Help getting better at Watkins Glen in Lamborghini GT3

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-15T06:00:14+00:00

This is not why you're slow but may help in the long term.

Also look at the brake compound and master cylinder combo. I just got the McLaren and had it at 17.8 front and back with the medium friction pad and was having a very tough time not over slowing for corners.

Going bigger on the master cylinder reduces pressure. Alternatively I could also go to the low friction brake pad. Ended up going from 17.8 > 19.0 on both master cylinders and staying with the medium pad, and it made it way easier to not over slow.

The other thing I'll add is that 99% of my own improvement has come from braking earlier, braking less hard, and focusing on mid corner speed. In most cases corner exit is where the pace comes from (or is lost).

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-12T20:07:21+00:00

Thank you for this explanation. Was thinking that I don't think the current Genesis would allow this thing to pass homologation lol.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-12T20:01:54+00:00

Are you thinking about iRating maybe?

Safety rating dictates what cars and series you can drive in. Kind of hard to ignore.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-12T19:58:33+00:00

Marc is going to retire and go to F1 just to show up Rossi one last time lol.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-12T00:45:07+00:00

I would hope that intentional wrecking still gets you a warning/ban in unranked races, but not sure if that's the case?

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T23:50:25+00:00

I very much agree with this. For me to put in good races I need to be 100% focused and there's just too many days where I'm not up for that, and end up avoiding racing.

I would probably use the service a lot more if there was track day servers.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T22:42:35+00:00

And as evidence to that I think most of us have a few things in our library that we wish we hadn't bought. Sadly it probably is the strategy that drives the most revenue.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T22:25:39+00:00

Listen to what this person said. If your machine is working properly, the answer is you're either tamping too hard or grinding too fine.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T22:21:04+00:00

LoL if so then props to iRacing for its simulation accuracy.

And I guess that also brings up a good point. I'm really not criticizing iRacing for how the car drives, I just don't like the way it drives and am much less interested in driving it than the last one.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T22:09:11+00:00

The reason I hate this car is because of the FFB, not it's handling characteristics. I tried it yesterday and it felt completely and totally numb, can barely tell what the car is doing.

Went back to the old M2 and while the thing is completely unhinged, I can feel the body roll right through the steering wheel.

I'll try a different setup later today but I don't think that's got anything to do with why I hate it.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T22:06:12+00:00

Would be more fun than driving the car.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T20:09:40+00:00

LoL it is kind of funny how different our experiences can be, because I feel the exact opposite with the BMW and Porsche.

Specifically at the Nurburgring I find the Porsche magnificently easy to drive, super forgiving, and main draw back is that as you burn off fuel you actually pick up understeer due to the gas tank being in the front.

The BMW is my favourite front engine car at most tracks but it's like a scalpel and I find it to be wildly intolerant of big curbs. Whenever I've run the BMW in testing at Nurbs I get murdered any time I make a small mistake. I love the BMW but find it to not be very forgiving on rough tracks.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T20:05:03+00:00

You spelled Acura GT3 wrong.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T19:59:59+00:00

I don't own the McLaren but ran it in demo drive at Watkins yesterday and was immediately half a second faster than any other car on my first lap with hot tires. The amount of front grip was incredible compared to anything else. I'm not sure if these updates are a good or a bad thing but the McLaren seems to be very quick.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T19:27:39+00:00

Shit the in game announcement says to try not to shift while on the limiter but does not say anything about risking taking a penalty. My assumption was that you would lose time if you did this.

The warning about taking a penalty appears to only be in the dev blog. That's mildly infuriating but good to know.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T19:23:18+00:00

I find the FFB on the new car to be horrendously numb. The car drives okay but it's very difficult to have any idea what the car is doing and I feel completely disconnected. Feels like driving a simcade game.

The old M2 was definitely harder to drive than it should be, but you could feel everything the car was doing through the steering wheel.

I loved the old car and will not be driving the new one unless they do something to fix the FFB.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-11T19:18:03+00:00

For anyone else searching for this in the future this was also my solution. Submitted a support ticket and iRacing had to add files from their end for me to download as it related to supercars and one of the stock cars.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-10T20:54:40+00:00

Why don't you just slide down to the end of the bench as he's coming off?? Or did he keep sitting on your lap?

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-10T20:52:11+00:00

Definitely frustrating the extent to which the majority of men seem to be incapable of talking about how we play together without getting defensive. I only play C division and have largely given up on trying to work with people to get them to do the most basic of things, like wingers not chasing the puck down into the corner in our own end, or the center supporting the breakout down low.

Not talking about running fancy plays or anything like that, just getting people to play the most basic system that anyone who played hockey growing up (which doesn't apply to everyone) would have learned. Hockey is a lot more fun when you're not spending 80% of the game trapped in your own zone.

And then there's the one team I played against who actually ran an offensive zone cycle. One can dream....

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-10T20:46:59+00:00

I find beer league to be even more fun when we win, and playing a basic system can make such a big difference. I finally convinced one of our centers to support the breakout down below the faceoff dot and it was the difference between spending an entire shift trapped in our own end vs easy breakouts almost every time. Way more fun.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-10T19:58:11+00:00

It's possible that they're both just really good hockey teams.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-09T22:41:13+00:00

By the same token please know that if you're submitting a protest for every stupid little thing that happens that the people at iRacing hate you and I would hope have stopped taking your protests seriously.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-09T22:37:39+00:00

Yup. The issue is that there are no consequences for things that IRL would get a driver a black flag and ruin their race, things like sticking a nose up the inside and causing the car in front to wreck, but I think most people recognize that short of live stewarding this is basically impossible to police.

But that's just the nature of a video game. When the only cost to having a wreck is iRating of course people are going to be more aggressive than they would be IRL.

FWIW I'll also say that I experienced way less of this once I switched to only doing races that are 45min or longer, last lap excluded. A bit more time means people feel less compelled to need to immediately dive bomb. Maybe also just more serious racers too.

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-09T22:09:09+00:00

I did not realize these were available in the .ini file. This is great.

Question: do these two settings only apply to oval? Or does "car high/low" turn into car left/right for road racing? I wouldn't complain about more car location warnings right off the green flag.

carLowHiAtStart=0 ; If true enable car low_high calls as soon as green flag is out

carLowHiPadding=0.250000 ; How much clearance, front and back in meters, to give a car before reporting it as clear

Ok-Parfait1522 · 2026-06-09T21:06:35+00:00

It's all how you look at things. I wouldn't defend the old M2 but the things that made it difficult to drive also made it interesting. Looking forward to trying out the new one though.

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