My First Ever Race on iRacing

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Stream intro music:

Equipment I use:
Fanatec DD1
Fanatec Clubsport V2 Formula Wheel
Fanatec Clubsport V3 Pedals
Playseat Ultimate cockpit

Camera settings:
Camera: TV Pod Offset
Field of view: -13
Offset lateral: -12
Offset horizontal: 2
Offset vertical: 0
Angle: 0
Near Clip Plan: 0
Mirror angle: 0
Camera shake: 0
Camera movement: 0

FFB settings (Ingame)
Vibration and Force Feedback Strength: 73
On Track Effects: 15
Rumble strip effects: 25
Off track effects: 25
Wheel damper: 5
Wheel rotation: 360
Understeer enhance: OFF

FFB settings (Inwheel - Fanatec DD1 + Clubsport V2 wheel)
Wheel rotation: 370
FFB: 70
Shock/Vibration: 100
ABS: OFF
Natural damper: 15
Natural friction: OFF
Brake force: MIN
FFB Intensity: 100
MPS Function: Auto

Calibration:
Steering deadzone: 0
Steering linearity: 0
Steering saturation: 0
Throttle deadzone: 3
Throttle linearity: 0
Throttle saturation: 0
Brake deadzone: 5
Brake linearity: 0
Brake saturation: 0

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[feykn]

In rookies the only thing you need to focus is your SR. Just dont get offtracks or any contacts if possible (offtracks is 1x and contacts with another car is 4x). Even you start from the pits, you will be fine, doesnt matter if you finish 1st or last. If you just focus on getting that SR up, you'll get out of rookies really fast. Keep this series up, love it. Keep doing what you do.
Edit: Also in those cars you just have to send it sideways sometimes to get the full lap time ahah

[xSmithyx]

YESSSS!! We'll have to get you hooked onto the endurance racing ;)

[jackishy]

Keep playing iracing, I’d recommend getting overlays and an app called crew chief, which allows it to talk to you during the game, kinda like Jeff, best app for overlaps is racelabs, just focus on sr and find another series to race is as Mazda isn’t known for clean fair racing

[StevenRidders]

Your strategy in rookies is not to place well but to have clean races. Once you reach C Class you can start the iRating journey.

[cganilo]

You're going to love this...Welcome to the endless rabbit hole of iRacing!

[Hadiplaysmusic]

LOVE that you're trying different sims! More iRacing please!!

[JochenDRS]

Thank you so much for the credits!❤
Its a pleasure helping you out with this 🙏🏼

[Feys_]

"In iRacing, Blue Flag (with yellow diagonal stripe) behaves a little bit differently than in the real world. The flag in the sim is just there to tell you that there is a faster car approaching behind you. Drivers are not obligated to obey the blue flag but are obligated to hold their racing line and should take notice of it and let the faster car pass by safely and cleanly."

[cmdreffietrinket]

Hi, I strongly advise that you keep F3 displayed for the most part during your race, keeping an eye on where others are around you; tyre temps or tyre wear aren’t really things to worry about outside endurance events. F3 can alert you to faster cars approaching and is very helpful if you spin, by helping you to see if other cars are approaching as you rejoin.

[sincity_steve]

A quick tip in using Crew Chief, you can talk to your engineer, and the first thing I do in a race is give the commands for "Pitstop clear all" and "Pitstop fast repair". What this does is tell iRacing to clear the check boxes for tire changes and fuel changes during a pitstop which you dont ever need for a sprint race, and then check the box for fast repair (you get 1 per race), and this will save you tons of time if you do have to come into the pits. You can also manually change these in your black boxes by unchecking them, but its much easier to do voice commands with CC. Bind a button on your wheel to talk to Crew Chief.

[bringersbob]

I recommend always using the relative black box when in any online session.

[shakendrake]

Love the move to iRacing!! It's really a blast!

So your license class is only dependent on your safety rating. Safety rating is calculated by "incidents per corner, " so the more corners you turn without an incident point (1x off track, 2x loss of control/barrier contact, 4x car contact, etc.), the more your safety rating will increase. If you get to a 3.0 SR, your license will be promoted at the start of the next season (seasons are 13 weeks long), but if you get to a 4.0 you'll get an instant license promotion. If you drop below a 2.0, you get a license demotion at the start of the next season, or if you hit a 1.0 you get an instant license demotion (nowhere lower to go than Rookies, and once you're in D class you can't be demoted to Rookies, but something to keep in mind as you climb the ranks). When you hit a full number (2.0, 3.0, etc.), you get a .40 SR bump to avoid flip-flopping licenses too much - but this works both ways: .40 bump up when you go from 2.9 to 3.0, and a .40 bump DOWN when you go from 3.0 to 2.9. Also be careful, the higher your SR, the easier it is to lose SR! The higher your license class, the more cars you'll be able to race! I highly recommend the Skip Barber cars in D class - some of the most fun cars on the service, super slidey! The Ferrari GT3 is a good purchase too though, as you can use it in higher class races as well.

iRating is invisible to you during Rookies - you start at either 1200 or 1300 I believe, but you won't see your actual iRating until you reach D Class. You were correct, your split is determined by your iRating! Say a single split has 20 cars. The registered drivers with the top 20 iRatings will be in "top split, " or the highest split, then the next 20 highest will be in the next split, and so on. Full skill-based matchmaking. iRating doesn't really matter, but it's a fun thing to try to grind and improve!

I recommend trying some other disciplines as well. Oval may seem boring cause it's just left turns, but it's lots of super close, door-to-door racing, and almost a completely different skillset! Dirt oval and dirt road are fun to dabble in as well, but might as well take full advantage of the service.

Happy to help with any more info you need!

[-AthleteInAction-]

Show the incidents and crashes at the end. Its always fun and interesting. Also safety rating is the most important thing to move up in licenses.

[LDFR]

Welcome to iRacing JD! Really enjoy your F1 videos but as an iRacer myself I was so stoked to see that you’re gonna start racing on the service! I can highly recommend the Formula 4 (ir-04 series). It’s not always clean, but it’s great fun! Good luck! 😊

[matthewrivera]

We should see if good old Jimmy will do endurance racing with you 😊

[deced]

Would 100% recommend getting a cheap round wheel, the dirt rally one is great for stuff like the mazda's, so much easier to catch little moments with it and you can let go and catch it easier without risking your hand. Biggest thing with iracing to get licenses fast is just have super clean races. doesn't matter if you come last, if you're on 0x at the end of a long race you'll get license upgrades quicker :).

[Renix]

One of the best tips for me was:
You can join a already started race by click the blue button "watch race". Then you can race with them as a ghosted car.

So u can get a good feeling for a upcoming race, or do your first mistakes/crashes without effecting on your SafteyRating/IRating.

Thx @ Matt Malone at this point. 😉
✌️♥️

[LearnerDriver]

Just started my Iracing career last week after I got fed up of f1 22, loving it so far and hopefully see you on track.

[MrGlockshna]

Couple things,
1. Make sure your FOV is set appropriately if it's not already. Google around for an FOV calculator. There's plenty of resources out there.
2. I'd recommend installing crew chief for iRacing and disable the built in spotter. Crew chief looks intimidating to set up at first but spend 25 minutes looking through it and setting it up, then it's set it and forget it. Miles better than the built in spotter, and it has voice commands for things like asking if you have damage and so on. You can also set it to give you periodic reports on other drivers around you, and tell you what corners you're strong in and what corners you're weak in compared to the field/leaders. That's just the start. Play around with it and you won't regret it.

3. Your goal in rookies should be to survive the races with as few incidents as possible so you can move out of rookie races. You can still drive the same car, but once you're out of rookies you'll be matched with people of similar skill and the quality of racing drastically increases.

Good luck and have fun!

[hobbyracer]

On the right side of your screen you had the tyre info indicator open. If you switch between the buttons F1 to F9 you can change to different type of info you can get. F1 does show you some general information about the session (your last lap time, driver ahead and behind, laps or time to go, your incident points, ...). The other info screens from F2 to F9 can show you the relative, fastest laps, in-car adjustments (like brake bias), pit stop adjustments (like tyre change, re-fuel amount), ...
I would recommend switching through these during a race, especially if you need to do a stop.
I always found the first screen most important, if you don't uns a third party overlay, but the relative is also very important.

Then in this race you did a stop and you did re-fuel and change tyres. You can switch that off in the pit adjustments.
Also the rookie races and d-class races have 1 fast repair stop available, where you get your damage repaired instandly, normally that could take up to 30 minutes.

Lastly in rookie races you don't have to matter about your position. Just keep the ...x as low as possible to get out of rookie class as possible.
A minor contact gives you a 0x, an off-track is a 1x, sometimes a chain reaction of small contacts can give you a 2x and lastly a bigger contact gives you a 4x. In rookie races you get DSQ'ed at 17x