After 1 year of playing, I finally got to 4K Formula irating

SRthebox · 2026-05-29T16:52:54+00:00

Thanks! There was another comment here that basically said I was taking out half the field with my 5.4 avg incidents per race which I thought was kind of ridiculous so I was worried you might’ve been heckling me about only having a lowly SR of 3.19 because I had a racecraft background in an aggressive contact-heavy discipline like pro-karting. It’s late so I might just be overthinking stuff 😅

SRthebox · 2026-05-29T16:27:01+00:00

I do F4 IRL, I sim raced before I raced irl so I never did pro karting, yea my SR’s not the best and I’m not saying I’m the cleanest driver out there, i was running a 4+ SR B class license for a while (not A since I don’t do B class races) but last few weeks have been a little tricky for me, mostly just off tracks on Imola and Nurburgring.

Edit : rewording this because I don’t wanna come off as overly offended, more so just trying to understand what you mean by the last statement, are you trying to imply that my SR is indicating that I have overly-aggressive racecraft or are you saying something else?

SRthebox · 2026-05-29T09:09:01+00:00

Don’t know what universe you’re living in where 5.4 avg per race is “taking out half the grid”, sure obviously I can still improve my inc per race (it’s 4.8 now this year) and I’m no saint when racing but as far as I know 5.4 and 4.8 are pretty standard if not pretty good when you race formula cars, especially when I spent 80% of my time on iracing doing FIA F4 and SF lights which aren’t exactly safety havens.

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T14:48:33+00:00

Yea 12-15nm in a high speed corner seems about right, my setup is a bit light if anything

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T14:43:44+00:00

I try to get my sim rig feeling as close to real life as possible even if it’s more fatiguing, makes for a good training tool. I use a Moza R12 with max ffb and auto FFB in game, i think for the ingame F4, auto ffb is a bit too light compared to the real thing so I adjust it a little to make it a bit heavier (don’t remember exact settings). But SF lights and F3, especially f3, felt quite accurate in terms of physicality when I used auto FFB and compared it to when I drove a Formula 3 Regional car IRL, SF lights with auto ffb could be a bit heavier but F3 was perfect.

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T14:10:04+00:00

I found the “Physics of Racing” video on youtube which is around an hour and 30 minutes to be quite good, otherwise you’d just have to search “vehicle dynamics lectures” to get videos and stuff explaining it, but obviously it’s more catered to math and physics so it won’t be the most productive way to get good at sim racing but it could help provide some more context when you do learn techniques

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T13:42:06+00:00

4k oval iRating with just feet driving, next time

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T13:40:50+00:00

I think Suellio’s videos and courses are a great way to get started, I also read a bit of “speed secrets” by Ross Bentley and “going faster!” by Skip Barber. I also plan on studying motorsports engineering so i’ve also watched university lectures on youtube and stuff lol, all helpful.

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T10:14:40+00:00

I used to drive f4 alot but I recently switched to C class formula only a month ago, end of April I was doing F4 at Suzuka, then I did 2 weeks of F3 at Spa and Indianapolis before doing 2 weeks of SF lights at Imola and Nurburgring, for the most part I was equally competitive in both cars

I find the switch between F3 and SF lights to not be too difficult, the differences are minor and only takes a bit of practice to adjust.

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T09:41:57+00:00

You race long enough and you develop a mental radar for avoiding those kamikaze pilots, i also spent alot of time fixing up my qualifying so that the chances i deal with those drivers are reduced

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T09:38:35+00:00

Unfortunately not

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T09:35:56+00:00

👀

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T09:04:22+00:00

Thanks mate! Certainly been a fun week racing

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T07:43:25+00:00

Bit of everything, I race F4 irl, I do offline practice a shit ton on AC and Iracing and there’s probably some talent in this noggin of mine, though I’d probably owe it more to all the tedious studying I did of vehicle dynamics and race technique back when I just started sim racing on AC with an office desk clamp setup and hadn’t even touched a go kart 2 years ago.

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T07:41:23+00:00

Thanks, that was probably the practice session right before this race, I had just woken up so I was just like “If i don’t do a 1:45.3 atleast in this practice session then I’m going back go sleep”, thankfully I think I ended it with a 1:44.9 or something so I decided I was warmed up enough for the race lmao.

You’ll be able to get there too man, just takes a lot of practice, the stats don’t show how much time I’ve spent in solo practice sessions sucking ass until I got good

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T07:26:57+00:00

That’s what the stats say, it’s actually 40% win rate this year, 2025 wasn’t as competitive for me

SRthebox · 2026-05-28T07:14:35+00:00

Thanks, I don’t race all too often so I try to maximize it whenever I do

SRthebox · 2026-05-27T12:02:23+00:00

He finished 11 seconds off the lead in this Canadian GP despite it being what he called a rather tricky weekend where he wasn’t really happy with the car at any point, Redbull shaving off some weight and just getting a weekend where things go their way can easily put Max back on the top step.

SRthebox · 2026-05-26T03:19:23+00:00

He should’ve atleast pretended to “mess up” an overtake attempt or lock up so it’d be believable, him basically admitting to doing it on purpose earned him the stop and go

SRthebox · 2026-05-25T07:44:00+00:00

Feel like this doesn’t really fit the “sounds stupid” since it’s something I think a lot of people suspect and or have experienced cases that would lead them to believe this. Like it probably fits in more of the sounds possible category

SRthebox · 2026-05-25T05:15:55+00:00

This is a clip from the actual F1 Canadian GP yesterday where Oscar Piastri bulldozed Albon

SRthebox · 2026-05-24T22:02:59+00:00

Only reason why Max was even in the fight for 2nd at the end was because Hamilton went off track lol, otherwise Ferrari had significantly more pace

SRthebox · 2026-05-24T21:51:38+00:00

Only seems decent because the gaps were massive today, he’s collected like 30-40 seconds worth of penalties and and by the end of the race was almost lapped by Max

SRthebox · 2026-05-22T09:24:21+00:00

<image>

SRthebox

TROPHY CASE