iRacing 2021 Season 3 General Discussion

Coffey and I will be on iRacing tonight Sat Jul 24. I'm shooting for 21:00 PDT. Probably Sim Lab Production Car Challenge (Philip Island) but will happily do something else so that no one has to buy any content.

Hutty, Coffee, KJ & I were on last night. Solstice & Formula Vee's. Personally my gold star goes to the Vee's. So much fun to drive.

I'm not going to make it anywhere fun today, intend to be on by 21:00 California time Saturday night.

I'll be here Saturday night. Pat's out but I think that KJ is probably mostly on base content so that means Global MX-5 and Formula Vees as all of the other free cars are at at paid tracks, IIRC. I think that there is more value in bonding with the Mazda as it is included in at least three series. After some practice, my lap time ranks me #14,142 out of 108,853 at this week's track.

I got a bunch of laps in last night with Coffey and Hutty in the Porsche GT3 Cup car @ Redbull ring. Friends who are getting comfortable with the car can certainly race close with them; very challenging but fun. I need to get a race in probably Saturday based on possible plans for Sunday.

Baz, if you see this, join us on Teamspeak. I feel like we've left you out in the cold that is rFactor 2 and that needs to be reckoned with.

I browsed the Studio 397 rFactor 2 online racing forum the other night. The only series post that I read was imploring drivers to come race if they wanted to keep it going. Far too familiar...

I have an analogy.

Every city that I have called home has had a great burrito shop except where I currently reside despite there being six that I know of and have tried over the years.

Last evening I found myself without anything that I could cobble together for a decent dinner so I set out to get a burrito from the spot that is decent and the only one that I've patronized repeatedly. Easy parking and at the off hours that I tend to visit businesses, there's never been a wait. A minute before I got there, I remembered that the last time, 1/2 the burrito had been processed by my mouth before I was convinced that there was actually some meat in it so I aborted and headed for another spot (Carmen's) that more recently has looked busy most of the times that I've paid any attention to it. It's located on what amounts to Novato's Main Street so I had to park a little ways away, the line was out the door, probably 7 people mingling within waiting for their orders. I'm still in Covid mode so I immediately thought "fuck that, I'm not standing there in a confined space for 10 minutes" and strode back towards my car until I realized that my next option was farther away than the wait would be, so I went back. Happily, the waiting area cleared out pretty quickly except for a couple of people as I hovered outside and I ended up with a good to great burrito and I have a go-to spot.

Like iRacing, there's good reason why so many people are favoring it.

I like your analogy Tom. There's truth in those words.
I checked out the hosting costs tonight. .50$/hour, 1$ for 2 hours & 2$ for 4 hours.
We could choose a series that iRacing runs and practice during the week and just put up a hosted server on Sunday night for 2-4 hours. We could try to pick up more people & just password the server.
I don't know the state of the rF2 funds but if there is any dough left, we could just put it towards iRacing.
My .02$