iRacing

How much harder is iracing compared to ACC ? I've been going to a weekly race night at a sim place and I'm always dead last, trying to get better
 
kkelly said:
How much harder is iracing compared to ACC ? I've been going to a weekly race night at a sim place and I'm always dead last, trying to get better
Click to expand...

It's kinda hard to say to an extent, having only recently got back into sim racing (but doing *a lot* of iracing back in the day) I started back on ACC and personally I found a lack of feel which I think is more me 'expecting' what iRacing gives in terms of feel and not getting it, I was getting better over time but since getting iRacing back up and running (I had to build a new PC as the anti-cheat didn't like my Unraid VM setup) I've not touched ACC since, but that arguably might be more a 'not-gt3' thing than a reflection of the games, I've only done a couple of races in iRacing GT3 cars.

That's probably one of the bigger differences, the different cars, ACC is mostly GT3 and afaik 'all' tin-tops? iRacing covers pretty much everything these days and the GT3's are far different than say the FF1600 or F4 cars, or oval cars, or rallycross cars, or... You get the point :p

Within the same class, so GT3 in my experience, I drove the Bentley 2018 in ACC and I've only got the McLaren 720S in iRacing, I found in terms of doing clean laps both were similar really, it's fundamentally the same thing I guess :p But the way you achieve that and perhaps my pace was different, for the former the difference is braking, ACC is just stamp to 100% it seems whilst iRacing that isn't the fastest way so it's more nuanced perhaps but also and related to the second point it's more what I'm used to. Pace wise, and I think largely down to the familiarity with iRacing I was closer to the quick guys in iRacing than in ACC, still slow but 2s instead of 3-4s give or take.

Some cars are 'harder' than GT3 though, back to the different options, things like the formula cars without ABS you can easily lock a wheel etc or just cars that are less planted/need a different driving style, but it's arguably those cars I enjoy driving much more than GT3.
 
kkelly said:
How much harder is iracing compared to ACC ? I've been going to a weekly race night at a sim place and I'm always dead last, trying to get better
Click to expand...
harder? guess thats subjectively tbh, the biggest difference ACC v iracing is trail braking imo, in acc tend to stamp on brakes, i played acc for yonks, then going to iracing, had adjust way i was braking, but you gain huge time trail braking in iracing, was steep learning curve, and still learning.

for me i found, others may disagree
 
kkelly said:
How much harder is iracing compared to ACC ? I've been going to a weekly race night at a sim place and I'm always dead last, trying to get better
Click to expand...

iRacing is considerably more competitive than every other sim out there, far larger userbase and all the best sim racers tend to compete on there.

That said because there are so many more users than the other sims you are more likely to be matched against someone of your skill level.

Also ACC physics and tyres are generally more forgiving.
 
Last edited:
imtoooldforthis said:
You can speed run promotion by getting to 4.0 on your license level (via races or time trials), you don't have to wait until the end of the season to be promoted.
Click to expand...
It only took a month but manage to do fast track just sticking to mx5.
Also managed to gain +600 iR in that time span so now sitting at 1750.
Well chuffed
 
Back in my day we had to wait upto 4 weeks for the Rookie -> D-Class progression and then a further 12 weeks for the next promotions, one at a time... Kids these days don't know how easy they get it :cry:
 
Managed to get the cayman gt4 and a few tracks to get the 15% discount.
Only completed 2 races and feeling the difference of 20/30min races compared to the 12min rookies.

I was ready to order 32” 3x1440p but a 49” came up locally for what I thought was a decent price. Ended up nabbing that instead.
 
I seem to struggle a bit/lot with the GT4's (and I think sports cars in general tbh), I was thinking about doing The Roar special event a bit ago and already had the Porsche and McLaren GT4s from ye olden days but just struggled with consistency, or even just completing the first few laps with cold tyres!

The longer races are good though, actually been really enjoying the Production Endurance Challenge with 2 hour races... Doing that alongside the PCC in the MX-5, although skipped some tracks for the PEC where it was just going to be carnage :p Not done a Bathurst race yet, great track but feels like the mountain is gonna be painful with faster cars coming up, especially those bloody GRs who have zero patience :p

Was looking the other day at my progress since starting again and specifically the new split licence between Sports Car and Formula, I hadn't driven since the split so both of mine were copies of where my Road licence was beforehand. Since restarting I've gained iRating in the Formula licence (~150) and lost iRating on my Sports Car licence (~200), which seems to match what I felt back in the day where for whatever reason I'm just not competitive in tin tops vs proper race cars :cry: Good that they've split though as I'm happier actually racing both than back in the day where I was pretty competitive (well, ish) in the Skippy but everytime I raced a tin top it was just demoralising :p
 
In the midst of a house move so having raced for a while, good news is the new house & office room is big enough for a dedicated sim rig so life is good.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom