I wish I could define the reason, but tutorial videos like this around the 10-15 minute mark are GOLD to me lol; doesn’t matter the subject. I appreciate that you quickly show steps to go from never having driven one of the else cars to getting decently quick lap times at full throttle with some focused practice. No word of a lie I absolutely bombed my first race in a 305 last night. Then I Google and found your video, watched it and practiced by myself while going through your video. Then signed up for the following race after spending about an hour just lapping on my own, and actually held my own and gained a few positions! Hopefully you see this comment and recognize your content is greatly appreciated!
Yes please, keep these dirt sprint videos coming, I really enjoy what you're doing! Easy to understand, you're a great teacher! I've been away from Iracing a little over a year, I'll be back on in a week or two. Just waiting on a new cockpit, wheel, and peddle setup! No more desk setup for me :-)
I'm running an open-wheel masterclass right now. Click the link to sign up for the email list, and then you'll get all of the info for the free masterclass. mailchi.mp/3d95bb2f4129/ssr-masterclass-sign-up
I joined iracing for asphalt oval. But the most fun I've had on there is dirt. Im not the best or the fastest by any means, but it's a blast to drive. Each machine it's own beast to tame. Just got my D license and just started playing with the winged sprints. Great info!
Much Thanks for your content in general, but especially this tutorial. There was NO WAY I could not even make a lap without your introduced method. And when times are not so well....I come right back to it.
Just found your channel, my son and I are taking his racing to the simulator for the first time for the summer with the quarantine shooting the real-life season in the foot. Tomorrow we're going to start implementing your videos. Looking forward to seeing if we can be good students and see results. I would gladly report back as much as you like. He's 12 this year and been racing since he was 6 with the goal from day 1 to race Winged Sprints and he has never wavered. Thanks again for your videos!
I just recently got Iracing and gave dirt a try and wow I suck. Sitting here watching these videos makes me wanna try it again and i feel like i have the confidence to try it. I think it would be good to have a video of an actual race and what you do and how you pass.
Thanks Tommy! I have reached that plateau and really enjoyed the video!! All the small things to build off of is so interesting!! Keep the videos coming. Thanks again for your time and commitment to us newbes:)
The intro to this video describes my career to a T. Thank you for doing something like this and I hope you do more covering stuff like driving a slick track. I think it will help a lot of people, especially those like myself, trying to do this solo with little expierence. 👍🏻
Love your channel Thomas, learned more in one night about setups, things I can work on with my driving and just cool tips and tricks than weeks of trying to figure things out on my own. Please keep making dirt videos!
Im a little late but I wanted to say that you make some of the best dirt racing “Tutorials” I have ever seen. And I’m not sure if your experienced in asphalt oval racing but If you are I’d love to see a super late model video. Thanks!
Go to facebook and look for the school or sim racing private group. Ive got an entire open wheel dirt masterclass on there. Covering everything from 305s to 410s, dirt midgets and usac sprint cars. And its free. So if you want to learn more, head over there.
Awesome cant wait to give it a crack when I get home tonight currently at Lanier I'm running 13.5 and you are down at 12.4 thats some major time i need to find
A winged sprint car should never be hung way out. You need to develop keeping the car as straight as possible. If you are hanging the ass end way out you are killing your speed and you will also tend to bog the car down so the engine is not making optimum power as the car exits the corner onto the straight away. If there is a cushion you just drive it straight into the cushion and you hardly have to turn the car at all. Don't get my wrong everything that Tommy is teaching you is right on the money. The longer the turn the straighter you can run the car. Also, you need to adjust the right rear spacer depending on the track. Look at it this way. If you take a standard white styro-foam coffee cup and you roll it across the floor it turns to the small end quickly and automatically. That is stagger. Now take a big vacuum sealed travel cup and roll it across the floor. It turns to the little end much slower because there is less stagger and the two ends are farther away from each other. So on a really tight bullring where the corners are super tight, you want the right rear right next to the chassis so the car will naturally turn quicker. So at like Knoxville where the corners seem to go on forever you want the right rear as far as possible from the chassis. The car will take longer to turn left. You also have to figure out how to have the stagger work with your right rear spacing. You can have the chassis where it seems to be hooked up and changing the stagger will cause the car to begin to fight itself instead of sitting down on the left rear and hauling ass through the corners. Disclaimer---> I only have raced the Dirt Track Sprint Car game probably 20 years ago but it worked then and I just applied what I learned working on a 410 winged sprint car. I actually was the guy to beat. But that's only because of working on a real 410 winged sprint car. I am sure that if you put what I posted in the back of your mind and you follow what Tommy says in his videos and just play around with the spacer on the right rear you will feel it immediately. You can tell where to put it because when you find the sweet spot for each track you will barely have to steer the car on the longer tracks and you won't have the car's ass end hanging way out with your steering almost turned to the lock point and that's just killing your kenetic energy. Yes kenetic........ it applies if you are on the throttle and your killin it! Think about a 410 winged sprint car running wide open, never breathing the throttle, just wide open with absolutely no fear just slamming the car into the turn and just haulin' ass, and they just pulled in, rolled out the car. Changed the car setup based on past notes or just by looking at the track and they push him off and he drops the hammer and is wide open and just throwing it in the corner........Its really pretty amazing how a sprint car works...... chassis and the torsion bars which are basically sway bars. can be very beneficial if you have the right bars in the car. However as the track changes the chassis actually needs tweaked but your in the middle of the race so you have to make an educated guess on how stiff or soft the chassis is going to have to be to run the leader down, before you roll out to run the race. Go watch the WoO sprint cars both online and real cars and watch the cars run through the corner. The guy that has won the Iracing WoO series is worth taking the time to watch him and then try to apply what you watched. This is going to be a pretty long row to hoe but it will benefit your race craft a ton. I apologize for the rambling on and on. I cannot believe how much I posted. This might just be the longest comment I have ever typed. Take it easy and if anyone wants to pick my brain feel free to touch base with me. I raced back in the beginning of online racing and it grew into Iracing. We were basically beta testers that paid to race. We had some incredible races back in the early years. I retired after 13 years and we had a group of guys that had run together for years. There was I think 62 of us in our private group. We would run 1/2 distance with full damage, pit stops, yellow flags. I think we had 4 yellow flags in a 20 league races. We all knew how everyone else drove and we just raced with respect and we would run 2 wide for 12-13 rows at the plate tracks lap after lap. Dale Jr raced league with us on Tuesday night and this kid that befriended Dale Jr. had raced with us for years and it just happened to be TJ Majors. Pretty wild huh?
Is this smooth way just a driving style? I drive a lot like this but in onboards I see a lot of jerking and throwing it into a corner and such. Very cool to see how different you can drive here and real life nonetheless.
Now i get the bottom is faster on a clean track like that but i raced against Austen Semmelmann2 who is a pro/wc driver and on the slick USA International track he ran the bottom the whole race never coming up once while the other groove got higher and higher, yet he was 2 tenths faster than everyone else in the field at Least. So i want more videos to learn about that to see what i need to be doing because i dont know if i need brake or how to do it right if i do
Nice but sir you should show your hands on the wheel with that we could really see your skill your describing versus showing us the car just food for thought but thanks for the video
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I wish I could define the reason, but tutorial videos like this around the 10-15 minute mark are GOLD to me lol; doesn’t matter the subject. I appreciate that you quickly show steps to go from never having driven one of the else cars to getting decently quick lap times at full throttle with some focused practice. No word of a lie I absolutely bombed my first race in a 305 last night. Then I Google and found your video, watched it and practiced by myself while going through your video. Then signed up for the following race after spending about an hour just lapping on my own, and actually held my own and gained a few positions! Hopefully you see this comment and recognize your content is greatly appreciated!
Yes please, keep these dirt sprint videos coming, I really enjoy what you're doing! Easy to understand, you're a great teacher! I've been away from Iracing a little over a year, I'll be back on in a week or two. Just waiting on a new cockpit, wheel, and peddle setup! No more desk setup for me :-)
I'm running an open-wheel masterclass right now. Click the link to sign up for the email list, and then you'll get all of the info for the free masterclass. mailchi.mp/3d95bb2f4129/ssr-masterclass-sign-up
This is (imho) the best technique for "feeling out" any new/fresh venue, track condition or set-up. Gr8 video sir, thank you!
I joined iracing for asphalt oval. But the most fun I've had on there is dirt. Im not the best or the fastest by any means, but it's a blast to drive. Each machine it's own beast to tame. Just got my D license and just started playing with the winged sprints. Great info!
Same here, but I wasn't interested in oval at all but now it's all I do on iracing, dirt and asphalt. I gained a whole new respect for oval racing.
@@keithpetersen9196 Same! I joined only wanting to road race. Now I only want to race ovals, both dirt and asphalt.
I know this is 3 years old, but I just started my journey so this is great information
Much Thanks for your content in general, but especially this tutorial. There was NO WAY I could not even make a lap without your introduced method. And when times are not so well....I come right back to it.
Just found your channel, my son and I are taking his racing to the simulator for the first time for the summer with the quarantine shooting the real-life season in the foot. Tomorrow we're going to start implementing your videos. Looking forward to seeing if we can be good students and see results. I would gladly report back as much as you like. He's 12 this year and been racing since he was 6 with the goal from day 1 to race Winged Sprints and he has never wavered. Thanks again for your videos!
Thats awesone, i hope your son finds the success he's looking for.
I just recently got Iracing and gave dirt a try and wow I suck. Sitting here watching these videos makes me wanna try it again and i feel like i have the confidence to try it. I think it would be good to have a video of an actual race and what you do and how you pass.
Thanks Tommy! I have reached that plateau and really enjoyed the video!! All the small things to build off of is so interesting!! Keep the videos coming. Thanks again for your time and commitment to us newbes:)
The intro to this video describes my career to a T. Thank you for doing something like this and I hope you do more covering stuff like driving a slick track. I think it will help a lot of people, especially those like myself, trying to do this solo with little expierence. 👍🏻
Great video and patient approach to how to drive these cars on dirt. Will be working my way through all of your content, thank you!
Awesome video for a complete beginner on dirt. Will be tuned in for more. Gonna practice this lesson today and I'm sure I'll have a blast doing it. :)
Please keep making winged sprint car video. i loved this video and would love to see what you say about trail breaking and other techniques
Im running an open-wheel masterclass right now. Head over to this link and sign up. It's free to join. mailchi.mp/3d95bb2f4129/ssr-masterclass-sign-up
Agree 100%! Learning soooo much here!
Thank you this helps so much. Can’t wait for the SLICK Video. Seems every race is a slick track. That’s we’re I need to improve most. Great videos
Love your channel Thomas, learned more in one night about setups, things I can work on with my driving and just cool tips and tricks than weeks of trying to figure things out on my own. Please keep making dirt videos!
Yes awesome stuff! Dirt super late model help too
Im a little late but I wanted to say that you make some of the best dirt racing “Tutorials” I have ever seen. And I’m not sure if your experienced in asphalt oval racing but If you are I’d love to see a super late model video. Thanks!
Finally got into the 16's at Knoxville, thanks!
thks
Awesome video for a beginner like me! Thanks a ton and keep it up!
Thanks Tommy! I'm wondering where I should be racing and when I should be switching. New to dirt and never really watched dirt racing at all.
Perhaps the most informative, instructional video for dirt I've seen! Thank You! I'm eager to see the progression. What's the next step from this?
Go to facebook and look for the school or sim racing private group. Ive got an entire open wheel dirt masterclass on there. Covering everything from 305s to 410s, dirt midgets and usac sprint cars. And its free. So if you want to learn more, head over there.
i need more of this stuff its good bro
very interested in this channel, subscribed - keep up the work.
Yes, love this! Very helpful.
Awesome cant wait to give it a crack when I get home tonight currently at Lanier I'm running 13.5 and you are down at 12.4 thats some major time i need to find
Well hope it helps u
@@TommyBrandon yeah a little other than the top wing and getting that to 0 which took a bit to get the handle off do you change anything else?
Yes. A lot. I'll be covering it this saturday in my setup workshop live stream on youtube. Starts at 11am eastern
Mmm that’s 1am Sunday morning in aus bugger
It will be recorded and left on the channel.
Might be a dumb question but how do I start the car back up once it stalls. My ignition and starter switches aren’t working for the dirt cars
Love your videos. Are you gonna make a video like this for the Big Block modifieds?
This one covers some important things. ruclips.net/video/oVueP2ZEFE4/видео.html
Great information thank you
love your dirt racing videos!
is there a way to remove the little barred windshield thing on the sprint cars?
I love it and need more of it.
This helped so muck thanks
thanks Tommy, which sprint car were you using? 410?
360. But the principles are the same.
yeah took me back to refining my technique, trail braking is something i would like to master.
A winged sprint car should never be hung way out. You need to develop keeping the car as straight as possible. If you are hanging the ass end way out you are killing your speed and you will also tend to bog the car down so the engine is not making optimum power as the car exits the corner onto the straight away. If there is a cushion you just drive it straight into the cushion and you hardly have to turn the car at all. Don't get my wrong everything that Tommy is teaching you is right on the money. The longer the turn the straighter you can run the car.
Also, you need to adjust the right rear spacer depending on the track. Look at it this way. If you take a standard white styro-foam coffee cup and you roll it across the floor it turns to the small end quickly and automatically. That is stagger. Now take a big vacuum sealed travel cup and roll it across the floor. It turns to the little end much slower because there is less stagger and the two ends are farther away from each other. So on a really tight bullring where the corners are super tight, you want the right rear right next to the chassis so the car will naturally turn quicker. So at like Knoxville where the corners seem to go on forever you want the right rear as far as possible from the chassis. The car will take longer to turn left. You also have to figure out how to have the stagger work with your right rear spacing. You can have the chassis where it seems to be hooked up and changing the stagger will cause the car to begin to fight itself instead of sitting down on the left rear and hauling ass through the corners. Disclaimer---> I only have raced the Dirt Track Sprint Car game probably 20 years ago but it worked then and I just applied what I learned working on a 410 winged sprint car. I actually was the guy to beat. But that's only because of working on a real 410 winged sprint car. I am sure that if you put what I posted in the back of your mind and you follow what Tommy says in his videos and just play around with the spacer on the right rear you will feel it immediately. You can tell where to put it because when you find the sweet spot for each track you will barely have to steer the car on the longer tracks and you won't have the car's ass end hanging way out with your steering almost turned to the lock point and that's just killing your kenetic energy. Yes kenetic........ it applies if you are on the throttle and your killin it! Think about a 410 winged sprint car running wide open, never breathing the throttle, just wide open with absolutely no fear just slamming the car into the turn and just haulin' ass, and they just pulled in, rolled out the car. Changed the car setup based on past notes or just by looking at the track and they push him off and he drops the hammer and is wide open and just throwing it in the corner........Its really pretty amazing how a sprint car works...... chassis and the torsion bars which are basically sway bars. can be very beneficial if you have the right bars in the car. However as the track changes the chassis actually needs tweaked but your in the middle of the race so you have to make an educated guess on how stiff or soft the chassis is going to have to be to run the leader down, before you roll out to run the race. Go watch the WoO sprint cars both online and real cars and watch the cars run through the corner. The guy that has won the Iracing WoO series is worth taking the time to watch him and then try to apply what you watched. This is going to be a pretty long row to hoe but it will benefit your race craft a ton. I apologize for the rambling on and on. I cannot believe how much I posted. This might just be the longest comment I have ever typed. Take it easy and if anyone wants to pick my brain feel free to touch base with me. I raced back in the beginning of online racing and it grew into Iracing. We were basically beta testers that paid to race. We had some incredible races back in the early years. I retired after 13 years and we had a group of guys that had run together for years. There was I think 62 of us in our private group. We would run 1/2 distance with full damage, pit stops, yellow flags. I think we had 4 yellow flags in a 20 league races. We all knew how everyone else drove and we just raced with respect and we would run 2 wide for 12-13 rows at the plate tracks lap after lap. Dale Jr raced league with us on Tuesday night and this kid that befriended Dale Jr. had raced with us for years and it just happened to be TJ Majors. Pretty wild huh?
Awesome. Waiting on my rig.....
Great video, what % did u have the track set, thanks
somewhere around 10 - 20%. when you're trying to learn you don't want to be above that until you get comfortable with that car.
Is this smooth way just a driving style? I drive a lot like this but in onboards I see a lot of jerking and throwing it into a corner and such. Very cool to see how different you can drive here and real life nonetheless.
Yes. In real life they are moving the wheel a whole lot more.
T&I35 thanks 😁
Now i get the bottom is faster on a clean track like that but i raced against Austen Semmelmann2 who is a pro/wc driver and on the slick USA International track he ran the bottom the whole race never coming up once while the other groove got higher and higher, yet he was 2 tenths faster than everyone else in the field at Least. So i want more videos to learn about that to see what i need to be doing because i dont know if i need brake or how to do it right if i do
These cars are so fun
Awesome!
Nice but sir you should show your hands on the wheel with that we could really see your skill your describing versus showing us the car just food for thought but thanks for the video
The lower left corner of the screen shows steering input, so that shows us how smooth he really is being with the car.
How can I get my iracing graphics to look that good? Lol! Looks great. I am running a 2080 Super card but does not look like that!
I just adjusted the graphic settings in iracing
Thanks alot
Are you braking at all
As you learn you drive the car witht the throttle not the steering.
Doo. Doo.