8/8/2024 – Needs More Buttons – Episode 0447
iRacers Lounge Podcast – Conversation Topics
Show Introduction
On today’s show we get an August Development update from iRacing, find out what was fixed in the latest patch, see if the racing in the eNASCAR Coke Series is getting worse, give you five major mistakes to avoid if you are getting into sim racing and is there a chance that iRacing could be in the Olympics?
And remember you can follow along with us on your PC or mobile device in real time as you listen to the show and see for yourself all of the great topics and products we’ll discuss by visiting iracerslounge.com and selecting show notes. Hope to see you there..
Topics
Avoid These Five Major Mistakes
- Better gear makes you faster.
- Upgrading stuff before upgrade pedals.
- Set the stiffness of your brake how you want it. Too stiff is not good…
- Not using resources, software to assist you.
- Enjoy the hobby.
iRacing Development Update: August 2024
https://www.iracing.com/iracing-development-update-august-2024
iRacing In The Olympics?
Ah, The Good Old Days
Cameras To Make You Feel Like You Are There
Best Of The Decade. Do You Have One?
- Formula Vee
- Dallara P217 LMP2
- Ray FF1600
- Toyota GR86
- Porsche 911 Cup (992)
Does This Help Or Hurt?
So…Was It?
Anthony Kernich Posts:
that was the worst event in sim racing history
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/comment/564986/#Comment_564986
McLaren Coming In Next Build
From The Top To The Bottom
iRacing Highlights Time!
2024 Season 3 Patch 4 – Release Notes
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/66182/2024-season-3-patch-4-release-notes-2024-08-01-01
Porsche TAG Heuer eSports Supercup Qualifing
DJ Yee-J Does The Work…Are They Right?
Three Secret iRacing Settings
Search laser – change to 120, 8, 64, 512
Search force feedback – debounce seq – delay in shifter of 80 ms to zero.
In graphics make sure to pick curved or flat.
FIA F4 – Oulton Park
2024 Crandon Championship
https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/66242/iracing-presents-2024-crandon-championship
Are You Going?
This Week In iRacing
https://www.iracing.com/this-week-in-iracing-august-6-12-2024
$3000 In Cash Prizes
V2Rtv is hosting a never before done sim racing tournament. We’ve united 10 US based arrive and drive sim centers in 8 different states. Each location is allocating a couple of their available sim rigs for this campaign with a combined 30 sim rigs or 30 finalists.
Open qualifying starts on August 15th and runs till September 15th. The top number of drivers based on how many entries will be invited back to their locations on September 25th for a heats-based tournament running the Ford Mustang GT3 at Watkins Glen Cup Layout.
Drivers will be competing for their share of $3,000 (so far) and the winning driver earning $1,500 as the top 5 get paid out.
With over 40 open arrive and drive sim racing centers in the US and 10 more on the way, we can see the next boom in growth for the industry coming out of these facilities. Uniting many of these locations for special events develops a community like partnership between the sim centers allowing them to create their own ecosystems to drive success.
I do know a couple of the owners involved have said they would be interested in being on a podcast and doing some media to promote the unity of these centers.
“Changing motorsports one virtual lap at a time”.
Joel Hamilton
CEO of Virtual2Reality.tv
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Fantasy
Hardware/Software
DSD Sportsman Button Controller
https://derekspearedesigns.com/ubox12-689057.html
Do I Need To Check It Or Can I Carry On?
Nvidia’s Doing It Again
VNM 32-NM DD Wheelbase
Is The P1X Pro The Ultimate Sim Rig?
Grizzly Sim Engineering GT3 Streamdeck Button Box
https://www.grizzly-simgineering.com/product-page/buttonbox-gt3-carbon-f%C3%BCr-streamdeck
Is It Over For Logitech and Thrustmaster?
Spend Mike’s Money
https://www.amazon.com/SIMSONN-PC-Simulator-Pressure-Hydraulic-Cockpit/dp/B0CT7VC2GN
Results
NASCAR iRacing Series
Official Series
IMSA
- Brad – P3 (GTD Road America) Started P2. Led almost all the laps. Lost lead right before pitstops. Jumped the leader during the stop. We were running very similar times and how the faster classes caught us was really changing the gap each lap. Had the lead on the last lap until a GTP who was 6 laps down and 18 laps ahead of the car behind him decided to pass me going into the kink. He loses it and wipes me out. Managed to limp to P3 but super frustrated to lose a race because of a very stupid move that had no gain for him and cost me the race.
League / Hosted Races
Hosted-
- Ellis-ran three or four hosted races on Friday night and three on Saturday night didn’t really track finishes because I was busy live streaming the TikTok. .
Final Thoughts
Words Spoken in Closing Audio Clip -“”Thank you for listening to the iRacers Lounge podcast make sure to go subscribe to us on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Google Play, Facebook & Twitter, See You On The Track .”
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Description
On today’s show we get an August Development update from iRacing, find out what was fixed in the latest patch, see if the racing in the eNASCAR Coke Series is getting worse, give you five major mistakes to avoid if you are getting into sim racing and is there a chance that iRacing could be in the Olympics?
So sit back, relax and join us on the iRacers Lounge Podcast.
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