I'm ditching the TV dinner table / 5 year old wheel setup as soon as I'm done with finals and building a real rig. I was almost ready to pull the trigger on a Fanatec, but there's a ton of horror stories out there. Haven't read much about the T500RS...looks interesting though.

 

My GT2 wheel was pretty good for a year or so until the FFB got wacky, my CS seems to be way better.

 

I'm on my third Logitech in... 15? years.

First a DFP. Still works great, gave it to my son when I upgraded to a G25. That still works great but jumped on a killer deal (Best Buy mis-price) when the G27 came out, bought 2 stores out of them, sold on eBay, made enough to completely pay for one G27 and kept it for myself. Still works great.

Only reason I'm curious about the T500 is because, well, I'm curious, and I've read some good things about them.

But I have *0* complaints about my Logitech wheels.

 

Oh - and here's the video from Long Beach this week:

 

Awesome thx. I have had my wheel for 2 years, ffb seems alright but there is something wrong with the power plug in. Disconnects itself for a millisecond wheel momentarily locks then it is okay. Did it to me on the last lap at Autoway, was in 4th, drove straight through corner 5 and got black flagged. Luckily had a few seconds on 5th. Really don't need to take half the field out at the start of the race

 

By the way that was not meant for anyone, seem to have incidents every race, don't think I have done it yet, just don't want too

 

Jim, i think there is something funky with the video, anyone else? After 10 mins it hangs.

 

Long beach videos

http://racermag.kinja.com/simon-page...362412/+travis

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Hi All,

New Rennlister here and new P-car owner. Car gets here next week (997.2 C2S) but I am an iRacer. How do I get an invite to league? Is there a schedule or website somewhere?

Thanks

Dan

 

Welcome! Once one of the admins sees this, they'll add you to the league in iRacing...
Look fwd to seeing you on track!

 

Which Daniel Fernandez are you on iracing?

 

Hmmm that explains why the video said it was 38 minutes. I'll have to look into that.

 

Missing this week again as a result of work travel

 

Question when trying to prepare for a real race on a track I have never been on I plan on doing some virtually practice/testing, should I use a car that is a tad faster or a tad slower than your real car?
This year I will be going to Watkins Glen for the PCA race and it will be my first time there, hence I want to get some practice in.
Spent a little time at Road America with a few different cars just to see how close I could get to my real time there, found one car is like ~4 seconds faster (and there is probably more time there) and one car about ~3 seconds slower ( but there might be some more time there also). At least both of these cars have about the same braking points unlike the RUF car I can go in so much deeper and would really screw me up :-)

 

Disclaimer: I'm far from an expert.

But, my experience has been that running the track repeatedly on iRacing in advance of a track day burns it into my memory and while the "feel"of the car on the sim vs. real car on the track is markedly different, being familiar with the track has helped me enormously.

I've used a few different cars each time to get as much variety as possible.