car: This is the closest regularly people like you and me are going to get to driving an actual F1 car

[@Rentta]

I think it might have tad too much grip as in stream you hammered it on cold tires without any issue.

[@deagt3388]

It isn't regular car, on F1 brake bias goes rear, like kart. ;-)

[@Addyboy0190]

Imagine Red Bull using this as evidence for a protest

[@Billiamiscool]

One thing I find with the car is I'm really struggling to get much out of it mid corner, its probably my shithouse driving style but I can't seem to carry momentum through the corners. I also thought the W12 was supposed to be a bit of a diva, I remember early season the car was quite snappy and set-up sensitive, but I guess this model is from later in the season when they got the car a little more balanced

[@mightybouff9001]

Spa qually lap record 1:41.252 (in 2020) need to beat it Jimmer!

[@valconir1619]

@Boosted Media KZbin channel as the most realistic sim

[@average_iracer253]

Jimmy: how do i put this Also jimmy: steals james' explanation word for word

[@tacticalwookiee7476]

I am in pretty good physical shape but I know my neck would give out before 1 lap. Also I hear the brakes will tax your leg pretty good. Gotta specifically train for the stress of an f1 car.

[@superandrd]

I wouldn't be surprised if Merc lifts the livery embargo until after the new 2022 cars hit the track, maaaaybe until after the 2022 season is over and the car has been around for a year.

[@antonpersson2007]

This will be training for Jarno hehe

[@fridain]

- "closest you can get" - removes the halo psh

[@twoobliviousidiots782]

12:59 you can hear the fear in Jimmys voice as he reads out the time

[@hirooo1541]

jimmer if you go to the end of the paint section you can see some other colors for the car

[@Nate-do2kf]

imo VR is truly the best way to experience sim racing

[@bellyus99]

This must be used for the 23 hours of zolder next year 😂

[@oliverbrown4601]

the guy who did the 39 time, is he not an f3 driver with campos

[@basileczajkowski3236]

Maybe one day when I'm already not crap I'll check out iRacing :P Great content Man! Keeps me hooked on simracing

[@Pilot.0101]

Just start mate, crap or not iracing is fun to learn on! Don't believe the negatives, it's a cool community. It tends to be the top splits of your 3k+ irating people who get mardy, everyone else is pretty sound 🙂

[@Bongomancan1]

Looks awesome! Really want to try some VR. Feels like your head is offset too the body though almost on your left shoulder lol? Potentially tracking is a bit out?

[@RefrigeratedTP]

is it not hard to drive when you're not centered in the cockpit in-game? You're an inch or two to the left and it's super noticeable.

[@TheGreatCornholio.]

It’s really unfortunate they didn’t release the paint template, I wanted to pretend to be Nikita Mazepin

[@stuffeyy]

Good to see you in VR buddy. Its the best way to expereince this car for sure. Never thought I'd see the day that we could be in an F1 car considering Codemasters reluctance to add VR support. Thank god for iRacing.

[@arminglf]

Try AMS2 with the skin pack

[@GregzVR]

Not bad, Jimmer. Not bad at all.

[@chrisbowman905]

Jards currently testing it round knockhill..

[@High.on.Life_DnB]

PSVR2 needs to be released with full support in GT7

[@Fijidummo]

Need a comparison between this and the rss formula hybrid 2021

[@Smeagol44]

Everyone talking about the car and I'm just like holy shit, Jimmy, 2 minutes on it and you already handling it like if it was a Skippy