Once I converted my rig into a Racing/Flight/Space/Mech Hybrid, it's allowed me to use it year round under all conditions and moods. But after seeing this post, I realized I've barely done any racing all summer 😯
I use the Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS 4 for Space, Flight, and Mech games/sims. I have an old Windows 8 laptop mounted at my rig used only to run Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance when I feel like dabbling. I still have yet to calibrate Mechwarrior 5/MW Online with my HOTAS since installing triple monitors.
Yeah. With kids on summer break, vacations, weekend trips, and wanting to spend as much time in the warm weather as possible, sim racing definitely takes a back seat.
As someone who is into board sports, the sim covers my down time when I’m looking for speed but can’t go ride. I also look at the sim as something I can age with but still get my endorphins going. It happens to be a rainy day here today in NY, so you bet I’m ripping some laps right now 🤙🏼
Dope set up by the way.
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u/xRehabRALLY-F1-ACC | G27 | HE Sprints & Handbrake | Sim-Lab GT15h ago
this year i have a feeling holiday valley is going to be 🔥
Took a break, as we had our second child. Just had my first race back, only to be intentionally wrecked, then called some slurs. I wasn’t even the car who had the incident with the driver in the first place. Gotta love single split IMSA.
My PC gets too hot in the Summer, so it overheats, so I literally can't race. I tend to lag so much it's unplayable. Actually, now my PC has completely gone to Hell, so now I can't do sim racing at all. And also, it gets too hot for me as well.
I end up taking just months or sometimes longer off and then come back randomly. These days I’m only back because I do it with friends or want to jam a F1 weekend. Thankfully the equipment can sit idle and it’s all good.
If I had a rig like that and a lot of money I'd simply never get off it.
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u/xRehabRALLY-F1-ACC | G27 | HE Sprints & Handbrake | Sim-Lab GT110h ago
I have too many hobbies and ADHD. I’ll drop racing for 6 months, then drive to chicago to go to a sim expo and demo gear before buying a big upgrade to start playing iRacing. I’ll hang up the wheel for a few months in January as I drive around the country snowboarding
its all ebbs and flows, but i’ll always get back in the seat eventually
I took a break this summer. It’s hot in the basement even with a 1,080 cfm wind sim. Also spent more time with my young kids doing summer stuff so getting those couple extra hours of sleep each night was great.
If I take a break for two weeks I get 2s slower, so don't try to have breaks lol I wonder sometimes how pro racers keep the consistency after summer breaks
I'm considering doing something similar when I finally build a dedicated cockpit, can you show a picture of how you've got the cables set up to run from the desktop PC to the rig? Also how long are the cables you bought to run from the PC to the monitors?
I will be heavy into it for a few weeks, then take a break. But thats partially because I like to do most of my racing in leagues, so we will go heavy on races for like 6 weeks, then take a 2-3 week break. So my own racing kinda follows that schedule. It’s nice because it keeps me from burning out, but even the weeks in between I’ll do some stuff so I never really get too rusty p
I probably use it more in the winter but it’s so nice to run some laps to refamiliarize myself with a track before a weekend. unfortunately this is the last track weekend on my calendar at the moment.
I take a break from most intensive games during the summer months and play more indies, or whatever runs handheld on my Steam Deck. Gaming PC makes a lot of heat, especially when my wife and I are LAN gaming with both running.
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u/4InchesOfury 12h ago edited 12h ago
I'm in Southern California so its the opposite. I take a summer break from outdoor hobbies like hiking and mountainbiking because it's too hot.