New to iRacing? | If so, you MUST watch this video!

This is why you are one of my favourite simracers. You are always willing to help and advice others and find the time to do so. Dave, you are an absolute legend, we love you ❤

Nice intro. The one thing I'll add is that at least for beginners, tow to pits is really important to use. If you are on a narrow track like Mount Panarama, please don't try to do a u-turn. Taking a tow is safer than doing a 7-point turn with other racers. Hitting that button as soon as you are stopped saves a lot of incident points.

I've taught some noobs many of the same stuff. One thing I learned about the Virtual Mirror is that racers with single monitors is that many of them prefer a high setting. With a single monitor you may not be able to see your side mirrors, depending on your FOV (field of view) setting and a high Virtual Mirror setting allows you to see other racers as they begin to come along side

Your first iRacing tips video was a huge help for me getting setup on the service when I started. Likewise your race videos have definitely helped me progress. Much appreciated!

Dave, Thank you so much. Been sim racing for about a year but this is my first real season in iracing and I love it but even after about 30 races, I was missing 5 of these tips. Amazing.

Great video Dave, found several of these by searching YouTube as I started iRacing a week or two back, but having them all here is such a great resource.

Glad ya did this one for the new guys , wish I had this when I started I racing. Good tool for them, ad there was a couple things I didn't know, thanks for all the hard work.

Even though I have been racing for half a year, this video gave me some great insights! Thanks a bunch, Dave!

I am trying my best in tracing since 6 weeks now.. and Dave this Video was so helpful! Never thought about deadzones or force factors of braking. thank you very much Dave! Great video.

Never thought to just hold the brake to create a dead zone for the minimum pressure. I've done the dead zone for the maximum pressure. Thank you for the tips, the brake setup in iRacing definitely help me find something I was missing.

Thanks for making this. Such a great video for new drivers starting out in iRacing. Much appreciated.

thx , well explained . When i started years ago , there was nothing like that to find on YT .... so this is a very good help for a Rookie in SimRacing not to get frustrated before the first Race has even started .

I've been iracing for 5 years and still needed this little tutorial. thanks Dave

Super helpful, I just recently got my first cockpit and it included a one year subscription for iRacing, so this helps a lot!

Just getting into iracing. Learned more in this 19 minute video than I have in hours of youtube surfing and watching other videos. Thanks Dave for a quick and easy to understand video! Looking forward to watching and learning more.

Many thanks for this. I've had iRacing for a while but still picked up some good info, particularly the mirror FOV, didn't realise that 👍🏻

Very nice well spoken and informative tutorial Dave! Even that i'm not new, i watched it fully. Maybe do one about overlaps such as racelabs and crewchief. I remember i was struggling to figure out what that was and how to use it in the very beginning.

First: Thanks for all you do for simracing community. I don't know when Steve, SuperGT, last streamed, but in his streams you can see that he likes to move the right foot while on the throttle. I'm doing the same thing, so 5% deadzone at the top is a must for me.

Great video Dave!! As for the Virtual Mirror, I've done a lot of work trying to get it as realistic as possible. I've found that 45 degrees gives me the best view of how close the car actually is. It's so heard to focus when it looks like the guy behind me looks like he's going to dive bomb me at every corner. I set my FOV by pulling forward in the pits and then backing up till I think I'm up against my pit crew guy. Then I would look at the replay and see how close I actually was and then readjust the FOV till I was actually right up against him when I got out of the car. I hope this helps anyone trying to get that as close to real as possible. Cheers Mate!!

What an amazing video. I just started with Iracing and this helped me a lot!!! Thank you Dave