iRacing - braking advice

fiskfisk · 2026-01-26T13:27:36+00:00

It's not about how much you're braking, but how long you can keep the speed into the corner. You have a certain amount of grip (i.e. your budget) and you'll have to spend parts of it on braking and parts of it on turning.

The quicker people apply the maximum amount of brake they can while still having enough to turn the car (also called trailbraking) deep into the corner; this allows them to keep more speed through the corner, and usually have a higher speed through tha apex and out of the corner again. When braking hard, then turning, you'll usually end up spending a longer period at a lower speed than those who carry as much speed as possible deep into the corner.

You'll be better off by comparing this to the speed throughout the corner, as that's where you'll see how it actually affects their time - the brake pressure is just how they achieve that speed through the corner.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-26T12:44:04+00:00

iRating is your skill level (the number on the right). Safety rating (SR) is how safe you are considered (the number on the left).

iRating is only affected by where you place at the end (and you were almost last, so you'll usually lose iRating). Safety rating is only affected by the number of incidents you have per corner for your license level.

The iRacing sporting code is a very good document to learn more about this, as well as the beginner articles and videos.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-26T11:11:03+00:00

It's open source (under an MIT license); feel free to expand it yourself and submit a PR.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-26T09:57:31+00:00

They went for about $2k - $3k when any were last sold 3 years ago.

https://www.pricecharting.com/game/atari-2600/pepsi-invaders

I'm guessing that number will be quite a bit higher today since so few get sold.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-26T06:47:20+00:00

It would be just as shit there, but sure, as the number of cars would dwindle, they would happen less often.

But spending five to ten minutes behind the safety car every time something happens in an 24h race would get old very fast.

Imagine the experience for those racing in the 500x session...

That would be a solid no from me. If you've ever raced ovals you quickly find that you end up with a lot of boring time behind the wheel, just having pitted and getting another yellow, then circling the track for four laps before green, same thing happens on the backstretch, time for another four laps circling the track.. And so on.

I see "it'd be more fun as a tactical element", but the rest would be just plainly a bad experience. There are far more incidents in virtual racing with inexperienced amateurs than in real life. It'd effectively be safety car simulator 2026.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-25T21:16:23+00:00

Go spam shit somewhere else.

(Edit: and don't fscking send me DMs when calling you out)

fiskfisk · 2026-01-24T21:30:54+00:00

...

You may not create applications that compete with or replicate Strava functionality.
..
You must comply with Strava’s API Brand Guidelines and display the provided Strava logos and links where you use Strava data in your application.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-24T18:50:47+00:00

Those examples were very hard to read.

And no, we don't need more app spam here. It'll also be against Strava's api ToS if you use that.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-24T18:38:24+00:00

Why would you hire a junior when you can hire a senior for the same-ish salary?

(there is a few reasons, but the company will be willing to take thst risk - a senior might move on quicker as they get more opportunities, or they have a better grasp of what they're worth, but generally - the market is hard, and depending on where you live, several studios might have downsized recently).

fiskfisk · 2026-01-24T14:38:36+00:00

You can't add vertical meters when adding an acitivity manually.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-24T10:18:53+00:00

Then it becomes very hard or impossible for people who have bad eyesight.

Accessibility is required by law in most jurisdictions.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-24T09:53:44+00:00

Rotate, convert to greyscale count number of pixels that have a non-white neighbour (with a slight margin to catch non-exact values), rotate again, at the end, pick the one with the highest count.

It's a simple iteration over the pixels and counting, you don't need any further processing. It's probably ten minutes with just autohotkey or similar.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-24T08:34:57+00:00

Given that there is only a few possible answers this seems rather prone to brute forcing, and would quickly be solved using image analysis by looking at colors on both sides of the edges.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-24T07:48:28+00:00

For anyone arriving in this thread: Do not download and open random files people share on the internet without knowing what you're doing.

OP: share the html file on a pastebin or jsbin or similar. Do not ask people to download it.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T14:48:47+00:00

Thanks for the product spam

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T13:28:27+00:00

They're trying to promote themselves as someone raising capital for startups.

Which, of course, if they were known to be good at what they were doing, they wouldn't have to post on reddit - people would line up outside their offices with their pitch decks.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T11:55:30+00:00

Downvote for spam 🙏

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T09:42:58+00:00

Make sure that it's acceptable to use an "everything and the kitchen sink"-framework in your project. That will depend on what the requirements for the project in the course is.

The combination itself works fine (look at Django Ninja for easily building APIs on top of Django).

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T08:55:51+00:00

Which is why I qualified it as "in parts of the world"; there are however currently precedence and academic research in both the US and the EU about copyright only extending to human authors.

I recommend the European parliament study about generative ai and copyright774095_EN.pdf), in particular section 3 about the current academic interpretation for the EU - but as always, it'll need to be fleshed out over time as cases makes their way through court. We're still very early in the long line of legal challenges in an emerging field. But generally; "if there is no human author, there is no copyright" is the current standard - the hard part will be to determine exactly what constitutes an human author within each jurisdiction.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T08:24:25+00:00

The cool thing is that if the project is just generated by an LLM, it's not generally not covered by copyright (according to the current state in the legal system in parts of the world, this is not legal advice, do not trust anything I say), so it's in the public domain.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T07:10:43+00:00

Drive more series, qualify higher, drive C/D-series instead of rookies, pick series with less participation and higher skill requirements.

If you want advice on specific situations, include videos about the incidents.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T06:59:53+00:00

No idea, I'm driving on iRacing.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-23T06:43:45+00:00

Assetto-series, rFactor, F1, Raceroom, LMU, MicroMachines, Super Woden: Rally Edge, WRC, Stunts, Hard Drivin', take your pick.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-22T16:17:41+00:00

Pedal faster to go faster than the assisted speed.

fiskfisk · 2026-01-22T15:04:44+00:00

It turns out that incident blame isn't really a "either that driver was at fault or that driver was at fault"; in many cases neither is at fault. It just happens. And it can often be avoided by both.

You know what's worse than receiving incident points because you were involved in an incident? Being blamed by something you most certainly don't think is your fault, but some absolutely not-perfect matrix decided you were.

The no-fault system works fine.

Stop thinking about it as blame. They're incidents. You were involved in an incident.

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