I've been sim racing for nearly a decade and I have learned that what works for me is, as soon as I experience fatigue with one car or race series I shift my focus to something else. I always focus on learning. At one point I drove a lot of oval even though I'm definitely not an oval guy but it gave me the breathing room I needed and it was fun being a rookie again. I've also gone months without driving if it didn't interest me, but I kept coming back eventually. Its just to much damn fun. PS: Consider sticking to monthly payments even though its more expensive. It gives you the option to quit for a period.
There is no burnout if you hide your position in the race in the relative and hide other people Irating. That way you can just focus on having fun. Forget about irating and stats. Go out there and just have fun with the expectation that at any point you can crash and all you have to do is move on to the next race. Iracing definitely felt like a stressful hobby for me and burnout kicked in when I worried about position and irating. Also you will race cleaner and safer and finish more races when you remove all the external pressures from Irating, position, License class, etc that make you make mistakes in the first place. Hope this helps!
@@SergioR2707 that is true. I started using racelab to get more data and at first it was disheartening if you’re mid race and can see you’re going to lose 20/30 I rating based on your position.
IMO everything can feel like that. For me it´s not Iracing, but boardgames. The trick is having a good mix of different passions. Movies, Reading, Sports, etc. Then you can focus on something different whenever someting feels stale.
Idk i get some great battles whether its from the back of the grid or the front of the grid. Much better than any other sim game for wheel to wheel racing. Yes you do occasionally get eliminated by bullshit and it is frustrating.
@ Yeah that’s the standard argument. You say it is the only “real sim.” If driving were as difficult as iRacing in real life, none of us would make it past 20 years old. Anyway, whatever. I figured out real fast that driving real cars is much more fulfilling.
Every sim has issues. iRacing is no different. I have tried most of them and I will say that iRacing does a lot of things very very well and does a few things very poorly, but it is definitely one of the best.
I've been sim racing for nearly a decade and I have learned that what works for me is, as soon as I experience fatigue with one car or race series I shift my focus to something else. I always focus on learning. At one point I drove a lot of oval even though I'm definitely not an oval guy but it gave me the breathing room I needed and it was fun being a rookie again. I've also gone months without driving if it didn't interest me, but I kept coming back eventually. Its just to much damn fun.
PS: Consider sticking to monthly payments even though its more expensive. It gives you the option to quit for a period.
There is no burnout if you hide your position in the race in the relative and hide other people Irating. That way you can just focus on having fun. Forget about irating and stats. Go out there and just have fun with the expectation that at any point you can crash and all you have to do is move on to the next race. Iracing definitely felt like a stressful hobby for me and burnout kicked in when I worried about position and irating. Also you will race cleaner and safer and finish more races when you remove all the external pressures from Irating, position, License class, etc that make you make mistakes in the first place. Hope this helps!
@@SergioR2707 that is true. I started using racelab to get more data and at first it was disheartening if you’re mid race and can see you’re going to lose 20/30 I rating based on your position.
you should start listening to music while driving or drunk driving - or both. it is so much fun
going back to the basics is imperative when coming off of burnout. you already have the big things down it’s a matter of piecing them together
It's okay to skip days, just because we pay a lot for things doesn't mean we need to use it all the time.
IMO everything can feel like that. For me it´s not Iracing, but boardgames. The trick is having a good mix of different passions. Movies, Reading, Sports, etc. Then you can focus on something different whenever someting feels stale.
@@pokefrosch617 maybe this is part of the problem for me 😅 I tend to jump between hobbies but become hyper obsessed…
my pc doesnt meet the specs for iracing. but i'm experiencing the same feelings with chess.
Idk i get some great battles whether its from the back of the grid or the front of the grid. Much better than any other sim game for wheel to wheel racing. Yes you do occasionally get eliminated by bullshit and it is frustrating.
I tried ice-Racing once. Never again. I'm amazed that it has survived. It's abysmal.
There's no real alternative to iRacing, every other "sim" is more simcade so iRacing is the only real sim out there.
@ Yeah that’s the standard argument. You say it is the only “real sim.” If driving were as difficult as iRacing in real life, none of us would make it past 20 years old.
Anyway, whatever. I figured out real fast that driving real cars is much more fulfilling.
Every sim has issues. iRacing is no different. I have tried most of them and I will say that iRacing does a lot of things very very well and does a few things very poorly, but it is definitely one of the best.