If you haven't tried it yet, iRacing excels in the actual racing. Once you get past the rookie stage (which isn't hard), the racing is really good and people (usually) aren't idiots crashing all over the place. There will still be crashes, but I've seen races in iRacing that are cleaner than real-world races.
I enjoy your videos Empty Box. You mix in a good bit of humor with some great driving. I'm subscribing. Also, pretty badass listening to the FFB in your wheel jerking back and forth as you hit all the bumps in T1.
You sir have the best attitude towards racing i have seen. You have my respect for claiming and apologizing for your accidental starting of the wreck! Good Job dude
Yeah, it would have been hard not to do the exact same thing. At that moment I would have just assumed he was running next to the wall and moved up a little just like you did. Great race, by the way man.
I laughed a little when you announced your name, don't get me wrong I like the name, so when you said it, " Empty BOXxxsss!" you carried the s sound a bit hahah, Keep up the fun driving and work!
Also, the DW12 is around the same speed as the DP01, which I don't think anyone would call slow. If power increases as they plan, we at least have a fast ugly pig. Honda and Chevy can and will make more power if they are allowed to, heck, it's probably an ECU mapping away with ease. The big thing with me though is it's so damn slow on a big oval due to having it's power cut to slow it down, which, well... we have to get used to it. 240 isn't "safe" in this age. :( Fast enough on a road course.
i really enjoy your videos, i really like your attitude, i like your driving and i think you are a very good simracer, but i have to say this, YOU ARE THE LUCKIEST driver i have seen (based on your youtube videos ofcourse) dude whatever happens your car simply CANNOT BE DESTROYED, (see GT3 Challenge @ SPA :P)
A couple years ago I was on vacation in the poconos and we weren't far from here so we decided to go to track and right near the tunnel entrance was a little stand thing and there just happen to be star mazdas and other races, it was pretty cool
Go for it. I'm sure you'd enjoy it and it would make for an entertaining watch for us. It's a beautiful track that probably suits the HPD particularly well, and at the same time I'm sure traffic would be a unique challenge here.
Then how does Pocono not have 6 corners? How does something like the Dogleg at Phoenix not count for anything? What about D / quad ovals? It's a mystery, I tell ya.
Eric Gambrel Biggest cop out answer on this question. Think about it, oval turn numbering makes no sense if you actually count turns, and yes, I know how "they" count them.
That just looked like a racing deal to me, you came up a little bit, but not too bad. I've seen people do a lot worse than that, going for all you get in the closing laps is no crime. Other than that you ran a good race, congrats on a getting a good finish. Pocono is one of my favorite tracks too, lol
The tire stagger (the tires on the right have a larger diameter) helps the car turn left better, but it means it would also want to turn left if he held the wheel straight, and he therefore needs to turn it slightly to the right to keep the car going straight.
They can further reduce drag on the chassis and sidepods by "dimpling" the surface like a golf ball. It's been shown to increase fuel efficiency in cars by 2-3Mpg. At a track like Road America, or the 500 at Indianapolis, that could make a huge difference in pit stop strategy.
I'm new to racing Sims and haven't gotten a wheel yet. Can't wait to get one. Why is the in-game wheel turned to the left but the car is still going straight. Is it a custom setting you changed?
No, it's because of the car setup. The car is naturally setup to turn left on an oval so it's as fast as it can go through the corners to keep up the average speed, so you need to hold the wheel against that left pull to go straight. iRacing now however offers a setup option to make the wheel straight while going straight even with the left turn bias. That's basically putting the wheel on crooked so it's straight, something routinely done in the real world.
Watching that was actually fun, sold me on iracing for sure. As for the last incident I'd class it as a racing incident. If you were in a real car, or even a 3 monitor setup, you'd likely have seen him but in that situation he was in your blind spot, and you were close to his (he still had room to go high to avoid if he'd seen you). Yeah it's a sucky way to end a race but it wasn't intentional so I'd have let it go if I were in his position but nice to see you take responsibility too
I like this car/track combo, you never know what you'll get. Of my three races here: first one was clean for me, but we spent more time under yellow than actually racing; in the second, I got run over on the very first lap while slowing down for a huge wreck in T2 and couldn't continue; in the third, we only had one caution, but I saw someone crash so hard in T1 that the CrashMechanix™ actually vaulted him over the outside fence and there was no caution consequently LMFAO
The trick is to be smooth. Once you start jerking the wheel all over the place you scrub too much speed off of the car AND you make the car really unstable. Turn it in once, don't turn too much. Start off with a slower cornering speed and build it up. Your speed will improve the more you practice (I do realise that I'm replying to a 7 month old comment, but I hope this still helps you and others that read this at some point)
Hey Empty Box. Do you remember you ingame Settings and you hardware specs there? (Resolution seems to 1366*768?!?) Are there options to make the Hud smaller?!? (i have 1366*768 and the hud seems so big than this vid.) Sorry for my reaaally bad english
This is exactly why I can't Sim race with just one monitor. Need my peripheral vision aka outer 2 montior's. When I first started sim racing I sucked major balls at it, then added 2 more monitors. World of difference and much improved my race craft.
Did a few races with indicars on roadtracks - worst drivers I have ever experienced in online racing. 2-3 good&fast racers, the rest of the field could not get one single lap straight. So the only thing I had to do in order to get to top 3 position is staying out of troubles and doing consistent laps.
I'm not talking about a decade old car with an engine just as old. The "Swift 017.n" was developed in 2009 and continues development with Formula Nippon, today! It has much better aerodynamic performance characteristics than the DW12 which surprised the shit out of them with all the extra drag it produces.
Its a tri oval there is no turn 4 and that is the joke at Pocono. Great clip enjoyed it. Those guys were all over the place in turn 1 you had to go for the gap, I thought you were passed also
Empty Box So? I don't say that to be sarcastic honestly. I just dont' get it and obviously I'm ignorant to all the ins and outs of oval racing. . I haven't race Oval much, but this is always one thing that messes with my mind when driving down the straights.
Despiser Despised Oh wow really? Again, since my comments I've only done 3 or 4 races, I've placed top 5 each time, but that's not saying much as I have an 1 license in Road so racing in Rookie Oval, I've got an advantage anyways. I do know the guys that won were waaay ahead so I was trying to figure out what they were doing. I'll try and work on that as I have time.
+select20 I'm assuming it's so that the driver doesn't have to turn their arms quite as much when performing a turn. When going in a straight line it's not turned that much to the right. But, when turning left and the wheel is mounted to the hub completely straight it would have to be turned quite a lot. I like to think of the amount the wheel has to be turned as almost 50/50 having to turn it left and right when it is mounted asymmetrically.
Champcars used ground effects, the Indycars are flat bottomed. It was more important to keep a consistent ride height with the champcars as that was a very large chunk of downforce. Totally different setup approach.
Amen to that! Still the sexiest and manliest downforce oriented open wheel cars IMHO. V8? Check. Turbo? Check. No paddles? Check. Ground effects? Check. Stacked field of drivers? Check. Looks like it will do 240 MPH? Check. Does 240 MPH? Check. Big slicks for everyone to see? Check. Sadly, I don't think that will ever happen, I doubt de Ferran's record will be broken anytime soon. How Tony won... I know how, but I still don't see how - if you catch my wall of boost induced drift.
The DW12 uses ground effects. They have Venturi tunnels just like Champ Cars, and a rear diffuser. They are flatter than CART and Champ Car's rides, which is why they go airborne so easily, but they still produce significant ground effects DF. How can catching air so easily be considered "safe?"
Brack survived his crash in Texas, Wheldon had a similar crash at Vegas but hit in a different manner, that the car would never fix without a roof. I don't even need to mention Fontana in 1999. Safe is not auto racing. Bouncing cars or not, it's still hugely dangerous. The cars aren't bunny hopping on ovals, the racing has been as clean as ever even on street courses. Are there still steps left? Of course. To go faster you have to be safer first though in this world.
I just got my racing wheel and I want to start using it in the most realistic racing sim, which I heard iRacing is, so I wonder - Is iRacing more or less noob-friendly? :)
Newman/Haas would have a lot of pull, especially since it's what the fans wanna see. Since the Swift is used by a specs series too, it would also be cheap to buy and upgrade. Within the rules. Nippon is a series that evolved FROM Formula 1. I think seeing a Champ Car like ride in the field would bring a lot more attention to Indycar. With enough fan support and enough other teams beginning to use the Swift, other's might get in on the action and they might actually change (cont.)
Awesome driving. I would have done the exact same thing, moving up to the standard line. It was your fault, but still an honest racing accident. Nothing Maldonado-ish or too aggro.
Also, Carl Haas bought up most of the rights to Lola Cars' designs and intellectual property after Lola went belly up. They could in theory, retool the Lolas from the days of Champ Car and run them. I think the rules ared only to restrict the cost, and not chassis design. Rules do or did state they could run a different chassis other than the DW12 if approved by the board. THAT is what it would take gain back fans, especially if a Swift/Lola hybrid was to dominate with an incredible driver.
I'm not gonna start with the "NASCAR/Ovals require no skill" bull, because it's a plainly stupid belief, but really when I see indycars driving around in ovals it feels weird.. Those cars are made for much more than that and will shine on a proper track. Why not take some big engine car with a low degree heavy wheel that is specifically made for ovals? Just my 2c, good vid.
Indycars weren't made for ovals? I think the "Indy" part of "Indycar" is pretty much a dead giveaway they belong on the ovals as much as they belong on the road courses!
Empty Box Well I'm not very sure about the root of the actual word, English isn't my first language. My point was just that these cars have such advanced aerodynamics built so the car can quickly change directions from left to right, right to left etc. I guess one point is that you need downforce to make it work best, thus speed, but I'm pretty sure much of it's aerodynamics could be simpler/more focused on oval racing if they were made for it. Again, just my 2c, not trying to argue with you or bash your video :)
Diego T. Fair enough, but indycars were made by open-wheel car standards. The fact that they are american ties them to a different culture than the european, one that of course includes oval tracks. But the open-wheel concept and the foundation of its aerodynamic design are more tailored to swift changes of direction while maintaining speed rather than fighting to keep it tame at top speed the whole time.
SaladFingers Is it? The point of any race car is to go as fast as possible regardless of where. They have open wheels because that is how it's always been for over 100 years, it's lighter, it is what American open wheel racing is. It's like F1 (Indycar) and Sports cars (NASCAR) - you can only add so much bodywork until it becomes all the same. :) Don't forget though, it's not just an oval car. They bolt some road course wings on the car and go for it on anything from bumpy as heck street circuits to your smooth permanent circuits. As a fan of Indycar racing, without that huge variety it's just a random series, but because of it, it is my favorite type of racing around.
Pretend everyone has a... loaded gun, armed bomb, poisonous gas cloud, ebola / other deadly virus. In short, stay away from everyone and expect to be killed until proven otherwise. Rookie rookie (as in rookie series where you run with rookies) aint the place for racing.
Empty Box True, I just kinda hang back, but NOTHING helps, lol. They are all deadly almost, no one gives you room, everyone kills you. I just wanna get outta there, and drive in the Peak Antifreeze series
Sebastian Woodard Just use the F3 relative display and find a "hole" on the track and stay in there if you can. Pay attention to your surroundings both in front and behind you, make your list of idiots so you know who you can't trust, drive carefully but be mindful that if you just stop for someone spinning you probably get run over because - well - you stopped!
They are / will be working on the DW12s floor to prevent sideways takeoff. Remember the ramp at the train tracks at San Jose? Someone deemed that "safe". Fact is as we both know racing is dangerous. "Safe" is a relative, not absolute. Considering how few cautions we've had with the DW12, I'd say that it can't be too bad of a car to drive. Drivers may not like it, but it certainly isn't any more dangerous than it ever was. It may porpoise like a bitch, but it's also 150hp slower in a straight
Retooling the Lolas with Swift aero components if IZOD Indycar refuses to allow anything else. Or creating a hybrid. The Lolas were beasts on road and street courses, but the Swifts would have cleaner air. Bring the best parts of each and create a new type of car that has plentiful spare parts. Both designs are more stable than the DW, and having greater DF from the under wings would be less catastrophic with a wing failure.
I think it is 50/50. One thing I was always taught is if a driver shows you his fender you are the one that needs to back down. You were clearly passing him, and there was no reason for him to be trying to defend a spot that was already lost. That was a give and take situation in which he did not give and you took. 50/50 in my opinion
Crazy how much the service has changed since this guys vids got me hooked on iRacing
Fire the Spotter for eating ice cream..he should have been on the mic saying someone on the outside...
one of these days i'm gonna end up getting into iracing, looks like my dream racing sim
I think you can sign up right now, 3 months for 12 dollars, something like that. Its really alot of fun.
worth it
If you haven't tried it yet, iRacing excels in the actual racing. Once you get past the rookie stage (which isn't hard), the racing is really good and people (usually) aren't idiots crashing all over the place. There will still be crashes, but I've seen races in iRacing that are cleaner than real-world races.
i did 3 years ago and still glad i found Iracing.com Best on of the sims
It's unlike any racing game in the world. It's unbelievably realistic and fun
could be worse, you could be barnacles
that's the ultimate insult in sim racing! :D
+Hempflakes I just watched this after watching barnacles take out the guys in Oval racing LOL!!
OMG JUST SAW THAT VID
I enjoy your videos Empty Box. You mix in a good bit of humor with some great driving. I'm subscribing. Also, pretty badass listening to the FFB in your wheel jerking back and forth as you hit all the bumps in T1.
Grew up in eastern pa and will cherish my memories of going to Pocono raceway and watching the races as a kid
You sir have the best attitude towards racing i have seen. You have my respect for claiming and apologizing for your accidental starting of the wreck! Good Job dude
Nice racing man. Loved the way you handled those corners
That is some damn good racing, nice job on finishing 2nd there (even if it felt dirty)..
In the first wreck you did a great job not tearing up your car and you got really lucky that other car didn't clip you! And I like you paint scheme!
If there is a car there, there is a car there. I drove into him while he was holding his line on a straight. My fault.
Yeah, it would have been hard not to do the exact same thing. At that moment I would have just assumed he was running next to the wall and moved up a little just like you did. Great race, by the way man.
Now THIS is podracing!
Tasa chu pasa!
I laughed a little when you announced your name, don't get me wrong I like the name, so when you said it, " Empty BOXxxsss!" you carried the s sound a bit hahah,
Keep up the fun driving and work!
Box, not sure if you know, but T3 at Pocono is modeled after Milwaukee, where T1 is configured with inspiration from Trenton Speedway, and Indy is T2.
Also, the DW12 is around the same speed as the DP01, which I don't think anyone would call slow. If power increases as they plan, we at least have a fast ugly pig. Honda and Chevy can and will make more power if they are allowed to, heck, it's probably an ECU mapping away with ease.
The big thing with me though is it's so damn slow on a big oval due to having it's power cut to slow it down, which, well... we have to get used to it. 240 isn't "safe" in this age. :(
Fast enough on a road course.
I once remember a day where they wouldn't even get 3 MPG, ever. lol
Well, with this type of racing no one dies when there's a wreck...
i really enjoy your videos, i really like your attitude, i like your driving and i think you are a very good simracer, but i have to say this, YOU ARE THE LUCKIEST driver i have seen (based on your youtube videos ofcourse) dude whatever happens your car simply CANNOT BE DESTROYED, (see GT3 Challenge @ SPA :P)
Gotta love the tricky triangle!! my home track
love your stuff man, keep it up. Just gained a sub!
A couple years ago I was on vacation in the poconos and we weren't far from here so we decided to go to track and right near the tunnel entrance was a little stand thing and there just happen to be star mazdas and other races, it was pretty cool
hahahaha this was amazing! The crash at the end was so great!
DAYAM!! That shiz looks hella-fun. Makes me want to drop a couple grand on a cockpit.
Go for it. I'm sure you'd enjoy it and it would make for an entertaining watch for us. It's a beautiful track that probably suits the HPD particularly well, and at the same time I'm sure traffic would be a unique challenge here.
In ovals they call it turn 1 in the first half of the corner and turn 2 coming out of the corner
Then how does Pocono not have 6 corners? How does something like the Dogleg at Phoenix not count for anything? What about D / quad ovals?
It's a mystery, I tell ya.
Pocono isn't an oval. Is a triangle therefore it had three turns
Eric Gambrel
But a D shaped oval has three separate corners as well....
Tri oval.
Eric Gambrel
Biggest cop out answer on this question.
Think about it, oval turn numbering makes no sense if you actually count turns, and yes, I know how "they" count them.
well explained, thanks
That just looked like a racing deal to me, you came up a little bit, but not too bad. I've seen people do a lot worse than that, going for all you get in the closing laps is no crime. Other than that you ran a good race, congrats on a getting a good finish. Pocono is one of my favorite tracks too, lol
The tire stagger (the tires on the right have a larger diameter) helps the car turn left better, but it means it would also want to turn left if he held the wheel straight, and he therefore needs to turn it slightly to the right to keep the car going straight.
They can further reduce drag on the chassis and sidepods by "dimpling" the surface like a golf ball. It's been shown to increase fuel efficiency in cars by 2-3Mpg. At a track like Road America, or the 500 at Indianapolis, that could make a huge difference in pit stop strategy.
Then what were you talking about with the Lola with regards to retooling them and running them?
I'm new to racing Sims and haven't gotten a wheel yet. Can't wait to get one. Why is the in-game wheel turned to the left but the car is still going straight. Is it a custom setting you changed?
No, it's because of the car setup. The car is naturally setup to turn left on an oval so it's as fast as it can go through the corners to keep up the average speed, so you need to hold the wheel against that left pull to go straight.
iRacing now however offers a setup option to make the wheel straight while going straight even with the left turn bias. That's basically putting the wheel on crooked so it's straight, something routinely done in the real world.
Cool, thanks
Watching that was actually fun, sold me on iracing for sure.
As for the last incident I'd class it as a racing incident. If you were in a real car, or even a 3 monitor setup, you'd likely have seen him but in that situation he was in your blind spot, and you were close to his (he still had room to go high to avoid if he'd seen you). Yeah it's a sucky way to end a race but it wasn't intentional so I'd have let it go if I were in his position but nice to see you take responsibility too
Yeah, 3 wide into the tunnel turn doesn't work too well.
Hey i have a question on Steering wheels. Can a Wingman Formula Force GP wheel work in Iracing? its Logitech
At the end of the day, he was going straight down the straight. I moved into his lane, my fault. It was a straight, we were well past the corner.
What do you use to capture ur gameplay and what software do you use to render them if you dont mind me asking.
What steering wheel do you use. You seem to navigate bumps quite well with your force feedback.
Can you get iracing on the macbook?
I like this car/track combo, you never know what you'll get. Of my three races here: first one was clean for me, but we spent more time under yellow than actually racing; in the second, I got run over on the very first lap while slowing down for a huge wreck in T2 and couldn't continue; in the third, we only had one caution, but I saw someone crash so hard in T1 that the CrashMechanix™ actually vaulted him over the outside fence and there was no caution consequently LMFAO
I noticed smoke in the pits..? What was that about?
Damaged car on pit road.
someone was having a BBQ
Love your page, I liek Forza but there are so many kids on there. Iracing seems like a mature group of people if you have the money to spend.
how do you keep your car so stable? i can never be stable in the turns, i'm always sliding a bit, especially in road course raceing...
The trick is to be smooth. Once you start jerking the wheel all over the place you scrub too much speed off of the car AND you make the car really unstable.
Turn it in once, don't turn too much. Start off with a slower cornering speed and build it up. Your speed will improve the more you practice
(I do realise that I'm replying to a 7 month old comment, but I hope this still helps you and others that read this at some point)
Hey Empty Box. Do you remember you ingame Settings and you hardware specs there? (Resolution seems to 1366*768?!?)
Are there options to make the Hud smaller?!? (i have 1366*768 and the hud seems so big than this vid.) Sorry for my reaaally bad english
You can change the scale of the HUD in the options.
This was awesome actually.... im tempted to get iRacing.....
17:13 The hit-boxes in iRacing are still a little weird. I had a similar collision. I feel your pain. I want mah pionts back!
"dash for the cash! except there's no cash.." LOL!
This is exactly why I can't Sim race with just one monitor. Need my peripheral vision aka outer 2 montior's. When I first started sim racing I sucked major balls at it, then added 2 more monitors. World of difference and much improved my race craft.
Do you offset your steering deliberately because it's an oval?
Good Race bud :)
Did a few races with indicars on roadtracks - worst drivers I have ever experienced in online racing. 2-3 good&fast racers, the rest of the field could not get one single lap straight. So the only thing I had to do in order to get to top 3 position is staying out of troubles and doing consistent laps.
went to pocono this year for indycar. great race
I'm not talking about a decade old car with an engine just as old. The "Swift 017.n" was developed in 2009 and continues development with Formula Nippon, today! It has much better aerodynamic performance characteristics than the DW12 which surprised the shit out of them with all the extra drag it produces.
empty bags ;) lol, love his channel :))
Jesus. This must be why people invest in triple screens, so that doesn't happen to them.
Just got my paycheck and im really excited.:D
Awsome thanks man.:3 btw im joining Iracing tommarow morning.:P I live in Hawaii if u know any Hawaiian racers.X3
We have Empty Box in iRacing and Hungry Box in Super Smash Bros. I see a pattern.
Its a tri oval there is no turn 4 and that is the joke at Pocono. Great clip enjoyed it. Those guys were all over the place in turn 1 you had to go for the gap, I thought you were passed also
What's your setup for pocono, Matt?
Why are the wheels on cars doing circle tracks off center like that?
select20 Because the car is setup to turn left.
Empty Box So? I don't say that to be sarcastic honestly. I just dont' get it and obviously I'm ignorant to all the ins and outs of oval racing. . I haven't race Oval much, but this is always one thing that messes with my mind when driving down the straights.
Despiser Despised Oh wow really? Again, since my comments I've only done 3 or 4 races, I've placed top 5 each time, but that's not saying much as I have an 1 license in Road so racing in Rookie Oval, I've got an advantage anyways. I do know the guys that won were waaay ahead so I was trying to figure out what they were doing. I'll try and work on that as I have time.
+select20 I'm assuming it's so that the driver doesn't have to turn their arms quite as much when performing a turn. When going in a straight line it's not turned that much to the right. But, when turning left and the wheel is mounted to the hub completely straight it would have to be turned quite a lot. I like to think of the amount the wheel has to be turned as almost 50/50 having to turn it left and right when it is mounted asymmetrically.
#19 Richard hit that crash HARD. Game over, he never had a chance.
imagine playing this with a VR headset inside of a racing helmet
Back with the old CART racing game, I seem to remember applying break into 3, not lifting.
Wowza! A spin and a (runner-up)win... Kind of sorta!
this has been most competitive season in indycar in decades. These cars are excellent
Champcars used ground effects, the Indycars are flat bottomed. It was more important to keep a consistent ride height with the champcars as that was a very large chunk of downforce. Totally different setup approach.
Amen to that! Still the sexiest and manliest downforce oriented open wheel cars IMHO.
V8? Check. Turbo? Check. No paddles? Check. Ground effects? Check. Stacked field of drivers? Check. Looks like it will do 240 MPH? Check. Does 240 MPH? Check. Big slicks for everyone to see? Check.
Sadly, I don't think that will ever happen, I doubt de Ferran's record will be broken anytime soon. How Tony won... I know how, but I still don't see how - if you catch my wall of boost induced drift.
The DW12 uses ground effects. They have Venturi tunnels just like Champ Cars, and a rear diffuser. They are flatter than CART and Champ Car's rides, which is why they go airborne so easily, but they still produce significant ground effects DF. How can catching air so easily be considered "safe?"
I subbed bc i like the name empty box
Really kind of tempting at VIR, actually.
Brack survived his crash in Texas, Wheldon had a similar crash at Vegas but hit in a different manner, that the car would never fix without a roof. I don't even need to mention Fontana in 1999.
Safe is not auto racing. Bouncing cars or not, it's still hugely dangerous. The cars aren't bunny hopping on ovals, the racing has been as clean as ever even on street courses. Are there still steps left? Of course. To go faster you have to be safer first though in this world.
Empty Box and five years later after you posted this vid Robert Wickens survived his crash but is paralyzed from the waist down.
I'm wondering about getting iRacing. I have Forza 6 but I want to play with others online
Do have a wheel and pedals set? IRacing is a big step up from Forza. You might be interested in Project Cars.
Very well done sir :) you are very good! Do you still race? If so, are you looking for guys to race with?
What Wheel do you use?
Logitech G27, I believe.
I just got my racing wheel and I want to start using it in the most realistic racing sim, which I heard iRacing is, so I wonder - Is iRacing more or less noob-friendly? :)
Newman/Haas would have a lot of pull, especially since it's what the fans wanna see. Since the Swift is used by a specs series too, it would also be cheap to buy and upgrade. Within the rules. Nippon is a series that evolved FROM Formula 1. I think seeing a Champ Car like ride in the field would bring a lot more attention to Indycar. With enough fan support and enough other teams beginning to use the Swift, other's might get in on the action and they might actually change (cont.)
Do aerodynamics play a part in Iracing? And if so can the car lift off, flip, and fly..?
I think
Therefore you are?
This is where airplanes come in. Yes. There are videos of cars doing just that because of catching wind the right way going over a hill.
I do a lot of races with Grid Autosport which has an almost exact clone of this track. A lot of fun.
Still there....
Awesome driving. I would have done the exact same thing, moving up to the standard line. It was your fault, but still an honest racing accident. Nothing Maldonado-ish or too aggro.
Do they have push to pass in iracing indy?
you are good at this and I like your car. green is my favorite colour
Good thing this was in a sim.
Nice racing the tap at the end happens i find and whilst it was your fault it was just one of those in race things
You fucking wrecked him lol!
Also, Carl Haas bought up most of the rights to Lola Cars' designs and intellectual property after Lola went belly up. They could in theory, retool the Lolas from the days of Champ Car and run them. I think the rules ared only to restrict the cost, and not chassis design. Rules do or did state they could run a different chassis other than the DW12 if approved by the board. THAT is what it would take gain back fans, especially if a Swift/Lola hybrid was to dominate with an incredible driver.
Bring back the speed? bring back CART Indycar. The TRUE Indycars.
Please dooo more
I'm past considering them, I want them, plan on getting them. Just don't have the space right now to allow such a setup.
Action!, Sony Vegas
Hardware rundown in the about section on my channel.
I'm not gonna start with the "NASCAR/Ovals require no skill" bull, because it's a plainly stupid belief, but really when I see indycars driving around in ovals it feels weird.. Those cars are made for much more than that and will shine on a proper track. Why not take some big engine car with a low degree heavy wheel that is specifically made for ovals? Just my 2c, good vid.
Indycars weren't made for ovals? I think the "Indy" part of "Indycar" is pretty much a dead giveaway they belong on the ovals as much as they belong on the road courses!
Empty Box Well I'm not very sure about the root of the actual word, English isn't my first language. My point was just that these cars have such advanced aerodynamics built so the car can quickly change directions from left to right, right to left etc. I guess one point is that you need downforce to make it work best, thus speed, but I'm pretty sure much of it's aerodynamics could be simpler/more focused on oval racing if they were made for it. Again, just my 2c, not trying to argue with you or bash your video :)
SaladFingers indy comes from Indianapolis... ¬¬
Diego T. Fair enough, but indycars were made by open-wheel car standards. The fact that they are american ties them to a different culture than the european, one that of course includes oval tracks. But the open-wheel concept and the foundation of its aerodynamic design are more tailored to swift changes of direction while maintaining speed rather than fighting to keep it tame at top speed the whole time.
SaladFingers
Is it? The point of any race car is to go as fast as possible regardless of where.
They have open wheels because that is how it's always been for over 100 years, it's lighter, it is what American open wheel racing is. It's like F1 (Indycar) and Sports cars (NASCAR) - you can only add so much bodywork until it becomes all the same. :)
Don't forget though, it's not just an oval car. They bolt some road course wings on the car and go for it on anything from bumpy as heck street circuits to your smooth permanent circuits. As a fan of Indycar racing, without that huge variety it's just a random series, but because of it, it is my favorite type of racing around.
Fourth of July, baby!
I need help. HOW DO I GET OUT OF OVAL ROOKIE CLASS???
Pretend everyone has a... loaded gun, armed bomb, poisonous gas cloud, ebola / other deadly virus. In short, stay away from everyone and expect to be killed until proven otherwise. Rookie rookie (as in rookie series where you run with rookies) aint the place for racing.
Empty Box True, I just kinda hang back, but NOTHING helps, lol. They are all deadly almost, no one gives you room, everyone kills you. I just wanna get outta there, and drive in the Peak Antifreeze series
Sebastian Woodard
Just use the F3 relative display and find a "hole" on the track and stay in there if you can.
Pay attention to your surroundings both in front and behind you, make your list of idiots so you know who you can't trust, drive carefully but be mindful that if you just stop for someone spinning you probably get run over because - well - you stopped!
Miss the start to start from the pits. Do not race hard. Focus on avoiding wrecks.
MEtallica021319 Exactly what I do, but i grid
They are / will be working on the DW12s floor to prevent sideways takeoff.
Remember the ramp at the train tracks at San Jose? Someone deemed that "safe". Fact is as we both know racing is dangerous. "Safe" is a relative, not absolute.
Considering how few cautions we've had with the DW12, I'd say that it can't be too bad of a car to drive. Drivers may not like it, but it certainly isn't any more dangerous than it ever was.
It may porpoise like a bitch, but it's also 150hp slower in a straight
Retooling the Lolas with Swift aero components if IZOD Indycar refuses to allow anything else. Or creating a hybrid. The Lolas were beasts on road and street courses, but the Swifts would have cleaner air. Bring the best parts of each and create a new type of car that has plentiful spare parts. Both designs are more stable than the DW, and having greater DF from the under wings would be less catastrophic with a wing failure.
I think it is 50/50. One thing I was always taught is if a driver shows you his fender you are the one that needs to back down. You were clearly passing him, and there was no reason for him to be trying to defend a spot that was already lost. That was a give and take situation in which he did not give and you took. 50/50 in my opinion
What was smoking in the pits?
Time to consider 3 monitor setup.