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Did my one and only race at Bathurst tonight and it was a disaster.

Started last but one, I would've started from the pit lane had I been higher on the grid. I kept well back through the first few turns and then managed to pick up wheel damage from zero contact. I've checked the replay from every angle and I didn't touch anything at all.

Ah well, at least the damage to SR and IR was minimal.

Silverstone practice next.
 
A quick question about scheduling. I want to enter a league with a race every Sunday. I plan to practice for about 30 mins each day on that week's track. is this possible?
 
You can do offline practice (e.g just you) on any track with any car at any time, no licence restrictions or anything you just need to own the content.

You can also pay a small amount to setup a hosted session (or for free join one someone else sets up), this would allow you to practice against others again with no restrictions except those the host sets up when creating the session.

Or of course if the league is running the same car/track as an official combo you can join the official practice for that series.



Or the short answer, Yes :)
 
Sorry, I thought you had a league in mind...

I doubt there are any leagues for the 'rookie class', there is an official rookie series for both road and oval, the road one (I assume anyone on here is gonna be interested in road only :p) uses the Mazda MX5 cars and only on the free tracks. Each week has a different track and it's a 12-week season for points purposes (which shouldn't concern you anytime soon).

There may be leagues using the MX5, in fact probably are, but these are separate to the official series so they're not really 'rookie class', as the class/licence level only applies to official series (or leagues that *choose* to do so).
 
So a league is just like a league in any other racing sim, they pick one or more cars, a set of tracks, and generally have 1 race per week at a specific timeslot.

Yep, a league, as in a hosted session setup, is always an 'unofficial' race. That means it doesn't count towards your iRating or Safety Rating, and hence your licence level.

iRacing's system allows, imo, a much better setup where they've made the 'pickup' races close, if not equal, to the quality (in terms of racing) of leagues whilst allowing the flexibility of racing whenever you're free, ish.

So when I say series I mean something like the "iRacing Mazda Cup", this is the rookie class road series. It uses the two Mazda MX-5's across a 12 week season (now at week 3 iirc), the week starts on a Tuesday and each week has a new track. You can do open practice with others at any time, qualifying is once per hour, time trials are every couple of minutes and races are also once per hour every day.

So instead of being fixed to Sunday at 14:00 like a league you can race then, or Saturday at 23:00, or Wednesday at 05:00. Whatever suits you. (assuming there are enough other racers, which does depend on series but I believe rookie races always have enough to run)
 
Yeah, the official series, along with the SR/iRating setup, is what makes iRacing in a different league to other sims, imo.

Personally I don't run, or have any interest in running, any leagues. I do occasionally do hosted sessions but mostly it's stuff organised by the UK&I club rather than anything serious.
 
Quick question about buying cars - do you get to try them first for free? I'm a bit loathed to buy a car and discover I hate how it drives and never want to touch it again.
 
I really don't get why they don't allow offline testing in any car/track, certainly the cars they changed the downloader ages ago so you could download non-owned content for multiclass races so surely it's a simple web tweak? Tracks may be slightly more tricky but not much.

As for cars, I'd stick with the MX5, it's not *that* tail happy, just practice and concentrate on smoothness, both with the turn-in but also how you're moving the weight around with throttle/brake.
 
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