Well, I thought I was the only 55-year-old iRacing noob when I signed up last Friday, and my name actually is Guy!!! How are you approaching this? I've been sim racing since around 2020 and recently got the GT Omega APEX wheel stand for my Thrustmaster TMX wheel/pedals (that doesn't actually need an adapter to mount it if you have more than 5 brain cells) and I'm about to get the Thrustmaster T-LCM pedals as the ones that come with the TMX are way too "arcade-ey", so in other words rubbish. I spent the weekend setting up iRacing for optimal performance with great looking graphics (I have a PC with a Ryzen 9 3900X and an RTX 4070 I built for flight sims) and then got all the key controls bound to my wheel. Today I started iRacing in earnest using the "Test Drive" feature to familiarise myself with the circuits used in the Global MX-5 Cup series in the AI Single Player races as living in the UK I don't know any of the circuits. I plan to do these AI races for a couple of weeks until I feel confident to go out on track with real people as I am a bit hesitant to "jump straight in" as I have had a number of strokes and my compos mentis has been severely affected to the point I can no longer drive in real life. Maybe we'll "bump into each other" at some point in the Rookie races (more like wwwacky races), just look out for "Guy Hall3", and stay well clear!!! 🤪
Good morning Guy (which actually is my last name lol). I didn't really know anything about iRacing other than what I've seen here and on twitch, so I'm very new to it and taking it slowly. I've been doing ACC, AC and rfactor2 over on twitch now and then but mostly offline as I'm so green. I decided to give iracing a go and do a live each time I go on there. I'm using the Cammus C5 wheel and for the moment I'm using the CP5 pedals (I'm not overly happy with these as I thing I have a duff brake pedal, I've contacted racesim who I bought them from). I've just ordered the Simsonn load cell pedals, which will be here in a couple of weeks. I have the GTOmega Classic wheel stand. I bought this because I can just add to it to create the entire cockpit at some point (when finances allow). The PC is nothing special really, I built it on the fly so to speak and have been donated a GTX 1660ti. I'm running an i3 10100 with 16 GB of RAM. 2 SSDs and 1 HDD (2.5TB in all). Compared to the other sims, this is closest to rf2 and also so far it's the most difficult, I think that's down to my dodgy brake pedal though as it only works in the last 1/2 inch to inch of travel. This makes trail braking impossible. I'm doing the AI races at the moment too and am attempting the odd practice session to try to raise the safety rating (again I discovered this isn't a good idea with my current pedal issue). Maybe we will "bump" into each other on the track, that would be cool to be fair lol. Thanks for the comment dude and keep on keeping on. We'll get there eventually.
@@just-another-guy Hi, here another 55 year old bloke active in iRacing (on and off since 2013 though). Regarding safety rating, you will not gain or lose any in practice sessions. The only sessions in which you can gain safety rating are race, qualify and time trial sessions. Good luck in your new career!
Oh cool, nice to know. Thanks Arthur, much appreciated info. I have to admit, I do love doing this. It's great fun and keeps you thinking, which at our age, is never a bad thing lol.
@@just-another-guy Yes, it is great fun indeed. Especially now I have invested in a simrig and decent equipment. That is the plus side of being a bit older, you seem to be able to afford a little more on a hobby like this.
@@Arthur-Tromp Yep it does tend to get on the expensive side. I would recommend anyone wanting to get into it, to try cheaper options first. I'm around £600 in on equipment only right now. Then you have the actual sims on top of that, then the extras etc etc. It goes on and on lol. I can probably add another £400 to it with seat and back of the rig, monitor stand etc. Then you're looking at upgrading the monitors, it can snowball if you don't keep yourself in check lol
Well, I thought I was the only 55-year-old iRacing noob when I signed up last Friday, and my name actually is Guy!!!
How are you approaching this?
I've been sim racing since around 2020 and recently got the GT Omega APEX wheel stand for my Thrustmaster TMX wheel/pedals (that doesn't actually need an adapter to mount it if you have more than 5 brain cells) and I'm about to get the Thrustmaster T-LCM pedals as the ones that come with the TMX are way too "arcade-ey", so in other words rubbish.
I spent the weekend setting up iRacing for optimal performance with great looking graphics (I have a PC with a Ryzen 9 3900X and an RTX 4070 I built for flight sims) and then got all the key controls bound to my wheel. Today I started iRacing in earnest using the "Test Drive" feature to familiarise myself with the circuits used in the Global MX-5 Cup series in the AI Single Player races as living in the UK I don't know any of the circuits. I plan to do these AI races for a couple of weeks until I feel confident to go out on track with real people as I am a bit hesitant to "jump straight in" as I have had a number of strokes and my compos mentis has been severely affected to the point I can no longer drive in real life.
Maybe we'll "bump into each other" at some point in the Rookie races (more like wwwacky races), just look out for "Guy Hall3", and stay well clear!!! 🤪
Good morning Guy (which actually is my last name lol).
I didn't really know anything about iRacing other than what I've seen here and on twitch, so I'm very new to it and taking it slowly. I've been doing ACC, AC and rfactor2 over on twitch now and then but mostly offline as I'm so green. I decided to give iracing a go and do a live each time I go on there.
I'm using the Cammus C5 wheel and for the moment I'm using the CP5 pedals (I'm not overly happy with these as I thing I have a duff brake pedal, I've contacted racesim who I bought them from). I've just ordered the Simsonn load cell pedals, which will be here in a couple of weeks. I have the GTOmega Classic wheel stand. I bought this because I can just add to it to create the entire cockpit at some point (when finances allow).
The PC is nothing special really, I built it on the fly so to speak and have been donated a GTX 1660ti. I'm running an i3 10100 with 16 GB of RAM. 2 SSDs and 1 HDD (2.5TB in all).
Compared to the other sims, this is closest to rf2 and also so far it's the most difficult, I think that's down to my dodgy brake pedal though as it only works in the last 1/2 inch to inch of travel. This makes trail braking impossible.
I'm doing the AI races at the moment too and am attempting the odd practice session to try to raise the safety rating (again I discovered this isn't a good idea with my current pedal issue).
Maybe we will "bump" into each other on the track, that would be cool to be fair lol.
Thanks for the comment dude and keep on keeping on. We'll get there eventually.
@@just-another-guy Hi, here another 55 year old bloke active in iRacing (on and off since 2013 though). Regarding safety rating, you will not gain or lose any in practice sessions. The only sessions in which you can gain safety rating are race, qualify and time trial sessions. Good luck in your new career!
Oh cool, nice to know. Thanks Arthur, much appreciated info. I have to admit, I do love doing this. It's great fun and keeps you thinking, which at our age, is never a bad thing lol.
@@just-another-guy Yes, it is great fun indeed. Especially now I have invested in a simrig and decent equipment. That is the plus side of being a bit older, you seem to be able to afford a little more on a hobby like this.
@@Arthur-Tromp Yep it does tend to get on the expensive side. I would recommend anyone wanting to get into it, to try cheaper options first. I'm around £600 in on equipment only right now. Then you have the actual sims on top of that, then the extras etc etc. It goes on and on lol. I can probably add another £400 to it with seat and back of the rig, monitor stand etc. Then you're looking at upgrading the monitors, it can snowball if you don't keep yourself in check lol