Tips: 1- HOLD YOUR LINE. 2- BRAKE WHEN THERE IS A CRASH

Shocker. The 10 and 15 car doing pre race burnouts and tire scrubbing across the entire track crashed and wrecked out. Great tips for beginners!

Some other tips for oval racing, having worked my way up to A class for about a year. -Tracks vary quite widely. Bristol is completely different from Charlotte, and Charlotte is vastly different from a track like Texas, and so on and so forth. Track width, banking, and surface abrasiveness are going to come into play a lot in races. Take the time to learn the tracks. If you are bad in one corner on an oval, you are bad on a 1/4th of the track, or even half the track! You can get away with being bad on a corner on a road course, not here. -On short tracks, aero doesn't matter much, but when you get to larger tracks like the 1.5 milers, and especially Daytona and Talladega, drafting is going to come into play. Especially when you get to NiS in C class with the Cup cars. They punch a huge hole in the air and car positioning is crucial. -Stock cars allow for a lot of hustling. You can correct small errors all day. Use this to your advantage if you screw up. Banging the wall a little bit isn't going to hurt you much -There are other oval series than just NASCAR stuff. Give late models a try, maybe modifieds. There is a fixed IndyCar series that run just ovals, and with the Indy Pro cars coming, chances are that there will be an oval series just for them. -The spotter is your friend. Learn to get comfortable with him.

Saw Dave video.. Saw iRacing channel.. Was confused at first lol

Mac Evad is just Dave Cam backwards.

I’ve been an A license in both Road and Oval for over three years now, but I’m quite entertained watching these tutorial videos lol

That tip from the beginning of immediately identifying "trouble drivers" is a big thing. Plan on doing a lot of that at Talladega this week. Some people will always want to take it 3 wide.

Great video! Quick note: You get promoted to D license immediately upon reaching 3.0 SR and meeting the MPR. All other classes wait until to the end of the season, unless you hit 4.0.

this brings back memories, what a typical start of the race 2:17 1 guy doing a burnout 1 thought his steering wheel was straight and hit the wall 1 guy dumped the clutch 1 guy didn't go 1 guy rear ends the guy that didn't go and it all happens in 10 seconds xD

Crash avoidance is probably the most important, you can learn to predict where the car will be going when it's spinning or colliding with another in front of you. After a while you get good at it.

OMG, you couldnt have hired actors and staged this race and made it more perfect of the absolute stupid chaos Rookies is lol, the mere madness that happens only on the pace lap is comical.

Tip for rookies, if you see a crash, you should full throttle it into the crash and take everyone out, because that’s is obviously the best idea and should be used at any time

I started my iracing career a montn ago and i am out of the rookie class. Best thing is to concentrate on consistend lap times and staying out of trouble. Just by being able to finish races without spins, I managed to win some against drivers who had faster laptimes.

Bailey Pitcher 2: Exists This guy: *so you have chosen death*

Having Dave teach ovals. Love it. Sensible guy and quicker than he leads on ;)

I think the biggest tip for rookies is not to worry too much about your finishing position. Its better to learn how to battle cleanly and to know you can't win everything. While at the same time, your peers are going to love racing with you, because they know they're going to enter a fair fight with you, and by that effect you're gonna have a great time because you'll know your mettle

Just one my first oval a couple of hours ago! Lot of defending done whole race, very fun!

I love watching Dave race. I don't feel so strange on PC2 or AC on xbox at 47 yrs old. Dave may be younger for all I know but he is at least 40 right? lol.... If I get PC gaming one day I hope to race with ya Dave.This sim racing is a blast!!!!!!

Fun drinking game: Take a shot every time he says Safety Rating

Kinda disagree with this "rush out of Rookie as fast as you can" thing in every Rookie Oval tutorial on KZfaq. Yes, hanging out in the back then pacing so you can hot lap the oval alone is great for SR, but you're wasting the learning experience. Charlotte and USA Speedway are specifically chosen to help you learn techniques you'll need on every other oval in the sim. Rushing through them, you'll wind up in a higher class and be miserable, because you didn't learn how to pass and defend safely or keep race pace and now your iRating is so low you're in the bottom split every time. That means worse drivers, more wrecks, and a death spiral for your fun as it can feel impossible to climb out of the hole you've dug. You don't have to race hard or go for podium in Rookie Ovals, but you should absolutely be racing, even if that means risking your SR sometimes. Better to risk it learning important skills when you're still a Rookie, rather than cause cautions and stress over the danger of a demotion in higher classes.

Decided to try oval racing in the street stocks for the first time yesterday and thought I'd do some searching on YT and the first dude I run into is my man Dave Cam! This should be good.

Mac Evad almost sounds like "Max Evade" which is a great name for this video. :D

im nearly a c-class iracer (3.70) and ive always tried staying towards the back but get caught up in wrecks that block the whole track, i never thought to just do a really slow start to get away from everyone else :) since i have lost nearly 400 irating from staying at the back i get put into lobbies with people that may not be as fast

I started iRacing Thursday that night I made D class it's not hard lol I did it with 3 top 5 and 2 wins just race clean and smart listin to this guy he definitely knows what he is talking about!

Biggest tip lift off the throttle!

I just started this series,got my D last night. I gotta be honest, this is the best, closest racing I’ve ever had.

iRacing needs to make this video a required watch before your first race.

A good way to start of iracing is doing a lot of hosted sessions to be ready for official races, i raced a bunch of sprint cars, dirt streets stocks, modifieds, and more. Then went to d class in about 2 days. I was in hosted sessions about 3-5 months, but shouldve just done 1 month. But still, hosted is the way to go for practice to get into official races.

I down a few lagers and finish with a vodka shot before my iRacing sessions. Only works with experienced users.

in 3 months i got to B class on road, my irating is quite low but next time i renew my subscription i will take care of that. What i'would recommend is to follow the same things he says on this video, just keep distance, stay out of the line for turn 1 because a lot of people looks like doesnt know how the brakes works and scan people on the grid. Most importantly know the track, or at least learn how to move in case of an accident

Awesome Dave. Just love your attitude to iRacing.

Good video. Even a year later there is some good information there. Thank you.

I’ve used some of the advice I’ve learned here in Nr2003, which is the predecessor to this game.

Here is a tip: only turn left and sometimes turn right Take my advice cuz I won 5 street stock races in a row at USA and the streak is still going

I'm an A Class driver and although I drive faster, I follow exactly the same rules that Dave pointed out here!!!

In a few words, survive the race

I had no idea safety rating kept going until all cars passed the start finish

Raced all the time on NR2003. Trying to get situated where i can start Iracing

anyone finding this video now, Run Rookie Legends for SR now, they are way cleaner.

A true gent is that DaveCam 👍

Road oval racing to me has the most clean and respectful drivers , not all the time tho expecially in rookie class lol

I appreciate your videos, thank you.

Awesome content for people getting into Iracing!

Thanks for this!

Getting started this week, as soon as my wheel gets here. What do you think about the Street Stock cars?

That Jordan shalalaa person that disconnected races go karts in Australia with me

I’m new to IRacing how do you get to the box on the right to make changes on tires and fuel

I find it kinda harsh that he said “every time there’s an accident that 10 car is near” the 10 car was in the next corner and he witnessed the car in front get loose and spin yet still blamed the 10 car for it

Mac Evad= (how to) Make a class Evade. Just a coincidence it's dave cam backwards.

I’ve had iracing for 2 and a half years and am A class, still watched it anyways lol

I love Irace because this mindset, "Safety first", but to play in Brazil is so expensive when you need to convert dolar to reais.

What is a season in Iracing?

9:44 I was spotting for the 5 car in that race lol

Can't help thinking that Mac has got all this backwards.

Mac Evad = Dave Cam

Do I have to have a gaming pc for iracing cause have PS4 and want to play it

Yea same here I was like that my boy

I like this guy hes very realistic!!

Mac Evad is Dave Cam backwards :)

I made it from rookie to class b in under 2 weeks easily.

Bailey Pitcher Is still in rookie. 2.48 oval rating so far :P lots of incidents in his history.

Instead of Mac Evad, those guys needed a Med Evac

Do you lose your rating if you go down a lap?

Is it possible to have a clean/competitive race in Rookies?

Can somebody explain what he means when he’s talking about „Buck Markers“?

One thing I dont understand is when are these promotion days, I started a few weeks ago and I am currently in C class where I got by 4.0 sr and I am already done with everything to get to B class I could get up to 4.0 sr for instant again but what I want to know is when are these promotion days ? Because some season run 12 weeks but other like 35 or so where do I see when the promotion day is ?

Can’t see your speedometer on the beginning oval be nice to

I like the video but I don't agree 100%. Obviously you should try to avoid wrecks and be cautious, but I think it's good to still learn how to race clean in rookies, otherwise they're going to get to D (or higher) and still not know how to race. It wouldn't be a problem if they were only causing problems for themselves, but usually they're running other's races.

GO GO GO!

you should do a dirt one of these

This helped me beat an a class driver with 9 wins

The birth of Mac Evad

You picked my first name for your shadow account. Cool!

Make iracing on ps4 and xbox one please

I can't believe it took me 36 laps to figure out why Mac Evad is your name...

I just started Iracing. I'm terrible. The one thing I learned after one day of turning in laps is that it's about survival not top speed.

My biggest thing is…I have mad respect for others…laying back waiting for opportunities,but seems that they never come for me…wth am I doin wrong

If you keep getting recked in the street stocks try the legend cars

Im a class c I have to wins at this track.Tips for the lines at this track 1 ride high on the Straight away 2 let go of the gas when you are a little bit before the light that has the green light 3 come in kind of early 4 keep the car on the inside for about the whole turn. And that is how you win here

Great video, ive been IRacing for a few weeks now. I think there should be a quick recovery button. I mean you can be put right back into the pits, but I mean to just be reset safely on the track to try to continue. Most accidents I get in is when a car is correcting itself after it’s already crashed.

and there we go GOGOGO chuckles and there we go hard cut so there we go

dave cam?

How did he get 0.24? When i complete a race with 0 incidents it gives me +0,12 max.

I escaped rookie class within days but switched over to steering wheel.. now I'm scared

Any recommendations on best oval cars/tracks to buy in class d to not waste any money? Cant decide whether to do late model or the nascar series

I agree with most of what you said back then Dave, but honestly, it IS a race. You don't wanna just hang back and cruise. You're meant to be fighting for position. If you're not going to race, then don't join a race. Stay in time trials to get your license promotions. Putting safety rating first is definitely crucial to anyone's development, but that doesn't mean we want to be on track with people who don't even care to try. Gun it and be mindful of those around you.

took me 4 races to get to d class

Is there no yellow flags in this game? cars upside down, spin outs etc yet no flags

Objective: Survive

dont qualify until your class C and also if your fast and given the #1 ,, thats an extra target on your door , especially if you qualify 1st js

Mac Evad = Dave Cam lol

I thought we were required to use our real names for IRacing accounts?

The dislikes are all from the #10 car. :)

15th

Wasn't hard to firgure out your name was reversed

I just did a oval street stock race I came first and I’m 14 not bad eh even for the people who don’t care

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I would love to get into iRacing as it’s very popular. But the idea of a subscription based service, then having to pay additional fees for cars and tracks (I know you do get some cars and tracks). If I then go & cancel my subscription. I’ll loose all the additional cars and tracks I’ve purchased. Going from what I’ve read online anyways.

On iracing 12 yrs... There is NO place to run and no strategy to gain this or that.. I've run in the back and had cars come out of the pits and wreck me!.. just go race.. do the best you can to win and move aside if you aren't fast enough. but there is no 'safe place' but pit lane.