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barmyllama said:
If you do decide on the T300 then I'm sure I can sort you out with a good price on my T500 pedals of I still have them.
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Brilliant I am leaning that way, due to it being newer and supposedly near silent due to being brushless. Which would be a good thing and wont have me feeling quite so bad when I'm racing late and the Girlfriends in bed.

It seems theres no perfect option at the moment. Specially with fanatec build quality being so shoddy. Theres no way I want to spent 800 ona setup that can die within a few months.

Least my old G25 may be a little worn but ive had 8 years play out of it and its took some serious abuse and I could actually fix it all quite easily if I wasn't being so lazy :D But boy have I had my moneys worth out of it.
 
I think Fanatec have resolved there build quality issues now with both the Club Sport wheel base and pedals being version 2. I think it was mainly the less than heavy duty motor in the original CS Wheel base and inadequate cooling.
 
Well the clubsport gear is invitation only so thats me out. Just looked and £400
before you even buy a wheel or pedals. Dont think I could justify that kind money for what essentials is a ticking time bomb ready to spontaneously combust at any second :P

Second question

Pedals Elites vs clubsports are the clubsports really worth the extra money ? I cant see any reason to need a realistic clutch when none of the sims simulate a clutch or a gearbox very well at all.
 
I have Clubsport V2 pedals and I actually don't like the clutch. Yes it feels more like a real clutch, but it feels a little too stiff to me and I find heel toe braking easier and more fun with the T500 pedals.

As much as I like the load cell brake, I'm not sure it makes me any quicker or anymore consistent. As with most things, once you get used to what you have then you're only going to get quicker with practice.

I have toyed with the idea of going back to the T500 pedals and selling the Club Sport pedals. But I do plan on getting the V2 wheel base and the BMW GT3 rim from Fanatec, so I'll stick with the V2 pedals for now.

And the Club Sport pedals need hard mounting. I had to bolt mine to a large piece of MDF (1000x500mm) to stop them tipping up under braking. I also had to fix the base of my office chair to the same piece of MDF to stop my chair moving under braking.

With the T500 pedals I just had them up against my subwoofer. Actually the T500 is more substantial than the CSP set and you can invert them easily.
 
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Spacedeck said:
I do believe it's the downshifting I'm mainly having issues with. That should hopefully come with practice though. Am I supposed to ease of the throttle when I am shifting gears?

Also, how accurate are the physics on this game? I ask because I've played racing games before and I would spin all over, coming out of a corner would give wheel spin at the back which I'd need to control. This doesn't seem to be an issue with iRacing though?

And... am I very limited to what I can race? Yesterday I was looking at the calendar for the official races. Each hour, I could see only 3 slots. One was for an Oval track, and the others was national circuit. The circuit tracks was always using MX-5. Why can I not race in any official races with any other cars / tracks?
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There are 4 main 'types' of gearbox modelled in iRacing:
Synchromesh H-Box (road car style)
'Dog Box' (ignore whether it's h-box or sequential)
Dog Box + throttle cut
'full sequential' (throttle cut + auto-blip)

The MX-5 has the first and it's the most awkward one to be quick with, basically due to needing to use the clutch. I've never bothered getting the hang of it and just turn on auto-clutch.

With auto-clutch enabled to upshift I believe you can just either move the shifter or click the paddle and it'll work, you'll get the revs bouncing off the limiter but that won't do any damage. For downshifting you can just lift off the throttle and move the shifter/press the paddle, but it will shift whether it'll lead to overrevving or not. If you find you're overrevving then just wait a fraction longer to start downshifting when braking.

With the better cars you basically don't need the clutch (and auto-clutch becomes slow), on the skippy (type 2, the basic dog box) I use the clutch at the start but that's it. To upshift I lift, to downshift I blip manually.

The Radical SR8 has a throttle cut so just upshift without lifting, still need to blip manually/enable auto-blip.

On things like the F1 car just press the paddle, it shifts/blips, like magic :p

As for the physics you've got to remember it's a 'race-spec' road car, so no power and reasonably decent tyres, even with normal road tyres an MX-5 isn't exactly prone to spinning up the wheels without really trying. Once you get to the higher powered cars it becomes something to think about.

For racing as Spunkey mentioned you'll only be eligible for the Rookie series at the moment, once you get higher licences more series will become eligible, but that's also when the buying content part comes in, there is a good post on the forums about what you can race each week with no/limited outgoings.
 
MikeTheNative said:
I just bought the skip barber 2000 and after some practice today I'm going to give a race ago tomorrow, got any tips for it?
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I'd try and get some practice running close behind other drivers. I actually did my first race at Lime Rock last night and for the most part I was running in a group of 4 cars that didn't spread out until about 7 laps from the end so it was very intense and very close up until then.

Lime Rock in the Skippy is as close to the fastest drivers I've ever been so I'd assume that no matter what split you are in you will all be close to each others lap times. So keeping it on the track and staying out of trouble will be harder than normal.
 
Did my first (and probably) last Skippy race for the week just now, I'd forgotten how intense racing there was :p

Got whinged at when I went to the inside on the run up to the uphill corner (T5?), he decided not to just concede and instead attempt to hold on around the outside, failed and spun into the wall, I guess I should feel kinda bad but I really don't :D :p
 
I've had three races in the skip and I'm really enjoying it. First was a bit of disaster I finished 13th with 13xs then, 6th with 4xs and today 4th with 1x. I'm surprised at my pace to be honest, it's always fun to finish above all the guys with A and B but I'm used to racing lime rock in the mx5s. Next week is going to be challenging though with it going to Philip Island which I have never raced before and don't even know the layout.
 
I think the the licences are so easy to achieve that they're no indication of speed and certainly no indication of any skill or race craft. There are plenty of A licensed drivers out there that don't use their mirrors or check the relative before exiting the pits.
 
The way they work it's just a safety related thing, not speed in the slightest except for the Pro and DWC levels.

And yeah, it wasn't a dive bomb or anything, just one of those times when one person thinks 'you can't overtake' at a corner and they're wrong :p
 
Licences are done purely on safety rating, as you go up it takes more of your corner history into account and also demands a higher 'corners per incident' so a A2.5 is equivalent to something like a B3.5-4 give or take

Ultimately I'm far from the cleanest driver, but do have a bit of pace, I'm able to easily maintain my A licence though but only in the mid-2's SR, but I've never really cared, especially recently as my only racing has been in D-Class cars :p
 
I got promoted to C license but the race today was an utter disaster. On lap three a guy going much slower than me moved into my way in the braking zone and I had no where to go except for the back of him 4xs. I thought my car was alright so I continued, turns out it wasn't. Next corner I spin, up to 6xs and the guy following me hits me, up to 8x. I spend two minutes in the pits and return a few laps down but getting frustrated I spin again, so I decide to call it a day at 10xs and lap 18. I had a go a Philip island and I don't think I'll be ready for a race tomorrow but I was starting to get clean laps in at the end.
 
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