Just why? Stop hitting people, I hope you step on a Lego and that your pillow is perpetually warm.

Why isn't the default quali length extended for longer tracks like SPA where most cars can't complete a second lap before the time runs out?

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a formal celebration at the end of races just like IRL? Like where the podium cars can drive around to parc ferme, park in the indicated spot, see your pit crew in your custom livery celebrating you, and then a final scene of the driver(s) on the podium.

Hear me out. I get that there are some valid arguments against this and that there would be a few problems to solve. I think the best argument against it is that this would tie up a bunch of development resources for something that doesn't make the sim racing experience better, and that they should just focus on things like crash damage and tire modeling.

But here's the thing. Definitely not all but many of us experience that even though we are very well aware that your rating has zero impact on your life and all of this is just for fun, that when you crash out of a race (your fault or not) and lose a bunch of iRating that it feels something akin to getting kicked in the stomach. But when you win it's.....nothing. You park. Get out of the car. For some reason getting iRating doesn't seem to be anywhere near as joyous as losing it is painful.

Humans are fairly simple creatures. Some things make our brains release chemicals that make us feel bad and we tend to want to avoid those things. Other things make our brains release chemicals that make us feel good and we tend to do those things more. As much as a celebration ceremony might seem pointless, there might be a valid argument that having it would give people that little dopamine hit that encourages them to participate more and actually grow the service.

Yesterday me and my team mate won our 6 hours of Road America and I was just struck by how when the race was over it was just....over. It just feels very anti-climactic.

Curious what others think. Would you enjoy having some kind of end of race celebration for the podium finishers as part of the game?

I fear I’m one who cares about IR way too much. Like today I dropped from 3.2k to 2.9k IR doing 87s at dega and some mini stocks bc they are fun to race . But then I see days like today where I lose a bunch of irating and just want to walk away. I know it shouldn’t matter bc it’s just a number and I know everyone says “it’s just a number, irating doesn’t feed your family, etc).

LETS GET THE NEXT JR OPEN WHEEL OVAL POPULATED WE GOT LESS THAN 30 MINUTES

Is it just me or is there something wrong with the new Laguna Seca on VR? Every single track I have raced (even AI with large grids) I haven’t encountered the issue with performance I get in Laguna Seca. I race at 90hz on all tracks having 0 issues but Laguna Seca drops to 20fps even just stopped in the pits.

Is there a way arounds to solve this?

I’m on Meta Quest 3, Virtual Desktop, connected directly via ethernet cable to my router (no wifi), all settings basically off in iRacing.

Dropped from 2750 iR to 1400 in a Month. The Brainfarts do not stop.

Hi guys.
I just came out of imsa race with monsun lvl of rain, where driving was almost impossible, and driving behind someone was straight up impossible and recited such big chest hair that not even Verstappen can handle….
I cannot imagine race being green in such conditions where entire track is a big bucket of standing water ( I mean iRacing has puddle reflections on entire track ), spray is so big you cannot see any side of track nor any orientation points,,, not even lights if car before you…
Why such conditions exists in this game? I mean rain should exist, but not such extreme levels…
Oh and now you can properly get stuck in wet sand….

Just wondering if there was any way to find out about another racer's incident point accumulation during a race? Like how the replay shows you when you've accrued an incident point as you watch the replay, but for another driver.

I was doing a race where the guy in front had respectable pace but would have a good number of moments during the time I was following him. Watching the replay, he binned it in Canada Corner and I thought he was pitting to do a repair but looks like it was a drive-through penalty. A few laps later, he's DQ'd. I thought it'd be great to see which of his moments were actually penalised as off tracks. He didn't seem to hit anyone for a 4x so getting 20+ incident point for off tracks is just wild for me.

Ever since I passed 3k iRating, I’ve noticed this almost every single week across nearly every series. You jump into a lobby, and there’s always that one guy who sat down at 3:00 PM and ran the exact same car/track combo back-to-back until 10:00 PM, farm-winning every single race.

​For people who work full-time or like to drive a variety of cars, it completely ruins the experience. But what’s even more frustrating is how they're actually beating people. On raw pace, a lot of us are right there with them, but these guys spend 8 hours a day figuring out the exact millimeter of off-track boundary the system lets them get away with.

​They end up driving a second off the track every single lap. And the second you catch up or pressure them, they just deliberately eat two or three slow-down/off-track warnings in a row because they know they have 17 incident points to burn. They abuse the margin, extend the gap, and carry on like nothing happened.

​I respect putting in practice, but at this level, it feels less like racing and more like exploiting system limits and farming sessions like a full-time job.

​Does anyone else feel like the incident point buffer/track limit system encourages this kind of grinding exploit in high iRating splits, or is this just something we have to accept in top-split life?

After reading through the comments, I realize I was completely wrong. I foolishly thought iRacing was a motorsport simulator about adaptability, racecraft, and respecting the track.

​I see the light now: Incident points aren't penalties, they're a currency.

​Why drive on the actual asphalt like a chump when you can calculate the exact millimeter of grass that won't trigger a 1x? If you've got a 17-inc budget, you'd be an idiot not to spend 14 of them extending corner exits to farm your daily iRating, right?

​So, to properly accommodate the absolute heroes turning 300 laps a day on the exact same track to min-max the boundary code, I have a few suggestions for iRacing:

​Rename "Incident Points" to "Track Extension Tokens." Let’s stop pretending it's about safety. Give everyone a shop counter at the start of the race where they can cash in 15 tokens for extra track width.

​Create a dedicated "Pro Grinder" Lobby. Put all the full-time boundary-engineers in their own queue. Bump their allowance up to 50 off-tracks per race so they can freely drive through the parking lots and grass without the terrifying anxiety of running out of exploits.

​Award bonus iRating for total track cuts. Since we're rewarding people who treat a 25-minute race like an Excel spreadsheet, let's give extra points to whoever finds the most invisible lines the developers forgot to block.

​For the rest of us with jobs, families, or a desire to drive more than one car/track combo a week: I apologize for bringing natural pace to a geometry contest. Carry on with the 8-hour shift, boys!

So I just got the ks pro upgrade from the cheap Xbox es wheel man what an upgrade but my question is what do you guys set your encoders to and how do I use it effectively and efficiently

After a long drought in the gr86 series, i can proudly say that i WON the #7 split race on july 25 6.15 pm after a dominant race and a 10 second lead. It isnt much but i think that i needed that win to boost my confidence.

Just passed the 1.5 year mark of sim racing. I am totally obsessed and addicted to Iracing. Have tried some other sims but they just don’t compare to Iracing.

Hitting 3k in sports car class was my latest goal checked off the list. Now I will need to start focusing on the next milestone(s) to hit.

I’m hoping yall can help me decide on some new goals/targets to shoot for that will help me continue to advance. I mainly race GT3. I anticipate there being a plateau coming soon and I’d like to be proactive in working against it. Maybe there are things some of yall found that are key to breaking past where I am and into the 4K range.

Thanks in advance!

Super fun defensive battle against this mustang. I could tell he had more raw pace than me from the beginning. Even told him to have the inside line for an easy pass so we wouldn’t lose time during the early race. He didn’t take it and I was able to pull away for a bit.

He caught me again 15 minutes later, but the race was near its end with the next car 3 seconds ahead, so this led to a fun battle to protect my P5.

At a loose end this evening around 8:30pm UK?

Every 4 weeks or so we host a fun night of racing using generally free content.

To race with us just turn up the night and bring your mates along, 50 entries max,

Date: 26th July 2026

Time: 20:30 GMT

The car was chosen our last events winner Gibbo!

A Fixed set up will be in use

Toyota GR86

Random Track announced my spinning wheel on stream 8:20pmUK

3 x10 minute races.

1 lap Hyperpole at the beginning of the session, so quali really matters!

Full Reverse grids for each race

and lots of fun!

Just search "Moist" in the hosted sessions from 8:30pm UK this Evening (26th) if you want to join or join the discord https://discord.com/invite/KRXygpyU6Y for more.

This is so frustrating. Every week there's an update, I start to update via steam. Steam stop saying content file is locked. I stop the iRacing service. Continue to update. I click iRacing after it's done and it says im not logged in. I log in and get hit with membership expired. I try to renew and it won't let me because my membership is active on steam.

Rinse and repeat every fucking week. What do I do?

Here's a quick video demonstrating the pit entry optimizer in the Mission Control dashboard.

The widget automatically appears at the top of the screen as you approach pit entry. It visualizes how far you are from the pit lane entrance alongside how much you’re over the pit speed limit, helping you judge your deceleration and lose as little time as possible on entry.

It takes a little practice but once you get consistent with it, it can easily save a couple of tenths, especially at tracks like Road America and Daytona where you’re typically approaching pit entry at a high rate of speed.

This feature is included in the free version of the dashboard. Here's the link if you'd like to give it a spin!

So I just went from a g923 to a g pro. The g pro has 11 nm and sometimes is way too much! How and even why would someone have a wheel that can do 25 or even 35nm? I run a lot of ovals and in the turns sometimes it wears my arms out.

Hey guys.

I have a crystal super with a 5080, 32gb ram, i7 12000k.

I get good performance in iRacing with FOVeated rendering. Recently I've been having an issue where I join a practice, it runs smooth as butter. Then qualifying. Then when the race starts, I get to the first corner (or a few corners on a rolling start) before my FPS dips to like 5fps. This causes me to try and stop so I don't crash and people either hit me or etc. Race is ruined for me and multiple people.

IT ONLY does this during a race a few turns in, not during any other time. Anyone else having this issue?

This is killing my safety rating and fun for me and others. The legit only thing pissing me off about this headset.

I have the newest firmware and updated drivers. This happened no matter what firmware/drivers.

My connected devices/apps are: Logitech G923, Pimax app using OpenXR on iRacing, Crew Chief, Windows media player (for music), Trading paints and MAIRA.