iRacing Season 2 IndyCar - Infineon Raceway (IRL) - Mar 9

[Ben "Welling" Summers]

Just offline, although I am making a list of laptimes like they do for Pre-Season Testing at Autosport.com 

I am the Virgin Racing of the group 

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What on earth is the right line through the last corner? The small curb on the 'apex' is so easy to miss and its quite a sharp corner, I cant even get the car turned sharp enough to keep it in the yellow lines. Are people taking a wide line and effectively using the pit lane wall as the boundary? Seems to be the easiest but with so much tarmac around its hard to work out where i should be!

[Ken Murray]

What on earth is the right line through the last corner? The small curb on the 'apex' is so easy to miss and its quite a sharp corner, I cant even get the car turned sharp enough to keep it in the yellow lines. Are people taking a wide line and effectively using the pit lane wall as the boundary? Seems to be the easiest but with so much tarmac around its hard to work out where i should be!

Yes, it's another difficult one. I quite often go over that curb on the inside if I take it to tight. I've never had a black flag yet, I really should experiment in a practice session to see how far the game lets you get away with.

OT a little. Did anybody watch the World Cup race tonight? I watched the first half dozen laps. I've heard people taking about the Dallara doing wheelies over bumps, but that's the first time I've witnessed it myself. Still some development of physics required there, unless it's only a lag induced graphical error. The live commentators weren't too bad, but they still missed a position change and only noticed about half a lap later!! That happens so much in real life, it infruriates me, but I suppose it's easy to criticise having not tried doing it myself. I'm sure it's hard to watch the action intently and think of silly inane things to say at the same time!!

[Paul968]

I think it is a lag thing. Someone on the forum said that you just need to delay the replay a touch
and it is much better, and to me it improved a lot after the first few laps of the broadcast.

[popabawa]

You can't 'cut' the last corner too much, they tightened the detection up there significantly a while back.

The best line seems to be fairly tight. I seemed to find there wasn't as much grip if I went too wide so wasn't able to get the power down as quickly.

[Ben "Welling" Summers]

Morning guys     I have chipped another third of a second off my PB in testing.. getting there..

Dan Minton       1:20
Iain Mabbott     1:22
Blunder            1.23.8
Ben Summers    1:25.473

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

1:24.2 on race fuel after a few laps. Not at all comfortable yet.

[Brendan]

Managed a few mid 21s on half-full tanks the other night but mostly low 22s.  

I really struggle with the downforce cars in iR.  The grip seems to be like a switch, on or off.  I like to be able to feel the car moving around but the Dallara doesn't really give me that sensation.

If I can't get comfortable by Monday evening, I may give this one a miss as I don't want to be an obstacle to anyone.

[Truetom]

I'm sure to crash here on this terrible track. Might start from the pits. Or go see a movie.

[Blunder]

Bah humbug TT!  Your better than that! 

1.23 dead now for me! ( half fuel, modified Dan M set up )

Easy really!

[popabawa]

Can we just cancel the race and 'simulate' it using the times above? I'll take 2nd

[Ben "Welling" Summers]

Latest pre-race laptimes

Dan Minton       1:20
Brendan Wright  1:21.5
Iain Mabbott     1:22
Blunder            1.23.0
Dave Gymer      1:24.2 (full Tank)
Ben Summers    1:25.473 (22.0 Gal)

[Paul968]

I would have thought it would be more useful to see a table of consecutive laps without a spin.

[Burtoner]

Anyone got some setups?

[Dan Minton]

I would have thought it would be more useful to see a table of consecutive laps without a spin.

My best is 5 .

Beat that..

I think once you geta balanced set up the nac with this track is to really concentrate on hitting all the apexes spot on...Same can be said for most tracks but this is a one line race track apart from the hairpin.