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Well, my Spa 24 hour is over. My engine gave way without warning on lap 333, 4 hours to go. I think one of my team mates who caused lots of damage by racing every car like it was for position sealed the deal.

Great experience though.
 
There were 3 other guys, we ran double stings for the most part so around 1hr 45min. Our Aussie guy did 3x 55min stints early hours this morning while grabbed a couple of hours sleep.

I started the race and it was honestly the best experience I've had in iracing.
 
That's great. I'd love to take part in something like that, although I think I need more confidence in my consistency first.

Congrats.
 
Hey Chris, saw you were online in the RUF cup race, I was hoping we'd get the same split. Although kind of glad we didn't as you'd have seen me bin it in Pouhon lol.
 
Mine went reasonably well, managed to avoid an enormous first corner pile-up.

I then got distracted on the last lap by some strange bug that meant that my best lap time wasn't updating and managed to drive gently off the track and bend a wheel on a barrier. I limped home and only lost 1 place.
 
Managed 10 races this week, mostly ok.

I did have three starts in the first two rows that ended with me going wide at Copse, the car bottoming out on the kerb and me crashing into the wall. Thankfully not taking anyone one out with me but as both times it was on the second lap I finished last with -99 IR each time.

Which sort of leads me to ask the question.

If everyone in every race finished in the same order as their car number then you'd only gain IR if your car number was in the top half of the grid.

I've done races this week where I've been car 14 and finished 13th, yet lost IR for not finishing in the top half of finishers. Seems a bit unfair to me if everyone in front of me performs to their car number.
 
From looking at the results from races. If you finish in the top half you gain, if you finish in the bottom half you loose.

After that I think it follows that:

How much you loose or gain is then dependant on your car number ( which is basically your IR compared to the rest of the field) and your's and everyone else's finising position and car number.
 
The rating system needs splits to work properly, if you look at one split you're right and if you finish where your car number says you'll just continually lose iRating, but if there are splits then you might be car #15 of 15 in one race but car #1 in the next, but a lower split, and if you're good enough to 'deserve' a higher iRating then you will slowly creep upwards (or very quickly if you're really good), and then eventually you'll find it stabilises around a certain level.

For me the biggest issue is the general nature of it, in a Skippy or Radical (and given lots of practice as I've not done much for a while) I can be a pretty quick driver, I've qualified top-10 overall in a Skippy week before which was awesome, so with those cars I get my iRating to around 2.5-3k or so and could probably push that higher if I tried to. But put me in the Star Mazda and I'm terrible, I'm nowhere near that level yet my car number/rating implies I am, so if I did a season in a car like that my iRating would drop like a stone.
 
So really you should have an iRating for each car.


In other news.

Fanatec Club Sport V2 Pedals are on their way to me, should get them Wednesday.
 
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Arguably yes, a separate per-car iRating would be good, although on the other hand you could just not care, I only really devote my time to one road and/or one oval car at a time, switching is painful for a bit but it drops to a more sane level for that car fairly quickly and ultimately iRating really doesn't mean much.
 
Well done on the close finish.

What pedals do you use now? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the V2's when you get them.
 
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Well done on the close finish.

What pedals do you use now? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the V2's when you get them.
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I'm using the T500 pedals at the moment.

The CSP V2's are the first step on the road to a full Club Sport setup, though I think an Obutto might be next on my list.

Pedals should be here by Wednesday, so I'll post my thoughts once I've given them a good test.
 
I was asking about pedals a week or so back.

I'm considering the Fanatecs but was put off the V2's due to stories of the hall sensors needing regular attention. I think maybe the cheaper Elites might be for me.

That said, I'm now biding my time until these get released sometime soon and reviews crop up - http://www.protosimtech.com
 
That's the problem with the internet, you always here more about stuff that goes wrong or problems people have with the things they buy.

I'm sure there's a few guys in here who've got a set of CSP v2's and there hasn't been anything negative posted so far on them.

I've actually heard more negative things about the original Club Sport wheel base than the pedals.

Too late now anyway. Already bought them. :D
 
I've still the V1's and after 3 years of abuse and moving all around the world I have had no problems with them at all
 
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