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Welcome to Round 4 of the Hot Lap Challenge

Sim: Assetto Corsa
Track: Suzuka
Car: Formula Hybrid 2018
Weather: Clear
Track: Optimum
Temperature: 20.0C
Wind: 0k/m

If you do not have Assetto Corsa, please submit your times with the sim you are using, replicating the track conditions as closely as possible.

Please use the car’s default setup. You may only adjust fuel levels, tyres, TC, ABS, Brake Bias, and ERS deployment level.

You have until 27/08/2023 23:59 to submit your best lap. Please only submit times in a top level comment. If you have already submitted a lap and you improve, please edit your top level comment.

Please include a screenshot of your lap time for verification.

Notes

You may change ERS deployment mode to Hotlap.
You will need to map a button to DRS if you don't have that.

Last time out

I managed to just edge SimpleDev and F4celess for the win.

| Driver | Time | |


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| | itsmikeyd | 1:31.207 | | SimpleDev | 1:31.662 | | F4celess | 1:31.907 | | Tester J | 1:33.755 | | c2c2 | 1:34.935 |

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Hi Everyone!

(You may have seen this already, but it looks like posts from Lemmy.World are having issues federating)

It's time for the Lemmy iRacing League. We'll be running Season 1 as a 3 week series, using entirely base content (included with the subscription). This post will serve as the single Pinned Post for the whole season.

If you're not available for all races that's alright, and anybody is welcome to join for a single week.

Schedule

Pending the end of voting (~2-3 hours after this post goes up) we will be racing on Sunday at 9pm GMT/5pm EDT/10pm BST

Week 1

  • Car: Global Mazda MX-5 Cup
  • Track: Lime Rock Park
  • Date/Time: Sunday Aug. 6 9pm GMT
  • Qualifying: 2 Lap Qualifying, Reverse Grid for Race 2
  • Race Format: 2 Races, 15 Laps each

Week 2:

  • Car: Ray FF 1600
  • Track: Rudskogen
  • Date/Time: Sunday Aug. 13 9pm GMT
  • Qualifying: 2 Lap Qualifying, Reverse Grid for Race 2
  • Race Format: 2 Races, 15 Laps each

Week 3: - Sunday Aug. 20

  • Car: Radical SR8
  • Track: Laguna Seca
  • Date/Time: Sunday Aug. 20 9pm GMT
  • Qualifying: 2 Lap Qualifying
  • Race Format: 1 Race, 30 Laps

Results

Week 1:

Driver Race 1 Points Race 2 Points
itsmikeyd 2 1
BURN 1 2
BrotherMug 3 3

Week 2:

Driver Race 1 Points
[email protected] 1
BURN 2
BrotherMug 3

Week 3:

Driver Race 1 Points
BURN 100
BrotherMug 200

Overall Championship:

Driver Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 TOTAL
BrotherMug 6 3 200 209
itsmikeyd 3 - - 3
BURN 3 2 100 105
[email protected] - 1 - 1

CONGRATS TO BrotherMug and BURN for the joint championship (awarded for showing up all 3 weeks)

Rules

Please read the iRacing Sporting Code - This is extremely important, and will be worth the time it takes. The iRacing UI will also ask if you've read this before joining your first official session. We will follow the iRacing rules on clean racing.

Protests will be handled after races are finished, outside of extreme cases. They can be submitted privately to myself or publicly in the thread. Both parties will be able to tell their side and then 2 uninvolved members will be asked to make a decision.

Setups: Open setup races, but please don’t bring setup shop sets. I’m not going to police it too hard. Building your own setups is perfectly fine and the iRacing baselines are generally pretty decent too.

Getting Started With iRacing

With some members not having use iRacing before, I felt like it would be good to add a section about getting started. This will set you up with a 1 month subscription, the UI installed, graphics configured and into a test session.

Signing up

https://www.iracing.com/membership/

The iRacing signup process offers a discount to new members, at ~40% off. This is a one time deal and if you choose to renew your membership it will be at full price. Many long term subscribers work around this by purchasing one year subscriptions during the yearly Black Friday sales.

Our league is setup that a minimum subscription of 1 month, starting on Aug. 1 will get you all the way through the season. For a new account a 1 month membership is $7.80 USD.

When you signup be sure to DISABLE the Auto-Renew subscription if you would not like to continue after the conclusion of the league.

Install the iRacing UI

When you log into the iRacing Member Website for the first time after signing up it should take you through a First Startup Guide which will guide installing the sim software, iRacing UI and any other necessary dependencies.

Graphics and Triple Monitor setup

I'm going to link to an external source on this, as Dan Suzuki has covered this really well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-irPlVdDdJo&amp%3Bt=615

Joining The League

In the sidebar of the UI select "Find a League"

Search for "Lemmy iRacing League"

If there's interest in a group practice session I'll get one going, and then I'll be available online at least an hour before each race. Please leave any questions here in the thread and I or someone else should be able to help.

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While waiting for Assetto Corsa Evo to arrive one day on playstation 5, I’ve decided to race a little bit more online in GT7.

While I enjoy it, the penalty system is a problem with players involuntarly creating accidents and not being punished for it (I’ve bern on every side). This gets on my nerves as it can ruin your race.

I decided to give another go to Sophy as I had only done a few of the races where you can compete with it and it’s so much better than online racing for me.

I can clearly understand that for good players, online racing is the way to go, but at my low level there are far too many durty drivers and Sophy is just better.

I’d love a new carreer mode in GT7 with a championship against Siphy and would gladly pay for it.

Sony wanted Gran Turismo to be a game as a service, but except some new cars and tracks, they aren’t really bringing new content.

Some DLC’s would be welcome and I would love to get a Sophy equivalent AI in every racing game now that I’ve enjoyed it.

By the way, I’m really not enthusiadtic about the AI hype, but that’s my exception.

What do you think about Sophy?

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Hi everyone!

I’m a Playstation owner and I’ve been playing Gran Turismo 7 since its launch.

I mostly play offline and I really enjoy the driving but the lack of a real carreer mode with a championship, good AI and standings is getting me bored.

Hopefuly AC Evo will still be launched on Playstation 5 in 2025, but no one really knows.

As sadly, Poliphony isn’t gonna launch a career mode DLC, I’m really tempted to get another racing game in order to wait.

Asseto Corsa and Asseto Corsa Competizione are the 2 choices I’m seeing as I already have Project Cars 2.

Which one would you buy, keeping in mind that I’m mostly an offline player and that I wouldn’t want the graphics to be much worse than GT7?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24244768

Our migration from SVN to GIT has already started! You can now access our new repositories on http://a-lec.org/ 😍 :

The repos are now open! Please feel free to play around with them, ask questions, report feedback, etc.

To avoid confusion, please keep in mind the following TODOs:

  • Migrate existing assets (tracks, driver liveries, cars) to their own repositories.
    • This can be done at a slower pace, since we can only migrate assets whose licensing is clear and fully free (as in freedom).
    • Non-free assets should be ideally hosted elsewhere.
    • Illegal assets (e.g.: those under proprietary licenses and/or violating intellectual property, such as lancer09-wr) will not be migrated.
  • Migrate existing tickets/issues from SVN to https://forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams/.
  • Make some suggested improvements to the in-game download manager.
    • "Download all" button.
    • Filter by category (car category, track type, robot type) and quality (pre-alpha, alpha, beta, production).
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Hi all, my team Backmarker Racing is looking for new members from around the Americas / Oceania timezones to round out our driver availability in the big endurance events. Check the post in the iRacing forums for more info:

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/71883/join-backmarker-racing-for-the-2025-season-and-beyond

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Reiza Studios’ Automobilista 2 has just hit its concurrent players peak on Steam, four years after release.

Perhaps the main reason for AMS 2’s popularity is its Low Fuel Motorsport implementation, a feature currently in Beta. The sim racing platform offers a wide range of multiplayer races to cater for AMS 2’s diverse roster of tracks, cars and motorsport disciplines.

Source Article

Source Data

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The base game receives significant changes, while the new DLC packs are free for this weekend only.

It had it's all time concurrent player count record on Steam today, reaching 3.6k

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The sale includes some AAA titles as well as much smaller indie games. Some popular sim titles, like Assetto Corsa and Euro Truck Simulator, and all of their DLC, are marked down by as much as 90%.

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The popular sim racing league and ranking platform LFM will soon support RaceRoom’s diverse content.

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All of RaceRoom’s content is available to try for the duration of its Black Friday Event, which also includes hefty discounts.

KW Studios’ RaceRoom is having another limited-time event where all its content can be sampled free of charge.

Although some of the sim’s content is free-to-play, most is only available as an optional purchase. But between the 21st of November and the 6th of December, players can try any of RaceRoom’s cars and tracks completely free.

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Sim racers could look forward to "not quite a week but a couple of days" with the new content to see if they like it enough to buy it.

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"For each car, there will be all configurations and engines that you would find in any dealership. If your favourite car is sold in either petrol or diesel, to give you an example, or has a version that mounts 17-inch wheels with a sunroof, then it will be the same in our game." - Davide Brivio talking to Multiplayer.it

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Uncover why a basic piece of equipment is now indispensable in simracing. It ensures your concentration remains sharp and your body temperature stays low throughout demanding races, enhancing peak performance and reducing overheating disruptions.

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Pre-release Multiplayer test with the the V1.6 version of AMS2 Beta demonstrating various recent developments made to the game and its Multiplayer experience.

The test was hosted by Low Fuel Motorsports as part of their own ongoing beta integration of their services with AMS2, which is expected to extend to all users upon V1.6 release (currently in final stages of development).

The video is part of the upcoming November 2024 Development Update

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Things are back to normal at the top of the list for most played racing games on Steam in October 2024: After The Crew 2 leapfrogged everyone following the announcement of an offline mode being implemented and the game being severely discounted. The Crew 2 dropped down the order a bit, with BeamNG.drive, Forza Horizon 4 and 5 taking back the podium spots.

The biggest surprise, however, can be found a bit further down: DiRT Rally 2.0 actually posted a new all-time player peak record in October, eclipsing the 3,486-player mark set in March of 2021 at 5,074. A recent poll here on OverTake showed that most of our community actually prefers DR2.0 over the newer EA Sports WRC - and the price for the older rally title dropping to as low as €1.99 in late October certainly helped, too.

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At the end of every year, sim racing streamer Jimmy Broadbent hosts a fun 23 hour race around Zolder on iRacing to raise money for charity, and this year looks like it will be the most stacked yet in terms of high profile participation.

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Finally got a chance to run an imsa fixed race at silverstone! in iracing.

Weather said rain unlikely: that was a lie.

It lightly rained the whole race.

Qualified P2 with a lucky lap in the wet, but fell back to P3 at the start of the race.

Tried to overcut P2, but didn't have the pace.

P3 finish in the LMP2 class.

Super fun race.

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They're going to be hosting a tournament which is really neat. #

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Week 6 of Season 4, 2024: Got in a few races.

Started off with IndyCar Fixed at Long Beach, started 9th and finished 6th.

Next, IMSA Fixed at Road Atlanta (one of my favorite tracks!), started 14th and finished 11th.

Ended the week strong with a P3 finish in the PCC at Road Atlanta!

How was your week?

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Based on this thread (https://feddit.org/post/3912054 / [email protected] ) there are quite a few people who prefer not to interact with communities hosted on Lemmy.ml

Could we maybe consider moving this community to a less controversial instance, such as discuss.tchncs.de because [email protected] and [email protected] are already hosted there, or Lemmy.zip ?

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