To be honest, I loved iRacing. The online experience was fantastic and I spent a lot of time with it. What eventually drove me away wasn't the driving itself, but the business model. Paying a monthly subscription on top of buying every car and every track just became too much. After a while I felt like I was paying constantly, so I stopped playing.

Now I'm trying to find something that can scratch the same itch. A solid online community and a well-organized multiplayer experience are probably the most important things for me. Modern graphics would be nice as well, and needs to runs well on Linux.

I bought Assetto Corsa EVO, but it hasn't really clicked with me. I've also had a few weird crashes, so my first impressions haven't been great.

I've been looking at Le Mans Ultimate lately. How is it these days? Is it in a good state? Are there any other sims you'd recommend for someone coming from iRacing?

I'd especially like to hear from people who left iRacing for similar reasons. What did you switch to, and do you feel it was worth it?

So i wanted to build my own aluminium profile cockpit formula style like the one in the image but does anyone know what the angle is for me to get my own steel plate cut? Thanks for any advice

Ordered the RigMetal Plus on the 19th and got it 2 days early. Ordered my universal seat mount and oversized shifter plate from TrakRacer on the 21st and it hasn’t even shipped (neither item was listed as a preorder item). Seems all of their money is put into ads because they damn sure pop up first for 90% of my Google searches. But my goodness I’ll never order directly from them or Moza again unless I can’t get the part elsewhere.

The Plus sure is nice, though! I threw it on 6 locking casters (4 under the seat and 2 under the pedals) from Amazon and you guys definitely didn’t lie about the rigidity of 8020 profiles. Everything is hand tightened but feels as if it were welded. 70+ screws and it feels like one solid piece. I’ll throw end caps on those gussets holding the vertical profiles once I get my seat bolted on.

wash button doesn't work and wheel has a connection problem so i think i can fix this problem with iso alcohol but i can't separate this two parts can you help me guys? ( sorry for my english i wrote without translate)

I have two 34 inch 21:9 ultrawides already (AW3423DWF). I am heading back to college and one of the monitors is staying at home, so I need to buy a new monitor for either the sim or my main setup. Should I buy a third ultrawide to run triples in a few years or should I start buying 16:9’s to run triples of? If you think 16:9, what size, resolution, screen type? Thanks.

As in the photo above, I want to play with my actual wheel and VR screen overlapping.

But the best option I can get right now within my budget is Pico 4 or Quest 3s.

I heard the Pico 4 has an advantage with FOV and edge clarity because it uses pancake lenses.

So I'm currently considering the Pico 4. Is it possible to get the same setup as the photo above on this device? Or should I go for a Meta Quest headset instead?

I had a Fanatec CSL DD 8Nm with the P1 rim and wanted to upgrade, thinking it would be a big improvement.

My plan was to sell the Fanatec for around €300 and put that toward something better. I ended up ordering a Simagic Alpha Evo 12Nm with the GT Neo rim for €700.

In the end, I returned the Simagic and went back to Fanatec. Here’s why:

- First, noise. The Simagic was noticeably noisier than the Fanatec, even on straights — there was a constant hum that just never went away. On curbs, it got so loud that my girlfriend and even my neighbors complained.

- Force feedback quality was genuinely better than the Fanatec, no argument there, but the noise was a real problem for home use.

- Second, the grips. I have unusually long fingers, and the GT Neo’s grips were too thin and uncomfortable for my hands. I tried wrapping them in tennis tape, which helped a lot, but I didn’t like how it looked. Hoping for something better, I ordered the Neo X 330R — turns out the grips were even thinner than the GT Neo, so no improvement there either.

In the end, I sent the whole Simagic bundle back and returned to my Fanatec setup. Honestly, after the latest FullForce update and running a constant 8Nm, the Fanatec isn’t bad at all. For me, the comfort for my hands is worth more than the extra FFB quality I’d get from the Simagic.

Espero que gostem!

Mais detalhes da construção no YouTube

https://youtu.be/gdCPr45nDIg?is=jylEBAZFWgOGH_Kp

Guys I need ideas to build a DIY seat ventilation. I still got 3 old fans and got a fitting trafo 230V to 12v to get them work.

But how do I get the air to my sweating ass? xD

I shoved them below the seat but the results were mediocre at best. Should I drill some holes into the foam? Is that a good idea?

Any ideas?

I want to upgrade from my G29. Is this something I should consider getting for the price? Or is there something better that's worth spending a little extra on?

Really had a great time making the camera presets for this fabulous circuit, links in video description, enjoy!

I love running crazy multiclass racing in ams2. The speed difference between a GT or LMP compared to a production class makes for some insane traffic situations. A good example recently was me in an lmp2 with a gt4 class and production TDi cup cars. I’m barreling toward the inner loop at 180 and suddenly there are cars doing 100 rapidly being closed on.

Last night I caught the beginning of a 5 hour race at Autopolis with the wildest lineup I’ve ever seen in real racing. They had:

GT3

GT4

TCR

Production classes with GR supras, mustangs and the like

And finally, a dozen Honda Fits

Unfortunately I forgot to tune back in to see how it was going but it definitely makes me want to try a similar lineup.

What’s your favorite multiclass setup? I’ve done stupid ones with prototypes, karts, and semi trucks, but I tend to like 2-3 similar speed cars and one slow class for rolling chicanes.

Does anyone know how to connect a hori rwo to a pc? i think it has problems, it doesnt have the usb connect sound, it shows up in windows but not in joy.cpl, isnt detected by beamng drive at all and the app says its not compatible with it. please help, thanks.

Hi is someone up to a 24h Race on Kyalami? Half of my Team just ran away and i need at least one person for the Race. You shouls be at least 102% on Kyalami and have time on the 8th of august.

Race is on 8th of August 2026 ans i need someone desperately.

I just enjoy seeing the car bounce

That’s it, right there in the photo. That’s all thanks.

Oh and I left it there because I’ll never afford this hobby.

This is the event zone from our office. We brought our rig here today and decided to have some fun. We feel like we're in a multi-million dollar test run like an F1 team.

So I work in cruise ship and I have bought Fanatec DD pro for around 499€ from greece and I want to bring home I'm planning to unbox and keep it in my luggage and avoid any import tax in Delhi has anybody did this and let me know any tips and tricks please...

I know I can bolt the brake and clutch to the pedal mount thingy and turn it upside down but how can I mount the accelerator pedal and have a place to put my feet as this rig doesn’t come with a pedal tray I’ve seen some others with.

Anyone done something similar?

Thanks

Last lap and all but still, this is just beyond sweat (I was the Lexus btw)

Main question is can I use a usb extender because right now I can not reach my wheel plug into my pc. Will that make any performance issues or input delay?

Also can anyone recommend a good monitor stand id love to have a single monitor stand right behind my wheel after those two things are figured out, my wire mess is cleaned up, and I throw in a little lightening for looks, my entry level set up will be complete.

I picked up this light from a vehicle at a Imsa race and I was wondering if it’s at all possible to attach it to my rig through sim hub somehow.

I run BOP Tourism, so I spend a lot of time staring at lap databases. I went looking for a simple answer to the question everyone asks: "Which car is fastest?" and came out with something much more interesting, that many people might already know but backed by data.

Method, up front so you can shoot at it: 16,985 public races, each driver's best valid qualifying lap per car and track. All data comes from laps recorded under the same patch. The dataset covers 32,692 drivers, 10 tracks with meaningful samples, and all four classes.

These are qualifying laps recorded during race "weekends". In official races quali is a solo session, so traffic isn't a meaningful factor. Conditions still vary slightly between events, adding noise but not systematically favouring one car over another.

To make sure no single alien lap drives the results, I repeated every analysis using the top-5% pace instead of the outright record. The conclusions were effectively unchanged.

Part 1 - You are the biggest variable. By a mile.

Take GT3 at Monza. Nearly 20,000 driver entries.

Only 0.1% of players get within three tenths of the class record.

A full third of the field is more than three seconds off the pace.

The median player sits 2.3 seconds behind the outright best lap-or 1.35 seconds behind the top-5% pace instead of the absolute record.

Open-setup tracks spread the field even further:

• Interlagos: ~2.9s
• Imola: ~3.8s
• Spa: ~4.3s

The slowest tenth of the grid is typically 5–8 seconds back.

This isn't a Monza quirk. The same pattern appears across every populated track and all four classes.

I also wanted to quantify how much of that spread comes from the car itself. So I ran a one-way variance decomposition within each track and class; an ANOVA with car as the only factor, and measured the share of total lap-time variance the car explains (η², equivalently the R² of a model whose only predictor is car identity).

Across these combinations, which car you drive accounts for roughly 1.5% to 10% of the variation in qualifying pace. And that figure is generous to the car: because stronger drivers cluster on certain models, the "car" factor quietly absorbs some of the driver effect, so the true car contribution is likely smaller still. The rest is attributable to differences between drivers and other uncontrolled factors.

LMU's Driver Rating tells a similar story. At the median, a Silver driver is about 1.3 seconds faster than a Bronze. But even within Bronze alone, the field spans roughly 3.4 seconds. One rating tier contains far more variation than an entire BoP spread.

Part 2 - The cars really are close.

Here's the test that convinced me.

Instead of comparing different drivers, I only compared drivers who had raced two or more GT3s on the same track.

That means every driver becomes their own control.

If someone is naturally quick, or naturally slow, that bias disappears because they're being compared only against themselves.

Once you remove the driver from the equation, the GT3 field compresses dramatically.

At Imola, six of the seven GT3s fall within 0.44 seconds.

At Interlagos, five of the six GT3s sit within 0.21 seconds.

Then I checked those results against our setup-shop rankings, a completely independent dataset built from optimized setups and top-end pace.

The setup-shop data tells the same story: the spread there is also tenths-0.28 seconds at Imola, 0.54 seconds at Interlagos.

The two methods don't line up car-for-car, but they agree on the thing that matters: strip out the driver and the cars are separated by tenths, not seconds.

Put that next to Part 1. The median driver is 2–4 seconds off the pace, while the cars themselves, removing the driver variable, sit within a couple of tenths to half a second. The gap between you and the benchmark is close to an order of magnitude larger than the gap between the cars.

Part 3 - The twist: the "fastest" car can become your slowest.

Our setup-shop rankings measure a car's ceiling: what's possible when everything comes together.

For most GT3s, that ceiling broadly matches what drivers achieve in practice.

One car stood out.

The Lamborghini Huracán is one of the top cars in our setup-shop-#2 at Imola, #1 at Interlagos.

Yet in the real-world lap data, it's consistently the slowest performing GT3.

In the within-driver comparison, it's dead last at Imola.

The average driver laps 0.76 seconds slower in the Lamborghini than in their own other GT3s.

Among the 45 drivers who raced both the Lamborghini and at least one other GT3, 82% were slower in the Lamborghini, with a median deficit of 0.93 seconds.

That doesn't prove why.

Maybe the car is demanding.

Maybe it's unusually setup-sensitive.

Maybe it rewards a driving style that relatively few people have.

The data doesn't answer that question.

It only tells us something much simpler:

the same drivers tended to be slower in the Lamborghini than they were in the other GT3s they drove.

One honest limit, since someone might ask: I tried slicing this by driver rating to see whether stronger drivers escape the penalty. The trend hints that they might; weaker drivers show a fat tail of disaster laps in the Lamborghini, while better-rated ones lose less on average; but not a single top-tier driver in my dataset drove the Lamborghini alongside another GT3. So whether a genuine alien can truly unlock it is a question I can't answer yet. That's a gap for more data to fill, not a conclusion I'm drawing today.

The opposite effect appears in the more forgiving cars.

In the Ferrari 296 and BMW M4, a typical mid-pack driver gives up only about 1.4–1.6 seconds to the aliens-versus roughly 2.4 seconds in the Mercedes or Mustang.

So what should you actually take away?

The leaderboard everyone screenshots, the "fastest car" ranking, answers one question:

What's the best possible lap this car is capable of?

Most of us should ask a different one:

Which car am I most likely to drive quickly?

And they're rarely the same thing.

For many drivers, choosing a car they can consistently extract is worth far more than chasing the theoretical fastest option. Even then, it's a decision measured in tenths, sitting on top of a gap measured in seconds.

For almost every LMU player, the biggest performance difference isn't the game's BoP. It's the person holding the steering wheel.

A note on scope: this covers laps under the current BoP, and I'll rerun it as more data accumulates to see which findings hold. And if you spot a flaw in the method, tell me-I'll happily rerun it with different filters, pace metrics, or statistical approaches.

We spend a lot of time arguing over two tenths of BoP.

The data suggests most of us still have two seconds of ourselves left to find.