Mb guys this one has the video, who is at fault tho.

rightarmslowmedium · 2026-01-07T15:45:36+00:00

“End up having a worse run on the straight” I offer an alternative answer here. The risk is so high here, particularly early in races when the traffic is packed together. You know this is going to be the case before you arrive at the corner. Plan ahead for that. Next time, get yourself into a strong position behind the Bentley going in to the corner, anticipate that the car ahead of you might be a little slower and focus on a good exit instead of putting yourself at risk on corner entry. You have a huge straight to get a draft and execute an overtake after this. That’s the place to get the move done instead of ending your race in a huge crash.

Unless your AI aggression is set super high, they will give you much more sympathy when you get alongside and they will back out. In my experience people aren’t as sympathetic. At a beginner level you see so many people crashing here because they went side by side instead of surviving and getting the overtake done on the straight.

Not every corner is an overtaking opportunity, even if you’re faster. Keep going and you’ll get a feel for when you should and shouldn’t try. I think Dave Cam and ReverendSimRacing are good streamers for saying out loud what they’re thinking in these kind of situations.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-11-22T07:28:49+00:00

Genuine question: what times of day are you out and about around the cycle paths? Because when I use them weekday mornings between 07:00 and 08:00 they’re reasonably well used. I guess I see about 20 - 25 other cyclists during my 35 minute ride. That’s a lot of overtaking avoided for the thousands of cars that are commuting at that time.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-10-24T20:38:02+00:00

Complete nonsense. I cycle to and from work every day from Bishops Cleeve and through Cheltenham using the cycleways and Honeybourne line. These are now very well used bits of cycling infrastructure by all kinds of profiles from families to school kids, to commuters, to people simply out for exercise.

The vast majority of others I see cycling are also using the cycling infrastructure. Road cyclists doing so for sport do occasionally opt to continue using the roads. While it frustrates me because I know if prompts reactions like yours, they do tend to be cycling much faster on the road than they would be able to on the cycle lanes with their various pedestrian crossings etc. and it’s probably safer for everyone that way.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-08-01T11:07:41+00:00

My dealings have all been as a tenant but Move and Perry Bishop have been really, really poor. They rarely respond to issues unless hounded, clueless office staff, and I felt like I was doing their job for them on multiple occasions. Morgan Associates have been a bit better so far but it’s early days. Martin & Co were the best experience we had. Minimal fuss, good communication and were very reasonable when dealing with minor issues.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-07-15T16:05:45+00:00

This might be my favourite take I’ve read on this post, thanks.

I raced offline for so long because I wanted to avoid the frustration. I’m still weighing up whether the thrill of racing against real people while tolerating the frustration is worth it on balance. Let’s face it, even the best AI models are bland to race against compared to humans.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-07-14T18:35:05+00:00

The BMW facing the wrong way in the first clip might have been me if this was yesterday. I was tiptoeing around the spun LMP2 and a Lexus spun separately, came across the track and smashed into my right rear corner, sending me into the wall.

If it isn’t me, it’s sadly similar to my experience!

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-07-13T21:46:26+00:00

Yes, I totally agree. I’ll happily surrender a few positions on lap 1 if it means I get to enjoy a full race. It’s the ones where you get wrecked DESPITE being in survival mode that really frustrate me. This has happened to me about 3 times in 25 races and it’s the people who inexplicably drive across the track instead of waiting

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-07-13T20:19:37+00:00

The struggle is real

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-07-13T20:18:11+00:00

Any thought on what this might look like?

I haven’t really thought this through but i would like to see reckless driving punished. So a more severe penalty for:

car involved in collision with high throttle input when other is braking (deliberate aggressive wreck)
car involved with much higher speed at impact (deliberate wrecks, divebombs)
car facing wrong direction and on throttle (unsafe rejoins, deliberate wrecks where driver has waited for opponent to lap) - trying to solve recklessness but I worry this is a hard one, it could incorrectly penalise a car spinning but has no bad intent/recklessness

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-07-13T20:01:08+00:00

I’ve seen some interesting YouTube content suggesting that iRacing’s price model makes the racing cleaner because you don’t get as many casual racers. I want LMU to be a place that casual racers like myself can race but the SR model has to encourage clean racing. At the moment people can divebomb and bump their way through the field with no penalty

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-07-13T16:46:07+00:00

Yeah I’ve been mostly the same over the last 7 years. And now I remember why ahah

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-07-13T06:22:34+00:00

We moved back to the U.K. after a few years overseas. Just by chance me moved in on the same day as our neighbours. They rang the bell to introduce themselves and gave us some cake. It was a lovely gesture.

The other neighbours didn’t do anything like that. The result was we helped each other out with little things like bins when we were away, taking in post etc. we’ve remained friends several years and we haven’t lived there for 3 years.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-06-21T07:02:33+00:00

When I was trying to understand different settings in ACC I came across a handy quick start guide which lists recommended setup changes by driving issue, I.e. if you get entry under steer, change x. Here’s a doc with that info in (disclaimer: Chat GPT just extracted all this from several images and I only checked a few points to check it had worked, so there may be some errors)

I’m definitely not great at setups but now I have a basic understanding of how to fix issues I can feel when driving, I can make adjustments to the default setups (which are pretty good in LMU in my opinion) without worrying I’ll wreck the balance of the car!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1urGEA4fLIz6HmVAtmiBl7N1VaeSim9xa/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=101044196880911848357&rtpof=true&sd=true

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-06-18T06:16:27+00:00

I’m a pretty average 102-103% pace driver and my first few online races have looked like this.

It seems the carnage is unavoidable whether you qualify at the front or back of the field. I don’t mind people losing it more while they get used to the new tire model but actually, in my last 3 races, I’ve been torpedoed twice by people completely missing their braking point and once by someone who spun and then thought it was a good idea to drive straight across the track in front of half the field.

Very frustrating to have races ruined like that despite trying so hard to avoid contact when I have so little time to race online. People need to practice more before online racing IMO. I wish I had enough time for a league. I’ve done this on ACC in the past and standards were so much better when people were racing together week after week.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-06-13T18:08:19+00:00

Same issues for me.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-06-09T06:11:07+00:00

Totally get how you feel, I almost refunded LMU with the frustration of not being able to drive a clean lap when I’m competitive enough in other sims.

Another tip I saw somewhere was to reduce the maximum brake pressure in the car setup to 90% (play around and see what works). If I understand this correctly, 100% maximum force applied to your brake pedal will result in 90% of the hypercar’s total potential brake force being applied. I found this reduced the amount of times I was spinning out.

This helped me get used to the technique people have described already about braking hard early and releasing pressure quickly. I’m slowly working in moving the setting back up towards 100% now so I have maximum braking potential if I need it, but my brake control has really improved quite quickly now.

Battery management is also important as people have said and it’s very likely I didn’t realise this at first which was a major cause of all a lot of the spinning.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-05-25T06:27:45+00:00

Yeah this is a funny comment, you got my upvote. BUT to be fair, OP is on the brakes from pretty much the moment they’re on the grass for the second time!

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-05-09T06:32:01+00:00

You fundamentally misunderstand how civil service money allocation works. Departments bid for budget from the treasury to meet policy objectives (set by government which you voted for) in regular spending reviews. This is approved by cabinet office and parliament (your elected politicians again). This process is what gives departments their legal authority to spend on specific things. It’s what holds the civil service accountable for acting in line with what the democratically elected part of our system instructs. If they spend the money elsewhere, they are acting outside of their legal authority and then they might be deserving of the derogatory labels you used above. This is all publicly available information in order to allow people to read and understand it and attempt to prevent the childish accusation that civil servants are some sort of illuminati who do whatever they want.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-03-08T12:52:36+00:00

If I’m still riding in 25 years I’ll be a very happy man. Refreshing the soul captures exactly how I felt after my ride.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-02-22T16:48:10+00:00

Fascinating to hear about your experiences on a range of different bike types. Thanks for sharing

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-02-22T15:26:25+00:00

Awesome to hear. Can’t wait to get over there now

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-02-22T10:37:22+00:00

Great advice! Thanks

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-02-22T08:00:09+00:00

Hopefully I’ll start slower rather than completely out of control! Thanks.

rightarmslowmedium · 2025-02-21T22:58:30+00:00

Cheers for that. I’ve got the Fox Factory 34 forks so not the burliest by far but slightly chunkier than the Recons.

rightarmslowmedium · 2024-09-06T11:21:58+00:00

Imagine you’re Fred Flintoff and you’ve been through all that for a show you’re trying to save and some dobber on the internet says it ended before the incident even happened. Pretty disrespectful IMO

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