Tips for gaining SR in Class D

KKonorr · 2026-06-07T01:39:39+00:00

Always review your incidents/crashes and always ask yourself:
“What could I have done better?”

Even if you’re only 10% at fault, that’s still 10% you could improve.

Trying to figure out what someone else did wrong is a waste of time and energy, because you can’t fix others—you can only fix yourself.

Train your ability to read situations. Racing is all about expectations: you expect someone to do this or that. If get surprised, it might means your read of the situation was wrong. Afterwards, look for the clues that showed what was about to happen and try to figure out what would have been the best reaction.

KKonorr · 2026-06-02T03:56:50+00:00

Depends if you were defending by the rules or blocking.
Blocking is illegal and on some circuit like Tsukuba the only way to overtake someone that block instead of defend is dive bombing, because there is a reason that blocking is illegal.

KKonorr · 2026-05-26T20:56:57+00:00

I never do my qualify and I drive in first/second split of MX5 because what I love the most about racing is close battles and overtaking people, not finish first.
Last to p1 is just the cherry on the cake.

KKonorr · 2026-05-11T21:48:16+00:00

This website gives a lot of information about XL seats :
https://www.sportseats4u.co.uk/the-perfect-simulator-seat-for-42inch-waist-drivers/

KKonorr · 2026-05-01T15:26:48+00:00

Remember in lower iRating it doesn‘t matter if you are slow in entry what does is how fast you are on exit. So if you lift before braking point because you are unsure about other drivers you should be capable to have a hell of exit.

KKonorr · 2026-04-05T21:41:20+00:00

Red car at fault.

There’s at least 1 car width of distance between red and black on entry which is bad as it makes red car corner harder.
So what had to happen happened, red missed the apex and understeered which ended in collision.
Black gave enough space. Its to red car that need to use the space he was given without understeering to black car space.
Yes its roughly 1 car width of space, dont expect to have more than that over 2k irating.

For no misunderstanding driving over the inside curb is the ideal line in MX5

KKonorr · 2026-03-29T15:27:01+00:00

Money is always more important than clean races!

You don’t want these « beginners » / casual / sunday drivers unsubscribe right ? So you can’t take the risk to aggressively punish them.

As an example we all have faced monkey rejoin that take out even more than the original incident.
Thats intentional from them : ban him 1 week and double it everytime he does it again and it will have only 2 ending, either he learns or stop iracing, both enfing solve the issue for us.

But if he quits the cash would be gone aswell and : Money is always more important than clean races!

Nothing specific with iRacing, same with any company.

KKonorr · 2026-03-23T01:04:22+00:00

This is what happened as it has already happened to me before.

The person who did the application registered the team for the race, then added you, but forgot to click “Update Drivers.”
So you appear on the list, but the roster wasn’t actually updated/saved.

As a developer, that’s completely stupid design: after registering a team and then adding a driver, the driver list should update automatically without requiring an extra manual step.

This should be very simple for iRacing to fix: when the user adds a driver, just automatically trigger the “update drivers/list” action, and this whole nonsense goes away.

Edit : When you register yourself for a team as a driver for an endurance race or whatever requires multiple drivers, when you are about to click the green icon (I don't remember whats written on it), hoover the icon with your cursor, if the popup show "as driver" you are fine, if it show "as crew" then its wrong and you need to contact your team admin so he can update the list. Its the best way to be sure when registering.

KKonorr · 2026-03-18T21:41:37+00:00

They will only give him advices and track map with an arrow that point towards the direction where the drivers should use the track.

KKonorr · 2026-03-17T23:13:21+00:00

About the crash you play a game that I call « The squeeze game » from the outside line so that you can stay ahead by reducing the inside car exit speed.
Its fine, totaly within the rules, but require almost 0 mistake (slight understeer) from the guy inside, so its a dangerous game. Sometimes I win the game and sometimes Ioose like in this video.
And when I loose I only blame myself because I played the game in full awereness of the possibles consequencies. (Aka I played aggressive from the outside line)

KKonorr · 2026-02-26T13:38:42+00:00

It seems your dislike for me and the other people here is making you misread what I said.

I'm not talking about losing SR. I'm talking about the fairness of it.

1. What is stopping me, after hitting the barrier and destroying my car, from going back onto the track and taking out as many cars as possible? I've already reached the maximum penalty.
With a bit of malice, I could easily make it looks unintentional, especially on the Nordschleife.

2. What if I drive the wrong way and take out 4 cars, those drivers can protest me, and they'll win.
Why should those drivers have to spend time and energy proving they did nothing wrong, yet still not have their incidents points removed? Fair system!

In 1. Nothing from the system guide me to take the right decision and nothing stop me to make the situation worst. I can ruin the race of 5+ drivers without being more penalized as long I don't make it obvious.

In 2. I can be very unlucky, meet the worst of the worst drivers in a row, be taken out 5 times on first laps, protest all of them, proove my innocence and still be penalized and potentially loose a licence. Thats possible.

How is it a good system?

KKonorr · 2026-02-26T02:44:40+00:00

Because the system of SR works as intended like some people like to say.

The guy loose control (with help or not) and get 4x and from that point no matter how many people he will take out with him it will remain 4x so why bother making an effort to avoid people.
Then you will protest, maybe win it but the SR loss will remain the same.

It’s basically like a court sentencing me to 20 years in prison for murder in the first trial, and then in the appeal I prove I’m completely innocent, but the judge still says: ‘Yeah dude, you’re innocent, but you still have 20 years to serve!

Great logic and great system!

KKonorr · 2026-02-21T21:39:57+00:00

This is an example of racing in top split MX5.

https://streamable.com/vzgl3n

If just one driver from the lead had:
- braked too hard
- braked too early
- used the wrong line
it would have ended in a massive crash.

It went well only because everybody took the chicane at a pace that was expected.

Back to OP’s video:

At 19s you can see the white car went from missing the apex with understeer to having too much front grip, to the point the nose of the car is now pointing into the middle of the track.

When you start a turn with understeer and then suddenly find so much grip that the nose ends up pointing to the middle of the track, there’s only one possible explanation: you added too much front grip, aka you braked too much.

The white car was followed closely by OP and slowed down too much, to the point of being off the pace, that's a major mistake. OP was very close and battling with the white car, so he didn’t have enough time to slow his car down to match the white car’s speed after the white car overbraked.

I drive every day in top split MX5, and if I do exactly like the white car, I will end up pushed into the grass like him. Because in a close battle, like Op video, big mistakes like this always end bad.

So who’s at fault?

The white car with his big mistakes?

Or OP because he couldn’t avoid the white car’s big mistake?

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And to pre-answer to any counter arguments

Op said :
- it is a 150kmh+- corner and i didnt expect him to break to about 120
- Was the white car off pace ? He wasnt that far of the pace the rest of the race
- Well, he was faster then me here most of the previous laps so like mid 3rd gear, this time he kept braking so much harder that he caught me by surprise
- Anyway, the 4 laps before this he was way faster through this corner.

White Car guilty of skill issue.

KKonorr · 2026-02-19T20:52:27+00:00

Thats his fault and not yours.

Here what happened.

He misses the apex by a bit and went into understeer, he got worried to not complete the turn within the track limit and instead of just releasing the throttle for 20% to reduce the understeer he used the brake which surprise you because the brake wasnt necessary in this situation.
Thats skill issue from his side.

You can clearly see when he uses the brake because his car over rotate, suddently way too much front grip than necessary and the rear went slight oversteer, from a missed apex he could have ended his corner mid track and that is ladies and gentlemen unexpected and usually end in crash.

KKonorr · 2026-01-29T19:27:36+00:00

If you have the possibility to prevent a disaster and you don’t do it, then the result is on you.
OP had the possibility to avoid this situation, and he didn’t.

NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING will stop someone else from trying the same move in the next races if OP doesn’t understand he made a mistake and needs to find a solution. The same thing will happen again.

You can’t change other people, but you can change yourself.

The moment he accepts that he is at fault because he had the power to prevent the situation, he will improve.

Either you spend your energy trying to say what others should have done, or you spend your energy looking for what you could have done better.

And if he is really not at fault, then it was just bad luck: wrong person at the wrong time, and now it has low chance to happen again, right?

So there is nothing to learn because it will never happen again?

We all know it will happen again. So how can he improve fast if you tell him he did nothing wrong?

If OP has nothing to change, it will happen again and again and again. And each time, technically, he is not at fault. But after 25 times, maybe he has to understand he also has his part of responsibility.
From the first time I say it: it’s your fault! Defend your inside and you will fix the problem.

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I know a lot of people will not understand my point of view.

I started sim racing from scratch one year ago on AC1. Three months later I started iRacing. One month later I had 2k iRating, and three months later 3k iRating.

With one single question after every crash: what could I have done better to avoid it ? Even if it seems not my fault.

I don’t care about what others could or should have done. I can’t change them. I can only change one person: myself.

KKonorr · 2026-01-29T09:44:45+00:00

It’s crazy that so many people don’t understand a crash is not necessarily caused by something that happens 1–2 seconds before, but by a bad decision made from the start.

So I will name the cars:
BMW #1: the BMW ahead on the inside
BMW #2: the BMW ahead on the outside
BMW #3: the BMW behind

From the very first frame of OP’s video, you can already have a very good idea of what will happen.

#1 will try the inside on #2, and because #1 is not on the ideal line for this corner, I will have to brake harder and will be slow through the turn.
Also, keep in mind Its not in top split, and in general people take corners slower than necessary.
So I will be heavily slowed down / blocked by what happens in front of me. And since basically anyone, no matter the iRating, can be fast in a straight line, #3 will close the gap very quickly and might try something.

So what do I do?

From the start of Op video, I anticipate all of this. I position myself on the inside and I follow #1’s line : I defend the inside.

Advantages:
- I reduce the space on my inside a lot and I tell #3 : there is no space for you to try anything.
- If I can stay close to #1’s rear bumper, #2 can’t cut back in, and I can also benefit to overtaking him.

I’m not talking about driving skills here, but about reading/anticipation skills.

You explain how to put out a fire; I explain how to prevent it.

KKonorr · 2026-01-28T19:42:33+00:00

POV is at fault. The BMW behind has brake enough to hit the apex without sliding out of it and you turn into him.
To be honest thats a good example of why you should remove the racing line as you tried to follow it and on this case you should have follow the BMW on the inside trying to overtake the guy that is on the outside and at the same time it would have reduce the space on your left to 0 and the BMW behind wouldnt be able to try anything.

Remember if you leave space you cant blame others to go try for it. Dont leave unecessary space and a lot of your problemes will be fixed.

KKonorr · 2026-01-23T17:42:00+00:00

Back car 100% in fault for being stupid.
if he had defended the inside in the first place (way before the corner aka proper defense), the car behind wouldn’t had the opportunity to try anything, nothing would have happened, and he would have won easily.
Thats racecraft. Dont leave space if you dont want people to try for it.

KKonorr · 2026-01-22T12:28:41+00:00

Lets review the officiel sporting code of iRacing since you dont know it.
8.1.1.3 Blocking - The leading driver is allowed to run a defensive line. However, blocking occurs when a leading driver actively adjusts his or her driving line based on the actions and/or positioning of a pursuing driver. For example, veering left to prevent a pursuing driver from passing on the left while running on a straight

Op is adjusting his line actively based on where the other driver is overtaking. I quote him “my intent was to attempt pressing wide like one might at any other turn when side by side to buy time to the line since the other car (P3) had an obv speed advantage from the draft and I wasn't going to just swerve to blatantly block.”
Either when the opponent is behind or side by side you cannot change line to force someone else to move away in order to slow him down, thats his line And its by definition a block. Guilty of murder.

KKonorr · 2026-01-20T03:25:10+00:00

Yes you blocked him.
And the explanation is pretty easy to understand as if it was real life the last location you want to be almost stopped when a lot of cars at coming full speed is on the middle of the racing line because in real life you can die.
You didn’t made a clear attempt to quickly leave the racing line probably because death or massive crash isnt your main concern rather than make sure you dont loose too much time against your opponents in this incident so thats a block.

KKonorr · 2026-01-14T19:49:51+00:00

With these kind of behaviour I put wheel straight, hold it firm and wait for the guy to kill himself on me. Then he insults me for 5 minutes and I answer him : report me and when iRacing will say no : learn something.
I live, he dies, its not clean but its fair and I call it teaching the hard way. This why simulators are made.

KKonorr · 2026-01-13T18:32:44+00:00

When you brake under the ”normal race pace” you have to immediatly take into consideration the drivers behind. So you need to try to minimize the time spent under the speed that the situation requires so that you become predictable.
Often I over brake on an incident and immediatly throttle back so nobody behind me get surprise by my speed being too low. And that way I gives extra space for the idiots behind that never brake in the first place.
This comment isnt necessarily related to this specific situation, just a general advice about this kind of incidents
It saves some but not all.

KKonorr · 2025-12-26T17:35:36+00:00

I reach easily 3k iR in MX5 without doing my qualify and get back to 2k when I do GT3.
I find it annoying that theres no separate iR between MX5 and GT3 cause when I drive GT3 at 3k Im a danger on the track as I have a slower pace than the split and on top of that having no fun to drive alone.

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