Post by tomlory on Dec 7, 2023 6:45:33 GMT
The preliminary 2024 Season 1 schedule is available on the iRacing member forum Staff Announcements board.
Mugello is the new road race track for 2024 Season 1 and is featured in I think 14 series but of the series that I have any interest in, is only on the Advanced Mazda and Sim Lab PCC schedules so, as far as my track purchases for the season, it may get bumped for something else as necessity dictates even though in rFactor it was one of my favorite tracks.
New for 2024 is a 12 week Weekly Challenge series that has a different class of car and track every week and includes my likes FF1600, Skip Barber F2000, Mazda Global MX-5, Formula Vee and STREET STOCK(!) I have the cars and tracks for 8 of the 12 weeks but doubt that I'll try to get 8 Rounds in.
FF1600 is risky because of the usual bad drivers and that even drivers that are otherwise good to race with it, tend to lose control on corner entry and leaving you no place to go so the best place to race those is in a league.
Sim Lab PCC is cool but the Mustang form currently takes extra work for me to find speed now that I spend most of my time with the FF1600 and in Sim Lab PCC, 2 or 3 Mustang entries is very common so someone always loses pretty big on iRating. I don't get any satisfaction from finishing ahead of a slower driver and finishing behind a hopelessly faster driver and losing 70-80 iR sucks, too. A possible solution used to be racing the Mazda but those entries are diluted by the four classes which includes the GR86 so, yeah, any car that I use is likely to have not much more than 10 drivers.
Skip Barber F2000 has probably been the most reliably clean racing and the car is a lot of fun BUT it is requires to be driven differently from everything else that I've spent any time with on iRacing. Lots of just the right amount of sliding so it takes extra work, too, to be competitive so the fast guys are typically hopelessly faster than me. The good news is that with patience a nearly full single split can be found every week if not every day and I'm usually much closer to the front than the back on pace.
I gave up on the Skip Barber Mustang FR500S series last season for its D license and only 15 minute races being risky and not paying much SR but as far as Participation Credit, it's the quickest way with the shortest races and probably has the same schedule as the Skip Barber F2000 so maybe it's in the running again.
Spec Racer Ford has been growing on me and has been clean races for me more often than not. The only negative is waiting for a full split.
Advanced Mazda has for me been luck of the draw as far as driver quality but I think that it got better when iRacing made it harder to drive then introduced the Toyota GR86 for the hacks to drive. To my eyes, probably the best schedule especially if I buy Mugello.
Or skip all the drama, forfeit $8-10 and just race the Weekend Warriors league on Sunday.
Mugello is the new road race track for 2024 Season 1 and is featured in I think 14 series but of the series that I have any interest in, is only on the Advanced Mazda and Sim Lab PCC schedules so, as far as my track purchases for the season, it may get bumped for something else as necessity dictates even though in rFactor it was one of my favorite tracks.
New for 2024 is a 12 week Weekly Challenge series that has a different class of car and track every week and includes my likes FF1600, Skip Barber F2000, Mazda Global MX-5, Formula Vee and STREET STOCK(!) I have the cars and tracks for 8 of the 12 weeks but doubt that I'll try to get 8 Rounds in.
FF1600 is risky because of the usual bad drivers and that even drivers that are otherwise good to race with it, tend to lose control on corner entry and leaving you no place to go so the best place to race those is in a league.
Sim Lab PCC is cool but the Mustang form currently takes extra work for me to find speed now that I spend most of my time with the FF1600 and in Sim Lab PCC, 2 or 3 Mustang entries is very common so someone always loses pretty big on iRating. I don't get any satisfaction from finishing ahead of a slower driver and finishing behind a hopelessly faster driver and losing 70-80 iR sucks, too. A possible solution used to be racing the Mazda but those entries are diluted by the four classes which includes the GR86 so, yeah, any car that I use is likely to have not much more than 10 drivers.
Skip Barber F2000 has probably been the most reliably clean racing and the car is a lot of fun BUT it is requires to be driven differently from everything else that I've spent any time with on iRacing. Lots of just the right amount of sliding so it takes extra work, too, to be competitive so the fast guys are typically hopelessly faster than me. The good news is that with patience a nearly full single split can be found every week if not every day and I'm usually much closer to the front than the back on pace.
I gave up on the Skip Barber Mustang FR500S series last season for its D license and only 15 minute races being risky and not paying much SR but as far as Participation Credit, it's the quickest way with the shortest races and probably has the same schedule as the Skip Barber F2000 so maybe it's in the running again.
Spec Racer Ford has been growing on me and has been clean races for me more often than not. The only negative is waiting for a full split.
Advanced Mazda has for me been luck of the draw as far as driver quality but I think that it got better when iRacing made it harder to drive then introduced the Toyota GR86 for the hacks to drive. To my eyes, probably the best schedule especially if I buy Mugello.
Or skip all the drama, forfeit $8-10 and just race the Weekend Warriors league on Sunday.