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I think you can only gain your A license at the end of a 13 week season. The others upgrade mid season though. Once you get to 4+ on B you can enter A rated events though. Something like that...
 
Borrish said:
I did actually watch that out of curiosity. Someone ran into the back of another guy and it spun him across the track. I assume you were the unlucky car he got span right into?
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I was the blue mx5.

The crash that took me out was after the complex after the first corner, on the drag up the hill to the flat right.
 
picnic said:
I think you can only gain your A license at the end of a 13 week season. The others upgrade mid season though. Once you get to 4+ on B you can enter A rated events though. Something like that...
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The only promotion not available mid season is A > Pro.
As long as you have met the MPR, you get promoted when your SR reaches 4.0.

Also, it's worth remembering that you can essentially skip a level of racing if nothing appeals to you. You could race rookie series until you are at D4.0, then race in the class C series (skipping D altogether).
 
picnic said:
Cool, they must have changed it then as when I went from D in the ovals I got to B 4+ but had to wait to get the A license at the end of the season.
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As an experiment to try and boost my dying enthusiasm for iRacing I dropped to D 1.08 at the end of last year, and went all the way back up to A 3.5 in less than a week.

It took about 16 safe races (IIRC) and 4 TT sessions, and the only time I saw a pause in my progression was when I went from C to -- in theory -- A in one day. The system seems to only want to let you go up one tier per day so there was a 24 hour pause until it automatically kicked me up to A. I didn't drive at all that day.

After that I got bored again. I think they should allow you to "clock" your class and SR so you can be level 1, Class A or level 23 Class C, or whatever. It would be totally meaningless really, but then so's the vast majority of online racing. :-) But it'd give you something (totally artificial) to race for even if -- like me -- you lack the speed to win races and eventually become Pro, or one of the handful of drivers who will ever win any competitions on either road or oval.

It's in maintaining motivational goals for "the average driver" where iRacing has always fallen short for me. I need a carrot to chase once the exhaust pipes ahead have disappeared into the distance in a 20 laps race. Collecting SR used to do it for me, but the damage from a single x4 once you hit A can set you back so much that the novelty soon wears off.

Of course I could always try getting faster and more competetive. But after 15 years of trying I'm no faster than I was when I started. Which is why GPL's AI with a nice little "make them faster or slower" slider was a feature I've wanted in every sim since. And it's a bit galling that the Papyrus team at the heart of iRacing are resistant to add AI to iRacing... even though that's understandable because it would take a lot of people off the online roster and mess up their plans.

Mmm... sorry, I appear to have written an essay again. I blame it on the fact I'm supposed to be decorating. :->

Andrew McP
 
I know I said it was expensive earlier but I might pay the $12 for 3 months.

I just wish I could try it out before buying. :(

I've been needing something other than shift to race with.
 
LeJosh said:
I know I said it was expensive earlier but I might pay the $12 for 3 months.

I just wish I could try it out before buying. :(

I've been needing something other than shift to race with.
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Thats one of the downsides i guess, but every so often they offer free months, or 3 for the price of 1.

One of the biggest upsets for me is, They dont do promotional stuff to get past subscribers back - ive been waiting a year to re-sub on some promo stuff but alas nothing has come :( all new customers, which when you think about it, do they care about us old time players?
 
They had a couple of special offers around Thanksgiving and Christmas for existing customers, but these are posted on the member site and forums, so if you aren't subscribed you would probably miss them.
 
deko said:
They had a couple of special offers around Thanksgiving and Christmas for existing customers, but these are posted on the member site and forums, so if you aren't subscribed you would probably miss them.
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My point exactly, ill most likely re-sub soon anyway, im missing my Jetta and my V8 - Think my username was Kevin Olver or Kev Olver if any Iracing people want to add me for when i return to the tracks. - cant remember which, but there isnt many people with that name so it should be easy finding me :)
 
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