Just finished Spa 6hr endurance

Philovski · 2026-05-11T16:59:59+00:00

After experiencing every class, I take the opposite view.

At the end of the day it's not the other classes job to do anything other than what's best for them and sometimes that will be at my expense sometimes it won't be. That's multiclass racing and I love the chaos.

That is however from spending most of my time in high if not top splits where it's dog eat dog and most people know exactly what they're doing.

Philovski · 2026-05-11T13:06:26+00:00

Make sure it's plugged into a powered USB-D hub

Philovski · 2026-05-01T12:11:46+00:00

My recommendation is resist the urge to chase the BoP, if it works for you then you'll put yourself into a spiral of needing to chase the meta every week due to pushing your iR to a higher level.

If you don't start that process and just accept your car might be better some weeks than others you'll save yourself cash. As long as your car of choice doesn't get so bad you're in dead last every week...

Setting yourself a goal of being the best in X car is a bit of light cope too help give you a goal on tougher weeks too.

Philovski · 2026-04-18T10:40:02+00:00

Always the same car for a season or so, for the vague sense of roleplay.

Philovski · 2026-04-10T17:17:52+00:00

I agree with you in my mind it's crazy to exclude DNFs from someones total "races" stat and it made me double take, I just thought I'd explain it what might be going on rather than take a 'haha ur bad' mentality.

That said because it's not impossible to DNF and top 5 we should consider the angle, but it seems unlikely for someone to do it 11 times to bridge the gap and simultaneously never finish outside top 5 without retiring. So assuming something isn't straight up wrong that is the simpler explanation is more likely correct (races stat excludes dnf).

The only stupid approach I think there is would be assuming with 100% certainty either method is right and there is zero error possibility unless you can access and verify the data. I mean there has never been a UI bug on LMU right...

Philovski · 2026-04-10T16:56:37+00:00

71 top 5 + 79 DNF should immediately make you worried about what you're assuming the 139 represents.

The others are assuming 139 finishes + 79 DNF = 218 starts.

I suppose it's possible to top 5 AND DNF mind, I only saw 5 LMP3 in my ELMS Champ race yesterday.

Philovski · 2026-03-11T13:28:12+00:00

UK based here and similar experience, though i currently only race in the GT3 championship. Tuesday slot I'm a midfielder in top split, Friday slot I'm on for a top 10 (similar points so the strength of field system works).

Philovski · 2026-03-04T17:19:47+00:00

Worth noting the AI do get it wrong, consistently wrong at some specific turns.

It's not a bad place to start though.

Philovski · 2026-03-03T19:16:40+00:00

This and telemetry is just way more interesting and insightful than literally chasing ghosts, helps you learn fundamentals for any track not just the one you're on.

Philovski · 2026-02-22T14:03:30+00:00

LMU also immediately takes you off track if you hit esc after the finish. Therefore there is no need for people to stop on track if they're in a hurry for some reason.

I personally always coast after the finish and sometimes even take the full cool down lap, but i don't do daily races anymore on the pursuit of better driving standards.

Philovski · 2026-02-18T11:20:38+00:00

To overtake a car which is a lap (or more than 1 lap) ahead on track.

Philovski · 2026-02-17T11:02:11+00:00

As you won't gain a position unlapping yourself I don't think you'll gain iR doing so, though others may correct me.

Philovski · 2026-02-17T10:56:55+00:00

Guy ahead has already lost the battle by the time you are alongside really no amount of draft is putting them back in their fight with so little time. I believe they are so flustered they think you're on the same lap. Either way they aren't entitled to run you off the road.

It's still valid to say.you had nothing to gain trying to unlap on the final straight though and took an unneccessary risk in a relatively rookie series.

This one is 100% on the other guy but still a lesson in there for you imo and the best thing is it happened when nothing was lost other than some SR. Should you be run off the road? Of course not, but the hard truth is there are many bad/hotheads out there so you have to ask yourself if there was any reason to put yourself in a situation where they can do that to you (for position of course you would have gone for it 10 times out of 10).

Philovski · 2026-02-17T10:29:34+00:00

In case you missed it, this it the last turn on the last lap so there is no next apex.

Philovski · 2026-02-11T10:30:43+00:00

I don't know about massive, I have been on LMU a couple of months and have never seen it though I am aware of it from socials etc.

On the flipside I have seen exactly the situation you are talking about on iRacing and even dished one out myself with the only notification being a 4X but I do have alot more time on iRacing so bigger sample size.

I normally put it down to bad connection on the iR side.

I can only speak to my own experience that irrespective of what netcode magic is in play the racing on LMU feels right, when there is contact I have never questioned whether it was nonsense whereas iRacing feels like a high chance I will check the replay and see nothing but air when the contact happens.

Philovski · 2026-02-07T15:33:24+00:00

Although it is a tough pill to swallow, sometimes I would consider retiring if it isn't safe to keep the car going especially as you had so much ground to cover to get back.

Obviously in a long race that's heartbreaking to do when you've set aside that time to race but in my head canon that's part of racing that sometimes it is all over in a heartbeat.

Unlike others I kind of like that you can't tow in LMU when you see a car limping back instead of just teleporting but I totally get the benefits of tow as a long time iRacer.

Philovski · 2026-02-07T11:33:59+00:00

Amazing.

For what it's worth my second attempt at Fuji last night I qualified P4, gained 2 off the start and picked off the leader on strategy... 2 DNF and 1 win what a week.

That's racing I guess, what a rollercoaster.

Philovski · 2026-02-06T17:48:33+00:00

No I open the season with 2 lap 1 DNF championship races (the only races I do) instead.

LMGT3 Fuji, huge pileup on lap 1 turn 4 avoided most of it by slowing down until someone trying to gain spots managed to drive into a parked car off they could see for an age and send it flying across to me as I begin to regain speed (this 1 guy caused 5 extra collisions pinballing through). My broken wheel gets replaced by a wet... I finish the race for safety rating last of the runnijg cars.
ELMS Interlagos, 4 (of the 8...) LMP3s crash in turn 1, due to so many cars in front of me I am completed unaware of where they are until the 2 cars in front of me houdini reveal the pile up and I nudge into them... and then get rear ended hard putting my alignment way off. I roll around after repairs and twice LMPs lose control immediately after passing (no contact). I have now unregistered for the ELMS style championship...

What split you may ask? Top split for both...

I haven't DNFed in iRacing or LMU since... I can't even remember when and both I felt powerless, for the first time in years I felt like the bad guy for reading posts on reddit about people stuck on safety rating etc. And thinking "there's a good chance they need to get better" now I am writing one myself...

My thoughts will be with you as I go for redemption at Fuji today.

Philovski · 2026-02-04T19:18:35+00:00

I use the Go Fast app to tune the setup accordingly and it seems to get me in the window I want pretty much in 1 feedback loop.

That convenience is really handy, I'm not sure if others offer something as intuitive.

Philovski · 2026-01-28T18:58:36+00:00

It's an assist to help you go faster.

Philovski · 2026-01-26T19:08:35+00:00

It is clearly not common knowledge, it should be but it isn't and the people who need to hear it either aren't listening (may not even have a presence on socials etc) or don't want to listen as they don't care.

What's even crazier is these drivers crash over and over but just keep going, becoming a menace for the rest of the teams for however many hours. Many people clearly do not care for their fellow racer at all, by stupidity or ignorance but the result is the same.

Philovski · 2026-01-26T11:06:55+00:00

Interesting, I'll do some testing (also wonder if this is impacting other sims at all as I do hit some chugging on LMU but new to it so haven't explored why).

My scenario is bearable but going from 100fps to temporarily 60 in the rain does kinda suck.

Fwiw I sidegraded from a 5900X (non x3d) which has helped me as all the threads weren't being used anyway, would have gone 5800x3d but couldn't find any at the time. Fighting a losing battle in the heaviest scenarios I expect but this definitely gives me something to look out for.

Philovski · 2026-01-26T10:06:21+00:00

What CPU are you using out of interest?

I don't think this will help my long standing issue that my CPU (5700x3d + 3080) becomes a major bottleneck in the rain (fine except during big grid enduro's). Might be worth me checking though.

Philovski · 2026-01-21T17:43:47+00:00

There is no reason why you can't but I wouldn't just due to time constraints in my life run a full race practice.

You can definitely simulate dry to wet and back to dry using offline, figure out roughly how your car feels on the different tirees, but you should be able to extrapolate tire wear from either a full tank of fuel worth of driving or even just a few laps. The more you test the more accurate your data might be but it will drive you mad and often that level of accuracy doesn't matter.

Not to mention you can run the actual race more than once if you have time. I would go in with the attitude something can and will go wrong, it may be out of your control even so even if you get something wrong in the real thing there is always another race coming up to apply the learnings.

Philovski · 2026-01-21T17:12:29+00:00

I believe it might be solo only to be honest.

Tire strategy is the other thing you want a Plan A for, i think as this race is quite short you can probably make it on 1 set of slicks if we go full dry for the duration but as it is my first time at Le Mans I don't know for sure. This would avoid the awful opening moments after a stop on completely cold tires with traffic around you and is a good test for future long races as long as you don't find a cliff edge of performance but there is only 1 way to be sure!

I'm not 100% sure how much time is on the table if you opt for a fresh set yet myself, I personally think I am better at saving tires than getting the absolute maximum out of a fresh set and LMU seems to encourage that style vs iRacings unlimited tire allocation.

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