iRacing Ultimate Practice Guide | Optimize Your Practice Routine
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Whether you're a beginner or intermediate simracer, this practice guide will provide you with tips on how to optimize your practice routine. That includes:
- How to approach new tracks and learn them as efficiently as possible
- Getting up to race pace in your split
- How to best approach track guides
- How to improve consistency and racecraft
Tools I mention in the video:
RaceLab Apps for the track map overlay: racelab.app/
VRS: virtualracingschool.appspot.c...
SimRacingStats: www.simracingstats.com/
Creators I mention in the video for track guides:
- @Tdi99 - Tony makes excellent guides and his content has been extremely helpful with to learn tracks in the F4, GR86, F3, and other cars
- @TheRacingLine - I get all my GT4 guides here and they are brilliant
- @davecamm - If you are new, chances are you're racing in the Mazda MX-5 Cup. Dave
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
2:15 - General important practice tips
3:55 - How I set up practice to save time
5:45 - Chapter 1: How I learn new tracks efficiently
12:03 - Chapter 1: Recap
12:57 - Chapter 2: How I set goals and build up speed
21:37 - Chapter 2.1: Using Active Reset
25:16 - Chapter 2: Recap
25:39 - Chapter 3: Find pace using VRS driving analyzer
36:28 - Chapter 4: Hone racecraft and alternate lines using AI races
40:53 - Chapter 4.1: Hone racecraft using Ghost Races
43:10 - Outro - Hry
Awesome vid bro, very useful. Love the channel. Keep the vids coming !!!! 🤙🏻
Thank you Innes!
How on earth does this only have 4.7k views? I was genuinely expecting millions.
Thanks for the compliment mate, I wish!
Amazingly helpful! Thank you
As a newbie to IRacing this is an incredibly helpful resource. Thank you.
Glad it helps Russell, welcome to iRacing!
This video has less than 300 views? What is wrong with you YT?
Absolute brilliant work!
Hey mate, thanks a lot!! I appreciate it :)
Thank you Lorenzo! As a new class D sports car iracing player, I find your suggestions about how to practice a new track most helpful!
I just started iRacing one week ago, during the Season 2 Week 13 break. Competing in the MX-5 Cup, I've been making it my goal to learn the track as it switches every 24 hours. A lot of the circuits I've never even heard of before, save Oulton and VIR. On Day 7 now, Charlotte Roval being the final course and it is absolutely murdering me. Going to use your advice and try and keep pushing through because I'm in the top 500 for the series with a 3.4SR, and I want to get my C-class Fast Track Promotion before the start of Season 3. It being Charlotte gives me some bad ju-ju, so I'm hoping these races don't go sideways.
Well done.I'm new at iracing. I took up iracing, so I can save a lot of money in damage and track fees in real life. I'm 300mls from the Nordschleife.....I like to be prepared as much as possible. Your video helps me a lot for that. I wish You lots and lots of subscribers. You deserve them.
Thanks buddy, I’m glad it helped and welcome to iracing!
Just came across this video, this is so clear and well articulated, just pure gold.
Hey bud glad you found it useful, thanks for the kind words :)
Thank you for taking the time to record this.
As a beginner, this is valuable knowledge for me as I was struggling to optimize my practice sessions🎉
Thanks for the kind words Jimmie!
yeah wow really impressed by this video didnt know there were tools and settings you can change to help with learning the track not to only be faster but to save time too thanks!
Glad I could help!
This video needs more likes, this is exactly what I needed for VRS
Thanks mate :)
Learned some really useful stuff. Thank you so much. Really clear and well explained.
Lorenzo, that is a fantastic video. You prepare basically exactly the same way I do. 😂 I have found that it's incredibly similar to my classical piano training!
Thanks Rachel! Glad to hear that this preparation works for you as well :)
Man, this is simply amazing! I’m still barely staying alive in the Mazda for a few laps, but your guide makes so much sense! I’ve been spoiled by playing arcade racing games and now I’m binning every other lap, lol
Hi Wellington, thanks a lot for the kind words mate! Best of luck getting to grips with sim racing, you’ll get there soon!
Very Nice Video, thanks for the effort :)
Thank you! Clear, efficient, smart!
incredible work! im gonna try it thanks alot buddy!!
Lorenzo, great content and great work over all, but the best part is how well organized you have it all here and the post production effort you put in. The organization, the ease of the information and the obvious dedication you put in here convinced me to follow you. Keep it up man! (and tell me, where are you from? I am Colombian but live in Houston. In Gran Turismo since it started but in iRacing since December 2023)
Thank you so much for the kind words, I really appreciate it bro :) I’m from Italy but live in The Netherlands!
Subscribed!
Wow, Great video!
Appreciate the kind comments!
Hey thank you so much! And thanks for all you do for us sim racers trying to learn tracks. Absolutely essential channel right here!
I finally joined iRacing 2 weeks ago and your video's are very helpful. Lots of good information. Keep it up! Subbed ;)
Thank you buddy, and welcome!
this is exactly my routine! 🙂 Recently I ended up with a VRS subscription so just added three great tools: easy to find lap guide, video analysis (priceless) and blap file, so I can practice against coach lap (on sector basis)
That sounds great mate, I’m glad to hear that you follow the same routine! Thank you!
One of the best iRacing practice guides I have ever seen!
Thak you. I will use this tools.
Good luck Fred!!
great video! thanks for this! Exactly what i was looking for...
Hi Carlos I’m glad you found it useful buddy :)
Lorenzo, Thank you so much for this video so much great information.
Thanks mate, you’re welcome!
Great tips and good video. Thx for the info!
Hey thanks a lot for the kinds words mate, appreciate it :)
Awesome vid, cheers.
Thank you!
❤ excellent
Thanks Kamal :)
Thank for a very informative video. I think that's the dilemma I have right now: iRace it or not. I have just got my D-licences in almost every category and I do enjoy some of the races. At the same time competition is fierce and I'm always several seconds behind even when i try to do my best. So the dilemma is: should I go back to F1 and bots or should i stick and nerd it out. I enjoy racing and I do take my car and bike to track regularly. But I'm not sure if iRacing worth it. It feels like a job (and driving on the edge is indeed a big job) and you need to put a lot of time and effort into that comparing to just "riding with the bots". I like the "we are not the game" approach by iRacing and I do enjoy the physics but with so many accidents almost every race results in something happening outside of your control. Re-watching videos to make clips in order to report people is not fun and I feel like it's the after taste I get from playing iRacing.
I guess everything has to do with your expectations: do you want to have fun and relax or do you want to focus, work and get better. I think I'm still undecisive on that. I think your guide is good as it can be applied to any racing game, not only iRacing. And even to the real track driving. We shall see where I end up.
You definitely have a point, it's not ideal for casual users. But bear in mind that, especially in series with high participation, you are very likely to end up in a split with people of your level! Of course, the driving standards may be lower and there may be more accidents, but learning to predict and avoid them is an art that can be learned!
Great video! I took notes and will definitely be trying this out.
I do have a question about the "ghost racing". I feel like AI racing might be better than this because the AI will react to you like a person would if you were in a real race. When you ghost race, isn't it true that the situations are not always realistic, because the other drivers are not behaving as if you are racing with them? Hope that question makes sense.
Great vid, just saved the vid for future use.. got 1 question.. why VRS over Garage61 for part 3 just curious.. Keep up the good work .D
Good question! To be fair, not any specific reason - I just didn't know about G61 at the time of making this video. I heard it's just as good as VRS, if not better considering that it's free!
I'm new to simracing, just wondering in your experience, how much of a good baseline are those times you're using as a reference? being from a previous season under different weather conditions I suppose they may be misleading (faster/slower) depending on what the new conditions are for the current season..
Hi Horacio, you’re completely right! Still, I find that the times are usually mostly accurate. In any case, consider this as an indicative time, and not a definitive one! For me it’s more about knowing what the ballpark is.
@@LDFR understood. I’ll follow the same approach as you for the next week I race. Thanks for the video. Keep them coming 👍
In which stage do you re enable the car damage that you disabled in stage 1?
Whenever you enter an official practice, qualifying, or race session, the damage is forcibly enabled. So you don't need to re-enable it at any point. I always practice with damage permanently turned off!
You should have charged for this info. No joke.
Appreciate the kind words mate :)
Sore really helpfull tipps, exept for the "disable car damage" part, i rather take it more careful. Creating a habit that it's ok to crash the car is a really bad thing in my opinion.