Hey, Q! I’ve been working the Motor Racing Checklist for a while, and feel the lessons and challenges in the Academy really complements the lessons in the Checklist, and i find having to work on a specific technique in a specifically chosen car/track combo helps me understand and FEEL what I’m supposed to learn, at least with regards to car control and car cornering behaviour. I feel that having to repeat an isolated technique or combo many many times help me improve my overall skill and feel for what the car is doing in other situations to. I used to be a competitive swimmer when I was young and the way Suellio structures the lesssons and challenges makes totally sense to me in that you have to repeat a single thing a LOT to internalise them and build both muscle memory but also a feel on what you’re doing. For me at least, this looks like it might unlock a lot of things in sim racing that’s been difficult for me and that can give me the confidence to do more online races and hold my own and not destroying the race for others. There’s a lot more challenges now so I’d encourage you to have another look 😊
What if you asked AI to give you the best race setup "for" something, like long run tire wear, short run speed, stability, etc, and specifically for the car rather than suggestions to improve what you're struggling with? So, something like "IR18 race setup for stability at Long Beach Street Circuit on iRacing," or however you'd write it. Then adjust from there with what you're struggling with.
I would suggest to fine tune-it by adding some knowledge base of technical literature about setting up racing car chassis and aerodynamics. Surprisingly it did give me some very decent results after that. At least gpt was pointing the right things to adjust with better accuracy and in which direction to go. :)
It always happens to me that when I find the server and write the password and connect it says that the server is full and try again later.. but I can see there are only a few player connected.. dunno how to solve this.. any help??
When you were racing at Pocono I was trying to point out the things that looked to me like you could improve on. At the same time, I didn’t want to appear like some kind of expert because clearly, I am not. But, some things might seem obvious to the viewer but to the driver they might seem counterintuitive and therefore, not addressed. Or the viewer might just be completely wrong… 😂
Appreciate your view on this, I think it's always great if you share your opinion on stream as I often just do what I think is the right thing, but there's obviously room for improvement
I'd be all about this if it wasn't stuck on iRacing. Awesome review though and thank you for sharing your opinions with us based on your experiences <3
Thank you for your early review! I feel like my mission is accomplished by seeing your comments, it warms my heart! A few comments: 1-> I'm uploading around one challenge a day, so it will fill up pretty quickly. 2 -> The techniques are definitely going to be tranferred to other scenarios, even if it doesn't feel like it. That's because by doing so many hundred laps trying to get a gold in that specific challenge, you develop and shape your muscle memory, so in other scenarios you'll be doing that automatically without realizing it. Also, the deeper we get into the challenges, the more repetition you will find, which will help you realize that many of the techniques you've been developing on the early challenges are actually just preparing you to tackle the big ones! 3 -> The Aha moments happen when you're trying to apply a specific theory and you get to feel it in practice. I think there will be some of these throughout the challenges, but the objective of the challenge is for you to sit down and work. The Motor Racing Checklist is the big treasure box full of a-ha potentials (I see a lot of people finally understanding MRC contents by trying to apply them in the Academy). I'll be posting more and more challenges and I'm excited to see a second review in the future :P
Thanks for stopping by and clarifying a few things! Very much looking forward to see how the academy develops and there'll definitly be another review further down the road :D
Have you tried the Motor Racing Academy yet? Let me know what you think about it! And please keep in mind that the Motor Racing Academy might be updated if you're viewing this review after July 16th 2024!
A wise man once said… “You don’t need a mustache to go fast, that’s why swimmers shave their legs”. Another wise man said, “If a goat stares at the sun and a bear stares at the moon, how many pickles will fit in your shoe? That second guy was obviously taking some strong medication so we can just listen to the first guy. Besides everyone knows, it depends on your shoe size.
Interesting.I actually have tried to use AI to give me advice for setups in historical sim racing.Sometimes it's limited by lack of knowledge of those setups from those days.But sometimes it gives me some interesting insights😊
The aero calculator does NOT change the ride height of the car. The rear wing setting yes, but not the rest of it. You have to change the ride height on the Chassis page with the "ride height" setting just below the corner weight's on each wheel. Check the iRacing manual for the Corvette if you do not believe me, its a very common thing that confuses people. The aero calc is to be used for looking at ride heights in telemetry and using an average of the FL/FR and the RL/RR at a given point on the track gives you the aero balance in % at that particular moment.
@@PowerQ no worries, good video, i think that it could be a good tool to learn if u can indentify a problem properly like when u say understeer out of slow corner , or middle of corner, etc., then do changes it suggest one by one so u see how it changes cars behaviour in that part
Love even looking into this kinda thing, you got me started on it with the last video. I think something it does well with is helping to understand the car it self better. Like askin or “prompting” something like, “ what are the advantages and disadvantages of driving the (insert car here) in simulator (insert SIM name)?” To add to this or even just start out with this. “How can I best take advantage of driving the (insert car here) in (sim name here) on (insert track), to achieve the best lap times?
I think ChatGPT is trained on older data, so you gotta be really specific with your prompts as you gotta know if the info you're requesting was available when it was trained. I think you're right, it is a good starting point for finding out more about car/track/sim combinations, but as I stated in the video, it gets a lot of stuff wrong sadly so don't just trust the AI blindly
@@PowerQ heck yeah don’t trust it blindly, my specific questions were about the Honda NSX EVO from ACC, and I already did a ton of reading and research on the car beforehand just trying to understand the car and the idea behind its creation and all, and when I asked a few questions it’s actually helped me to summarize a lot of info I already knew but didn’t have it in quite an easy package to remember it all at once. Also it seems we may be able to correct the information given, I’ll have to test it out to see if it remembers what I corrected it on, or if it will still give the bad information, or as you were saying obsolete information as well. Thanks for the reply.
That could be one of the problems I was facing in the video, but some of the general setup tips chatgpt gave were completely opposite of the truth which gives me the heebie jeebies
@@PowerQ you know what, I have an idea. Because we were both asking it to give us help with setups, but here’s the thing setups are always driver dependent as well. So without it knowing our level of experience or driving style it would probably lean into more of a safe setup. I wii ok next what it might do with stating at least the driving type like aggressive, esports, novice, Pro and the. Get crazy with it and say your style of driving is the type of racing you prefer as in Rally, drift, ect. It would be wild to see it make a perfect setup on a GT3 track for a driver that’s more akin to driving say a nascar or Rally lol
I went from 1:48s on daytona to 1:46s in GT3 easily by just doing basic trail braking. Im not good at it at all yet but doing bare minimum trail braking immediately took me from the bottom of the leaderboard to the top 50%
It's not just about "hitting the apex", it goes hand in hand with the "out - in - out" principle, for example, in the Bus stop, I noticed that you, indeed, hit both apexes, but remained in the inside lane though the short straight, if you allow the car to go a little wider at the exit of the first "s", and do the same on the second, you'll be drawing a straighter trajectory throughout the whole section, and that is what allows you to go faster, because you're using less steering, which, in turn, gives you less friction. By the way, this isn't an angry comment, it's just an observation. 😅
I like, and seen out in out before but was busy in my brain learning how to even feel the road with the FFB lol. Now I think I. An remember and apply it after seeing this, because yes apexes are a base to start with, but every turn does not even have the same apex for every driver (technically it does just early, on point and late) especially with trail braking well and keeping momentum through a corner that leads into a high speed straight will need us to take a late apex and hitting that maximum rotation point, hard part is actually making all that happen lol
every patch and every update changes the physics. And ChatGPT is fishing the internet for information from players from 2015 ectect... Pointless! There are only very vague and rudimentary recommendations.
For me personnaly it would be heplful to get a good description of exactly what the apex of a corner is and what it means to "hit the apex". Curves and turns are different from one to the next and from one track to the next. What might look like an apex on one corner might not actually be "the" apex. I'm going to do my own experiment and find out what I can find out.
The prompt engineering of these will be important. I think creating a custom gpt with loads of data for the model to reference will be the key at AI created setups. This is similar to what race teams do back at their headquarters when running simulations. Now the next step will be adding your telemetry data and the setup information for the models to recommend changes in setup or changes to your racing craft.
But the critical thing is - What did you input into Chat GPT? What information did you provide, as in did you input the entire base line setup and then ask for changes?
I should've been more clear in the video about this but I wrote this as a prompt: I am driving the Dallara P217 in iRacing on the nurburgring GP circuit on the baseline setup Could you recommend some setup changes that add: - More precision in high speed corners - More traction during acceleration - More stability in high speed corners
Oh that’s awesome. That’s pretty straight forward, kind of like coming back to the garage and telling the engineer what you need from the car. I thought you may have needed to first outline all of the current settings. Love this, I’m going to try it 👊🏽
Ik ben geen simracer maar heb sterk het gevoel dat de setup van chatgpt niet perse beter is, maar je lijnen waren wel een stuk smoother. Misschien als fair test zou het beter zijn om de chatgpt setups te proberen als je weer een tijdje niet je sim hebt aangeraakt ipv dat je er helemaal in zit. En zoals andere al suggereerde in de comments, ik denk dat chatgpt qua kennis die het tot zich heeft heus wel goede setups kan maken, maar dan nog is het punt wel dat de coureur zn drivingstyle wel overeen moet komen met de setup die je krijgt.
Insteresting video. The idea is cool, I wish you would have shown what you changed in the setup sheet, video should have been a lot longer. If you are about to redo a video with a similar idea, I would suggest you to get very familiar with the track, just take the track of the week from the series you are mainly driving, after a few races and using a real setup from a shop or what ever, you are probably better prepared for this challenge, using the fixed setup and not the baseline ( or you can use any baseline setup that are labeled with high, low, medium downforce ), since the purpose of the baseline setup is just to not fail under any load of fuel, there is no work on the set. You did 10 laps, 5 laps on each set.... low effort video or lack of knowledge, I don't know. Finally, can AI create a faster setup? - The driving and the lack of visual information for the viewers are the variables that make this completely useless.
Hey power q Im gonna share a secret with you on how i do my setups in iRacing. Theres an app in the app store called RC car setup guide. It was 4 bucks canadian when i got it 4 years ago. It is a great tool for making setups, it gives you adjustments for front or rear separately, it gives you pictures of where the adjustment takes place, it asks you under what conditions your experiencing the difficulty and it also has a what if section that explains the pros and cons of each adjustment on the car. You should really check it out! Also if you found this helpful please consider giving my channel a sub. Thanks man, great video by the way.👍
