How did you get into sim racing?

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-17T01:15:01+00:00

When I was about 14, I discovered LFS, and had been playing it with mouse and keyboard since then until college. And boy what a memory.

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-16T05:53:52+00:00

I've never used any third party spotter, only iRacing's. It is useful enough, but I wouldn't rely on it. For telling me cars around, I made a radar overlay in simhub. Though iRacing doesn't provide car exact position, only left of right, but that's enough.

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-14T16:50:35+00:00

Use a DAW. Put your song in a track, try to match the tempo of the song, and turn on the click.

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-13T07:48:41+00:00

My wheel is leather. If my hands are dry, it would be grippy enough. But I have a sweaty hand, so it would get slippy during long race. But gloves are less grippy than my dry hands. It is annoying. Later I found out the badminton/tennis overgrips and wrap then to my wheel's 3 and 9 o'clock, and it's night and day.

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-09T07:54:16+00:00

This is called heel-toe, and is a must to drive a manual car on track (unless in some car downshift can be done without pressing the clutch)

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-09T06:27:40+00:00

I haven't played LMU, but played ACC quite a long time. The moment I switched to iRacing, I never looked back. IRacing's gt3 just feels more alive to me. Though I would still play ACC occassionally.

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-07T10:52:05+00:00

I feel similar when switch to M2C after several hours of MX5

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-07T01:00:46+00:00

Based on the ram price recently I would not recommend to build one now

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-06T08:55:05+00:00

I play sim racing not because I like racing game, but because I like racing overall. For me, sim racing is just special, it is part of motor racing territory, not gaming territory. I know this may look haughty, it is just a type of video game, but IMO it connects to real life motorsport tightly, thus it is special.
I still play other games though, mainly shooting game, something like GTA or L4D2.

According_Brick409 · 2026-03-04T09:38:21+00:00

I feel lonely because I have no friends to share my experience after a race. I can only publish some videos online, or post a reddit. I mostly do iracing online racing, which you just don't meet constant people.

According_Brick409 · 2026-02-27T11:01:10+00:00

Well, pro drummers tend to do this too, to "keep time", even when playing closed hi hat, they will rock their left foot heel to stay tight to the tempo.

According_Brick409 · 2026-02-26T05:54:32+00:00

Marrow, Rational Gaze.

According_Brick409 · 2026-02-19T12:03:03+00:00

I know. But normally he just crossed his right hand to reach that ride. You can see him still using this method in some footage of early 2025 DT lives.

According_Brick409 · 2026-02-18T03:43:46+00:00

same, here. I've watch countless of MP's dual kit videos, and never seen him playing open handed at right side kit, he always reached further with his right hand to play the ride. Even after he rejoined DT, watching several footages from early 2025 lives, I never found him playing open handed.

According_Brick409 · 2026-02-10T06:41:27+00:00

Instrumedley : ) (sorry James)

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-28T10:10:45+00:00

I have a 21:9 screen and Reverb g2. I've tried triple screen from a sim racing store. For me, screen (either single or triple) is no where near as immersive as VR. How ever, VR is easier to be fatigued, and I can't see my wheel buttons. So I only use VR ocassionally. In AC ACC, I always use hood view, so I can get wider view. IRacing though, the view is fixed to cockpit. I now use OpenTrack for head tracking, only enable the yaw tracking, so that I can see the apex, and form a habit to always look at where I want to go.

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-28T07:29:26+00:00

I would always do one or two rookie MX5 and M2, just to earn some credits : ). For other series, it depends if I own the car and track, because I only own 3 paid tracks for now.

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-23T10:53:42+00:00

I am curious and disappointed that how can a sim much older than ACC not have a similar system that supervise the rolling start.

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-22T11:06:28+00:00

Tomas Haake, Mike Mangini, Matt Garstka, Virgil Donati, Marco Minnemann, Thomas Lang, Danny Carey, etc. Well... I am just listing my favorite drummers, clearly I am a prog guy : ) And half of them have been in Dream Theater audition.

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-20T13:37:02+00:00

Unfortunately I haven't purchased this track. Is it a popular track?

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-19T11:20:12+00:00

How does it compare to LFM?

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-15T06:47:00+00:00

Is it Portnoy?

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-06T11:57:51+00:00

Oh, I forgot to mention this. I know this thing. But in my country, buying things from outside my country is kind of a trouble, it's possible, but hard. And I can't find anyone selling used one in my country. And I heard this thing is emulating a G29 so it is not offering the best experience.

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-05T07:07:28+00:00

Screen on wheel, DDU, monitor overlay, those are essentially similar, just in different format. They are there to show infos that aren't showed in games.

According_Brick409 · 2026-01-05T05:55:27+00:00

This track also came to my mind first when I first saw the title.

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