I heard you’re looking for answers. Why “Yours, Vern? Well, I’m old. So old that the first e-mail account I had was when the internet was still an experiment between universities. It was a summer job at college, and the e-mail was strictly a local campus thing. The department I was in had exactly one e-mail address, so the boss wanted everybody to sign the e-mails they sent to keep track. After that job, a few years went by before I had a e-mail again - it was either a AOL or a Compuserve - and I just kept signing my e-mails. Yours Vern
Keep on keeping on! I had a similar experience, there is a person in my community who uses their initials NEM in capitals to sign off posts. Has done for 30 years. :)
"-Yours, Vern" refers to a popular forum user Vern Klukas who ends every message with "Yours, Vern" He's in pretty much every thread so it's a very common sight
someone once calculated how much time vern had spent typing Yours Vern at the end of each post. his posts were in the multiple thousands, so it was a significant amount of time.
Arca is Nationwide Class B Yes, that is how it came about In fact, I had my letter back then with iRacing were I suggested that they make this happen We went back and forth across many emails that made this happen The first season of this new series came about I raced it and used a spreadsheet to track points As a result I won my division by a very small margin of points that season Yes, I have the Cert from the Season James Falcon Pratt
Another part of the 'mic check' thing is a little game of when you enter a pre-race practice session and spot somebody named Mike or Michael, you get on the radio and say "mic check' and hope it's the guy named Mike who responds with 'loud and clear' hahaha
“Mic check” is really nostalgic for me every time. Years ago before I had my own account, I would play on my dads, who’s name is Mike. Every time somebody would ask for a mic check, I would always reply “I’m here!”. Now that I play on my own account I can’t do that, but it’s a nice reminder of my first days of iRacing.
My joke entry for the bottom tier would’ve been Dale Jr and Steve Myers are trapped in iracing (spy kids 3d style) and the ones in real life are clones
27:07 Le Mans is largely a street course, so the time window to scan it is narrow, but when the steet course is in use the Bugatti circuit is often something else so it cannot be scanned. Previous years it was a campsite and this year it was the concert area for instance.
I believe a video on how exploits are discovered would be an interesting video. Some exploits seem so absurd I often wonder how anyone even finds things like that.
I was in the garage at Martinsville the day iRacing teased dirt and ask Clint Bowyer if it was true and he confirmed it was. I think I actually have it on video. I’ll have to see if I can find it.
Thank you for the video. I know of someone who contacted iRacing Support chat asking how time trial rating was calculated. They were told to please use support for serious inquiries only and never to ask that question again!
Bro it's simple read the sporting code: "If a ttRating update for you is warranted, the ratio of your new Time Trial Best Time to the best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for any customer at this Car Class / Track Configuration combination is computed. This “normalizes” this Time Trial Session’s contribution to your ttRating by putting the value for this Car Class / Track Configuration combination into the same “units” as for any other Car Class / Track Configuration combination. That is, its contribution is just your “percentage” of the best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for any customer for the given Car Class / Track Configuration combination. If you just set a new best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time for that Car Class / Track Configuration combination, your “percentage” will be 100. If you were 1.5% slower than the best-ever, your “percentage” will be 101.5. Your ttRating for the license type in use is then computed by combining your “percentages” for each of the most recent 8 Track Configurations for which you registered a Time Trial Best Time using the same license type, regardless of which Car Class was used. Your combined percentage is then scaled to put it into a similar set of units as iRating. Since your ttRating only includes your most-recent 8 Track Configurations, this can lead to some unexpected ttRating changes. For example, though you might have just set a better Time Trial Best Time at this Car Class / Track Configuration combination than you had previously set, your ttRating could actually decrease if the new calculation has dropped a previous better overall performance from the calculation, or if the new calculation has dropped your previous Time Trial Best Time for the same Car Class / Track Configuration combination. Your ttRating might also decrease even if you set a better Time Trial Best Time using this Car Class / Track Configuration combination than your previous run if in the interim someone else has set a new best-ever recorded Time Trial Best Time of any customer on the service at that same Car Class / Track Configuration combination. In this case, even though you set a better personal-best time, your “percentage” became worse, because it’s now being compared against an even better reference time. As ttRating is a measure of competitive performance skill for time trials, it is only adjusted up or down whenever a time trial event is completed."
@@DJYeeJay Actually doesn't sound *too* tricky - it seems essentially that the rating is determined based on who is closest to the best times set of their last 8 time trials. For instance, if your 8 times were all 105% of the best time, your total would be 840%. Someone else who set 7 best times and an eighth that was 140% of the best would be equal, as their total would also be 840%. It also says that improvements might still make your rating worse if it bumps out a now-ninth time trial percentage that was better than the newest one, if it bumps out a percentage from the same exact combination that was better, or if your improvement on the current attempt actually resulted in a worse percentage because someone lowered the best time by too much. 🙂
#dirtconfirmed is probably some of the funniest stuff I have ever seen in an actual serious release. When dude starts eating the dirt when they are talking about learning 'everything' about a new type of surface. On tanking, on paper, it looks a lot like I did that. However, I used to run just the tracks and series I was good at and worried about irating more than fun. Now I run even the tracks I should still be practicing on and have lost almost 2k irating and do not care. It is where I 'belong' and the racing is way more fun. But instead of competing for top 5s at the tracks I am good-ish at, I am running away from the field.
With tanking there are people who will literally sign up for races and not joining. Joining something you’re bad at and just having fun is great. I don’t do that enough myself
Note about the mercedes paint schemes at 44:10 you can have custom paint schemes but only the iracing default 3 color ones that are uglier than the mercecedes one anyways (small and unimportant just thought i would throw that out there)
"Yours Vern" - a guy on the iRacing forums who posts a lot and ends every single one of his post with "Yours, Vern" for some reason. Don't know who would be interested in that information, but there you go. 🤪
I still have the Beta test software FIRST on CD. Been racing since HAWAII dial up and long distance charges days, Then TEN (Total Entertainment Network) NROS Series, beta test FIRST which then became IRacing.
Laser scanning was pretty unique in 2008 when iRacing first released, but now it's not really anything to brag about because it's pretty much the standard for racing sims. ARCA Brakes got their name from (what is now) the ARCA Menards Series where inexperienced drivers smashing into wrecks at high speeds were and still are relatively common, especially on big tracks. My personal opinion on exploits in general in iRacing is that the onus isn't on the professional esports teams to not take the advantage, the onus is on iRacing to deter it, either by punishing the drivers so much they don't want to do it, live stewarding big races, or just patching out the problem. The most likely explanation for the Bugatti Circuit not being in iRacing is that it's not that popular with cars. It's popular with motorcycles, but less so with cars. The Indycar ban can be somewhat gotten around with the reworked Dallara iR-01 from relatively recently, with the Pacific Majors Series doing a "Speedway 500" with the iR-01 this year. F1 Cars on Dirt could also refer to that before iRacing did an update so that all cars could run on dirt any car that didn't have an explicit dirt tire would crash on startup with a few exceptions, one of those being the Williams F1 car.
@27:26 It was 44x, not 17x. iRacing set the race session up to be limited to 300x, without testing it first. Only problem was the sim internally was limited to an 8-bit number ... which stops at 256. So 300 rolled over and became 44x. 🤣 My team finished the race ... on 43x.
Greger Huttu was featured a few years ago because he was so unbelievably fast in Grand prix Legends, that people wanted to see what he can do in a real car. Nice video with a sympathetic young man from Finland in far away US land.
Just off the bat, as someone with laser scanning experience, it definitely has to add to the experience, the data which you can get from a scanner vs traditional methods is night and day
School configurations have made their way into official races before. The Production Car Challenge last raced at Summit Point in 2020 Season 3 and at Lime Rock Park - 2008 and Laguna Seca in 2019 Season 4. When I first saw this in 2020, I thought it was a track update; the track just comes with cones now.
"every copy is personalized" is a nod to the super Mario 64 iceberg that started the trend of icebergs. its more true for PC games as most run a optimization check to give you the best settings possible.
i was working with Podium during the controversial 500. there were a lot of people who worked on that broadcast trying to make the most out of a really wacky situation, and i give my respect to them. aside from the post-race results situation, the production crew were on their A-Game and throwing down some entertaining broadcasts. Some of the people involved in the broadcasting (not the organizing, just the visual and audio elements of the event) even moved on from it and actually work on official iRacing broadcasts today. as messy as the result shenanigans were, the crew was top notch and i miss working with all of em.
@@DJYeeJay He did that at least once at Bathurst, but I think iRacing eventually decided that they didn't want people doing that any more and made rules against it
Never knew about Irwindale Rallycross - it might have come about as it was the first ever race of the first season of Global Rallycross in 2011, which iRacing partnered with as the official sim in later years before the series folded. It would have been the only RX course in the game with a crossover gap jump (that is if they planned for the 2013 X Games version which used a simpler layout). Nothing remarkable really especially when it would have been just another short-oval dirt+water barriers rallycross track, but very interesting nonetheless
Loved The iRacing Iceberg video - I know you covered a few but would love to see an entire video just like this on iRacing memes, sayings, etc… like “Send it”, “Use the chrome horn”, “Get on the loud pedal”, “Checkers or Wreckers”... 👍
😂Yes, yes I did listen for 80 minutes..😳 Thank you for explaining things in such a way that “pre” iRacing users such as myself can understand and not ask for a mic check. 😂 Seriously though thank you for spending so much time divulging all this content, it really does help to prepare for the world of iRacing & is much appreciated. Great content, keep it up. 🤙
Great video mate! I never realised how much lore there was over on the oval/dirt side of iRacing before watching this. Was happy to help out with the video too!
Did I see an NR2003 clip of an addon track during the explanation of "ARCA Brakes"? Also, "I'm just here for SR" is the scariest thing someone could say. Where's the NR2004 download link?
i was a driver in the 2023 peccgb, the time gained was insane doing those laptimes, at the time i didnt know about this, in our practice sessions i was running mid-high level laptimes, and then when it was time to qualify the whole track was just blocked by the drivers doing slow outlaps, making it almost impossible to qualify properly without being blocked or causing a crash. it also did give a huge pace advantage since i was doing PB's and i was running near the back in quali. we tried to sort this out with the admins but it was really shady, they didnt want to listen to our advice and just wanted to stick to their own ruleset, making the whole competition a huge shitshow and not fun to drive.
I thought this was another 10 minute video when i started. After 15 minutes i checked to see when it was going to finish, only to discover it went on forever. Great video though, learned quite a few things despite being on iracing since 2008.
I vaguely remember a forum post where he said something like "your argument doesn't matter because at the end of that day I'll be racing on Sundays and you'll be sitting on your couch watching me. Was a hell of a call as an 11 year old.
Every copy is personalised… as it should be just like how every copies of any kind of products sold are personalised with a unique serial number. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to keep track of all the stats in the game that are tied to each individual account. It needs a unique identifier to differentiate between the different accounts. It’s not really an iceberg and is as common as a person breathing in air… it’s so common that people just forgot about it.
It was awesome to help you out man hopefully people can come through with more of the iRacing beta footage stuff. And I’m glad i able to be apart of the research process too. It was a really cool experience.
One recent exploit was in regards to the NDM for the Pcup introduced in 2023S2 and how in a hosted league race someone interntionally lost their front bumper, and it turned out to gain them an incredible amount of speed on the straights. I can provide you with more information about this if you would like.
It’s great how something as innocuous as a racing game (yes, a game!) becomes popular and significant enough that it develops its own unique subculture and lore that lasts a dozen years. I can’t wait to experience the next dozen years and look back on today. Thanks fellow iRacers. You rock!
awesome stuff i cant believe how much information you know. Im new to iracing got to D class oval with about 34 races going to be getting into ARCA tonight super pumped!!
@@DJYeeJay Nurburgring and MP4-30 release also involved a complete new server backend that was designed to make it so iRacing would stop ddos'ing themselves EVERY EVENT (which ALSO wasn't on the sheet. Maybe a Part 2 / Corrections video for Level 8 stuff). Basically every major event (Daytona 500, Spa 24, etc) would end up with the ENTIRE SERVICE going down in some capacity. It was like trying to get to a ticket website to buy tickets to something, the website would just 500 and refuse you and sometimes you could get into your race and most of the time you couldn't. It's a big reason they've been trying to push the iRacing UI as events were getting bigger and bigger. Honestly, most of the issues we see these days are super small compared to 2010-2015. Anyway the service was down for like a month or 2 after that and they had to spaghetti code the entire iRacing Website to make it work. Which is why they can't do major updates to the website now anymore either :(
Kinda weird that iRacing fixed a certain exploit that had been in the game for awhile a few years ago and several NASCAR pro series drivers suddenly started running poorly and couldn't run well enough to even stay in the pro series much less win races. Makes you wonder...
Part of it is that it's the driver weight. There was also a statement made that was kind of generic that they would "Have to make upgrades to the suspension model to make it work" After some parsing of old threads at the time, the general consensus (one I found) was that the suspension model has a bug that requires that the tire HAS a suspension modelled or the sim wouldn't launch (A null reference exception type error). So they have to put in a really really really really really stiff suspension on the car, but that still does more than an actual kart would do, while doing none of the chassis flex because mounting points of suspensions cannot move in iRacing. (Hence why damage models can't go beyond where the suspension is mounted, and often a lot of suspension systems don't even break/bend anymore when damaged and the tire just falls off) So it just wouldn't drive right in the current state of iracing. :(
@@DJYeeJay you should do a whole video about Nr2003 physics modding, IIRC Team Redline also got sued by Iracing yet won because the GTP mod required a copy of the game. Now that time has passed Iracing stopped going after physics modders so there is a small group of people making physics mods.
@@cbj4sc1 NR2003 physics mods are a super interesting and esoteric rabbit hole. I found OWR05 eventually and it was pretty neat, but Redline GTP is a very literal game-changer coming from standard NR2003. Really entertaining to drive, those old GTPs.
Wowzers, a true behemoth of a video, in the niceset possible sense! We have a phrase here in Britain that a person's blessed with a 'mind full of useless information', but I certainly wouldn't say that about myself after watching this smorgersboard of virtual wisdom. A must-watch for the iRacing gen and a record for the ages has been forged.
Be nice to Mic Check Guy. Probably horribly self conscious, nervous and feeling out of their depth. A polite "5 by 5" costs us nothing and may just make them feel a lot better. Ask me how I know. :)
1:08:25 Just out of curiosity I searched the name of my country in the Wiki and whoever did its article even added the first flags my country had (back in the 1800s) I'm surprised Paraguay has apparently +150 iRacers (which is cool I think)
Marcel Fassbender, holds the most lap records for W12 Merc on Garage 61. Can't find anything about him online. And I mean he has INSANE times usually seconds faster than the next fastest person.
I'm surprised custom paint schemes was not mentioned outside of Trading Paints and the F1 thing. As far as money and controversy goes, that was happening way before the setup shops got big. You can pay triple-digits for a paint scheme, or a couple bucks, and the skill-gap in what you get has become huge since the spec maps came out. And the spec maps and custom numbers were worth early mentions as well.
On the membership page it's good because you can block 🚫 people who are trolling people or making problems for others. I hope that they don't take that way. On iracing ui you can't block people or be able to stop racing with them.
