Make sure you check your tires after you pit by using the F6 blackbox or in the garage tab after the race. It'll give you a good indication of how you're driving the car. It's generally best to wear the RF and RR equally, but the fixed setups tend toward the tight side so you're RF will be worn slightly more. Eating the RF will cause more understeer and eating the RR tends to cause more oversteer. If you flash the tire temps accidentally with a slide, try to lower them back down before pushing it again.
Yes absolutely. If you fry a tire 🛞 going into or out of a turn, you need to take it easy on a few corners while they cool down. If you continue to max push you’ll likely only get a few turns (or less!) before you’ll spin out from an oversteer. Or the opposite; it’ll get tight to the exit wall, tighter than you’re used to, than you normally run due to less traction, and if you are again, max pushing… that can have disastrous effects.
On my endurance race team, all the other guys are oval drivers (real life oval drivers.) I'm the only road guy. They say in the first 1/4 of the race or so, when youre in the turns, you keep the same line in the middle of the track. You dont apex or come down and it saves your tires for the last couple laps to rip it down to the apex while everyone is sliding wide. Ive tried it, it works well
im newish to iracing but find road racing more fun in general, but I have been hitting oval and its a nice way to not try hard but still be competitive and drive. I dont have to learn courses just left turns so its easy to join and fun to drive and learn slowly.
Loved this race Dave, I am edging towards PC/iRacing and these short oval races are certainly tipping the scales for me even though I'm ACC road racing only
You need to do 4 D-class races to get promoted at the end of the season. Oval racing is definitely addictive. Used to be a die hard road guy. Now I do about 80% oval.
Quick question if you can answer it Dave. I just bough the Invicta wheel base but I also have the Nascar fanatec wheel that I would like to keep. Did you just have to buy the asetek quick release adapter and screw it on and it worked?
WOOHOO!! Ovals! This should be a fun series. You are NOT driving like a road course. In a road course you would trail brake to the apex but here you are jabbing the brakes, then hopping back on the gas. You also complained about over-rotating at the beginning of the corner. Try being way gentler and way longer on the brakes. You should find you don't steer as much and the car rotates beautifully. This also has the added benefit of being super gentle on the tires and much faster. Check out this (and many other) video(s) by DJ Yee-J ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pASpcCYulAU.html . In each car and track he "drags" the brake into the corner. You might even consider a different profile for your brake pedals. Looking forward to the next video!!
I went to a real world go cart track once. It had a road course and an oval. The road course was ok. I got on the oval and I thought I was going to loose it physically. The G forces had me dizzy. The pros came out later that night and they combined the courses like they do at Nordschlight.
I suggest you pull dj yeej youtube to get some pointer. Biggest thing i can tell you is you need to get all of your weight on the right rear tire. You want the front tire to be straight on exit with the car drifting ever so slightly.
I'm not sure about your side of the pond, but on this side the we would say that racing in NASCAR to improve your safety rating is, well, ironic. Good luck, no doubt, but trading paint is like breathing in those cars =)
Dave I see you have a Fanatec wheel on the QR from Asetek on the invicta. I have the same base mate but use all CUBE CONTROL wheels on the QR, I hate Fanatec but they do have some cool wheels but I was under the assumption that Fanatec was locked into Fanatec bases and won’t work even with the Asetek QR??? If you did do you mind telling me how? I want the GRID. Porsche wheel but it’s sold out and can’t get it here in Australia
