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Established site in November 2007
"Just knowing a lot about online racing does not make you the best!"
Very time consuming hobby and there is always some one faster or better
Open Letter about sportsmanship
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''Open Letter about sportsmanship''
7-2014 In the last month I've race more then I have in about a year. Racing AC, PC and Ir, and pretty much as far as car feel goes the same order.
Iracing has gotten worse not better. I can't say it is all software related though.
Auto racing has been on a steady slide in popularity for about a decade now, the seats are empty and the people that make the decisions completely out of touch.
Nascar and Indycar/ Cart had a massive following in the 90's and early 2000's and has dwindled because of ticket escalation. That spills into are hobby. Less race fans means less sim fans.
When I got into sim racing I was a race fan and played race games. Over the years I got into other games and I guess I can be called a gamer. But I was always a sim racer 1st, it was my first real passion because I was a hardcore race fan.
Now our race sim hobby is full of gamers who really are not race fans or true fans of the auto racing sport. It is good to convert them and the industry needs there dollars to continue but.. they have diluted the hobby.
They play the sims like they play their shooters like a GAME. A true race fan plays the sim like it is real or real to them and try's to use what they have learned from years and decades of watching pros on tv.
I raced 5 races last night on IR, I have never seen such a gathering of disrespectful jerks. I am very slow and very rusty and don't like the way some of the cars feel so I hop in races for seat time.
I race in the back and have a front row seat to all the stupidity, rudeness and overall poor sportsmanship. Very disheartening, the amount or should I say instead the lack of good will and give and take between people sharing the hobby.
Is it more a sociological issue or just everyone wants to be better then the next guy so bad or have something to prove while playing there pixels that they can't be good sports?
One race after another people swearing at each other, like the kind of talk you would reserve for some one that made a comment about your wife or mother. Just pathetic gathering of poor sports and dregs of gaming. These all were license A and B drivers so this bs that people sling out there that the racing gets better as you go higher is a load of crap.
I thought maybe it is just by chance, so I ghost raced in some of the races. Same thing race after race not one race going on without a ugly dispute with distasteful juvenile conversation ensuing.
Race after race I watched people who don't even know basic common sense rules of decency on the track. Car spinning out then pulling into on coming traffic to wreck innocent bystanders, people forcing passes in turns where they could easily pass in the straight, bump drafting in corners, idiots racing at full speed under caution, list goes on and on and I guarantee there are races going on right now as I speak with the same jerks with different names disrespecting the hobby.
Iracing should look at its body of racers more so, then its tire model. Place is like a cess pool for the demented, if you let it and lower yourself after a short time the parade of idiots will absorb you as one of there own.
Best way to enjoy any race sim is search out leagues until you find a good group of people to enjoy and work on your craft... maybe a online race team or club even. People looking to get better as a group and at the same time show decentcy and respect on the track through actions.
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Site Maintenance:
Site upgrades and improvements. Remember this site is not to be a fancy site... it is a site to put info and resources at your finger tips.
While I am a sim racer I don't thumb my nose or look down on different types of racing or race games. (that does not mean I won't be cynical / I don't mean to be so tough on things and try not to but it is just my nature.)
Update Notes: July 2015 Been racing pcars a bit, rejoined iracing but cars still feel odd to me. Drivers seem a little better. Plan to start fixing some of the sites dead links soon. Clean it up some.
Update Notes: May 2014 11,450 clicks one year the traffic has doubled.
Added links to download area for mods and tracks for race 07 / grt evo / and rfactor 1.
Added favicon .ico to the site, if you look at top of page you will see a race tire icon.
Change front page, documentary of Trans Am series history. Have met several of people mentioned in the video over the years. Raced online with milt monitors son online last year, met Sam Posey at LRP many times, same with Penske and several others in the video. Found the documentary interesting and thought I would share it.
Update Notes: May 2013 - 5986 clicks since June 2012 -
Major overhaul ... changed fonts to be larger for the older users.
Moved links to the left side for easier use with tablets and iphones.
Re organized links on left side for easy navigation.
Revamped Nascar 2003 page adding downloads, modding and user info, putting shortcuts and server info at your finger tips. Suggestion bring up site on 2nd screen with shortcuts in view instead of searching through
read mes.
Revamped Rfactor page, recently revisiting rfactor on my new pc and it is like playing a new game. Good fun.
added a host of fixes and AI and overall game tweaks. Adding downloads for rfactor.
Watch for additions to these pages during summer months as I have the racing bug again.
Update Notes: April 2013 Updated race journal, tried to fix and check broken links.
worked on updating all links and sitemap.
Update Notes: November 27 2012 Added 2013 tv schedules and race schedules for
nascar and other series. Makes for easy race schedules in one spot.
Update Notes - June 2012
New tv schedule pages added for Nationwide/ Sprint Cup Series/ Camping World Truck Series/ Indycar/American Lemans. Software page,, Added tabs nav bar to top of page.
Rearranged links sidebar.
Flag Catcher added to this site and I am shocked how many views this
unadvertised site it getting per day. I never would have guessed I was getting 100 views or more a day.
Update Notes - March 2012
Added n2003 tweaks page/ added some dloads for n2003
Update Notes 2011 added MyVrace blog/ Console Stuff/ Forums / Downloads Area /Ian Bell Page
Update Notes 2010 - added Owen Casey as a Editor / added manuals for race 07/
grid and some other games.
Update Notes 2009 - Added Rfactor Pages/ Added huge amounts of Links
Update Notes 2008 - added Journal after Iracingworld shut down.
Update Notes -Site Opened Nov 2007 Mainly to put links and Info at my finger tips quickly,
I would always view sites and info then later forget where I found stuff.
July 2005 Closed RookieRoadhouse.us and Raceroadhouse.us
what was once a 200 man league had dwindled to about 30 and
I just did not want to put in the countless hours of time into it.
I gave hundreds and hundreds of hours my time teaching basics of online racing to
hundreds of new hobbyists. Just the time investment no longer seemed to worth it
in to many ways. Most people I run across in race games and forums have no idea on
how much information I've accrued over the years about dev companies games and race theory.
With that said to be a decent racer I still have to put a lot of time and effort into learning tracks
because online racing just does not come naturally to me.
All the links to the left side from the tab ''Welcome to myVRaceLog'', highlighted in RED to
the ''Links'', highlighted in RED are all Internal Links, rest all links to sites i have visited or
felt worthy of keeping and might be of interest to others.
Enjoy, hope you found what you were looking for.
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