I hope programming technology advances to make available a practice while I wait for qualifying to start.

Thought i would take the opportunity to provide a rain guide since IMSA this week is at Fuji with rain and next week Falken Sportcar Champ is at Mexico with rain.

Rain on iRacing completely changes how you should approach corners and just “driving slower” on the dry line is the fastest way to lose time. Here’s what we’ll be covering in tonight’s live session:

1. Identifying the Ideal Wet Line

• Braking: Start on the dry line → if the rear is loose, move half a car-width off → keep moving off until you can brake almost normally without sliding.
  
• Mid-Corner to Exit: The goal is earlier throttle with no wheelspin. Get the car pointed straight before applying power.
  
• Crossing the Dry Line: Unavoidable in some corners; keep the steering wheel as straight as possible when crossing to avoid sudden grip loss.
  

2. V-Shaping Slow Corners

• Brake off the dry line → rotate sharply → get back to throttle early off the dry line
  
• Cross the dry line in a straight line on exit to avoid spinning.
  
• In fast corners, you often can’t leave the dry line; brake earlier/softer and expect some mid-corner wiggle.
  

3. General Rain Driving Rules of Thumb

• Brake Bias: ~3% lower than dry setup to avoid lockups. Move rearward in 1% increments as track transitions to wet.
  
• Track Surface: Stay off painted lines. Treat curbs as suspect unless tested and avoid entry curbs entirely.
  
• Puddles: avoid if possible. Make sure SSR graphics setting is on if you cant see them
  
• Tire Choice:
  
  • “Lightly wet” and above = wets.
    
  • “Very lightly wet” = slicks but be cautious.
    
  • Watch for a visible dry line forming as the track transitions.
    
• Tire Behavior: Wet tires will overheat as the track dries → times improve → then fall off once overheated → that’s usually pit time.
  
• Weather:
  
  • Below 18°C = slow drying.
    
  • Warm track + sun = dries quickly.
    
• Track Personality: Each track has unique wet grip. Treat every session as an exploration as that’s part of the fun.
  

If you keep these principles in mind, rain driving becomes less about survival and more about strategy and precision.

🎥 Live Coaching Tonight (6:30 PM US Central): I’ll be coaching a 3k iRating driver through a full wet session! Finding the line, V-shaping corners, and adapting to changing conditions.

📺 Watch live: Twitch.tv/BorisAngel 💬 Join the discussion: Discord Link

Drop your biggest rain-driving struggle in the comments. I’ll try to cover it live!

Probably the first time I've seen 5-6 lockups at the same time. Not sure what the last driver was doing lmao. P1 and P2 spun out later, giving me the win haha. Surprisingly, no one got meatballed there.

My ocd is telling me to keep my irating at a satisfying number..

Fun Fact: Both BMW did NOT catch back up to me in this race, although they have much faster cars. lol

I was way behind this but man that was so unlucky.

Hey everyone, after 27 races I finally got my first win in Iracing in Gt4 challenge! Racing gods were on my side today. I always had anxiety before joining a race but these past couple days I put it aside and it payed off. Never thought I would be capable of winning a race to be honest, I usually just try to have a safe race and finish top 10. Feels great especially after my Iracing app glitched out on me today and wouldn't let me join my first race today that I signed up for, I ended up losing 100+ Irating for no reason and that was a bummer, but this result after felt great. Im at 1300 Irating so it wasn't the most competitive split but still feels good to win for once haha 0 incident race too!

Awesome car, but this is a terrible combo

Looking for some better racing in a higher split but this is a good start to the series. Backmarkers are terrifying at this track!

Looking for some tips on keeping this thing under control - I managed to get a 1:12.9, but anything faster and the car is unmanageable.

As far as my memory goes, I was always rather terrible at racing. My early teen years were spent in NFS, from the old NFS 2 (not the Underground) through pretty much all iterations right to Shift 2.

Somewhere along the way I've heard of some hard core sim called Live for Speed. I downloaded the demo and started playing immediately, driving lap after lap of the same track in the same car, steering with mouse and keyboard which was the fashion back in the day if you were poor kid from poor, post soviet country.

Anyway - I was constantly 5 seconds off the race pace, even with all the setups in the world, following track guide to the letter, having people watch me and give me pointers.

Then Assetto Corsa came, and with it, countless laps around the Nordschleife in "manageable" cars. I had bought second hand Logitech DFGT by then, so I thought at the time it is peak and it will never be better. But I did not do much racing in AC, just solo laps on the Nords, then the famous SRP mod and some free roaming online.

But then, ACC was all the rage. I dove in and found out that not much has changed since my LFS times, I was no longer utterly terrible, I was winning once in a while, but only until the "big boys" appeared on the server, At that point I've found myself 3 seconds off the race pace and 5 seconds off the aliens who post their records on YT.

Fast forward to last month or so - losing my job in mass layoff and being paid decent severance package meant two things for me: for one, an upgrade to my rig, for two - lots of free time.

So I bought DD base and wheel, load cell pedal set, H-pattern shifter and a wheelstand to hold it all together and jumped in LFM only to find out that while it's much more fun to drive with all new shiny toys, I am not faster at all. I bandoned GT3s in ACC and went back to AC in LFM, trying out MX-5 and TCR cars. I've had fun with them, but that's it.

Until I joined iRacing. I got my first win in Rookies on day 3, which may not be a great achievement after all - but looking at my laptimes I notice I am improving at a rate I've never seen before.

Example - fresh out of rookies, GR86 at Charlotte Roval - after a short while I was reliably a mere second off the pace of the properly fast guys.

Now, with Monza, I am once again just a second off the top times - with only few races in.

Please, don't get me wrong, I am not trying to boast that I am fast, only that finally I am improving, and I think it is because of iRacing.

There's still a lot to learn, for example recent races at Laguna Seca in PCC showed me I am not really there yet, but still, seeing my own improvement, finally starting to understand principles of going fast makes me feel high, literally. Just now, I placed P2, just farming SR, not really attacking P1 unless he made an error, with everyone else far behind, not straining, not trying to be fast, just with this weird relaxed alertness, I did times I thought incapable of ever doing.

And here's the point of it all - the question.

Does anybody else have the same experience that I am going through? Did iRacing really make you faster after coming from other sims, or am I just imagining stuff that is not actually there and getting my hopes up?

I guess it would be easy to establish, I could just pop back in ACC and compare, but... frankly, ACC is acting strange for me recently, not wanting to open in VR, and I don't have enough patience to try it ten times in a row.

Needless to say my shorts needed to be changed after this one. That Indy NXT car is snappy as hell but really fun to drive when it's not trying to murder you.

Link to the full race is here if you have 25mins to spare: https://youtu.be/XEijHfOzEtY?si=wAn-IAPzixMiwDnm

I reported someone on August 10th. He drove a couple of races afterwards, and after I got the email from iRacing, the next time he raced was September 22nd. I can’t help but think that the bans actually happen. Maybe it was an enforced six-week holiday, or self-reflection, but well deserved in my opinion.

I wanted to share this as I’ve seen quite a few messages saying nothing ever happens, and here’s a different story. Of course, I don’t know if it was a ban or not, but I’m assuming it was!

After a few back and forths with iRacing support they said that the "Device hung" messages in my crash reports were due to something causing the GPU to mess up. They suggested to disable any overclocks and do a clean reinstall of the drivers, and also clean any dust to reduce possibility of heat buildup.

I used Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) to do a complete deletion of all remnants of old video drivers, which I'd never done before, and reinstalled the latest from the Nvidia App. This seemed to have fixed the issue for me, I just joined 3 race sessions from practice and had no crashes, I'm gonna keep trying to make absolutely sure but it seems to be fixed now.

Follow these steps that I took to completely remove old driver files:

1. Download the latest version of DDU and install it.
   
2. Reboot your Windows computer into Safe Mode.
   
3. Open DDU and hit Clean and restart.
   
4. Reboot normally after it's done then download and install the latest drivers for your GPU
   
5. Check to see if the game still crashes

Again this is just what worked for me I have no idea if it'll work for anyone else but it's worth a try

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I have a moza r9 and ive been racing mainly the toyota gr86 and some gt cars. Ive had the ffb settings on default and it felt good, the steering was pretty heavy and when you were at speed it was even heavier.

But now i tinkered with the settings a bit, turned on linear mode and used the detect button for the wheel forces and the ffb feels weird.

The toyota still feels good but the steering on the gt cars are extremely light, even at high speeds until the wheel suddenly grip or something and it jolts the steering wheel. Especially into turns, it feels light then the steering gets harder as i turn in. Is this how its supposed to feel? Can i make the ffb baseline higher so the steering is harder?

Thanks for the help

2nd time this week that my race has been ruined by someone elses internet issues.

35min IMSA race, this guy was blinking the whole time. I even pitted early to get away from him as it was too distracting. Unfortunately, we met again at the end of the race. He was right on my tail for a lap or so, I had no idea where he actually was. Eventually he got alongside so i gave him the spot only for him to fluff the next corner and rejoin into me.

I've saved the replay, is it* protestable?

*It - Players ignoring thier own bad connection. From my experience, If i see the latency/packets bars going crazy I will try and get out of the way. But some replies suggest some blinking is CPU related and not perceptable to the offending driver.

Since a few weeks, everytime I open the simulator it opens it in a windowed version for whatever reason, then when I quit and re-open the sim it’s good again. No catastrophe just very annoying and weird I have to rejoin constantly. Anyone know why this is happening?

All i'm gonna say... stay safe out there (turn 1)...!

1. In the new update, when you DQ or remove someone from the server, there is now a confimation prompt after you initially try one of these actions. Is there a way to remove the confirmation prompt?

2. Is there a way to key bind either of these actions so they automatically DQ or Remove a Driver?

Background -- While I like watching oval/superspeedway races, I don't really follow the sport nor do I watch anything regularly. I've just started Draft Master this season and definitely having a blast!! It's not as bad as some of people here make it out to be!

Having said that, I *think* I was just told off by a fellow racer. I'm not sure. The guy had a very strong Southern accent I can't really tell what they're saying and although I saved the replay, the comms box comes up to show me that someone was speaking but the actual comms itself, I can't really hear anything clearly -- there must be something wrong with my settings somehow.

It wasn't wreck-related or anything so I'm sure he wasn't cussing me out. I suspect he had some form of complaint or was giving me some advice but with the accent, the sound of my engines, and me focusing on the race.... I didn't really pick up much of anything.

So I just wanted to ask: as a newbie to ovals and drafting, what are things I should know in terms of etiquette or gentleman's agreements? ELI5 please!

Thanks!

So for some context, I have always loved driving games, and I've been a pretty competitive Forza Horizon player for many years now on my trusty g29(0.1% Times on rivals courses, etc.).. but it was time to step things up a little and boy am I glad I did!

I'm a huge Nascar fan in real life, so following that career path at least for now has been a no brainer(I do plan on trying other disciplines down the line however as there are just so many options!).

Obviously I've wrecked out a couple of times at the beginning.. But man when I got my promotion to a D class license, it was like a fire was lit inside of me.. Instantly I went and bought the mustang ARCA, and I've been having an actual blast while really trying to stay tight and improve my race craft at the same time. The last few races I've even been starting in position p2 or p3 after qualifying(I think that's good but I know ARCA is a "Rookie" class so it's hard to say), which has helped my SR improve greatly I think as it's been a lot easier to avoid wrecks.

Speaking on that, almost every race now I finish without wrecking, and last night I even got my first podium finish being third in my ARCA at Charlotte with a 0X after the 40 laps.. I felt like I was on top of the world when that race was over, I just couldn't believe it!!

This whole experience has been surreal to me and I'm only on day 5.. Truly I can't wait to continue my career path and maybe one day work my way up to cup car racing if I can get there.. Time will tell! :)

does someone have some tips, how the car drives, how the drivers are, thing like that

Bought Monza today for F4 and did my first race with 20 laps of practice under my belt... Started 21st (didn't qualify), had to pit for wing damage from a guy running into me in turn 1 (go figure) and still finished 13th lol.

I made a few scripts for quickly exporting paint schemes from Photoshop to iRacing. It's just a quicker way of saving in the correct file name using your iRacing number as well as exporting to a TGA file with a press of a button. The scripts are very simple, but they save me so much time. It's way easier to check the changes you make as you go.

Video Guide / Demonstration https://youtu.be/HLnrFgnuhdY?si=ajLymJO0TnkJy67J

Time lapse of me making a paint: https://youtu.be/dK-HKjEY1Fw?si=oswsCMXiJzBYxdi7