The Best Ways to Gain Safety Rating in iRacing

One more tip, in addition to tip #5: keep going after the checkered flag. Corners in the race count until the last car on the lead lap crosses the start/finish. Doing a full cool-down lap and pulling into the pits will almost always gain most of a lap worth of extra clean corners. Plus it keeps you from getting run into by people who don't care about SR.

It's a double-edged sword. You drive conservatively to build SR and don't finish higher up in the standings, so you lose iRating. When you lose iRating, the drivers suck, intentionally block, and they have no regard for SR. I was 2k in sports cars and now and 1500, and I lose .10-.15 every race unless I'm on pole because nobody has regard for anyone else. Totally shot myself in the foot and lost ALL of my SR progress.

My pro tip for road racing : Drive on the Nordschleife. And I said drive, no need to aim for laptimes, just stay on track, your SR will jump so quickly and half of the field will crash at some point so yout iR wont suffer that much. See going to the Nord as chilling on a hilly country road. And if you have some pals do race with, do endurance races, if you keep that same idea in uour head, SR will jump even more.

I was initially trying to raise SR through starting in the back but was getting bored really fast. Im glad you presented an alternative that suits my style more. I did buy IRacing to race after all.

just finished my very first race, it was at charlotte. I qualified 4th, finished 3rd with moving in ajd out of 1st thru 4th. Me and those 3 others were almost door to door the whole 20 laps man my heart was GONG. Having everyone race clean and so close was the best racing experience ive ever had for nascar I'm hooked!

What I realized is that you will still gain rating even with a 2-4x on a race. Just make sure you’re used to the track before you hop into the race and it will naturally grow

Finally someone says to not start of the pits or start last. A class has to have the worst drivers in it when it comes to race craft.

I’ve always struggled with SR. Then I did one clean Gen 4 race at Bristol, and I literally jumped a whole point

what really stops me from gaining sr is that i can have a clean race, then go to the next one and i get completely driven through which kills all my progress

Can confirm long races will do it. When I was C class oval, I decided to race the 300 lap Winter Derby. Was C 3.4 and gained .31 SR. With 24x incidents, a race with 22 cautions, and me being 7 laps down. At least one A class in there gained 1.x SR, albeit caught up a lot less than me. If you're up for a long race, that alone can top you up.

aside from time trials, pretty much explains how i have 4.99 now from running arca this past month. very spot on

Love the content as always JY! As the cleanest driver on iRacing, these are all solid tips. My advice is to be overly cautious and anticipatory, and always plan yourself a way out of a situation.

One place I found that was generally really good for farming oval SR was Indy Fixed, races are long enough they mean something and you can get times where its just enough people to make it go official and it ends up being a very clean race.

On the oval side the modifies are both fun and usually have clean racing

I had a few bad weeks once, lost alot of SR. So I did like 38 TT in a row and got my SR back. I enjoyed it. Just ran Mods as a small track and ran the full 30 minutes each. I didn't even have to focus on what I was doing.

I know I'm a little late to commenting on the video, there are a few things about SR that I didn't understand when I was new and I see other new (and some old) people not understanding. SR is a function of rolling incidents per corner, it isn't calculating incidents per race, that's just when you see the changes. The number of corners that it keeps track of differ between license levels (more corners in the higher levels) once you hit that number of corners old corners start falling off. If you had a bad race (or week like I always do at Red Bull Ring) for SR those corners eventually start falling off and because of this changes in SR aren't a static thing (you can't count on a certain race producing static SR results for the same number of incident points). Because of many factors, including the above drivers being at different licenses etc. Two drivers won't have the same SR results from the same number of incidents in the same race. Which answers the "Why did he get -.01 and I got -.1 and he had more incidents?" I see a fair bit. I think there was one more thing but it's slipping my mind now. Anyway love the videos. You've got a ton of great and entertaining stuff for a road guy trying to learn the oval side of things.

Looking for some advice, what can you do to help your car on fixed races and how do you get grip on the corners ? New to this and looking for help. Thank you. Saturday 12th of August 2023.

Fantastic video !

I-rating is whats my problem. Ran 2 B-class ledgens at Southern last week got ran into both races and lost over 200 rating

this season 2 is a rollercoaster to me. i was everywhere between 1.5 and 3.85 B. my original plan was to get A license quickly, but in many cases it was a disaster. mostly on Daytona and Dega... :( now I'm at 3.15, will do the Arca at Kentucky once, and truly hope that it won't be sub 3.0. I'm at 18th pos in Div5, so I don't want to skip this week, but I also really want that A license :)