iRacing | Can I Survive iRacing Rain CARNAGE? Ray FF1600 @ Okayama
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Well, it had to happen sometime. Now I’m back on iRacing, I knew it was only a matter of time before it rained. And boy is it raining today for this Formula 1600 Thrustmaster Trophy race at Okayama.
I’m fearing the worst here. It’s my first experience of iRacing rain - even the practice server was dry, so my first ever wet lap was in qualifying. As a result, I took it VERY easy. I’ll be starting from P10, but that’s only because nearly half the grid chose not to set a lap time.
Now, don’t expect me to attack in this one. I was competitive in iRacing Ray FF1600 action last week, but today is all about being as careful and as safe as possible, and seeing if I can survive it…
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Don't think I'm exaggerating when I say your channel is arguably the best and most entertaining SIM racing channel on RUclips,I really enjoy your commentary and it's just great to watch,decent driver as well👏
Thank you Kev, that’s very kind of you to say. Glad you hear you enjoy the vids so much. Cheers!
I really like your approach to sim racing. It's very similar to how I race and I wish more people had the same mentality.
Thank you mate. Yeah, I only race a few times a week so I don’t want to be taking risks and increasing the chances of not finishing. Trouble is, a lot of people have time to race 4-5 times a day… so they’re not as worried if a race gets wrecked, they just do it again an hour later. For me, I’ll do one race and then might have to wait 3-4 days for the next one… so I’ll always try my best to stay safe on track and make sure it’s time well spent! Cheers
Also I think a lot of people race against AI and/or w/ the damage turned off in single player mode then get used to being able to still finish the race or easily restart w/o it affecting their safety rating.
Especially if they race the AI in another sim (if the sim's AI behaves differently and they don't compensate for that) and/or w/ the aggression turned down so used to the opponents giving up the position more easily.
Absolutely love watching dry weather hot lappers being humbled by the rain. 🤣🤣☔️
Haha it is hilariously satisfying. When I let that guy past the second time, and he immediately torpedoed his way into the gravel AGAIN, I was sat in my Playseat looking very smug 🤣
@chrisrogerssimracing for real hahaha
Sad to see Lund make so many mis-steaks 🥁
Great racing Chris in your first wet run in iracing. Thoroughly entertaining!
PS - mad you survived that hit!
Still can’t believe how. I’ll never EVER get that lucky again! It didn’t feel like I even had any aero damage. Crazy!
That guy went flying 😂
Yeah! It was hilarious - once I’d realised I could still actually drive 🤣
Great drive Chris, did exactly what was needed.
Thanks Russell, the cautious and cowardly approach very much suits my racing style 🤣
Great drive Chris! I really like your approach to sim racing - very pragmatic and aware - which makes racing so much more competitive and fun!
Enjoy your commentary as well, kind of reminds me of Tiff Needell. Makes me nostalgic for the Toca touring car days!
Thank you mate! Haha yeah the old touring car broadcasts of the 90s was the inspiration behind my video style!
@@chrisrogerssimracing ha ha, thought it might be!
Wow, that was super lucky they didn't give you damage!! Rain is tricky for sure, but that race had a LOT of carnage.
I’ll never EVER get that lucky again! In any other race, on any other lap… it’s 100% a race-ender!
Congrats on well done first rain race 🌧️🎊🎉
Another great watch. Thanks for sharing and keep them coming!
It’s my pleasure, thank you for tuning in! Cheers mate
Well done on your 5th place finish in your 1st wet race.
Thank you mate. Definitely pays to be cautious in these conditions. Based on lap times and speed, I should have been down in 15th or 16th. But just by playing it safe, I was able to get a really strong finish 🥳
Another enjoyable video. Please keep them coming
Thank you mate, appreciate that. I’ll do my best! 😃
Well done Chris. Very tricky conditions. I think you handled this perfectly. I’ve learnt in my short time racing, there no point fighting people who are massively faster than you, it’s often better to let them through and follow them, rather than lose time defending my the position. 👍🏻
Exactly. I’m always even more cautious in iRacing because I know how punishing the damage model is for even the slightest contact. Which makes it even more amazing that I was able to survive being pulverised in that T1 wreck!
Congrats Chris! Have you a nice Easter.
Thank you mate, and you too!
Many sim racers may have passed in the participation of this race😅lol!!!Bit like my morning commute on the m6!!!Great stuff Chris, that rain looks great.
Haha I’ll be honest, I only entered by mistake! Forgot to check the weather conditions. If I knew it was a wet race, I’d have waited for a dry one 🤣
Great race!
Awaiting your Le Mans Ultimate 2HR Endurance, lol
😂😂
Haha! I did get a couple more races in LMU this week. Sadly not exciting enough for a video, but I’ll keep at it, so there will be one coming soon 👍
Great Racing Chris well done
Thank you mate, it was stressful!
Steady wins the race in these conditions. I got P2 in the same combo yesterday, also like you by focusing on staying on track most of the time. Whereas, I think Lund's middle name must be Kamakaze! He did get the fastest lap, but he seemed to be testing the limits at every corner Good for him to finish in the top 5 after all that, despite his offs. Keep posting the videos Chris, thanks 🙂
His lap times were incredible, really. Even after the second off, he rejoined 3-4secs behind and was right back on me within 2 laps. But yeah, with pace comes risk… and I definitely wasn’t risking it!
Bravo! Unfortunate about the safety rating. They need a survival rating for a race that wet! Thanks for the content.
Haha yeah I felt very hard done by… I lost more SR than anyone else in the race! Definitely not fair 🤣
Wow, another bunch of bashing! Great racing on your part Chris! Congrats on your top 5 finish, thanks for sharing with us!!! (personally I think the wet weather is highly overrated!)
I tend to agree. Honestly, I’m not a fan of wet weather racing in any sim. If I see rain conditions for a race, I choose not to enter it… I just don’t find it fun, and as I only race irregularly, I’d rather wait for a dry this. This one caught me out… I’m not used to checking iRacing for weather! They’ve done a decent job with the rain BUT I reckon they’ve gone way too overboard with it. Like, every time it rains, it’s a monsoon. It’s too much… in real life, races would get red flagged if the conditions were as dangerous as the iRacing rain conditions! I think they just need to dial it back a bit.
Chris again on his upload frenzy! Really happy that there videos coming out at such a frequency. You really did well for your first time in the rain, i guess other sims have prepared pretty good. At least much better than most of the lobby:D
Haha yeah I’ve gotta take these chances to race when I can! Gonna be a busier week this week, so it was good to get some extra races in last week… even if they were wet ones!
@@chrisrogerssimracing is there an ACC Nordschleife video in planning? ;)
@@Daniel_csteProbably not for a week or so, sadly. I’ve not had chance to get online and buy the pack yet, and likely away from home for another week yet. As soon as I’m home and get some sim time, I’ll definitely be buying it though! Looking forward to trying it 😃
Wow what an incredible run! No reason to fight for all those positions, as we all saw you got them back! You had one slight error but recovered and I don’t think you even got an X for it, the rest was everybody pushing way too hard! It’s always better to be alive at the end and finish a position back rather than push for a position and have someone ruin your race! That 17 was insane!!!!
Yeah, as soon as I saw that opening lap, I knew my gameplay was going to be to stay as far away from everyone as possible! Not many others were in control. It’s crazy to think I lost way more safety rating than anyone else in this race… I was the safest one out there 🤣
You losing SR in that race just shows how borked the SR system works...But nonetheless, a great result in the rain Chris. and another enjoyable watch :).. Enjoy your Easter weekend fella!
Cheers Nick, you too mate. Yeah, I’ve never felt so unfairly treated as I did when I saw how much my SR dropped… I was pretty much the only driver out there being safe 🤣
Highly intelligent racing , you've raced sensibly and have been rewarded for doing so, just wish other drivers followed your example. Happy Easter to you and yours..
Thank you Tony, and to you mate 😃
Well done Chris
Thank you mate 👍
Well that was a baptism of fire. I've done some practice in the rain, but not had a wet race yet. It looks like caution pays some big dividends in the wet.
Yep, definitely wise to play it safe. I was really tip-toeing around and only had one scary slide mid-race. The rest of the time, I felt pretty in control and safe (until people got close to me!)
Well done Chris. Shame safetyrating doesn’t look at who is at fault.
Nice avoiding action at the beginning.
Haha yeah cheers, it’s crazy to think I lost more safety rating than ANYONE else on the grid! 🤦🏻♂️
Cool seeing my name for 30 seconds until the carnage!
Ahhh unlucky Anthony, you were one of many to get wiped out in that one! I only survived it because I was a car length or two further back… anyone in front of me had no chance! Guessing you would have had to pit for repairs? Still amazed that I didn’t have to, later in the race for that T1 shunt.
@@chrisrogerssimracing was a long pit time too. My friend Liam was in same race and managed to make it back to pits. We were hoping this was the race we took second and third. But alas!
Jeez. People are nuts. I like the rain in ACC as I seem to be quite good (first win outside bottom split was in the rain - I usually struggle to get into top half in the dry) but the rain in iRacing seems to be on a completely different level. Survival seems to be the key and you managed that, so I'd count that as a victory.
Yeah, I actually think they’ve gone a little bit overboard with the rain in iRacing. It’s meant to make things more realistic, but the rain is SO heavy - with huge puddles of standing water and zero visibility - that you’d get a red flag most of the time IRL. So I reckon they should tone it down a little bit, similar to how it is in ACC
@@chrisrogerssimracing A friend commented to me that the rain in ACC wasn't realistic enough as there was no aquaplaning and no dry line. It does look like they've only got an on-off switch between dry and monsoon in iRacing, though.
@@daviddavies3637Yeah this is it… its monsoon or nothing at the moment. It would be great if there were some dry line physics… I seem to remember it being in rF2, which was a very surprising and neat feature.
@@chrisrogerssimracing It was actually much worse in the first week or so after the rain update dropped.
Great save when the back end went! Think iRacing need to work on their damage physics though, that was a catastrophic shunt!
Thanks, haha, after all my years of moaning about how punishing the iRacing damage model is, I’ll never complain about it again 🤣🤣
4:57 I immediately thought you were right to let him by if you had defended that pass I'm positive it would have resulted in a crash, he seemed extremely intent on making that pass. Proven to be the right move when he ran off on his own twice🥴
9:30 I bet that guy missed his breaking marker BK of all the spray. I could still see the marker I usually use but I can imagine how his might have been blocked.
Another reason to have multiple references for each breaking point. B4 there was rain another car could be blocking ythe sight for your preferred marker, turn in point, etc.
Missing the apex is a good thing in these conditions. More grip off line, what they call the go kart line
Yeah I did notice that, the occasions I drifted wide. I felt the car start to slide, but then rescued it as I got a bit wider. Plus, the standing water seemed to be mainly on the inside too.
Wet weather is a blast to drive in but every corner is dangerous with other cars around
Its all about survival of the fittest and yes wet weather for me has seen safety rating plummet
Yeah, I was more than happy to revert to my cowardly ways and let that guy behind through, particularly when I saw how fiercely he was pushing. A great challenge, and an enjoyable one, not sure I’m keen to do it every week though 🤣
Chris! Will you ever host a subscriber race? Would be awesome to race with some safe, like-minded folks! You could stream it too! Bunch of content, bunch of fun :)
Yes Colin, it’s certainly an idea that’s been knocking around in the back of my mind for a while. It would be good to do one for a special occasion 👍
I doubt half the field CHOSE not to qualify :D They probably went off
Hahaha yes, after seeing how they coped in the race, I think you’re 100% correct 🤣
How on earth did you not get a meatball 😂.
Very well driven in the wet mate.
Honestly Joe, I’ve got no idea. It’s the luckiest break I’ve ever had in iRacing, that’s for sure!
Apparently this is who I am now. Late on the track and late in the comments 🎉🎉
Haha, you need me to have a more fixed upload schedule, so you know when to expect them 🤣
@@chrisrogerssimracing not sure it would help 😊 my sleeping schedule on weekends is a mess 😜😴
It always baffles me how some people drive their cars in games (and conditions) like these. Like theres no tomorrow 😂 like yeah, Maby first lap you have to adjust your drivingstyle to the conditions on track. But like flemming, lap after lap totally missing breaking points. I really dont get it 😅 its like they're totally immune to adjusting to their surroundings 😂
Yeah exactly this. Even in dry conditions, you see it… people not realising they can’t always hit their hot lap braking points when in the middle of a close race on a busy track.
How did you survive that rear hit 😂. Nice race did it earlier this week but was on the dry.
Honestly mate, I’ve got absolutely no idea! I was just waiting and waiting for that meatball flag as I got back on track. Unbelievably, I didn’t even seem to pick up any significant damage at all… the car handled exactly the same way afterwards. Just incredibly lucky!
Get me a towel!
It might be a while before I do another wet race. I need time to recover from this one!
9:27 this has to be the funniest sim racing crash I've ever seen. Also how come you didn't pick up any damage from that? That'd be race over in a nornal day
Haha I know… I think it’s the luckiest I’ve ever been! Couldn’t believe it when that meatball flag never appeared. I’ll never get that lucky again.
They have rain now, but the physics model still leaves much to be desired 🤔
To be honest, I’m not a fan of wet racing in any sim. It’s so much more difficult and, for someone like me, who just wants to hop in occasionally and have a race, it’s far easier to do in the dry 🤣 I forgot to check the weather forecast for this race, so only found out it was raining after joining
@@chrisrogerssimracing ya think I feel the same. Don't think I would want raceroom to get rain. I'd prefer driver swap 👍
9:25
at times, often, i wonder wtf are people thinking right before they crash into the vehicle in front of them.
Haha yeah. I think it’s a great example of ‘target fixation’ - concentrating so much on chasing the car in front, you completely forget about braking points! Still don’t know how that didn’t end my race. Luckiest I’ve ever been!
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You say target fixation I call it racing with horse blinders.
Well do Chris on the result for your first wet race, You drove a really good race for first time,whats your thoughts on the wet on iracing ?
Cheers. It looked really good and was certainly a whole new challenge. But for me personally, I’m not a fan of wet racing in any sim. It’s too much of a lottery for my liking… as I only do a few races a week, I prefer to cherry-pick the dry ones 🤣 I only entered this one by mistake… forgot to check the weather conditions, and only realised it was raining once I’d already joined the server!
@@chrisrogerssimracing well considering you did really well👍
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Well done Chris. Never have to be the fastest driver on track in the rain, just be the smartest. The elements will sort everything else out :)
Definitely. On pace and lap times alone, I should have finished around 15th or 16th. But it seemed I was one of the few who actually managed to stay on track 🤣