5 Easy to Fix Mistakes that Cost iRacing Rookies Serious Lap Time

What do you think the most common mistakes are for Rookies in iRacing and Sim Racing? Let's try to be civil about it :)

Also, make sure you don't run over any cones.

Good tips! Another very common rookie mistake: over-defending against much faster opponents early in the race. If both drivers are experienced, they might have a race long battle (albeit while loosing a lot of time). However, if one or both drivers are inexperienced, the end result is either that the faster driver makes the pass or a wreck. You need to learn to pick your fights, knowing when to defend and when it’s better to simply yield, to avoid unnecessary risks and loss of time.

Another good point to make about being passed is to recognise when the driver passing you is faster, and that they may be able to drag you up to the next cars if you just follow them, stay in their slipstream, and drive cleanly. I had that happen to me in the GT3 Challenge last week at Road Atlanta. A car passed me mid-way though the race. They didn’t qualify to started at the back, but were obviously fast enough to catch me, so I let them have the spot. Five laps later I was on that car’s tail when it passed another car and they made contact and spun, so I ended up gaining two spots! Easy fourth place for me.

No cones were harmed in the making of this video

I wouldn’t consider myself a beginner when I joined iracing but something I learned really quickly from my time in rookies is don’t try to overtake a person who is aggressively defending. They are most likely going to be as aggressive in every aspect and chances are they will take you out of the race. Bank the position you have or wait for a following driver to pass you and try to pass the aggressive defender and wait for mistakes. This not only saves your safety rating but also disappointment/anger as many times you report a driver for this and nothing is done,”racing incident” by stewards all while you had your race ended and SR ruined.

I would love an in depth video about perfecting the pit stop, or maybe a tips and tricks in the pits video. It's something I struggle with honestly, that alone cost me many positions. I can keep up with many fast players, but as soon as it is time to pit I'll lose a position or at least a couple seconds to whoever I'm racing with. RIP

These videos are helping me I’m starting to pick up on those mystery two second that have eluded me for so long I’ve got it down to 1.5 secs now just gotta learn and practice

Just started last night.... I have YEARS of bad habits from arcade racing to get rid of an learn the proper way all over again. It's a challenge, and frustrating, but damn it's pretty fun

Great stuff man!👍🏾

Nothing irritates me more than when I catch someone by like 1 second per lap and then the guy just defends or blocks everything. Like all you’re doing is slowing down both of us, just let the guy by if he catches you by so much per lap unless there’s like 2 or 3 laps from the end

Thanks always great information

Great video as always, would love to get your opinion on setting up sim equipment to help get the most realistic feeling out of the steering wheel/ pedals, for example, how many newton meters of torque you feel is realistic to the cars you have driven in real life, just an idea for a future video. Thanks for helping make everyone a better driver!

06:30 well you heard him folks, "once a driver is up inside you...just gotta let it happen" That's some dark advice and a tip you shouldn't take if you're in jail. Just on the track.

Thanks for the video

key to not over driving the car is to limit input smooth is fast some of my best laps felt slow as hell. learn to set up the car for the corner brake in s straight line and roll into the corner then accelerate out. also dont try and defend in rookies if you dont know how to do it. your not only going to make yourself slower but your likely going to cause a wreck and potential find yourself on a nice vacation from the subscription. learn the car the series and the track before you even think about competitive racing. IR should be a consistent 1500 + before you even consider it. anything lower then that just focus on running clean and getting decent finishes. as soon as your confident and in a decent split with other competent driver then you can get to racing. too many guys view rookies wrong and want to win it all end up wrecking every race destroy IR and SR and never get passed D class. for me i was A with 2k IR before i started actually racing.

So glad I found this video.. Just got 3 month sub and going to jump on now..all looks overwhelming and I'm not sure where to start? Does anyone have any tips like where to go first.. Thanks.

Over driving corners in road and oval. Diving in at a high speed thinking the car will stick or not push. I see this all the way up to A class

Thaks

Seems like every iracing channel I watch, no matter the quality otherwise, does not know how to proofread their BIG. BOLD. GRAPHICS.