absolute legend :)

I knew it

Keep on keeping on! I had a similar experience, there is a person in my community who uses their initials NEM in capitals to sign off posts. Has done for 30 years. :)

Thanks for sharing! Yours Ryan

Whattup Vern! Holy s/

TY!!

he was in my sebring 12h split, nice to share track with him

vern is sweet

someone once calculated how much time vern had spent typing Yours Vern at the end of each post. his posts were in the multiple thousands, so it was a significant amount of time.

Oh hi Nate

My name in iracing is Michael and I never thought to do that. Every single time from now on I promise. 👍

“Mic check” is really nostalgic for me every time. Years ago before I had my own account, I would play on my dads, who’s name is Mike. Every time somebody would ask for a mic check, I would always reply “I’m here!”. Now that I play on my own account I can’t do that, but it’s a nice reminder of my first days of iRacing.

I even saw someone named Mike Czech lol

Amazing

@@Boss-Possumyou’re the man lol. hope to see ya out on track.

Thank you!

Same

Omg same bro. I’m so surprised

Bro it's simple read the sporting code: "If a ttRating update for you is warranted, the ratio of your new Time Trial Best Time to the best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for any customer at this Car Class / Track Configuration combination is computed. This “normalizes” this Time Trial Session’s contribution to your ttRating by putting the value for this Car Class / Track Configuration combination into the same “units” as for any other Car Class / Track Configuration combination. That is, its contribution is just your “percentage” of the best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for any customer for the given Car Class / Track Configuration combination. If you just set a new best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for that Car Class / Track Configuration combination, your “percentage” will be 100. If you were 1.5% slower than the best-ever, your “percentage” will be 101.5. Your ttRating for the license type in use is then computed by combining your “percentages” for each of the most recent 8 Track Configurations for which you registered a Time Trial Best Time using the same license type, regardless of which Car Class was used. Your combined percentage is then scaled to put it into a similar set of units as iRating. Since your ttRating only includes your most-recent 8 Track Configurations, this can lead to some unexpected ttRating changes. For example, though you might have just set a better Time Trial Best Time at this Car Class / Track Configuration combination than you had previously set, your ttRating could actually decrease if the new calculation has dropped a previous better overall performance from the calculation, or if the new calculation has dropped your previous Time Trial Best Time for the same Car Class / Track Configuration combination. Your ttRating might also decrease even if you set a better Time Trial Best Time using this Car Class / Track Configuration combination than your previous run if in the interim someone else has set a new best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time of any customer on the service at that same Car Class / Track Configuration combination. In this case, even though you set a better personal-best time, your “percentage” became worse, because it’s now being compared against an even better reference time. As ttRating is a measure of competitive performance skill for time trials, it is only adjusted up or down whenever a time trial event is completed."

@@DJYeeJay Actually doesn't sound *too* tricky - it seems essentially that the rating is determined based on who is closest to the best times set of their last 8 time trials. For instance, if your 8 times were all 105% of the best time, your total would be 840%. Someone else who set 7 best times and an eighth that was 140% of the best would be equal, as their total would also be 840%. It also says that improvements might still make your rating worse if it bumps out a now-ninth time trial percentage that was better than the newest one, if it bumps out a percentage from the same exact combination that was better, or if your improvement on the current attempt actually resulted in a worse percentage because someone lowered the best time by too much. 🙂

Worlds best iracing oval driver is using laptop and wooden chair…..ok. I give up.

hah, yeah. Knew what it was as soon as it came up. If you're not on the forums, it wouldn't parse.

So much stuff going on on those tracks since the F4 GP Explorer organized by French KZfaqr Squeezie.

Very cool! Thanks for the info

They have equal cars so that’s a no brainer

He even confirmed this that sim racing in general is his true passion. Just type his name and add ''sim racing is not a game''

Whaaa whaaaa whaaaa... That's all I read, did you meant something?

I absolutely can not stand cheaters. Why play at all.

@@steveduerr6367 I hope you aren't a NASCAR fan...

I appreciate you appreciating!

@@DJYeeJay And I appreciate you appreciating appreciation

@@snail3 And I appreciate you appreciating appreciation of the appreciation

aka Paul Covic?

Thats a cool story! leave it to clint to leak

Thanks JD!! We'll see idk if that's possible hahaha

I was actually Lake’s spotter that day and I’ll prob make a vid about the story eventually haha. Was a crazy few days

Make sure you reach out when you do.

Same here I knew there were a lot of road stories, but there was definitely more than I thought. Thanks for helping out!

I'd definitely believe just based off of number of data points

Thanks a ton!

Thank you!!!

Thank you!! GL in rd 2

The best part of these videos is you can watch a few minutes at a time and come back later haha

@@DJYeeJay i'm still gonna watch it all the way through

a month later i finally finished it

@@turbo_marc insane hahahaha

oh yaaaa thanks

With tanking there are people who will literally sign up for races and not joining. Joining something you’re bad at and just having fun is great. I don’t do that enough myself

Thank you!!!

Mad lad!!! No problem thanks for watching!

Sometimes my PC will change audio input devices, either on a system level or iracing specifically, so I often ask for a mic check in my first race of the day. However, my 'mic check' just involves me finding a Mike or Michael in the field and asking if they are here. Prevents me from being 'that guy'© and now I have like 42 Mike friends.

Admins ruining a competition? Never heard of that one before 🤣

@@DJYeeJaythere was some really crazy shit going on in that league hahahaha, too much to write in a single paragraph ahahaha

ah crap we were talking about clean race from nyc at one point

@@DJYeeJay no big deal lmao 10/10 video

I didn't know that much of this, it was a community effort! GL on arca feel free to ask the discord with questions

Thanks I appreciate it!

ahhh I thought he did the multi account trick my bad

@@DJYeeJay Many have

​@@DJYeeJay He did that at least once at Bathurst, but I think iRacing eventually decided that they didn't want people doing that any more and made rules against it

Rence the Fence did both Bathurst 12hr and Watkins Glen 6hr solo this year and won both events, but was disqualified.

Thanks a lot!

Thank you! I’ll still be at work sorry 😞

I'm going to mark things as unsourced if I do not have a source I can easily pull up. (Unsourced) Austin was generally being negative towards other users as well. For the record, when he was banned I believe he mentioned on his own blog that he was offered a full refund.

(Unsourced) Scott Dixon is a MUCH deeper rabbit hole than even you'd want to get into. It may be partly why Indycar left... [Imagine being Penske and being told iRacing was threatening a star of yours with a ban for their behavior.] iirc they just weren't taking it seriously either which was impacting other drivers on the service, but its been too long for me to recall.

(Source: Just logic of the car.) Meatball in rallycross - You can't pit, so you can't get a meatball [A few places don't even let you back into "pit road"]. You can absolutely blow your engine by hitting a wall too hard or other things. It's not indestructible. Just, well, if you can't pit, it can't tell you to go pit :D

(source: it was somewhere on the iRacing forums) BOP on new content: They have strictly stated this doesn't happen and provided datasets countering it on the forum. A prime example of this is the Lambo GT3 which required them to actually lower the performance of all the other cars around it to balance the BOP, iirc. I won't say it's 100% true it doesn't happen (as you said, they are a business), but I wanted to point out that they DID address it directly (and actually sounded quite sincere to me) I'll see if I can find this one. But they have stated a number of cars were actually worse than older cars upon release and did provide examples. Whether folks accept that as evidence or not is not the point of me saying this.

(source: Secret) Indycar's issue with the tire model was that it was too hard compared to real life. You couldn't lean on the rear right of the car at all without losing it. This has been since fixed since the NTMv7 updates as well as later tweaks. It was actually in quite a good spot, from my understanding from some folks in Indy themselves prior to Indycar changing hands to MSG (which is why a lot of folks got really upset because it JUST became fun to drive afaik) NASCAR drivers were vocal about this as well, but the indycar folks got really scathing and insulting about it.

Don’t know about that one unfortunately

@@DJYeeJay Im happy to send over all the info i have if you wanna know more?

Just added ones for the tiers

Ya you’re right but it was definitely a big deal to iRacing back in the early days and they still call their tech “proprietary”

ohh thank you! I don't go on forums much lol last time I did I got hardcore gaslit by an iracing staff member lmaoooo

It went as expected

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@@DJYeeJay thaaaanks!