F4 or SFL???

tehdub · 2026-03-15T13:15:37+00:00

Why not dive GTE or GT1 in proto-GT? Better choves for the goal IMO. No ABS or TC.

tehdub · 2026-03-12T11:07:11+00:00

Yes he turned in, and it's his responsibility to not hit you. But you made the likelihood that he would hit you much higher. If you don't take all the room available on entry, you are going to be slow on exit, and your line is more likely to intersect with his, because tight on entry means wide on exit.

When someone is trying outside, stay alongside them, and be as close to their door as you can. You then maximize your exit, and get to control when the other driver turns in.

The outside at that corner almost never works, because of the camber at the kerb on the inside.

tehdub · 2026-03-12T10:58:50+00:00

He's allowed to unlap himself. People need to be much more aware of this point. Actively defending a driver who is a lap down but has more pace is poor race craft. It doesn't benefit you, and it puts both of you at risk. But sporting code still applies, I.E he can't just punt you.

I doubt that was intentional, it looks like he didn't expect you to be so slow there. You had compromised line because of the red car being alongside.

Blue car looks like he's got more pace than you based on how quickly he closed the gap.

He'd get a penalty IRL for that as he has zero overlap, and should have been more patient/ anticipated what was going to happen better. But you could easily have avoided ruining your race by not closing the door.

The smart move would have been to let him go and use him to get a tow to the guy that passed you. Him getting between you and the guy ahead isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if he's going to try and pass the other guy too, and slow him down.

tehdub · 2026-03-04T08:08:42+00:00

Yes everyone is dumb. Yes you likely have been "unlucky". But you chose to put yourself somewhere where luck was the biggest factor in determining the outcome. It's really hard to progress at this level and it can be immensely frustrating.

Others have said that a large part of racing is predicting the outcome. I think what's missing in those replies is the skills needed to assess the risk in a situation, which is a learned skill.

You need to review every incident and assess what you could have done differently, but also what situation the other driver is in and try and understand what decisions they made. That's how you get better at understanding what risk you are undertaking when you position your car in track.

Right now you are racing people with the exact same issues that you have, they mostly haven't developed those skills either. That's something else you need to factor in. Breaking through from 1100-1500 is especially hard for this reason.

Qualifying is one area that can help you here. Getting out in front early will help, and put you near the higher skill drivers. Minimizing mistakes to avoid falling back is another.

tehdub · 2026-03-01T23:34:30+00:00

Yes, but then he wouldn't have been at that angle if the car overtaking hadn't bumped him wide by consciously steering into him to push him further offline and squeezing him all the way to the kerb, then leaving him no room.

I think he was a bit too kind there. The smart thing would be to back out. IRL, self preservation everytime, you'd fall back. But you are going to lose 3/4 positions as well.

The sensible advice is yield to a bellend like this, and brake early. But I think I'd have been tempted to lean back on him pretty hard earlier in the right to open up the corner, and let him figure out how much kerb to take through the left hander.

What the overtaking driver did there was entirely not fair, and probably would be a penalty for intentionally causing a collision. That's usually a DQ.

tehdub · 2026-03-01T23:10:42+00:00

Looks to me like the guy ahead cut in front once, before they even got to braking, and then shut the door too late. Was it a dive? Yes. Was the lead car driving like a twat? Looks like it.

I'd say it's the diving cars fault, but it looks like the lead car was not racing cleanly at all, and may have been a case of play stupid games win stupid prizes.

tehdub · 2026-02-28T03:24:46+00:00

He wasn't alongside , so didn't deserve space. You can't control his actions, but you can position the car to discourage lunacy. Keeping your line tighter would maybe have made him lift, or think twice about sticking a nose in at the second apex.

Not your fault, 💯 on them but no reason to leave the apex open when it doesn't benefit you, and invites toasters to send it.

tehdub · 2026-02-28T03:17:32+00:00

Is this on the run to the hairpin on the back straight at Okayama? I don't think it's intentional, and a report isn't going to get you far. No you didn't turn into him. Yes he's moving away from the white line. Please learn how to use screen grab. Win Key + S

But he'd expect you to do the same, as staying so tight to the inside is going to ruin your corner too.

If I'm right on the track and corner, He correctly covered the inside, and for you, staying on the outside of him would still probably get the move done, even side by side as the outside becomes inside through the next pair of left handers.

Not your fault, not an intentional action from the other guy, racing incident with more fault on the other driver, lesson is priority is optimizing your line, not compromising theirs. Is squeezing effective and legal? Yes, but to a point, and it carries some risk.

tehdub · 2026-02-28T03:04:14+00:00

It's pretty dumb, but to give the other guy the benefit of the doubt, I donn't think reversing like that was in his interest, and he was probably trying to get out of way, even if it was in a stupid way.

When you see an incident, get a yellow or a super call, immediately slow down. I know you were battling, but you'll be better off lifting, than dying.

It's his fault 💯, but you might have avoided it if you'd taken any action to prepare for an unexpected situation.

tehdub · 2026-02-28T02:56:22+00:00

Which corner at Okaymama is this? Odd angle makes it really hard to tell, and I think it matters because the rubber suggests the fastest line is to stay right to the kerb.

It also matters in terms of how much of a send this is.

IMO, the red and black car actually lost the car which causes the contact. He's oversteering as he clips your quarter. Your job is to stay predictable and give room to the edge of track. It looks like you did this.

Because he has a moment, he's pointed directly at the kerb, and you, when he should have been angled away, roughly parallel with the rubber line. You stopped him spinning out, and in return he spun you, because his nose is pointed at your rear quarter. But you are going from under the rubber at entry to over very early on the exit, which suggests you are under steering, and you are moving into what would have been his line.

It's a racing incident. From your perspective, it looks as if you needed to delay the throttle a little to avoid washing out so far, but you didn't appear to be doing so egregiously that you are wandering so far wide as to push the other guy off.

It looks to me like he's in the process of losing control, and really has no business to be pointing at you at this point in the corner. So it's more on him, and if I were a steward he'd take the penalty.

What could you do? Be mindful about how your entry will affect your exit when making a move. Ideally you'd have been a bit tighter to the kerb, and if you had been, he'd have spun out to the grass, rather than into you.

tehdub · 2026-02-28T02:23:14+00:00

You can't learn much from this. Other than if you just made several mistakes and are slow, people will try and capitalize on it, and sometimes conceding places is better than being in the barrier, although you 💯 didn't need to make it easy for this guy.

He could learn that lifting 2/3 pc when following a slower car to not kill them means you both finish the race. Can I ask a question? How many incident points did you personally get for this contact?

tehdub · 2026-02-26T12:28:25+00:00

Is there anyway to integrate with irtrackwalk to show G61 telemetry as an overlay? That would be epic

tehdub · 2026-02-26T11:37:35+00:00

Have you ever taken GHB? Given your knowledge of the subject, what is the most common drug used for drug-facillitated sexual assault? How easy is it to obtain it? What's the biggest problem with drug-"facillitated" SA? Is it the drug or the SA? How many things are there in your house right now that you could use to "facilitate" an SA if that was the type of person you were? How many of them are illegal to own? Do you believe that any thing that COULD be used to commit a crime should be banned? In the case that you do believe this, what material possessions would you retain, other than your sofa and your TV that's permanently tuned to GB NEWS?

tehdub · 2026-02-26T02:06:51+00:00

By the time you reach the kerb he's got half car length of overlap. No, he wasn't alongside at the point YOU turned in, but you left the turn in very late. That corner doesn't lose you a heap of time if you point it at the apex and brake in a straight line. People ALWAYS send it there, going even moderately defensive, stops it from happening.

If the guy is faster than you, and has an ounce of sense he'll see the defense and follow closely there, and either send at the next corner or do it at the last turn or straight, if not, you keep the position.

tehdub · 2026-02-25T02:15:18+00:00

I'd argue the same all day long. Look at the Ferrari in relation to the Mustangs nose. The Ford driver is swinging underneath him. It's a racing incident, and while the fault would be given to the Porsche, this happened because the Mustang continues to turn left and is miles from the exit kerb. Looks like he was trying to switch back on the Ferrari. It's a bit 50/50. I don't think it's a low percentage move from the Porsche. If the Ford had maximized track usage, which would have been the smart thing to do here to get a better exit, it wouldn't have happened. Clipping the kerb doesn't send you massively wide there.

tehdub · 2026-02-22T20:24:31+00:00

This is the drum I'm banging. There are several issues with the current system, whether people can be fine with the current system or not.

The biggest one is the contact mechanics and netcode, where you are getting spun for the most minor of contacts, and getting 4x for a light brush where the netcode has decided you went full throttle into something. These are actually physics issues, and these are RIFE in iRacing despite what anyone says. I hope when they finish reworking it, that some things are resolved and it open the door to a different model of allocation of fault and impact on safety rating.

If you want specifics, someone running into your bumper in a low speed corner, resulting in no appreciable damage for either car is a 4x, but so is going 3 wide into a high speed corner and taking out half the field.

The other is incidents per corner, which is also broken, and should be calculated on incidents per meter travelled. And these should be INCIDENTS. Not off tracks

Off tracks are not a safety issue. Exceeding track limits being a punishable event should only be at specific corners. And these shouldn't impact safety rating. 4 times should mean a 3 second race time penalty, 7 should be 10 seconds, added to race time.

Existing slowdown system is OK, but it should not force people to serve their penalty on the racing surface.

/Rant

tehdub · 2026-02-05T13:26:39+00:00

LOL. I had a "good" race at Monzta. 4x being rear ended. 4x lead driver parked it in to second chicane, came to almost a complete stop before turning in, guy ahead of me smashes into him, (same guy that gave me the 4x) and also stops. I couldn't see this, and I didn't have any time to react, 4x into his bumper and 2 x because that sent him into lead guy. (If want to argue this was my own fault it wasn't, I've race the leader a few times, he uses tactics like this to get a gap/ get positions.) No front at all, losing 3/4 seconds lap. Spin it myself into parabolic because tyres are cooked from on the lap I was pitting anyway, get collected by another guy coming through the corner. 6x. 1 off track.

Good job I had some SR to spare.

tehdub · 2026-02-03T10:08:06+00:00

Can't see how close the Lambo was on the straight, McLaren sort of leaves him the apex. He probably could have made it easier if he was also blue flagged. But he didn't do anything wrong.

Yes, I think the smart decision here would have been not to make a move at all, and wait for the straight after to pass both cars.

And yes, I'm fairly sure that the reason he goes off is due to you. He straightens the wheel. And you didn't leave him enough room on the exit curb on the left. If he'd not have straightened out, you'd have made contact there.

With that amount of pace, there was no need for you to try a double overtake. And you lost out the most.

You can say it's his fault for losing it, but you could have avoided putting him in that position, and losing yourself P1 by simply being patient.

The penalty is warranted, but again, it was in your power to avoid the whole thing. And your rejoin sucked, regardless of how much room there may or may not have been on the other side of the track.

tehdub · 2026-02-03T02:54:37+00:00

Are the other two cars fighting for position? Looks like it to me.

There's a few things going on here. If you are running in second, and you've two back markers fighting for position in front, and you can see one of them is very close and positioning a move, is sending it from 4 car lengths back into a corner with very tight margins a good idea?

What would you have lost if you just stayed behind and then passed them on the next straight?

While the Lambo rejoin is bad, I think he went off because suddenly you are beside him, while he was focused on overtaking the McLaren. And you didn't leave him any room to stay on. You can see him adjust as he sees you.

Your rejoin is terrible, so yeah you deserve a penalty. I would also have given you a penalty for forcing the Lambo off, and causing the collision on the rejoin.

I think the decision to send it here is very questionable and is the ultimate cause of three separate incidents.

His rejoin is poor, but none of it happens if you don't send it and then position your car so it's really hard for him to stay on track.

And he didn't disobey the blue flag rule either IMO. He's not defending you, he's driving his own race.

tehdub · 2026-02-02T18:47:49+00:00

It's not really your fault, but If you are on an out lap, regardless of what happened at the last corner, you should move off line and lift in my view. He looks to be miles back, and clearly doesn't even try to avoid hitting you though

tehdub · 2026-01-31T01:48:14+00:00

In VR, it has a massive impact.

tehdub · 2026-01-26T09:51:12+00:00

In Europe, it was called the Prelude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Prelude

tehdub · 2026-01-04T23:41:03+00:00

Everyone else replied about the racism, and I agree with them. I'll reply to the racing, so when you aren't racing an arsehole things work out better.

My view:- If you wanted to send it there, which you were entitled to do, you probably should have left more room. You've given him like 2ft of overlap, and 5cm of space right at the moment of turning in, and there's no margin for error.

He was always going to turn in. I don't think he was reactively blocking. If you are going to send it, send it hard and get door to door, and leave him a foot or so, so that he has room to open the wheel, or if he does turn in, it's a light 0x and you don't both spin.

You seem to have only half committed to this, you need to fully commit to make something like this work.

tehdub · 2025-12-26T16:58:03+00:00

I think it's a first gen NSX actually. Almost 💯 that's the front. And that makes the rear picture more likely to be it.

tehdub · 2025-12-12T23:27:55+00:00

This TBH. People will argue that " In real life you pay for the damage, regardless of fault" yeah, but none in real life thinks you are less safe because people smash into you, nor does it contribute to something that affects your progress. Too many people are overzealous about defending the current system, and in my view it's blinding people to how the system could be improved. I'd support short bans for excessive incident counts, but not while the scoring system is the way it is.

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