My tips: - Team mates in different time zones can be helpful for the longer events. - Get a good discord going for sharing setups, chatting about the event and of course for chat during the race itself. - If any people in your team are new to endurance racing make sure to talk them through how to be crew chief, how to enter spotter mode, how to get in and out of the car etc. - Have a team mate who paid attention for at least 5 minutes during maths class at school. - Plan your stints and have a spreadsheet or similar detailing when each member needs to be loaded into the sim and any planned changes for each stint, like tyre pressures for example. - Make sure each driver jumps into a private test session before they join to do their stint to ensure equipment is working. So frustrating to hear "shit boys my wheel is not working", "my pedals are disconnected", "I forgot to wipe my own arse." etc. - It's a good time to consider a reboot of the important stuff in your home several hours before the race start - modem, router, PC etc. - DON'T EVER upgrade anything (drivers/firmware etc) in the lead up to the race. If your system has been stable for months or years, the day before the 24 is not the day to flash all the firmware on your sim rig.
@@Daz555Daz That's actually how it is now. Currently for a valid team you need at least two drivers, if one person enters an endurance race I believe you get the SR but get a DQ. But they'll be dropping the minimum drivers for a team to one in the coming months.
for a possible part 2: can you go in-depth in the strategies part, specifically how to do fuel saving laps? Pretty sure lots of us are pushing their asses off yet do times that are just fuel-saving times for pros, and would be keen to know the difference between pushing it and saving fuel, barring skill level. amazing vid btw!
@basicollie Do you know how many pilots can drive a 24H iRacing endurance maximum ? Can we be 5 or 6 ? Thanks a lot for the video mate 🔥 And do you also know for a 6h endurance ?
Great video, have no desire to get into sim racing myself but it's fascinating learning what goes into it from someone as passionate about it as yourself
Remember to just tell them when another car is coming, what lap its on in comparison to your driver, tell them if the car is still on their side, etc, pretty much just tell your driver where the other car is in relation to your driver.
Great video. I would add just one thing to the comments also @Daz555Daz have added. Having a sort of "team leader" even informally will help control any kind of chaos that might happen, and try to have a backup plan. So if Driver A by any reason is not able to drive when it's his turn, then there should be an stand by driver just in case.
What we use to do is the guy taking the next stint does the spotter for the guy actually driving. It is helpfull for the guy driving and it also help the other one to get mentaly in the race and also be aware of the actual situation
Hey Ollie, I was curious on how you modified your VRS setup for the 24hr in the Porsche, I've been trying to make it more stable but I haven't been able to make it stick, is there a chance you could share what little changes you may have made to it?
the vrs setup is already sacrificing a lot of agility for additional stability at blanchimont. if you choose the porsche I think you also have to accept it's probably not the safest around these fast corner where the rear wants to swing out
@@BasicOllie gotcha, I was thinking you might have since it had a (1) at the end of the setup name, Its pretty good as it stands, just a little unstable in pouhon but lift a little more, save some fuel and it works
Hi Ollie, a lot of good points there, good video. I would like to do endurance racing, but wouldn’t want to let my team mates down if a make a mistake. Thanks for the video appreciate it.
Hey man I totally get it but I honestly believe you are thinking about it wrong. Mistakes happen, and as a guy who has been the one to make the mistake in big endurance races multiple times I can confirm that it sucks. When you make a mistake and end up in the wall your heart just sinks so I get where you coming from. But that alone is not a reason to not race. Like I said mistakes happen so the best thing to do is apologize, watch the replay, and learn what you did wrong. In racing if you let fear make decisions for you then you are never going to enjoy it. You are always going have more fun racing and making mistakes than not racing at all. Endurance racing is a unique experience that comes with a kind of camaraderie you will have trouble finding elsewhere so I would definitely advise you to give it a try.
I think you should have touched on things you should do before starting a long endurance race such should you eat and stuff before or after your shift in the car also with what things should eat and snacks and stuff .
My tips:
- Team mates in different time zones can be helpful for the longer events.
- Get a good discord going for sharing setups, chatting about the event and of course for chat during the race itself.
- If any people in your team are new to endurance racing make sure to talk them through how to be crew chief, how to enter spotter mode, how to get in and out of the car etc.
- Have a team mate who paid attention for at least 5 minutes during maths class at school.
- Plan your stints and have a spreadsheet or similar detailing when each member needs to be loaded into the sim and any planned changes for each stint, like tyre pressures for example.
- Make sure each driver jumps into a private test session before they join to do their stint to ensure equipment is working. So frustrating to hear "shit boys my wheel is not working", "my pedals are disconnected", "I forgot to wipe my own arse." etc.
- It's a good time to consider a reboot of the important stuff in your home several hours before the race start - modem, router, PC etc.
- DON'T EVER upgrade anything (drivers/firmware etc) in the lead up to the race. If your system has been stable for months or years, the day before the 24 is not the day to flash all the firmware on your sim rig.
I love your maths class hint.. had a decent chuckle , but it's so true.. getting the fuel wrong or laps left is a bummer.
@Daz555Daz was it point 1,2 or 4 crap hang on there goes my endurance racing didn’t pay attention in maths class🤣 all great points you have made.
As always ollie great video and enjoyable to watch.. keep up your great content mate.
Awesome vid Ollie!
second, nice video I am new to sim racing
Top tips for endurance racing....
1. drive fastest class
2. show no mercy to slower classes
These are the video's you need to do more often Ollie! Very informative. Catch you on one of your next streams asap!
Perfect timing with the announcement that they'll allow single drivers for endurance events in September.
How are they handling it? Letting single drivers enter but not score a result?
@@Daz555Daz That's actually how it is now. Currently for a valid team you need at least two drivers, if one person enters an endurance race I believe you get the SR but get a DQ. But they'll be dropping the minimum drivers for a team to one in the coming months.
Can you do solo endurance without getting DQd? Which ones can you do? Do you get lots of SR for endu races?
for a possible part 2: can you go in-depth in the strategies part, specifically how to do fuel saving laps? Pretty sure lots of us are pushing their asses off yet do times that are just fuel-saving times for pros, and would be keen to know the difference between pushing it and saving fuel, barring skill level.
amazing vid btw!
Minor correction; Step 1. Get yourself a Jetro or Michael. Great vid as always dude!
Only think I would add is how best to find a team, really informative video though 👍
GTP’s need to be limited to a certain SR and iR, because they’re the new GT3’s in the way of causing wrecks.
@basicollie Do you know how many pilots can drive a 24H iRacing endurance maximum ? Can we be 5 or 6 ? Thanks a lot for the video mate 🔥 And do you also know for a 6h endurance ?
maximum is 16 buddy and minimum is 2 for both 24 and 6 hours
Great video, have no desire to get into sim racing myself but it's fascinating learning what goes into it from someone as passionate about it as yourself
2 seconds slower per lap over 100 laps loses you 10 times less time than a 35 minute repair window!
Video on how to spot for people?
Remember to just tell them when another car is coming, what lap its on in comparison to your driver, tell them if the car is still on their side, etc, pretty much just tell your driver where the other car is in relation to your driver.
Great video. I would add just one thing to the comments also @Daz555Daz have added. Having a sort of "team leader" even informally will help control any kind of chaos that might happen, and try to have a backup plan. So if Driver A by any reason is not able to drive when it's his turn, then there should be an stand by driver just in case.
What we use to do is the guy taking the next stint does the spotter for the guy actually driving. It is helpfull for the guy driving and it also help the other one to get mentaly in the race and also be aware of the actual situation
Hey Ollie, I was curious on how you modified your VRS setup for the 24hr in the Porsche, I've been trying to make it more stable but I haven't been able to make it stick, is there a chance you could share what little changes you may have made to it?
the vrs setup is already sacrificing a lot of agility for additional stability at blanchimont. if you choose the porsche I think you also have to accept it's probably not the safest around these fast corner where the rear wants to swing out
the PDS setup for e.g. is much more agile but you really have to lift a bit at blanchimont especially in dirty air
@@17peteclarke its mostly just the first 5 laps out, other than that is pretty stable,
I haven’t made any changes buddy to the setup, I’d rather have a tad more stability over the 24 hours
@@BasicOllie gotcha, I was thinking you might have since it had a (1) at the end of the setup name, Its pretty good as it stands, just a little unstable in pouhon but lift a little more, save some fuel and it works
Well done Ollie! See you at the Spa stream!
Great vid Ollie, thanks!
loved this. so informative
Hi Ollie, a lot of good points there, good video. I would like to do endurance racing, but wouldn’t want to let my team mates down if a make a mistake. Thanks for the video appreciate it.
Hey man I totally get it but I honestly believe you are thinking about it wrong. Mistakes happen, and as a guy who has been the one to make the mistake in big endurance races multiple times I can confirm that it sucks. When you make a mistake and end up in the wall your heart just sinks so I get where you coming from. But that alone is not a reason to not race. Like I said mistakes happen so the best thing to do is apologize, watch the replay, and learn what you did wrong. In racing if you let fear make decisions for you then you are never going to enjoy it. You are always going have more fun racing and making mistakes than not racing at all. Endurance racing is a unique experience that comes with a kind of camaraderie you will have trouble finding elsewhere so I would definitely advise you to give it a try.
@@HH0ps Hi, yea thanks for that appreciate it, they are wise words. I should start just running laps also to gain confidence.
I think you should have touched on things you should do before starting a long endurance race such should you eat and stuff before or after your shift in the car also with what things should eat and snacks and stuff .
No.1: Don't do endurance racing in iracing