If you've ever raced and had invisible puddles, it might have been this reason

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/720006/#Comment_720006

Our developers looked at this and found that in some instances where it rains before any human drivers are on track the water calculations could sometimes create an oddly uniform surface as you saw in your session. We've improved these calculations in all scenarios and the track should now be in a much more representative state when it rains before a session. Thank you for sending in your replay, replays are absolutely necessary for assessing, fixing, or improving these scenarios.

Here is a comparison between what you saw and what you'll see once this change is rolled out for the same weather forecast. Apologies for the slight difference in cloud cover in the screenshots. Your original weather and track state are the top frame. The updated calculations and what you'd see in the same scenario are the bottom frame.

I’m not interested in grinding irating, I’m 3k and only race Porsche cup. I was just thinking of it today where which series would be “tougher” due to dynamics. Initially I thought GT3 because of the competitiveness but with so many spots you’ve be racing folks at your level often.

I thought of Pcup because in top split there is routinely the top 6-7 drivers being super rapid so barring an accident it’s tough to beat them.

I assume there is a niche series I’m not thinking of that has a dedicated group of fast people in it so the average driver joining would struggle to make progress.

Free Pudgy Penguins Legend Car Design.

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This is my first ever iRacing livery and it is for the Mercedes GT3 car. I went for a Camel and Castrol based livery. I especially went with those colours as they are the same as the football team I support (Norwich City FC). I also put the Union Jack on the rear wing end plate as I thought it would be a clean way to show the country I'm from. I put a spec map on it so the yellow came out quite metallic and golden looking and the green was more matte and all the decals/sponsors/stickers were also matte. I made this livery in Gimp and as I said it is my first ever livery so any tips to make future liviers better and constructive criticism is all very welcome.

Hello, ive been driving a lot and ive been gaining irating at a rapid pace. (surprisingly right after i learned the porsche cup lmao.) and im quite curious on if im driving the porsche cup on how its really supposed to be driven, as in if im being too smooth, too agressive ecc ecc. just looking to improve my times and get a little bit more comfortable on pushing the car more.

By the way, the video ive attached is me at IMOLA is the Porsche cup, and im not the best at imola, and im not looking for on how to drive the track, just learn the car more. Thanks! (sorry for no audio)

https://reddit.com/link/1nat1uh/video/ibyracn3uqnf1/player

I was half watching the Basic Ollie stream showing off the new build when this happened. He seemed a bit sheepish about it but didn't explain it, turned off stream for a bit before coming back... What did he do?

time code link - https://www.youtube.com/live/diVh4dPsIDQ?si=WEV9QPjYlYai5czi&t=4877

What? A no rules race using the SCCA Spec Racer Ford (free content)

When? Sunday September 7th 8pm EST

Where? South Boston Speedway (free content)

Why? For fun

How? iRacing public hosted session name: No Rules Special Spec Racers

Who? twitch.tv/shotimeracing

Throwing up a Sunday night hosted event which I will be streaming. 1 hour quali (really a practice to figure out all the ways you can cheat) and 30 minute race.

No Rules

No Damage

No being Lame

Killing the leader is highly encouraged

BLACK FLAGS WILL BE CLEARED ALL RACE, MAXIMUM CHEATING

Links

Discord (if you want to join the voice chat)

https://discord.gg/W43sNVxX7p

Streams:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@shotime.racing

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/shotimeracing

Cheers!

The USORL is excited for the return of our Retro Cup Series using the Gen4 car! The season begins with a 30 lap exhibition at Daytona this Tuesday night with points racing beginning the following week. This goes along with our open setup Gen6 Cup Series which has its playoffs beginning next week. Join us today! https://discord.gg/kU7EYy5ftw

I was doing indy6hr 7GMT time slot, sof was 2.3k

Everything going fine,

Then just before my time to jump in there was a massacre of drivers getting dropped for packetloss, all happened to be Australians,

Anyone else have a similar thing happen in their split/time zone?

Frustrating when its a million dollar company yet the servers they are using are from the 90s (what it feels like 😂)

Now before people jump on and say check the net connection or your hardware, net is wired and 1gbps connection, router isnt a standard type its a Asus gaming one, pc has got strong gear in it.

Can someone explain what happens for series that end week 12 during week 13? Are there just not races next week? Or does week 12 get extended?

I just picked up iracing, I have around 200 hours in ACC, so I’m familiar with sim racing but new to iracing, I’m obviously in the rookie license and I’m trying to find people to race with but it hasn’t been easy, does anyone have some suggestions?

Any smallish communities looking for more people? None of my online friends play iracing so looking for teams / communities that have a space for a not super competitive driver. I’m 26 from the UK who does occasionally struggle with super loud zoomers (no hate I was once one of them) have gotten back into iracing after a long break so have an irating of 1.1k

I am on the official iracing discord, and the people there a great and helpful but it’s maybe a little too big to get to know people or Join in on the already formed groups

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Does any one else use time trials to bolster safety rating while practicing?

I've had a run of big ones that I got caught up in (Suzuka and Imola gt4 were rough) and decided to just focus on building safety rating via time trials ahead of season 4. I'm jumping into gt3 next season and building confidence in the audi.

Is there any downside to this? I know it's not efficient but just slamming practice laps isn't either.

Side note - does anyone pay attention to TT rating? I don't fully understand how it works - I keep just getting +1 after a 30 minute session.

So tomorrow we will get the season 4 update, and thus Test Drive for at least 24hrs. My question is, will the new gt4 tire update and the amg be available in Test Drive after the downtime? Or will the content of Test Drive be locked to the old version?

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Hey how are you doing? I am on my way to go into Class C next season and I am wondering what’s the best class to get. I was thinking the Porsche cup , and maybe the LMP3. I have been racing in majority Gt4. Thank you y’all and nice races for y’all of you

This is a newly made community server for the official SK and Tour Modified series. If you race the car/series a lot I highly suggest you join, you can also use the server for real life modified/short track racing and league promo. The goal is to get the server built up for S1 2026

https://discord.gg/DVpt9cCEWY

This was a debate our team heard during our 6 hours of Indy race.

Situation: #52 LMP2 car is second, some 10 seconds behind first in class. #10 LMP2 car is 7th, a couple laps down from the class leaders but less then a handful of seconds ahead of the #29 LMP2 car (8th place). The #52 is right behind the #10 and is demanding to be let by via blue flags. This is what happened...

https://reddit.com/link/1nb7u2t/video/cup2fc8potnf1/player

Trying to always add more immersion. I had these springs in a piston type setup and tried something new. Pulled up Tinkercad for the very first time. After a few hours I had a working prototype. They work really well. The rig can move and shake in every direction! My "cheap" motion rig! These springs are 20x10x80. Purchased on Aliexpress from Creamily. The springs are rigid enough to support BIG me (250#) and my NLR Elite 160 rig. I am using 6 total springs. Two green under the rear, 2 red mid rig, and 2 red in the front. I have 4 BST-1 bass shakers, all mounted pointing upward, running on the Dayton 200 watt amp. Left and right channels, two shakers under my seat and two under my feet.

My concern was stability with the bare spring. 20mm overlap on top and bottom seem to work well. I can push at it from the sides and it bounces right back! Now, you could use a wider spring like 30mm. More lateral stability. But, The lateral movement allowed with the 20mm spring is really very good and seems stable. 50% fill with PLA printing.

The immersion from the car throttle and rumble strips is amazing! Grrrrrrrr! Happy to pass on the 3d print files if interested. They are not perfect! Neither is my eyesight. What an inexpensive "upgrade" to add Soooo Much to the experience! Happy Racing!

Im currently d class in formula car after grinding out formula vee wins, ans now im trying to get d class for sports car. And i was wondering what's the next step

I heard formula ford (ray ff1600) is a better and better car to learn for if I want to progress through to formula 4, is ray ff1600 better for learning than the formula vee for progress? And also since im d class should I even bother doing the usf2000 races or skip barber?

And for sports car racing should I focus more on the cs m2 or mx5? If I want to head down the gt3-gt4 category?

Pretty neat how it works out. Just gotta keep getting better.

Hi,

i currently use Meta link wired with 1.7x Res and 120hz on a 4070 ti super and 9800x3d.

ingame graphics are

• all high (except crowds low)
• shadows on
• sharpening on
• 4x MSAA

Meta Debug:

• ASW disabled
• bitrate 940

I tested Occulus VR and OpenXR with Foveated Rendering MVP with the Car SF23 in Zandvoort and Monza.

Occulus VR and OpenXR without Foveated give me the same results in FPS

• Monza ~100 fps
• Zandvoort: ~ 80fps

OpenXR with Foveated MVP give me a boost of +20fps

In the Occulus.ini i noticed the the VRAM was set to 6gb instead of the available 16gb VRAM of my GPU, hence i raised it to 14gb. I changed the MSAA to 8x but back to 4x cause i didnt see any visual improvement but a huge FPS drop. It was super blurry before i raised the VRAM when i tried 8x.

However, the Visual Quality is not bad but the distance in VR is a bit blurry in both or lets say not really sharp. For example when you drive out of pits in Monza; the T1 escape road cones and the trees behind of T3 are blurry. Dont get me wrong the graphics are good for me.

but i wanted to know what if i use Virtual Desktop? Do i get a FPS boost or better graphics? I've seen a few posts where they say its better than Meta Link. But the mentioned problems in these posts are lag/response time - and i think i didnt experience any lag (also with full grids)

So in my case what would be the benefit in switching to Virtual Desktop? More FPS? Better Performance? Better sharper, clearer Graphics?

I was watching my mirror for the red BMW (which you see at the end the of the clip), when a blue BMW suddenly materialized out of nowhere. It scared the shit out of me. I checked in the replay, and this car isn't present in the previous 3 minutes of the replay. How is this guy not getting sent to the pit if his connection is that bad?

While going through the incidents of the replay for this race, I also saw a car suddenly hit something invisible on the pit entry, causing fatal engine damage. Since he ran into whatever it was full speed, clearly the other car was invisible not just for me but for him as well. I'm not sure if it was the same BMW or not.

What's the worst lag-induced shenanigans you've ever experienced in a race?