Ex-Stig's First Battle on iRacing Ends TERRIBLY!

Ben, please, don't go back to that "sim specialist" company. It is painfully obvious to any experienced simracer watching this video that they have no clue what they're doing, and have completely missed the mark on several of the basics of setting up the equipment. And for goodness' sake, don't give them your money. The "Abnormal Lap" penalty you got was because of a poor internet connection. Again, please avoid that company and consider doing your own shopping and research, and learning to set up your equipment yourself. You'll be glad you did.

A 'SIM' specialist company that cant even set correct wheel rotation! OH DEAR!

Oh how I wish Dave Cam or Jimmy Broadbent were present during the filming of this, they would've been able to explain and sort out sooo many of the issues!! Please don't give up on iRacing just yet Mr Stig, there's a very good reason why the likes of Alonso, Verstappen, Norris, Oli Bearman and many more make it their choice of sim. Once it is set up correctly and you understand all the details, there really is nothing else out there that even comes close! P.S. I agree with other comments, these sim "experts" have failed on their part, this wasn't set up correctly. It would be far better if you had your own sim rig set up to your own liking, and even more ideal if you can get Jimmy or Dave to assist, I'm sure they'd be more than willing!! They're the real experts.

Go do a video with Broadbent. He'll set you straight.

BTW Ben, not sure if you have it set this way on purpose, but you might have a steering wheel rotation issue. It looks like the wheel in game rotates alot more than your simucube wheel inputs. Easily fixed in the settings 👌

Oh, and one more thing. That "L" red bar is your latency. The internet connection from your sim was terrible. It's HIGHLY likely that YOU disappeared from the other cars when that bar was fully red! They had no idea where you were and suddenly you'd reappear to them. That may have been the cause of some of your contacts with other cars.

Ben, if you return to them, tell them to fix that damn rig. It's badly calibrated and all the invalid laps are a result of bad internet connection. Your experience of iRacing is being tainted and not because of the software!

FOV seems off, steering wheel rotation off, no headphones meaning audio cues might be missing. I’d either get kit of my own or ask these guys to set you up proper. It will help a lot! Good luck and have fun online!

Race control didn't slow you down, Ben. They had a massive double tow going.

There is so much wrong with this video. First of all, welcome to iRacing. Great to see you jump in the hot seat and running in the lead. You will absolutely get this, eventually. But there is a learning curve. Qualification doesn't allow any contact, off track or lost control, it will DQ that particular lap, but you can have a go on the next one if you have one left. You really don't want to hit other cars at all, no matter if it's from behind or the ones behind hitting you, it will cost you 4x which is the maximum damage to your safety score. Everyone has already mentioned the steering ratio, your wheel is supposed to match the wheel on screen, this seems very off. iRacing stewards cannot slow your car down for you. You can get a slow down by cutting corners, but you'll have to slow the car down yourself, or you get a penalty. Good luck in future races! I hope you'll become a proper sim racer one day.

Whatever you have achieved, your career has peaked now that youre on iRacing 😁 I'll not mention the steering 😳

That rejoin... ❤

The abnormal lap discontinuity messages are an internet connection related message. As for the incident points, all drivers in an incident get equal blame as the official race sessions aren't human moderated. If there's an incident in which you feel someone has intentionally wrecked you, that can be reported to iRacing's moderation team for them to action. They won't tell you what punishment, if any, the other user(s) have received. Finally, it seems like there was a sensitivity issue between your wheel and the sim. The wheel/car in game was turning a lot more than you were turning the physical wheel but this is easily fixed via the settings menu within iRacing.

Welcome to the world of rookies! The banana man looks like "net code". What can happen is if either yours or his network connection lags a bit, then iRacing tries to calculate where your cars should be until the lag goes. It doesnt always get it right

It's more immersive if you deactivate the cockpit wobble and hide the steering wheel. You have one in your hands, you don't need an extra one one on the screen. Your field of view is also not adjusted correctly. It's pretty hard to drive like that.

You went to a sim studio and they set the thing up wrong? (Look at the steering, it's not 1:1 with your wheel at all, you're turning too hard in the sim). And then they didn't tell you anything about iRacing either? The sim didn't give you half power you had a terrible throttle on exit.

Don't forget to paint your lid white in the iracing paint section!

Ha ha ha...this is basically all real life racer's first experience on iRacing. I joined in 2019, after racing SCCA in real life. Won multiple championships in SCCA racing and thought I'd clean up on all these non-racers. I was WRONG! Sim racing is CRAZY but a lot of fun. I hope you stick to it!

HOLY STEERING ANGLES BATMAN!

Rookie races are a minefield. They’re just something you have to survive and get through to start enjoying Iracing.