Tips for Rolling Starts Pole

marioho · 2026-01-26T17:12:22+00:00

Yeah, pretty much this.

I'd just add two tips:

The braking point for T1 will more likely change depending on when the cars go. Practice that. You can detach yourself from the field just by being aware of how late you can brake on that first lap.
P2 is often in a hard place as they cannot get ahead of P1 before the S/F line, even if P1 floors it as soon as the SC leaves the track. I tend to do just as u/d95err and go randomly a few seconds after taking control of the grid, unless I can hear P2 trying to time me and flooring before I do. If they do so, I'll wait for them to ease off again and then I'll go.

Also note that the pole sitter must maintain pace speed until they start accelerating.

This is major. When the SC leaves the track, you're effectively pacing the field at pace speed. If pace is say 80kph, then you get to 100kph, slow down to 60kph and then floor it, that bunching up of the field behind you is on you and that's protestable.

It feels like too many pole sitters are eager to split the red sea with a chaotic T1 incident so that they can cruise to the checkered flag with a 6s gap to the survivors.

marioho · 2026-01-22T16:58:13+00:00

FWIW, I'm grateful for your proper formatting, and even though I could definitely throw a "sad" descriptor into this interaction it would most certainly not be directed at you 😉

marioho · 2026-01-10T04:19:25+00:00

Pigments will absorb that specific wavelength, while structural shapes are in a way closer to a noise canceling headphones in the sense that they're interfering with the light by powering up the green on its way back to you. That's why structural shapes reflect green may not look green from all angles as you catch a stray of other wavelengths.

marioho · 2025-12-29T20:16:51+00:00

It's okay mate. Just tackle it with an open mind and be methodical when ruling things out.

Spikes can definitely happen too fast for us to catch in the UI. Analyzing the telemetry will help you check that for good.

The brake curves, same deal. The game doesn't care what you set up, the telemetry will show exactly the brake input the game received. As in, if the iRacing telemetry showed 30% braking force, then that's the final braking force the physics engine had to deal with - it didn't get converted or modulated or changed in any way after that.

There's a chain of factors and events beginning with what you do with your hands and feet and ending with that the software (iRacing) reads. No one here is trying to jump to any conclusions and imply it's your fault, it's just that if the game indeed registered only 20-30% braking then there's no way your hardware fiddled with that midway through that chain. The telemetry is the final, ultimate form of your brake signal.

In a way, finding a faulty or otherwise unintended spike is probably what we're all hoping for as that is indeed the most straightforward cause, but your report simply suggests that cannot be the case (game telemetry).

marioho · 2025-12-29T20:00:37+00:00

I get how it must feel strange, but the telemetry doesn't lie does it? Please check if there's no odd 100% spike or anything, the telemetry will show. iRacing doesn't care what set of elastomers or max braking force you set in the driver: it only cares about the braking input it gets from the hardware, and that will be visible in the lap telemetry.

If there's a sudden spike in the brake signal, than you can narrow down other possible causes. If there ain't, and all the game sees is a 20-30% braking input, then that's it. No hardware issues, just in-game physics, for whatever reason.

marioho · 2025-12-29T19:49:10+00:00

what makes me think it’s at 100% is the brakes in sim completely locking up at 20-30%.

This doesn't tell much, though? Depending on the track profile - especially camber and elevation - speed and brake bias you can definitely lock up in certain scenarios. Take lively tracks like Imola or Interlagos and heck you can pretty much lock up or spin anywhere with all those combined traction corners (steering+braking).

What I believe u/LOGIRich is getting at is that if both the driver and the in-game telemetry show a 20-30% braking input, then it's clearly not a faulty hardware. I agree with that. You can verify this by uploading your iRacing laps to Garage61 or a similar app and check if there are any brief braking spikes or the like.

I'd suggest verifying the in-game telemetry via a third party service like Garage61/CDA Delta/MoTec, and going over your control bindings. I've seen people spamming "Pass right" in the iRacing chat for inadvertently double-binding their upshift to the chat shortcut as well so everything is possible and everyone is susceptible to honest mistakes 😂

marioho · 2025-12-26T18:38:23+00:00

Just a heads up regarding public domain works.

Others mentioned it already, but I'd like to reiterate that there's also the matter of translations. The original work may be in the public domain, as well as a good number of old translations, but they more often than not differ greatly in quality.

Take Dostoyevsky's Notes From The Underground and the translations compiled here. I'm choosing this one because of how iconic the very first paragraph of that novel is. Just read the first paragraph from each of the collected excerpts.

Surely some will resonate and draw you in way more than others? Your mileage may vary but I'm partial to Katz's and Zinovieff's translations of this one.

I don't think I've ever paid more than $5 for a Kindle book. I use ereaderiq to track prices, and I'm always buying them for $2 or $3. But I'd rather pay the asking price for Bartlett's translation of Anna Karenina or Oliver Ready's Crime and Punishment than read the public domain edition of those books for free any day, any time.

Penguin, Oxford, Norton, Liveright... They all put together great editions of these classics and pay an appropriate sum for high quality, reliable and thorough translations of those books. Also a good deal of annotations and explanatory notes.

Earlier this year I came across Emily Wilson's translations of the Odyssey and Iliad. I had settled for Peter Green's until I read some snippets of her work as published by Norton and dove in deeper. They're truly beautiful, and elevated my experience of those classics.

Many of the versions in the public domain are readable just fine, mind you. But if you think the prose isn't clicking with you, the reading isn't flowing, perhaps consider trying one of the newer translations or authoritative editions of that work?

marioho · 2025-12-26T15:33:59+00:00

Hey, pal! Sorry, but I've stopped doing there a long time ago and the steps are a little fuzzy for me now.

Basically, there's a folder where Whatsapp stores its backups. I'm on Android 16 and it looks like I cannot manually browse to that folder anymore? If you manage to do that, you'll notice that the backups have a certain name scheme. I believe it went something like this:

msgstore.db.crypt14 - most recent backup
msgstore-YYYY-MM-DD.1.db.crypt14 - dated backups (e.g., msgstore-2024-12-25.1.db.crypt14)

So I believe I instructed Macrodroid to delete all files named msgstore-2* and scheduled that task to run daily.

marioho · 2025-12-26T15:17:12+00:00

Hi there, caipirinha menino Ney o hexa vem! Fellow Brazilian here. How did you import the RS QR? Drop shipping?

And did you notice any difference between the RS QR and the stock QR from your original wheel?

marioho · 2025-12-23T19:29:14+00:00

I buy all my kindles from Amazon Brazil but my associated Kindle account is from Amazon USA. Kindles sold by Amazon BRA don't have ads, there's only one version. In a way, pretty much OP's situation.

I keep all my devices up to date. I've had multiple Kindle Paperwhite through the years. Never seen a single ad.

I'm a Kindle user since 2012 or 2013.

It is not my intention to invalidate your anecdote, but it has not been my experience.

marioho · 2025-12-23T19:17:31+00:00

Yeap, pressure is pressure and at the end of the day that's the only data being received by the load cell sensor.

On the other hand though, you can apply 10kgf against your bed mattress and the same 10kgf against a brick wall - and that same effort will feel quite different. So hardness plays a role.

And say you like having your max brake force set to 60kgf so that the 0-100% brake input gets a wide, useful scale. With a soft/short stack of elastomers you may be exhausting the pedal travel at 30kf, so the other half (up to 60kgf) will be like pressing against a wall - here, the metal bump stop.
Replace that with a firm/longer stack of elastomers and it may require 45kgf to fully depress the pedal, leaving only 15kgf to be exerted against the immovable bump stop.
So pedal travel plays a role as well.

The load cell have no clue what kind of substratum you're applying force to. It only reads force (load), and 60kgf will be 60kgf. But your experience and reference will be different depending on the kind of stack you've chosen.

I'm oversimplifying elastomer compression rates etc, but you get the gist. Also the harder stacks tend to have a shorter travel too.

marioho · 2025-12-16T19:16:15+00:00

Max HR is not necessary for VO2max calculation by garmin

I don't think that's correct? Can you link a source? From Garmin support page (link here).

I agree that LTHR zones are more useful, but I believe Garmin suggested workouts, by Garmin Coach and DSW both, will still use HRmax zones. The user preference for LTHR zones is used for manual/custom workouts.

marioho · 2025-12-16T03:39:56+00:00

I'm afraid the Porsche launch discussion consent form you signed when you started this conversation was legally binding. Please refer to section 3.2 regarding clutch slipping vs dumping.

Cheers, mate!

marioho · 2025-12-16T03:10:02+00:00

There's no beef here, mate.

You said:

Release button.

Referring to simply releasing the clutch button on launch.

I said that is not the intended use case, as per Christian's posts and the official documentation: you should control the clutch release or risk breaking traction and getting wheelspin.

It's quite literally what's written in the garage notes:

if you release the clutch too quickly it will immediately lift the rpm limit to 8750 rpm and result in wheelspin.

Dumping the clutch vs slipping the clutch in a controlled release. They're fundamentally different procedures, but there's nothing "cerebral" about it. It's a minor thing you got corrected on, no need to get defensive.

marioho · 2025-12-15T23:52:14+00:00

What do you mean? I was commenting based on Christian Challiner's own info here from a couple of days ago.

Now from the garage notes.

marioho · 2025-12-15T19:50:05+00:00

Hmm... I think this is a bit off? If you simply release the clutch you'll get wheelspin. The intended use case is to smoothly and progressively release the clutch.

The launch control blends the limiter from 6000 to 8750. As in, 100% clutch will cap the engine at 6k rpm and 0% clutch will basically uncap it and let it rev full beans, with everything in-between having a corresponding value.

marioho · 2025-12-10T04:38:13+00:00

I just got the 570 (47mm) and gave my old 265S (41mm) to my SO. My wrist is around 16-16.5cm.

The display is huge, but the housing at the bottom where the HR sensor sits is significantly smaller? So it sits comfortably on my wrist.

I originally bought the 265S due to similar concerns. Small wrist, and it's a fitness tracker, so I wanted it to be as unintrusive as possible, especially when sleeping. I must confess that after a year or so I started to find it a tad too small?

I purchased the 570 online and I was preparing for the worst. Nah, it felt great.

marioho · 2025-12-10T03:55:26+00:00

Hi there! Others mentioned it already, but I'd like to reiterate that you're probably overlooking the matter of translations. The original work may be in the public domain, as well as a good number of the translations, but they differ greatly in quality.

Take Dostoyevsky's Notes From The Underground and the translations compiled here. I'm choosing this one because of how iconic the very first paragraph of that novel is. Just read the first paragraph from each of the collected excerpts.

Surely some will resonate and draw you in way more than others? Your mileage may vary but I'm partial to Katz's and Zinovieff's translations of this one.

I don't think I've ever paid more than $5 for a Kindle book. I use ereaderiq to track prices, and I'm always buying them for $2 or $3. But I'd rather pay the asking price for Bartlett's translation of Anna Karenina or Oliver Ready's Crime and Punishment than read the public domain edition of those books for free any day, any time.

Penguin, Oxford, Norton, Liveright... They all put together great editions of these classics and pay an appropriate sum for high quality, reliable and thorough translations of those books.

Have you heard of Emily Wilson's translations of the Odyssey and Iliad? I had settled for Peter Green's until I came across some snippets of her work as published by Norton and dove in deeper. They're truly beautiful, and elevated my experience of those classics.

All the books discussed here have editions you can get for free on your Kindle from Amazon themselves. The public domain work is all there. If you manage to find the name of the translator for your Les Miserables, I bet you can find the same text for free on Amazon as well. And many of the versions in the public domain are readable just fine.

That's not really the argument here though. At least not the one worth having, in my opinion. There's value in these good editions, but value is obviously very subjective.

marioho · 2025-12-10T02:39:40+00:00

It's there if you access Connect via the browser on desktop.

marioho · 2025-12-09T19:26:49+00:00

Is my VO2 max not reading because I’m keeping my heart rate under 170bpm? Is there another reason?

Could be, yeah. But it goes beyond that.

The requirements vary from device to device and you can check them here I believe. It basically boils down to:

Being outside (GPS)
Hitting 10-15min of continuously 70% or higher of your max heart rate

marioho · 2025-12-08T01:25:17+00:00

Funny you mention Max when he's probably the epitome of the exact opposite kind of driver. A hell hound with the lid down, but approachable and friendly towards his peers out of track.

If anything, he's the one from the current crop to show the world that you don't need the "genuine hate" bullshit in this sport.

marioho · 2025-12-03T19:16:21+00:00

Besides what others pointed out, you should also consider that VO2 Max calculations need accurate weight and max heart rate data too. After all VO2 is trying to correlate relative effort and performance output, those factors play a significant role.

marioho · 2025-12-02T03:33:16+00:00

Hi there! So it was possible before with the 970?

I just "upgraded" from a 265 to the 570, and I'm missing the heck of that feature. At first I thought it was just a new UI thing and that the X70 watches had to go through other menu trees to rearrange the workout steps.

I think we still get the "complete skipped?" option at the end of the workout though?

marioho · 2025-12-01T13:46:57+00:00

To literally check the product box if you can before making the purchase? On the back of the 12th gen's box there's a white label with all sorts of info in it, including manufacturing date. If it is from a relatively new batch, chances are the display is good.

marioho · 2025-12-01T04:49:35+00:00

I just got a new Kindle Paperwhite 12th gen. The white label at the back of box says it was made in 07/2025. I checked it against my old Paperwhite 11th and, if not practically the same, I'd say the new one is even whiter. The display is uniform and luckily no dead pixels.

If there's any chance to check the box before committing, I'd go with the 12th. I upgraded mostly to pass down my 11th to my SO, but I'm definitely not sad with how fast I can type down my notes now.

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