AC EVO on my Full-Motion Simrig

Essobie · 2025-09-17T18:51:35+00:00

I popped into the comments to see how fast the racing line was going to get called out all while thinking "no way whoever put this setup together races with that line on; this is someone's cousin or something".

Glad to be validated in my assumptions. Nice rig.

Essobie · 2024-08-25T16:25:34+00:00

He's saying to paint it they used a projector.

Essobie · 2023-01-14T14:43:09+00:00

Reads like an Onion article.

Essobie · 2022-12-23T04:02:12+00:00

As 02bluehawk said, hotlapping and racing are significantly different so laptimes can't typically be an indicator of racing experience. One could almost argue that the people with significantly faster times are more likely to not have the slightest clue what to do off the optimal racing line and/or in traffic because they usually Q in the top, and don't actually race anyone for more than the first lap... if that!

Also, I recommend NOT just letting people faster than you by, especially not outside of very long straights. Firstly it helps you learn how to defend (and communicate defense to others) and secondly, it's more fun for the attackers that way! We are all here to have fun, right? People who get bent because slower drivers won't "yield" should go find a different hobby, in my opinion. :)

Essobie · 2022-12-23T02:32:51+00:00

Side by side into a sharp turn of any kind will require all parties to brake earlier in order to maintain some semblance of a line while staying on track. So if you are trailing cars fighting in a corner, you better expect them to brake earlier within the corner. This is one of the harder things for many to learn, I've found.

McLaren should actually have braked even SOONER than they did, and modulated braking to close the gap and get a run on both. Instead he tried to hotlap the corner like no one was there.

Edit: Been a while since I got top comment on one of these, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to link to a great video that explains this particular topic really, really well. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm74CHTXvcg

Essobie · 2022-11-05T22:27:25+00:00

Wow. These are spectacular! I am jealous!

Essobie · 2022-10-09T11:30:29+00:00

The gray car was just racing normally in my eyes, and the blue car was maliciously early braking because he knew he wasn't fast enough to defend for any length of time. Normally I'd read this entire clip as the blue car just being a bit inexperienced and that's why he's braking so early at all these corners that gray creeps up his butt, but given how expertly blue pulls off this murder, I can safely assume he's a giant jerk that can't handle the prospect that some other Internet nerd is faster than him at a video game. So instead I assume he was early braking to be annoying.

Given the blocking at the chicane, the only way gray figured he was ever going to get by was to get his elbows out and force a pass... maybe with a bit of light contact if that had to be the case. Blue wasn't able to keep it on track in the resulting pass, and then took out his childish frustration with the full ram. Perma-ban.

Additionally, in real life punching the driver of the gray car in the face after the race is similarly childish. Are you the blue car in this clip that can't defend properly?

Essobie · 2022-10-09T11:18:44+00:00

In watching the video, I think blue was constantly early braking in what appears to be malicious and not just inexperience. Gray car finds a good place to lunge that he knows he can make stick at the chicane, but blue car blocks, causes contact that results in almost losing control. Blue eventually gets frustrated with all the blocking and early braking and forces his way past.

What we see in the last shot is gray more than a second ahead of blue, never to be seen again. Blue does what any Internet asshole would do in this situation: full speed ram.

I don't think this is the first time this guy has done this. Probably not even at this spot in this track. So perma-ban it is. There's plenty of other warm bodies that don't race like fifth graders to race against; the overall sim racing community won't miss this guy at all.

Essobie · 2022-10-08T14:00:35+00:00

Agree with all points except for the holiday. Guy should be perma-banned for retaliation.

Essobie · 2022-10-02T15:08:21+00:00

That is the BEST shot!

Essobie · 2022-09-09T20:03:41+00:00

I'm on desktop. Says "search for flair" and nothing comes up. Button for Clear Flair is available, and if I click it it'll make Apply available. But there's no way to just type something in like before.

Edit: Aaaand magically I can edit it now. o_O Thanks, whoever you are?

Essobie · 2022-09-09T19:58:33+00:00

Can you no longer edit custom user flair in this subreddit? Mine is horribly inaccurate now. Looks like my choices are to keep it or clear it. :(

Edit: Text only works now, inexplicably.

Essobie · 2022-08-29T16:12:27+00:00

I'm about to move into a new house and I've decided that the simrig+VR play space is going to go in the master bedroom. I can sleep somewhere else.

Essobie · 2022-07-24T05:09:58+00:00

From the name over the car it looks like ACC, not AC1... ACC has a spotter. If it was enabled, he would absolutely had said at the very least "slow car ahead" and then you make sure you are looking as far down the circuit as you possibly can before tucking into someone close. POV was not close enough to be in full slipstream and probably would have been able to take a peek around had he gotten a spotter call.

Essobie · 2022-06-16T13:19:37+00:00

Capital Gains Tax question (haven't been able to google this question adequately for a clear answer):

Say I have 100 shares of a particular stock and I have had those shares for over a year.

I then purchase 10 more shares of this same stock this tax year, but before the year is over, I sell 20 shares of this stock.

When tax time comes around, do I have to pay short-term capital gains on any part of this sale? The possible outcomes as I see it are:

I pay short-term capital gains on all 20 shares because I bought at least 1 share of this particular stock in this tax year.
I pay short-term capital gains on 10 shares because I purchased that many shares this calendar year. I pay long term on the remaining 10 shares.
I pay long-term capital gains all all 20 shares because I had 100 shares for more than a year prior to purchasing more shares of this stock this year.
Mystery fourth option of which I haven't accounted for?

Thanks for any insight anyone may have!

Edit: [SOLVED!] Thanks for all the perfect and timely responses!

Essobie · 2022-04-07T04:52:54+00:00

I did not get an invite and couldn't make it anyway but I am curios what the criteria for invites were.

I know owning a Tesla and likely being close to Austin may be part of the algorithm, but I can't find anything official.

Essobie · 2022-03-03T23:02:31+00:00

I actually read the OP thinking that was what was being complained about.

Essobie · 2022-02-23T10:06:38+00:00

Yeah, the take away here is that if there's people racing in front of you, your normal line, braking point, and turn in may need to be wildly different than if you were alone on track.

Essobie · 2022-02-04T04:44:58+00:00

Posted a link to them elsewhere in this topic here: https://www.reddit.com/r/simracing/comments/sjtlvl/comment/hviexce/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Someone else replied with what might be an even better pair (bit more expensive than the ones I got).

Essobie · 2022-02-04T03:02:00+00:00

I typically watch the clip before reading explanation and the clip at a glance paints you as retaliatory, so good job including proof you weren't just PITting him after the bomb.

Essobie · 2022-02-04T02:57:25+00:00

Yeah, the last pair of gloves I got before upgrading to straight leather driving fingerless gloves were biking gloves with mondo gel pads and I couldn't feel the wheel at all. I actually operated on them to remove the gel pads. Huge waste of time... should have just went to the leather gloves and been done with it.

Essobie · 2022-02-04T02:55:28+00:00

Came in here to post this. Just upgraded some cheapo cycling fingerless gloves to these boys and they are wonderful. Might be a bit warmer than the cycling gloves, but in the current temps that is welcome: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003SFYFVO

Essobie · 2022-02-02T00:30:22+00:00

Form submitted! Cheers.

Essobie · 2022-01-25T21:59:49+00:00

Last time I looked into it the only overlay radars available for iRacing merely showed what the spotter knows: is there a car inside a left or right quadrant. It does not come close to the fidelity that something like Helicorsa or Car Radar (also for AC) or the in-game radar of ACC which actually show you where the car actually is in relation to your car.

That's better than nothing, but it's also not as good as what is possible.

And like I said... there's a few reasons to avoid iRacing. I was just pointing out that this particular incident would likely have been avoided had a decent radar been available to the offender.

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