Ben, please, don't go back to that "sim specialist" company. It is painfully obvious to any experienced simracer watching this video that they have no clue what they're doing, and have completely missed the mark on several of the basics of setting up the equipment. And for goodness' sake, don't give them your money. The "Abnormal Lap" penalty you got was because of a poor internet connection. Again, please avoid that company and consider doing your own shopping and research, and learning to set up your equipment yourself. You'll be glad you did.

A 'SIM' specialist company that cant even set correct wheel rotation! OH DEAR!

Oh, and one more thing. That "L" red bar is your latency. The internet connection from your sim was terrible. It's HIGHLY likely that YOU disappeared from the other cars when that bar was fully red! They had no idea where you were and suddenly you'd reappear to them. That may have been the cause of some of your contacts with other cars.

Go do a video with Broadbent. He'll set you straight.

BTW Ben, not sure if you have it set this way on purpose, but you might have a steering wheel rotation issue. It looks like the wheel in game rotates alot more than your simucube wheel inputs. Easily fixed in the settings 👌

FOV seems off, steering wheel rotation off, no headphones meaning audio cues might be missing. I’d either get kit of my own or ask these guys to set you up proper. It will help a lot! Good luck and have fun online!

Ben, if you return to them, tell them to fix that damn rig. It's badly calibrated and all the invalid laps are a result of bad internet connection. Your experience of iRacing is being tainted and not because of the software!

Oh how I wish Dave Cam or Jimmy Broadbent were present during the filming of this, they would've been able to explain and sort out sooo many of the issues!! Please don't give up on iRacing just yet Mr Stig, there's a very good reason why the likes of Alonso, Verstappen, Norris, Oli Bearman and many more make it their choice of sim. Once it is set up correctly and you understand all the details, there really is nothing else out there that even comes close! P.S. I agree with other comments, these sim "experts" have failed on their part, this wasn't set up correctly. It would be far better if you had your own sim rig set up to your own liking, and even more ideal if you can get Jimmy or Dave to assist, I'm sure they'd be more than willing!! They're the real experts.

There is so much wrong with this video. First of all, welcome to iRacing. Great to see you jump in the hot seat and running in the lead. You will absolutely get this, eventually. But there is a learning curve. Qualification doesn't allow any contact, off track or lost control, it will DQ that particular lap, but you can have a go on the next one if you have one left. You really don't want to hit other cars at all, no matter if it's from behind or the ones behind hitting you, it will cost you 4x which is the maximum damage to your safety score. Everyone has already mentioned the steering ratio, your wheel is supposed to match the wheel on screen, this seems very off. iRacing stewards cannot slow your car down for you. You can get a slow down by cutting corners, but you'll have to slow the car down yourself, or you get a penalty. Good luck in future races! I hope you'll become a proper sim racer one day.

Whatever you have achieved, your career has peaked now that youre on iRacing 😁 I'll not mention the steering 😳

That rejoin... ❤

Welcome to the world of rookies! The banana man looks like "net code". What can happen is if either yours or his network connection lags a bit, then iRacing tries to calculate where your cars should be until the lag goes. It doesnt always get it right

So the company name is SimDemon and they have no freaking clue about what they're doing. FOV is wrong, Steering Ratio is miles off from being even acceptable, they jumped you in a race on a sim without even knowing the basic iRacing rules (which aren't weird, they're just rules). God, this is the worst possible advertise for that company and after this video everyone should stay miles far from them. And by the way, there is nothing like "forced slow down" in iRacing, you are just notified that you have to slow down and this only happens when you cut the track, not for contacts or wrecks. The "Sim Experts Company" staff let you have an awful experience and allowed you to that absolutely protestable rejoin, ruining other people race, and let you free to say a lot of wrong things. Really, this video is very painful to watch for any sim racer.

It's more immersive if you deactivate the cockpit wobble and hide the steering wheel. You have one in your hands, you don't need an extra one one on the screen. Your field of view is also not adjusted correctly. It's pretty hard to drive like that.

Don't forget to paint your lid white in the iracing paint section!

You went to a sim studio and they set the thing up wrong? (Look at the steering, it's not 1:1 with your wheel at all, you're turning too hard in the sim). And then they didn't tell you anything about iRacing either? The sim didn't give you half power you had a terrible throttle on exit.

Well… if even the Stig suffers………… we really are all on the same boat! 👀😂 those rookie races are hardcore! 😅

Race control didn't slow you down, Ben. They had a massive double tow going.

Ha ha ha...this is basically all real life racer's first experience on iRacing. I joined in 2019, after racing SCCA in real life. Won multiple championships in SCCA racing and thought I'd clean up on all these non-racers. I was WRONG! Sim racing is CRAZY but a lot of fun. I hope you stick to it!

HOLY STEERING ANGLES BATMAN!

All the gear no idea 😂😂😂 that steering

Rookie races are a minefield. They’re just something you have to survive and get through to start enjoying Iracing.

Fantastic to see you on iRacing, really unfortunate the Steering angle was not calibrated correctly in addition to the Force feedback being a little over, if you ever need assistance to have a better experience feel free to reach out 👍🏁

I would have expected that sim place to setup your controls properly, the wheel rotation was not set 1:1 with the game..... bad advertising for them.. the fps were also locked to 84, set it to 120+, more frames = less input lag = better feel and response. That incident on the straight would have been latency/network lag related. You can see the red L bar means your ping is poor and you need to give more space to other cars, also iRacing doesn't actually slow your car down when you get a "slow down", they make you slow down or DQ you, you just had a bad exit from the last corner. overall, you might need someone like Jimmy Broadbent to show you how iRacing works and not a crap place with no idea.

lol, we need Jimmy to review this footage and maybe 'splain all the stupid bits of iRacing to Ben. Honestly, _really good_ first outing for the most part. Just a lot of misunderstandings as to how iRacing works as opposed to IRL racing.

FOV Police incoming! Bring the monitor right behind the wheel

You can tell he’s a racing driver from all the excuses 😂

iRacing rookies is nothing but a crash course (no pun intended) in spotting lunatics 😑

“That’s bollocks” sums up my experience with Iracing too 😂

Hi Ben. I loved your book especially the stories of the army reserve and the unforgettable "Lord of War" guy. The much mentioned steering ratio matters quite a bit, its not just aesthetic. It's very possible to turn the in game wheel too much and exceed the most efficient slip angle. If you gradually reduce the ratio it will arrive at a point where the car reacts best and starts to "talk to you". The excessive wheel movements will also slow you on the straights. Enjoying the journey. Cheers.

@BenCollinsGaming I live around a hour away from here (North Devon) , would happily come up for a few hours and give some iracing assistance. As most have said, there's alot wrong here and you'd clearly be alot faster and consistent with the right setup and knowing the iracing newances. Please reachout if that's of use. (you were slow in the corners due to the ploughing from the wheel config setup given and caught so rapidly on the straights because of iracing draft in this series!

Incredible to pick it up that quick though

nice, the Stig's simracing cousin :D

Seems like there was some more needed in set-up and dial in, but otherwise looks like a lot of fun. The Stig getting Black flagged just sounds funny

the outrage for being cheated by the digital overlords is so entirely relatable. You were all of us at that moment..

Welcome to iRacing and rookies :) Look up DaveCam, brilliant bloke. The whole setup looked off, steering and your internet connection didn't look great, latency was way up in the red so you might have been disappearing for the cars around you. Wait until you are three wide at Talladega and somebody starts "bouncing" (car disappears and suddenly reappears), looks like what happened to you with the bananarama car. You may also find you were disqualified if you racked up too many incident points. Always prefer triples to a curved screen or VR... :)

Gotta say, that was a terrible rejoin! Overall I'm impressed with his driving being new to iracing but needs to do a collab with a seasoned sim racer to introduce him properly.

Some Say: He once lapped the Nordschleife in under 7 minutes.... using only reverse gear. And that Michael Masi himself came out of retirement to be a steward for his first iRacing battle. All we know is... He's called The STIG! 😁

Fairplay for managing even though the simulator steering wasnt calibrated.

If I keep watching this I'm going to end up buying a wheel and pedals... again. 😅

I thought racing fast required smooth steering inputs, that jittery wheel on screen was giving me iceRacing PTSD expecting a spin at any moment.

Ben still has it!! Looking forward to more racing videos!

The guy you killed as you came back on the track will have been absolutely fucking raging. 🤣 Ive taken people out race after race for doing things like that to me. Not on Iracing...not played that. Hilarious to watch you do it Ben. Great stuff!

Ben.... Music is a No No.. We love hearing your voice. If you must use music. Lower it way down below the engine or game sounds. Love the content so keep it coming 🙂 Btw.. Looks like the Wheel FF settings is set way to high or something?

Walks straight over to the rig to hit follow on Ben’s iracing profile 🤣

Well done Mr Collins👏 . Proper racing. ❤

Would love to see you gaming in the stig suit.. but i imagine it would be hot inside hahahaha

I hope your experience on iRacing is better than mine was and I am sure it will be for two reasons: one, people will probably afford you far more respect than the average punter and secondly, despite that "disconnect" you mention between real life and sim racing, I am sure you will be consistently fast enough with enough practice such that you are always in the top few percent of racers. For my own part, I always struggled to be fast enough to consistently avoid the drivers who would come into races either with little to no practice or come into racers to deliberately disrupt them. I don't know how the rating system works these days but I had to work really hard to even get into the high 2000 range (this was well over a decade ago now) and so long as you could stay there (or higher) you'd have a 90% chance of always racing against highly capable respectful opposition since even at that level it takes hard work and dedication. But for me it took a lot of effort and practice to maintain that level. Too much for my liking so now I happily race offline only. Luckily there are a couple of sims out there where the AI is decent enough to provide a great challenge without the nastiness of some of the arcade-style human wreckers that I am sure are still part and parcel of the lower tiers of iRacing.

we need to see you give a proper shot, you and jimmy would be unstoppable in the special events 😆

Ben, you should checkout the BTCC content for rfactor 2. I think you would really have some fun there! Especially if you can do it in VR!

Steering Ratio from a sailing Simulator 😊

iRacing rules are weird, just gotta crack on with it unfortunately.. I always find myself leaving more space for other people than I should because I don’t trust them. Once you’re out of rookies you’ll have better racing

Classic iRacing net code right there.

Bahahaha. Welcome to sim racing Ben!

I'm sure we'd all be thrilled to meet you in iracing, but perhaps not during one of your rejoins 🤣

Welcome to the club stig 👊

That last corner is such an important one for losing time so race direction didn't slow you down at all. you were just not used to the circuit mate. I enjoyed that.

FYI after the chute you want to run up the left side a fella from west virginia once told me btw your force feedback clips pretty hard

Amazing to see our beloved Stig in sim racing! Please find somebody who will help you with all the tech setup so you can enjoy the sim racing in a proper way. The display you are using should have MUCH LESS input lag for you to be able to enjoy the driving and beeing able to control the car properly.

One tip is to rotate more on the trail breaking, with break release. i see your understearing and you can get this car overstearing. Break bias at 55% makes it easier to do so but also easier to spin 😊

It seems, Sim racing is full of banana men, Ben practising tbe banana rejoin 😂 on a serious note, using your own rig, calibrated, to your style, makes a huge difference, had mine a year, and still tweak it every time i use it,

Loving the sim racing stuff Ben, you really need to try vr for the immersive stuff, and you would definitely benefit from spending time on setup as per the other comments 👍🏻

I assume it wouldn't had been as bad if 90 degrees wheel rotation wasn't full lock in the game 😂

You have see it here 1st The Stig is a gentleman...."sorry chap" 😂😅

Looks like you got netcoded! imo a screen capture would be better for this type of video. Looking forward to seeing your iRacing career develop :)

It’s a shame to have a great rig and set it up wrong. Nice way to have a bad experience in a fancy way. Also, great work for making an oversteery car way understeery. Congrats to Ben for being able to drive in that conditions, it shows how a great driver he is.

As another comment stated steering might not be set up correct as it looks like your wheel isn't matching what's on screen and looks like on slower corners it might be making you drag the tyres more than you are wanting to meaning it will make eat up your tyres faster which is not good for the long run. I can see on screen the hands crossing over far more than they should do as on my Logitech G Pro Wheel in that car I dont get that as often as you was, as my hands in game match up more 1 to 1 in game than you showed here, might be worth having a play with the settings more as finding the settings that fit you the best will help you to be faster.

need to get the stig on some of our week 13 crazyness

Best car in iracing 😎 hope to see you on ff1600 when i get back from hollidays in july

The upside of a sim is that you can blame the computer or network or whatever if you crash 😉

The collision might have been netcode, something to always be considerate of when going wheel to wheel

Disappointed with the setup being Specialists. Everything is wrong. But as expected you handled it like a boss. Quality content.

More of this please Ben 👍

The input lag you had with AC was awful, and the steering ratio on this video is insanely bad, which is quite tricky to do seeing as iRacing adjusts that for you. This company obviously has no idea what they're doing in terms of setting up sims, and in all honesty your experience will be greatly afffected by this

Time for a collaboration with 'Jimmer' get him to set you up with some gear from Abruzzi, and some tuition.

You'll get a lot better once you've got your own setup (skip a motion rig)

Thanks for the notification on IG! Didn't realize I wasn't subscribed. Is that your X2, and will we see footage from it?

Maybe this sim company needs to learn how iracing works!!! Go see davecam or Jimmy. He doesn't even know what was wrong

Hey Ben big fan! Simple suggestion, try looking into screen recording so you don’t need to actually record what’s happening in game. It’s also a much cleaner look. Thanks for the content, cheers mate!

more of this!!!😂

Love the content and keep it up.

James May said he would "batter you on iRacing" 🤷‍♂️ 😂

Stig it to'em, Ben!

Imagine getting to server just to see Stig in the lobby

I would die if I saw the settings tab on this setup

You should try it on a VR instead of screen. Game changer

The Stig needs some setup help from THE STIG!

The Stig only has 8k subs?? Come on now. Hope to see you on track fella. Look forward to beating you. You seem to over compensate on the steering old boy :p

Yes looking at the setup with the overly quick steering rack, the rotation must of been set at 400 degrees not a full turn 1080 degrees. You should of seen finger tip movements going through the fast stuff, the steering rack was so too fast, that you looked like ccd you were holding on like Villeneuve at Dijion 1979… with a proper setup ben, you will win consistently on iracing. Please join the community with your own rig setup at home 😊

🍌More like Mario Kart than a real race. Ben had that fair and square.

Welcome to sim racing, say no more

The content so far Ben feels like you desperately need a simple offline practice session. This is not only to get to grips with the game and car of your choice, but gives you a chance to sort strange things like the steering wheel rotation and read iRacing' code of conduct. I'd really recommend keeping it simple too - there's really no need for a big motion rig. Hope you can get access to something like ACC in your own time, and can perhaps show in one video how you've improved. Or maybe someone like Broadbent or Jardier can give you a coaching session to set up and then get used to any peculiarities of your chosen sim. Good luck.

You should try to get your own setup. I’m sure fanatec or moza would love to sponsor a rig for you. The setup on the rig you were using wasn’t where it should have been.

I was going to comment on the steering rotation but it's be said . hahahah just get a rig for your home bro .

"try iracing" they said, "it will be better" they said... i think i prefer forza's penalty system, its also weird and sometimes incorrect, but alteast it never stops or slows my car(unless your penalty is 10sec=disqualified) (feedback) music was very distracting besides that, great showing! (P.S.) 4 kills, nice (just kidding)

wait till you get that steering input issue fixed you’ll have a much better time with it I’m sure

i feel that I must defend Sim Demon a little here. I know the guys there well and they do not use iRacing and never have, there simulators are all setup well for the games they do use. Clearly Ben wanted to try iRacing and they tried to help out, but they don't know the game and as many of you have pointed out, it takes quite a bit of setting up and tweaking. Please bear this in mind when commenting. They were just trying to help.

this pro sim company cant even set the wheel rotation up properly? no wonder he was slow in the low speed corners when he turns watch the wheel ingame and it cranks right round causeing massive understeer..

welcome to SimRacing RAGE 😂

First of all, that was one of the most impressive iRacing laps I have seen. Truly remarkable. Please do some more videos, preferably track guides, where you show how various cars should be driven around various tracks. You will get a gazillion views for that alone. On this race I kept noticing your Lag meter was in the red a lot, which probably wasn't helping your race, and also the Force Feedback was clipping into the yellow on some corners, which is also could be a problem, although maybe you prefer the heavier wheel feeling, having driven the car in real life. But either way, best video on iRacing ever. Please make more. Oh and this experience you had is pretty much what everyone has in iRacing. The friendly bump from behind is far too common, particularly in Rookies, but driving like this, you will be in the rookies for such a short time, it probably won't be such an issue. Man! Lap guides. Set up guides. Driving guides. You have so much to say on this subject. Please make more videos.