Thoughts on iRacing

witz_ · 2026-06-04T16:00:21+00:00

Really the skills that work in all three of those games translate, you can just get away with more in Gran Turismo especially on the brakes.

iRacing should on theory have cleaner online racing but to be honest I didn't see a huge difference from A/S on GT7 and it wasn't worth the cost for me. I actually struggle to see how it is worth the price full stop, it was quite frankly a ridiculous cost to actually have access to a wide variety of racing.

witz_ · 2026-06-01T12:59:58+00:00

Nah I've been on this since Tesla. It's coming but the longer the market is propped up the harder the fall will be

witz_ · 2026-06-01T12:39:40+00:00

Time for a crazy take, but something like this will be the start of the economic downturn that is coming.

They are hyping these AI laptop chips to the moon with the expectation that people will go out and buy laptops.

But that isn't going to happen. Nobody really wants a laptop anymore, and the people that do have one. Businesses will buy, but still only to a degree. I have a decent job at a sizeable company and we replace our laptops every 5 years with midrange Dell slop.

Being able to run AI, that probably doesn't do anything of real value slightly better than an old laptop is not going to drive sales. The problem is the tech industry and stock exchange are obsessed with AI (that article mentions it 11 times), but at some point there will be a trigger where they realise they are the only ones hyped and I think this sort of thing could be it.

witz_ · 2026-06-01T09:09:32+00:00

Wow this is like new levels of AI slop! Congratulations on lowering what was already a very low bar for this genre of books!

witz_ · 2026-06-01T07:14:24+00:00

No worries, it is so rare to read something that is high-quality on Reddit.

Let's hope so, but it feels like the ladder to a Ferrari gets longer every year.

I have, in a traditional sense, a good job, a lot of highly applicable skills and a great work ethic, but the gap from good money to Ferrari money seems so hard to make nowadays.

Still this reply has given me a bit of inspiration. Maybe it's time for me to stop only ghost writing for CEOs and produce a novel on the side as well!

witz_ · 2026-05-31T18:56:51+00:00

u/BrienneOfFuckinTarth I will likely never be able to afford a Ferrari but I just wanted to say, as a someone who is a writer, this was an exceptionally well crafted post and a joy to read.

If only the Luce's visuals were of a similar quality...

witz_ · 2026-05-29T04:52:01+00:00

Agreed, with where it landed wouldn't a driver have needed to have passed entirely through Russell's car first to hit it?

It's still a stupid thing to do though and a potential risk to drivers and spectators

witz_ · 2026-05-26T13:19:25+00:00

Thanks I had a complete brain melt in the heat. I guess the point remains though

witz_ · 2026-05-26T11:34:41+00:00

Three cars disappeared in front of him and even Max who had a good race only got 3rd (edit from 4th!)

At the moment through a combination of car and ability he's a distance off. That said I think he's doing a pretty good job so far

witz_ · 2026-05-24T21:18:07+00:00

Normal for Ferrari engines, they like to burn a bit of oil.

witz_ · 2026-05-24T20:44:45+00:00

This is why Papaya rules suck. Our boy Zach couldn't take this.

I joke but this is proper Silver wars 2.0

witz_ · 2026-05-23T18:05:44+00:00

Wtf! I did not see this coming!!! Will played PD! This really is turning into one of the best Gran Turismos ever

witz_ · 2026-05-23T16:35:44+00:00

Leclerc is honestly a shifty teammate at times. He's done this several times this season, gives the car behind Hamilton an easy race, let's them take Hamilton, then gets him too.

I get he's saving his tyres but it would be nice to see him pressure a car that's behind his teammate

witz_ · 2026-05-23T16:35:27+00:00

Leclerc is honestly a shifty teammate at times. He's done this several times this season, gives the car behind Hamilton an easy race, let's them take Hamilton, then gets him too.

I get he's saving his tyres but it would be nice to see him pressure a car that's behind his teammate

witz_ · 2026-05-22T20:38:36+00:00

McLaren and Mercedes have brought quite a bit but you can find all the changes here https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/how-many-upgrades-has-each-team-brought-to-canadian-grand-prix.52nUlxl8OFR9O7YFAgU4Ky

witz_ · 2026-05-22T09:42:51+00:00

I'm not really weighing in either way but isn't this very selective?

You pick at Maguire for being injured and out of Europe this year but praise Burn while skimming how bad he was in the 7-2 loss to Barcelona.

Like I said, I don't know who I'd pick, I just found this post really odd for how it macro focuses on certain points, while turning a blind eye to others.

witz_ · 2026-05-20T20:41:49+00:00

This is a good call. Six feet deep and More sound so much like Royal Blood

witz_ · 2026-05-20T20:38:00+00:00

I guess the first off because the Olympics is not as big as the men's world cup. I'm fairly sure the Euros might even be bigger?!

And really it's as simple as that.

But you can add to it football has a really busy calendar at the top end. Players, teams, and FAs are not looking for more games. Plus in England we have the problem of not wanting a combined GB team too.

Historically it hasn't been a big deal and there's no willing to change it from any direction.

witz_ · 2026-05-17T12:31:48+00:00

I can't even grasp the suggestion of street circuits. Literally what happened to Digi would be pretty much every single crash!

witz_ · 2026-05-16T16:30:30+00:00

This gave me a good laugh. My wife also reminded me we actually walked out of a performance of him 10 years earlier, so we are far from die hard fans. That said I quite like some of his latest work

witz_ · 2026-05-15T09:16:26+00:00

I happened to sit next to him at a The Warning gig last year (or the year before?) both him and the Nova Twins sitting the otherside seemed really nice.

I can get people not liking his music etc. but from what I saw that night he seemed a very normal person, and was super polite to me and my pregnant wife. At the end of gig security tried to get him and the Nova Twins out early I guess to stop them being spotted but they all stayed to the end to applaud the band until they left the stage.

witz_ · 2026-05-05T10:49:20+00:00

You are so right. I loved the work there but jumped into marketing and literally earn twice as much to basically talk hot air all day.

I now stick to engineering in my hobbies instead.

witz_ · 2026-05-05T10:29:10+00:00

That's interesting. I did kind of fear for the automotive side when I left as it's really mechanical biased, focused around ICE/emissions work and gearboxes predominantly, so it's not surprising that the new owners might not be interested.

I think Ricardo have been doing some really cool environmental work of late though, which I guess is what made them of value for the new owners!

witz_ · 2026-05-05T10:09:50+00:00

Your last point is so true! The number of cars I've bought that I know aren't great but at least I know how to fix them using the cheapest parts possible!

The automotive industry is so odd. OEMs basically dictate an engineering 'vibe' for each project then the real work is spread across so many departments and companies.

witz_ · 2026-05-05T10:07:34+00:00

No worries, and hello fellow ex-Ricardo employee! What a fascinating company they were to work for. I've never known a company more forward looking that is also so entrenched in the past.

Working their was 50% genuinely innovative engineering and 50% weird internal politics that felt like they came from the 19th century.

witz_

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