I crashed 1000 times racing up Pikes Peak. Here’s what I’ve learned for the real race 

For anyone sim racing in a roller chair, put the back wheel inside some shoes. It's not perfect, but it helps.

Being an Assetto Modder and watching rob play around in content manager and assetto makes me happy

"Guys the question i am gonna answer in this video is if I will die at Pikes Peak, so lets get right in to it"

A bad simulation is worse than no simulation at all when trying to build muscle memory for the real thing. Sincerely: FPV drone pilot.

As someone who drives around in Assetto Corsa VR for fun, this was a pleasantly unexpected video to see from Rob Dahm. Also this was slightly mentioned in the video already, but definitely go for a direct drive wheel if you can. Direct Drive wheels are the best that you can get because of how instant the force-feedback is. Some wheelbases (mostly in the 10nm+ range) can produce as much torque as the steering in a real car, but even more importantly they can also convey the fine grainy details of the road through the wheel like a real car would. Thrustmaster has a DD wheelbase, but you can also get them from Moza, Fanatec, Simagic, Simicube, Cammus and probably a bunch of other companies I'm forgetting.

You shood get a steering wheel with good force feedback and you shod get pedals with adjustable springs. I would recommend MOZA Racing or Fanatec. Hope this helps and i wish you good luck with racing

knowing that rob is a fellow beam player, makes me happy as hell

As a motorsport engineering student i would recommend reading race car vehicle dynamics by milliken & milliken to learn more about suspension design and race car design.

Hey Rob, It actually might be beneficial to get a wheel that has enough torque to realistically simulate what a real car will feel like. I used the lower end of wheels (gear/belt driven) for many years and finally had the opportunity to get a direct drive wheel - albeit, only a Moza R5 (5.5nm of torque) Having force feedback is one thing, but to actually have to essentially "fight back" with the wheel is a game changer. With the lower end, I never felt like I could really do what I wanted to in fear of the small motor being damaged or plastic not being able to take the force. Aside from the general performance benefits of a direct drive, they also have alot more capabilites in terms of configuration that can make it feel that much better - things like the way the steering rack feels, or the natural inertia that a car has and feeling that as you try to turn None-the-less, great work out there!!! Keep it up :)

Being a sim racer and watching rob makes me really happy. I just wish he was asking somebody to help him set up a proper Sim Setup that will blow his mind😅

the VR headset brightness issue you mentioned could be from HDR. the headset you have doesn't support HDR, so when you switch to VR go into your windows settings and turn it off. I'd just leave the settings bar open all the time so you can switch it quickly. (just in case you don't know the path is right click on the windows icon- settings- system- display- switch "use HDR" off, or on when you're done.)

Nothing but great positivity to say about ur driving program and the efforts of the three rotor car to be finished. I hope when finished with pikes peak you and ur team will have much to be proud of ur accomplishments.

Tip for improving your driving: drive slower cars because when you drive faster ones you tend to rely more on power, but in slower cars you are forced to have the best lines, brake in the perfect time and use more technique rather than just pressing the throttle. Actually, about that, racing people with faster cars does the same effect and it's really fun.

Rob saying launching in second gear is his secret at 16:53 gave me some serious Todd Rogers vibes lmao that's how you get a world record right there lol

So painful having to drive on that tiny laptop monitor, I'm sure you're gonna upgrade that with priority, right? (edit: ahhhh the VR headset, good call!)

Showroom shouldn't be used for physics visualization. It doesn't necessarily display the in-game outputs for geo. All it does is draw the points input into suspensions.ini. None of the cars that come with AC have accurate suspension geometries; or accurate anything. They're not reference points for how the real cars are.

15:50 NAHHHH 😂😂

Hypnodog on your steam friends list 😂

Load cell pedals, then VR/ultrawide/triple monitor setup, then direct drive wheel in that order!

As a thorough BeamNG enjoyer, I was pleased to see it mentioned, my PB is 8:50, 1 minute slower than the WR, did it in the FR18 mod, which is a formula 1 style car.

Someone should get the 4-rotor into Assetto Corsa, so that I can drive it around the amazing Shutoko Tokyo Expressway! I mean, if we're talking Assetto Corsa here, the Shutoko Revival Project is one of the most breathtaking mods out there for the game.

Someone gotta tell him he can change the steering wheel too cuz that one is too small

Im so invested into BeamNG with the driving accuracy and other things. So it has caught me extremely offguard seeing it here, thought he was also gonna play Beam in VR when I saw the Quest2 😆😆

Love the Helldivers name i laughed my ass off. My son's got me playing it also and i kinda like it.

God damn, a decade of drifting, touge racing and and recently track racing in Assetto and it so nice to see people finally open their eyes to benefit of using the simulator, being able to prepare yourself before the track day, or learn drifting before you even buy a real drift car is honestly an amazing feeling. Makes you so much better as a driver too

Really looking forward to my drive to the springs. I can't wait to see all of this hard work pay off!

Without shaders it shows it's age! Also I respect Rob that much more! I love this!!!!

As a fellow assetto corsa enjoyer, I would HIGHLY recommend that you check out "Pikes Peak DiRTY" by Gaben Hood. It's a port for DiRT Rally 1 for assetto corsa but graphically ALOT nicer then the Sim-Traxx version that rob is racing on in the video.

I always feel joy when I see legends like Rob or even random people out there use Assetto Corsa with content manager and some mods. Keeping the community vibrant and growing!

9:30 man I hope you don't blow past that corner in the actual race, that's a spectator area lol. I sat there in 2019.

Rob I can see you making a crazy sim set up. Practice is practice

seeing you start diving into assetto and the physics data of cars makes me hopeful for a proper, correct version of the 4 rotor in ac.

For your bright screen on the quest, try disabling HDR in the game or Windows. I know that tends to cause a similar issue when it comes to screen projecting so it might be that.

From what I recall, AC has always been criticized for it's "on ice" tire model. I think there are mods to change that. I would definitely recommend chatting around online, primarily in Discord, and you can probably find people willing to mod your 3 Rotor into Beam NG/AC.

Next project 100% needs to be a new chassis for the 4 rotor! Built the right way and exactly how you want/need it

someone get this man a TV!

Jeremy Toye's zx10 run, is the best one cam uncut vid, I've found, to learn the mountain.

Rob dahm plz livestream 13:14 ❤we would love to see the progress on the sim

Thank you for the sim racing love and support! I’d recommend getting yourself a Moza R12 and some load cell pedals for a truly humbling experience ;)

I do about 21-23hrs a week (not the most not the least) sim racing before bed, after work then gym then self time building shit in garage, then family time, then racing, then bed. what I've learned that helps a ton when I visit these tracks in real life after practicing on the sim is: turning off all the hud info so there's no floating informations for you to rely on, change the zoom and viewing angles so you have better perception of your sides and view of dash board for rpms and fuel, and if youre running with a Co Driver it would be good to have practice with them watching the screen and calling the turns while you're in vr. but most of all at least just turn off all the floating info. You'll feel the difference in the sim

I have the same set up for sim racing minus the sparco seat, it’s so much fun.

Yeah i recommend you get the Quest 3 if you want to do driving sims more. Better resolution per eye, newer processor(less studders) and it sits a little closer to your eyes so it kind of increases your field of view a little. I use a quest 2 myself(broke boy) but have tried the Quest 3 and really wish i could afford it right now.

VR is great for depth perception. Adds a lot. If you got a direct drive base you could use your steering wheel from the car.

Great to see more and more drivers realize how much building a custom AC car and sim seat time can help in the actual race.

Seeing Rob using a sim to train is awesome. Been sim racing for a few months and I'm hooked

Can't wait to watch him drive off the mountain for real😂😂❤❤

8:20 Wow! Those spectators are cold as ice. They believed in you, Rob!

4:57 serious faced Rob 😆 Focus Daniel son!

the biggest issue with sims is it feels like THE INSTANT your car loses traction, its just gone and unrecoverable, and steering angle doesnt affect it quite right except in select ones

Hi Rob, I'm going to give some different suggestions that may help. First watch a Doco on a TT Class bike racer Guy Martin and his attempt on pikes peak with a turbo charged motor bike. What he did was outstanding. The other thing is watch your AFR's as you climb 6 K feet to 14 K feet. Also a lot of Australian race drivers use the Pagnian Advanced Simulators, which have real time pedal and seat feedback. Hope you do well. Cheers Roger.

Seeing Rob on the sim is just foreign to me. Keep up the grind.

Can’t wait to see you on track!! I’ll be at glen cove

I would suggest getting a vr headset because playing that far from the screen and having such a small screen is just not great, bigger screen or vr would be perfect to have a more real sensation on whats being like to drive pikes peak, also a good modder could make you a more accurate car suspension wise and with the wings in the correct spot for downforce to simulate your car better, than using a random car mod, i'm pretty sure it's not super hard to do and would make it much more like the real car, but most important is to learn the circuit which any car works for Also CSP extended physics do improve tyre behaviour a lot so you probably will feel that the tyres aren't as dry feeling and you won't spin out so easly

Finally someone giving BeamNG Drive the attention it deserves, this is the real simulator

20:18 tips for steam, you can automatically display fps for steam games in the settings of steam itself for no fps hit. you can also opt-in for the nvidia beta (maybe its not beta anymore) to do win + z and display fps so you can show what the actual fps is

that beam map is so much fun. sent several crazy hill climb cars up that map and good god it's just insane.

Those origin pc laptops are monsters though they are literal desktop replacements with actual desktop components inside they're amazing

The helldivers username was funny as f**k.

The first sim is displaying your progress on stage in kilometers. Might be able to use that to help keep track of where turns are. It could also be a way to give yourself a rough reminder of where you are.

I was literally about to suggest checking out BeamNG for training and in that exact moment he pulled it up😂 It makes me extremely happy to see some BeamNG content on here

Yeah, beamng gives you pretty great suspension physics. And you can build/tune whatever you want through jbeam. If you wanna try that, hmu here, if you need help making custom mods for beam. Maps, cars, whatever. Theres already a pikes peak map, but idk how accurate it is.

If you want the full experience you need 3 screens positioned like it was the windows of the car with force feedback with full tilt and yaw feedback on the seat.

love the fact you tried beamng. Its a really good game physics wise. You can even use mods for rx7, tires, turbos, etc

I had an origin 17Inch years ago. It was like 10.5 pounds with the charger brick. Lasted me a good 5 years before I had to upgrade. Went away from origin but I liked the one I had.

So excited to see this car in person

One thing I lurnd doing swisty mountain roads is let the out side of the corner guide you in because on a on caber corner your elevation will be hier than your apex and will give you a couple more feet to read the up coming corner. It also sets you up for spins on turn ins .also slow it down and practice what you lurnd at the driving schools you got this buddy.

Thanks to GT2, Im sure could set some pretty impressive lap times on Tahiti Road and Laguna Seca in a WRX.

What a crazy video, you're having like 1 for 1 the same exact experience I'm having with my laptop, I even have the same wheel and pedals, and have driven Pikes Peak in BeamNG, which is the main sim I play on. It really is wild seeing you having pretty much the same laptop experience though, having something like that which can so effortlessly run games, screen recording, and 3D modeling software like they do is amazing, I have a Lenovo Legion Pro 7 that has AMD's best CPU, and the 4090 as well. Having that same wheel though worries me, my T248 broke and yours will too, that thing's drivetrain is extremely hard on the motor bearings, and once those go, they offer no replacement parts for the T248. You'll probably get 600 to 700 ish hours out of it, then that's it, that should be plenty of time, but mine broke in several different ways before the drivetrain failed so I just hope yours doesn't have the same issues. I broke mounting points, buttons, and eventually the drivetrain. The drivetrain of that wheel also makes it super slow compared to pretty much anything else, but you're doing grip driving, not rallying or drifting, so it'll manage, but that wheel ain't great is my point, it really started to get frustrating dealing with its slowness before the drivetrain finally started skipping and eventually killed the motor.

So accurate it’s even almost over heating 😂

MY 2 FAV THINGS COME TOGETHER BEAM AND ROB

Assetto corsa has build in elevation changes for air density, so when you are at the top, you have less horespower

Imagine Rob contacting on of the bigger modders in Assetto community to both create 1:1 mods of his cars. Both for the fans or for him to actually practice :D

You can get the Moza R5 and the SR-P load cell pedals for like 500 or 600 for a 5.5 NM base and load cell brakes don't use the SR-P lites that come as they are just hall sensor brakes and a Buttkicker from Columbus ohio will give feedback on the road, brakes, etc. Like 300 shipped and you'd have a somewhat lifelike experience.

That set up he was first using is a setup I have now LOL wheel, pedal, stand, all the same.

I also sit on a rolling chair in my sim... just with the roller removed and replaced with feets and the seat straped with zip ties in a way it doenst move left and right when you steer or push pedals...

Nice tag in helldivers xD

The best thing about this Video was Rob's Steam name. I'm dying right now. Rob u a troll. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Will surely follow this Pikes Peak build! Btw, is the frame rate for that sim really that low?

Lol, I was going to say something about running it in BeamNG 😂

I'm gonna get the same car and see if I can get a similar time - I practice Pikes all the time on AC. I've always wondered how much that practice will translate over.

i recommend upping your forcefeed back on the in game setting an it'll feel a little more realistic

Love seeing BeamNG and Assetto Corsa being used as a tool!!!!

A tip for BeamNG being too bright is to change the ingame time of day to like 4:00-5:00pm!

All you people coming to Colorado Springs for the race, see if you can be here for the Pikes Peak Fan Fest on June 21st. See all the cars on the street, meet sooo many of the drivers and teams, get autographs, and enjoy a 10 block street festival downtown! It's badass.

Rob, set the link to 500mbps in oculus debugger. Its a game changer for clairty in VR! Also you can set the headset to 90hz to get a good refresh rate.

for anyone using g29/g920, flipping the pedals upside down and mounting them to the wall feels a lot more natural.

A collaboration with @Jayztwocents would be amazing! He has a PC building channel but he's also a car guy and has a few sim rigs setup in his office.

Rob Dahm cast for Gran Turismo 2 movie

It's OK if the Sim Car has boost problems/Lag. Half the time you forget to turn on or shut off the anti-lag and run into boost problems anyway. It's really a dead on simulator at that point if you think about it.

Are you going to add an antilag system to the car to counter the high altitude boost lag when you're up near the top?? Would help you get out of those tight corners way quicker

Playing beamng with a logitech G923 is the only reason my car isnt wrecked. I was driving with my mom in the rain and a car pulled out into the street and the only real option was a scandi flick clutch dump around it, and it kinda just automatically happened for me. I just drifted around it and only realized after it was over what i had just accomplished

At first few minutes of the video Rob looked like from 90s action movie, I guess Keeps works 😅😅

BeamNG makes you terrified to go fast! Dont forget Rob, hit "Q" when you first load up a car to put it in "realistic" transmission mode so you can actually time the shifts.

some company needs to sponsor you a full moving sim frame with a direct drive wheel !

Around 15:50 is where Isaiah was in another room in VR too.

If you plan on using BeamNG a lot more, you should look into a game called Automation. It allows you to completely design and build a car from the ground up, then import it into BeamNG.

Rob, I'm gonna be real with you. You need to be fucking careful on this race. Don't worry about winning. Worry about staying alive. Saying this out of love and care for your wellbeing. Still have fun though 🔥

Get yourself a SFX PC case, 4070 GPU, Intel i9/AMD AM5 whichever floats your boat, a decent motherboard, 1000 watt power supply (I use Corsair power supplies). Point being, gaming laptops are a consumable item, by the time you are ready for an upgrade there won't be any parts left, or it will be incompatible. So instead of selling off the laptop to fund a portable cased PC you would be able to upgrade any part you wish. With your knowledge I don't see why you have not built your own yet. It's all plug and play these days.

I really hope u will have time to test the car before pikes peak. It seems like u never have time and ur alway push till the deadline. This is the road race that can truly be the end of ur life so i hope u are doing everything u can to make sure u come back. Remember u still got dreams and aspirations beyond this race. It is a crazy feat if u just make it all the way up. U got alot of a head of u. It think i speak for everyone all around the world we would rather see u get a slow time and get up the mountain safely vs see u go 10/10th and never make it to the top or the bottom.

I played that track a million times with Dirt Rally. Some of those off camber turns are deceptive AF.