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I did warn you guys it will get expensive lol.

Im 2 or 3 years in have full content and have paid for 2 more years in advance so just for a quick shock click buy on all tracks and cars and look how much that little lot comes to.

I got both road and oval classA in about a month i think just from doing time trials because all i wanted was to get to the Lotus but now you can drive the higher spec cars in practice sessions even with rookie licence which wasnt the case when i started.
 
I got to Rookie 4.0 so was automatically promoted :). Hmm I dont want to buy the Skip Barber and find out I cant drive it. I could just get 4.0 SR in the D license so I can drive the Radical in C license. The Radical series says there are 0 registered for it. Does this mean there wont be any other people to race?

I just checked my MPR and it says I need 4 more races in my current class or above. So to progress I deffinitely need to buy a car, so it looks like it has to be the Skip Barber. According to the schedule on the SKip barber series, Watkins Glen is the race track starting tomorrow. So I will buy the Skip Barber and Watkins Glen. What should my third purchase be (so I can get the discount) Brands Hatch or a class c car?
 
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nah the radical official races are fri, sat, sun mate with open practice and TT through out the week, the track changes tomorrow as its the start of the next week so no one will bother now till the new track(mosport) tomorrow...

you will still have to compete in 4 D class races or TT's to get promoted to C class...

I did really struggle with the skip, i started to get there but got to C class and got the radical..

im still at c class as thats were i wanted to get to so i havent tried to get further, ive had some proper dirty and rough races so my SR been up and down...
 
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Im a little confused with the racing schedule I think lol. What I have been doing is racing in the current season Mx5 cup at Okayama, I have done loads of races... are they official?There is always a race at the start of the hour so I just do those. Will I have put my self on the championship table and started earning points? So when the next track is selected tomorrow I can race when ever I want?

I hope this makes sense lol
 
i was in the same boat a few weeks ago when i started..

rookie racing is different theres a race every hour, rookies dont have irating either, when you get to D class you get your irating and ttrating.

irating is kinda like your rank thats how your rated against other drivers, irating also decided what division your in.

so im not sure if the rookie races count against your irating, but in the official races for instance if no body does quali then irating will decide the grid positions, once you race in a official race you will score championship points in your division...

man i hope thats right and makes sense mate im still kinda new to this myself, ive only been on it less that a month but thats how i understand it...

yeah if you have the track and car and theres a race you can join failing that you can do the time trails or join free practice...
 
Yeah that makes sense. I have been looking at the sessions for every car in D class and higher. None have races they just have practice and time trials. So the only time I can race is on Friday Saturday and Sunday i take it. Is it a specific time for those races? I dont finish work until 9.30 on those days so I hope there are morning races.

lol i think that may be wrong actually. I can now see races for every car. I will figure this out eventually :)
 
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well the radical races are every 2 hours on half past the odd hours, on fri sat sun all though the day and night, i thinkif its race day then the races are all day and night..

shame tho if you joined a week ago you could have just time trailed on the grand touring cup as you can use the mx5 and the track was laguna seca and its D class...
 
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Rookies do have an irating it's just that you can't see it, though I seem to remember that there was a way of seeing it but I don't know if this is still the case.

The aim of not having races every day is that when races do occur there's more chance of them going official, just over a year ago the jetta was in a series on it's own and a lot of races didn't get a large enough grid for this (I think it's something like 8 cars).
 
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GraveYard said:
loving the radical on mosport...
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Indeed, looking forward to it, only done a few laps so far but a 14.5, and very bumpy at times makes it interesting :)

Andy Pandy said:
I got to Rookie 4.0 so was automatically promoted :). Hmm I dont want to buy the Skip Barber and find out I cant drive it. I could just get 4.0 SR in the D license so I can drive the Radical in C license. The Radical series says there are 0 registered for it. Does this mean there wont be any other people to race?

I just checked my MPR and it says I need 4 more races in my current class or above. So to progress I deffinitely need to buy a car, so it looks like it has to be the Skip Barber. According to the schedule on the SKip barber series, Watkins Glen is the race track starting tomorrow. So I will buy the Skip Barber and Watkins Glen. What should my third purchase be (so I can get the discount) Brands Hatch or a class c car?
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As a D-Class racer you can get your MPR by doing official Races or TT's in either D or C class cars. To race in C class you can get your SR at D class to 4.0.

So doing that you can get your SR to 4.0 (but still D class licence due to lack of MPR) in the MX-5/SRF/Solstice, and then run your MPR in the Star Mazda or Radical to go to C class, you don't need to go the skippy route.

It's worth giving the SRF a go though, if you like that you'll like the skippy, they handle quite similarly.

Also to GraveYard, you mentioned SR for TT's, you don't get as much per lap (it's either 0.35x or 0.5x can't remember) but you can run for the entire 20/30 minute session racking up laps if you want, so you can get some reasonable gains at the expense of your sanity :p

Andy Pandy said:
Im a little confused with the racing schedule I think lol. What I have been doing is racing in the current season Mx5 cup at Okayama, I have done loads of races... are they official?There is always a race at the start of the hour so I just do those. Will I have put my self on the championship table and started earning points? So when the next track is selected tomorrow I can race when ever I want?

I hope this makes sense lol
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Different series run on different days (with 'most', like the rookie and skippy races) running every day. The days are based on GMT, midnight to 23:59, and races run generally every 2 hours except at the rookie level.

To see what days and the minutes past the hour that a series run at you can see the whole schedule by going to Events -> iRacing Race Schedule on the membersite. (just ignore cautions and restarts for road races as they're software is just a bit crap when it comes to the auto-generating bit)
 
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Indeed, looking forward to it, only done a few laps so far but a 14.5, and very bumpy at times makes it interesting :)
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yeah it is bumpy, 1.14.9 my best so far...ive seen 13.2's earlier in a hosted server...

moss corner is were the time is lost for me, i go hard on the breaks then let it coast round...

ah cheers for the heads up on the SR in TT...
 
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SKILL said:
As a D-Class racer you can get your MPR by doing official Races or TT's in either D or C class cars. To race in C class you can get your SR at D class to 4.0.

So doing that you can get your SR to 4.0 (but still D class licence due to lack of MPR) in the MX-5/SRF/Solstice, and then run your MPR in the Star Mazda or Radical to go to C class, you don't need to go the skippy route.

It's worth giving the SRF a go though, if you like that you'll like the skippy, they handle quite similarly.
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Awesome thanks :). Tomorrow I will spend the morning trying to get my SR to 4.0 and then I will buy the Radical to use in the C license :). I didnt like the SRF so I probably wouldnt like the Skippy.

I think I may be hooked to this game. I checked my player profile and since yesterday 3pm ish, i have done 278 laps around Okayama :eek:
 
yesterday i was doing tt in the indy car around watkins glen boot and i got a 1.33.8 and it was a clean lap but in my career stats its saying 1.34.4???

thats twice its done it to me aswell, whats the crack there then???
 
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yesterday i was doing tt in the indy car around watkins glen boot and i got a 1.33.8 and it was a clean lap but in my career stats its saying 1.34.4???

thats twice its done it to me aswell, whats the crack there then???
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The stats of a time trial shows the fastest average lap you did within the 4 or 5 clean laps needed and not the fastest lap you did in the trial.

Here is a trial i did at Watkins in the HPD

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=4940940&custid=37127

You see the fastest lap i did is a 1:31.333 but the Fastest 4
Lap Average is 1:31.658 and thats the time i get in the stats.
 
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johny dolan said:
The stats of a time trial shows the fastest average lap you did within the 4 or 5 clean laps needed and not the fastest lap you did in the trial.

Here is a trial i did at Watkins in the HPD

http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=4940940&custid=37127

You see the fastest lap i did is a 1:31.333 but the Fastest 4
Lap Average is 1:31.658 and thats the time i get in the stats.
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ah ok..

man seems i had beginners luck on mosport in radical, just done a fair few laps and i got round moss corner about 3 times and when i did it was only a 1.15...
 
GraveYard said:
yeah it is bumpy, 1.14.9 my best so far...ive seen 13.2's earlier in a hosted server...

moss corner is were the time is lost for me, i go hard on the breaks then let it coast round...

ah cheers for the heads up on the SR in TT...
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There was a 13.1 in the practice session I entered last night (someone put up a 4-hour hosted practice), I can see where some of the time is spent.

Moss is a pain, in the 'old' skippy I used to drift round there beautifully, that doesn't quite work in the radical, although came close once but cut the exit too tight, bounced over the kerb and into the wall :p

But I think there's a good chunk just on getting a good exit from there for me, I'll be happy if I can get down to the low 1:14's, 1s behind the silly quick guys tbh (and then do consecutive laps without screwing up, that might be useful...)
 
yeah I just want to stay in the 14s, Im always 1.5or 2 secs slower than the daft fast guys well I have been in the sessions I've joined in different cars and tacks.

i watched a hot lap last night in the Iracing forums of a hot lap on mosport in the radical with the NTM, seems I'm trying to take moss corner wrong, I try go hard on the breaks an take it wide, but the way this guy did it was he went hard on the brakes but his line was to brake and head for the first apex, I think that will work better as the way I was doing it give me more chance of loosing the back end which is what I've been doing..

also the first long right hander after the straight, seems I'm nocking it down a gear too early and taking it 2 slow...
 
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That the Samuli one? Just watched that my line through moss is similar, except I tend to go in hotter and straight 'thought' the first apex to be at the outside for the second if that makes sense.

Also with the long right at the end of the lap I was just taking it all in 5th, might give 4th a go but seemed he was going for a tighter exit whilst I was going for corner/exit speed, his line makes more sense really :p
 
yeah on moss Corner I aim for the contere strip on the out side of the out side kerb on the exit if that makes sense, it seems to let me get the power down quicker.

long right hander at the end of the straight I tend to brake then down to 5th turn in hold it then 4th for next apex then a swift brake down to 3rd then 2nd for final corner, seems that's not the best way to do it tho, looks like there not much braking for the first bend and when u do dab the brakes it's much later than I do and just hold it in 5th and carry the speed...
 
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