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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml to c/simracing@lemmy.ml
 
 

Welcome to Round 4 of the Hot Lap Challenge

Sim: Assetto Corsa
Track: Suzuka
Car: Formula Hybrid 2018
Weather: Clear
Track: Optimum
Temperature: 20.0C
Wind: 0k/m

If you do not have Assetto Corsa, please submit your times with the sim you are using, replicating the track conditions as closely as possible.

Please use the car’s default setup. You may only adjust fuel levels, tyres, TC, ABS, Brake Bias, and ERS deployment level.

You have until 27/08/2023 23:59 to submit your best lap. Please only submit times in a top level comment. If you have already submitted a lap and you improve, please edit your top level comment.

Please include a screenshot of your lap time for verification.

Notes

You may change ERS deployment mode to Hotlap.
You will need to map a button to DRS if you don't have that.

Last time out

I managed to just edge SimpleDev and F4celess for the win.

| Driver | Time | |


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| | itsmikeyd | 1:31.207 | | SimpleDev | 1:31.662 | | F4celess | 1:31.907 | | Tester J | 1:33.755 | | c2c2 | 1:34.935 |

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Hi Everyone!

(You may have seen this already, but it looks like posts from Lemmy.World are having issues federating)

It's time for the Lemmy iRacing League. We'll be running Season 1 as a 3 week series, using entirely base content (included with the subscription). This post will serve as the single Pinned Post for the whole season.

If you're not available for all races that's alright, and anybody is welcome to join for a single week.

Schedule

Pending the end of voting (~2-3 hours after this post goes up) we will be racing on Sunday at 9pm GMT/5pm EDT/10pm BST

Week 1

  • Car: Global Mazda MX-5 Cup
  • Track: Lime Rock Park
  • Date/Time: Sunday Aug. 6 9pm GMT
  • Qualifying: 2 Lap Qualifying, Reverse Grid for Race 2
  • Race Format: 2 Races, 15 Laps each

Week 2:

  • Car: Ray FF 1600
  • Track: Rudskogen
  • Date/Time: Sunday Aug. 13 9pm GMT
  • Qualifying: 2 Lap Qualifying, Reverse Grid for Race 2
  • Race Format: 2 Races, 15 Laps each

Week 3: - Sunday Aug. 20

  • Car: Radical SR8
  • Track: Laguna Seca
  • Date/Time: Sunday Aug. 20 9pm GMT
  • Qualifying: 2 Lap Qualifying
  • Race Format: 1 Race, 30 Laps

Results

Week 1:

Driver Race 1 Points Race 2 Points
itsmikeyd 2 1
BURN 1 2
BrotherMug 3 3

Week 2:

Driver Race 1 Points
F4celess@sopuli.xyz 1
BURN 2
BrotherMug 3

Week 3:

Driver Race 1 Points
BURN 100
BrotherMug 200

Overall Championship:

Driver Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 TOTAL
BrotherMug 6 3 200 209
itsmikeyd 3 - - 3
BURN 3 2 100 105
F4celess@sopuli.xyz - 1 - 1

CONGRATS TO BrotherMug and BURN for the joint championship (awarded for showing up all 3 weeks)

Rules

Please read the iRacing Sporting Code - This is extremely important, and will be worth the time it takes. The iRacing UI will also ask if you've read this before joining your first official session. We will follow the iRacing rules on clean racing.

Protests will be handled after races are finished, outside of extreme cases. They can be submitted privately to myself or publicly in the thread. Both parties will be able to tell their side and then 2 uninvolved members will be asked to make a decision.

Setups: Open setup races, but please don’t bring setup shop sets. I’m not going to police it too hard. Building your own setups is perfectly fine and the iRacing baselines are generally pretty decent too.

Getting Started With iRacing

With some members not having use iRacing before, I felt like it would be good to add a section about getting started. This will set you up with a 1 month subscription, the UI installed, graphics configured and into a test session.

Signing up

https://www.iracing.com/membership/

The iRacing signup process offers a discount to new members, at ~40% off. This is a one time deal and if you choose to renew your membership it will be at full price. Many long term subscribers work around this by purchasing one year subscriptions during the yearly Black Friday sales.

Our league is setup that a minimum subscription of 1 month, starting on Aug. 1 will get you all the way through the season. For a new account a 1 month membership is $7.80 USD.

When you signup be sure to DISABLE the Auto-Renew subscription if you would not like to continue after the conclusion of the league.

Install the iRacing UI

When you log into the iRacing Member Website for the first time after signing up it should take you through a First Startup Guide which will guide installing the sim software, iRacing UI and any other necessary dependencies.

Graphics and Triple Monitor setup

I'm going to link to an external source on this, as Dan Suzuki has covered this really well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-irPlVdDdJo&t=615

Joining The League

In the sidebar of the UI select "Find a League"

Search for "Lemmy iRacing League"

If there's interest in a group practice session I'll get one going, and then I'll be available online at least an hour before each race. Please leave any questions here in the thread and I or someone else should be able to help.

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Things are back to normal at the top of the list for most played racing games on Steam in October 2024: After The Crew 2 leapfrogged everyone following the announcement of an offline mode being implemented and the game being severely discounted. The Crew 2 dropped down the order a bit, with BeamNG.drive, Forza Horizon 4 and 5 taking back the podium spots.

The biggest surprise, however, can be found a bit further down: DiRT Rally 2.0 actually posted a new all-time player peak record in October, eclipsing the 3,486-player mark set in March of 2021 at 5,074. A recent poll here on OverTake showed that most of our community actually prefers DR2.0 over the newer EA Sports WRC - and the price for the older rally title dropping to as low as €1.99 in late October certainly helped, too.

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At the end of every year, sim racing streamer Jimmy Broadbent hosts a fun 23 hour race around Zolder on iRacing to raise money for charity, and this year looks like it will be the most stacked yet in terms of high profile participation.

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Finally got a chance to run an imsa fixed race at silverstone! in iracing.

Weather said rain unlikely: that was a lie.

It lightly rained the whole race.

Qualified P2 with a lucky lap in the wet, but fell back to P3 at the start of the race.

Tried to overcut P2, but didn't have the pace.

P3 finish in the LMP2 class.

Super fun race.

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They're going to be hosting a tournament which is really neat. #

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Week 6 of Season 4, 2024: Got in a few races.

Started off with IndyCar Fixed at Long Beach, started 9th and finished 6th.

Next, IMSA Fixed at Road Atlanta (one of my favorite tracks!), started 14th and finished 11th.

Ended the week strong with a P3 finish in the PCC at Road Atlanta!

How was your week?

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Based on this thread (https://feddit.org/post/3912054 / !newcommunities@lemmy.world ) there are quite a few people who prefer not to interact with communities hosted on Lemmy.ml

Could we maybe consider moving this community to a less controversial instance, such as discuss.tchncs.de because !trucksim@discuss.tchncs.de and !diysimulators@discuss.tchncs.de are already hosted there, or Lemmy.zip ?

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Hello,

Would it be possible to have weekly discussion threads? This usually helps giving people a place to chat without having to create posts themselves

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Comfy (files.catbox.moe)
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Speed Dreams is a Motorsport Simulator featuring high-quality 3D graphics and an accurate physics engine, all targeting maximum realism. Initially forked from TORCS, it has now reached a clearly higher realism level in visual and physics simulation, thanks to its active development team and growing community. It mainly aims to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more enjoyable game for the player, while constantly pushing forward visual and physics realism. It is also intended for any research, study or teaching activity, around physics and AI, thanks to its GPL v2+ license, and the clear and modular architecture of its C/C++ code base.

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Seems familiar? (files.catbox.moe)
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The title promised by Assetto Corsa modding group turned game developer REG Simulations has entered early access on Steam.

Argentinian studio REG Simulations have been promising over the past year a sim racing title featuring content pertaining to their home country's racing scene, such as Turismo Carretera and TC2000. Along with that, many tracks within the Latin American country including Autódromo de Rosario, Autódromo Roberto José Mouras circuit and Autódromo San Nicolás are part of PISTA Motorsport.

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Not my video, but looks like a ton of fun! Should mention the rally driving starts about 4 minutes in. He goes over some of the main patch notes for 1.4 prior to that.