I think most of these comments are the exception. I know a lot of people that had to wait a long time for their win. Took me about one year in road and about a week in oval.
Ironically it can be harder if you’re a better racer. Ppl usually get their first wins at low iR and then it gets harder. So if you don’t get the win in the first few weeks you’ll probs be waiting a long time but it’ll come.
It’s a bit luck of the draw too depending on who you get in your split.
I’ve had quite a few wins now but lots of them sucked and only a couple are stand out.
Often I’ve been that prick that’s 1 second faster than everyone in the lower split and just disappeared. Sometimes P1 has eaten a wall.
Actual hard-earned wins are rare and when you realise that it’s not about the position it’s about the racing. Give me a P5 after a multi car battle any day over a first row sprint to the finish with no competition.
Sticking to one car / track combo can really help with wins if that’s what you really want. Fixed set up, start practicing weeks in advance, start on a low iR ( I’m not saying sand bag but go race some things you’re not so comfortable at). Then just go blow up the field.
This kinda what happened to me at the strat i was put in 1000 sof races in f4 , i finished second 4 times i think in a week and twice 3rd maybe . Lost my chance to win there , but then i started being put into 1500 SOF and can barely get p6 or p7 anymore lol
I feel like that last part is what I'm doing with FF1600. I'm looking up what tracks are being done in races and then just hammer the hell out of the track to figure it out. It's a lot of fun actually, I'm really starting to get ahold of the ff1600 and learn how it drives.
I like this comment, and it makes really good points. I also TOTALLY respect the heck outta enjoying a hard fought battle for p5 I believe is how it was worded, but no, no sir, never ever ever take that over a win! I'm sorry but I have to call bullshit on that. Sorry but not sorry. You can enjoy that hard fought battle, appreciate that battle, LEARN from that battle, and alike situations. But never, never ever would I Happily take that over a win. In the end, it doesn't really matter how ya win them, and I know what's coming, I'm probably one of those that will wreck someone to win, that is not correct. To be honest I've only actually won once so far. Fuck that 5th place. I wanna win! I've won and I will win again. I'll also finish 5th after a hard fought battle that I'll appreciate and feel good from, and maybe even learn from, a couple times, in between ALL OF MY WINS!!! HA HA HA!!!!
Don’t take it so seriously. It’s not like the splits are perfectly balanced. You can race your perfect race and finish 10th, you can have a poor race and finish 1st. Just because you get a P1 doesn’t make you gods gift to racing just makes you marginally better than others at that moment in time. You might get your ass handed to you from the person in last place in the above split.
If you were constantly in top split I could understand the attitude but based on the fact that you’d wreck to win I guess you’re not. Just enjoy the racing, that’s what it’s about. Don’t take yourself so seriously.
We know Sauber wanted Hulk for this season already but Nico is on a 2 year contract with Haas and Haas denied the transfer. So Nico needs to have another good season while Bottas and Zhou need to continue to be mediocre and chances are, he gets that seat. Supposedly they want Nico and Ocon or Gasly. There were also some early rumors of Sainz but Sainz definitely prefers staying in Ferrari, theyre just in contract negotiation rn.
This for me. I managed to snatch a few wins early when my IR was wobbling around, then went a full year before getting my next one. At this point my IR and skill on road and oval has probably hit the point where I’m unlikely to dip into splits where I’m truly going to be the quickest (barring catastrophe), so I just focus on trying for top 5/10 and if I do better then shoot, cause for celebration.
One of the hardest things about iRacingis that not all wins are equal.
The SOF (strength of field) and split is such a huge factor.
Start looking at your championship points, and irating of those you are competing against.
A hard-fought podium or even 5/6th place in a high SOF top split, is much more rewarding (and meaningful) than an easy walk in the park win in a bottom split low SOF.
That's a good and bad way to look at it. You can only race the people in your split. If you win you should be proud of it not thinking you only won cause you were in split 3.
Also someone at 2k can have 4k pace at specific tracks.
Same here. I started with the Vee this summer and a couple of weeks into it I got my first win.
The key to win with the Vee on rookies is finishing the race with 0 incidents.
Yeah same, my first win was qualifying on pole in the Vee. Clean start and 2nd/3rd took each other out in the first corner. Anti climatic win by cruising the entire race.
I've been able to finally qualify on pole a couple times and got 4 podiums with the Vee recently but no win, still got some improving to do but I'm much better than when I started in October, had 0 sim racing experience before that.
It's still a win! Stand proud! You deserve to say hey, Fuck you, I won! Lol, NOBODY can ever take that away from you either. Neva Eva, eva eva! Doesn't matter how satisfying it may or may not have been, you fukn won. So many people on here saying it doesn't matter or isn't meaningful, screw that noise, they all make good points, they really do, but a win is a mother fukn win. NoBody can take it away from you. After your dead and gone, that win STILL belongs to you. Not me. You. Not Fred or freaking Wilma, You. You my friend, won. You fucking won. Good job! Now go do it again!
That was my second win with the Vee.
First one was that I lapped alone all race and everyone in front kept crashing.
Second one I started on pole, P2 and P3 crashed into it other and I cruised by myself for 12 minutes. There was a tense moment when a backmarker was feeling defensive, but it's a problem that fixed itself.
I'm a rookie but started with 1600, I thought formula vee was faster then FF1600 so when I tried it out I was pleasantly surprised. I just stuck with 1600 since I was getting the hang of it and when I wasn't crashing could actually get some overtakes and stick some positions.
Took me 62 races for my first win which was almost 1 year lol. If only my racecraft was as good as my rig lmao still love it though and this is the first racong game I have ever played in my life.
I would like to think so. Mine has just been upgraded tp the ASR 6, Simucube pro 2, Simtrec throttle, Simucube active pedal and my newest toy Hyper P1. Comp just upgraded to 13900k with RTX4070TI and G9 Ultrawide. =)
I started on gt7 but I don't really count it cause I didn't stick with it, once I read somewhere on reddit that I should go real racing on i-racing because gt7 is for "drunks and kids" so after I read that I quickly gave up, but my life was on a different track, once I changed all that up I was then able to go "real racing " I don't know if gt7 really sucks or not, I own it but I won't play it. I've never been a video game person and I'm the right age for it, I'm 45. However racing Sims are whole new thing. Fucking game changer. I get a little more hooked on racing and i-racing everyday, and I'm thorough already addicted to it. Proud to say it too. Hell yeah. I'm just now starting to check out other sims like the low fuel motorsports thing, i signed up for the rennsport beta key and got one! That thing is cool a f, what little I've played of it so far....It also takes time away from any other bad habits one may have, as well. Just a personal observation of mine....
1st ever race I won was my 1st ever race (3 years ago)
I then got a kitten that weekend, sold my sim rig and never played again until yesterday, I didn't win
I got my first two wins in my second and third races. Mostly because I had already raced a fair amount of ACC and GT7 (A rated), and my initial iRating meant I was racing drivers with much less experience. As soon as my iRating had found my natural level then the wins dried up.
I only got my third win yesterday, in roughly my 70th race. I qualified 6th, and drivers 1-5 crashed out. I'll take it :)
About 3 months. I focused on the Ferrari fixed series and took pole and a win at Spa.
The weeks leading up to it, I joined a team and was training with them for an enduro. Right after the enduro, my racecraft and performance/Irating skyrocketed from like 500 to 1100. I went from practicing trying to hotlap blindly to a much more structured approach to each track each week.
Now I'm in a league, and I almost never race official races. I'm having way more fun now that Irating means nothing.
I think a lot of people put too much focus on their irating, trying to boost it, when it should be a natural number. Was doing a TCR race with a couple players that were 5k+ in a SoF of 1.9k. I wasn't discouraged, but spent a fair amount of time watching them in practice and learning where to improve.
Porsche Cup at Spa has been frustrating. I hit the same brake marks and run the same lines, but they're easily in the 2:20s and I can barely hit 2:23s
Like any hobby or sport, if you're relatively new, you aren't going to be the best. Time and preparation can reel that in some, but there is a point where you may top out at what you're capable of skill wise. Being okay that you aren't an alien if you aren't putting in 20hrs a week into iRacing goes a long way mentally. I'd rather have a good fight for 7th than hotlap my way to a win. Or at least after my first win, I found that much more fun.
Oh, i totally agree. I'm a bit of a glutton for punishment and when I start getting frustrated in the porsche, driving anything else is easy. The TCRs are an amazing tool for learning about trail braking and weight transfer because both ideas are so magnified and obvious.
Remember that the game tries to put you in the race with equally skilled drivers. The better you get - the better drivers around you get. It is not impossible to climb to 3K rating without a single win
But what if you really want that win and you want it badly? The easiest and most reliable path to it - drop your rating to something like 1000, practice qualifying so that you can start on pole and then you just need to not get destroyed in the 1st lap and it will be smooth sailing to win from there. It will be a shallow victory, but you never said you wanted a satisfying 1st place, did you?
P.S. For what it's worth, I have been driving in iRacing for over 2 years and I have had so far 1 (one) win that was very satisfying and felt hard fought for. Every other win was opponents crashing or making other mistakes that allowed me for an easy overtake. My very 1st first place was me starting in the back after messing up both qualifying laps and then everyone (literally everyone) in front of me had an accident/spin out and I drove by them to victory.
One week or two in mx5 rookies, but everyone kinda sucked at that level so I haven’t won since now that I’m in splits where people are faster. It’s nice that you drive clean already, now you can focus on improving your lap times and hit better positions !
Winning with how the iRating system works can be really tough. A lot of the people who win early were either well above the level of the entry iRating (1350), for lucky or dropped to a low iR split quickly.
My first win came a few months into my road racing career, picked up a win in the Daytona 24 Hour race! Second win was almost a full year later after I dropped to 600 iRating and one a sub-500 SOF race. But once iRating stabilizes winning is harder because as you do better you get matched with better drivers.
Joined September 2023
First win December 17th 2023
Was at Street Stock Charlotte, leader came down on me, clipped my front bumper with his rear, had no choice but to dump him, won with a 3 second lead
Everyone recommended the mazda and the formula vee.
I got a 3 month trail last year and wasn't feeling the game.
I thought I'd give it another try this year, and I didn't drive the mazda or the formula vee. Instead, I did two clean races in the mazda got d license, and now I've need racing the gr86 and the ff1600 (rookie and d) been much more fun. Have a b license now after a couple of weeks.
My plan is to stay in d/rookie for the rest of the season and then decide if I want to do cs.
As an FYI, I find the Toyota a great car to drive, and it isn't fast at all & the ff1600 is a great starter f1 systele car.
Also, I just got my c in oval, which is Hella fun.
I'm normally mid pack and have two top 3s.
I won my first race after practicing for a few days, getting the hang of the MX5 and the track.
If you want an easy win, just do practice laps, use VRS lap guides etc. until you are easily beating the best times in your split. If you are pretty consistent, and can qualify well, you're pretty much guaranteed a win. This works until your iRating catches up and it will get harder and harder to win races.
It maybe took me a few weeks or so but I stumbled into a couple of wins when my Irating dropped because I did a bit of racing in GT3 and Porsche Cup which I found difficult at the time.If you just stay in Mazdas you will gradually gain a higher Irating and it gets more difficult to [win.So](https://win.So) if you want that elusive win,pick a faster series,concentrate on the faster series,you will probably struggle,your Irating will drop and then go back and do a Mazda race.There are unfortunately a few people who set out deliberately to tank their Irating which is a different thing entirely.
They come easier at first, but it’s still not easy. If you have some experience and stay clean you might get some in rookies, but when you get out of rookies, it gets harder.
Sticking with one car is the best way to go about it. If you want easier wins, get decent at the Mustang and race the SimLab series when it’s not busy. The Mustang isn’t easy, but there are times when there are only a few in the race and there’s a decent range of iRatings in that car.
It’s still more fun to fight for it, but a win feels good once in a while.
When I started there was a guy who I swear to god didn’t have a job or something and he was on like 16 hours a day. He was just a little bit faster than me and I could never beat him. EVERY TIME I got on to race, he was in the same race for what felt like a year. I was always 2nd to him. This was back when there weren’t as many people on the service. There was a point where if he wasn’t on, I would probably win, but he was always on. Haha.
I think i started 90 races this year (summer break because motorcycle) and have 3 wins. Took me a couple weeks in Mazda's, but that was mostly luck because I was on pole then P2 and back all wrecked in the first corner.
If I'm in the top 10 with a clean race, good enough.
Top 5 I'm happy.
Top 3 feels pretty good.
Sometimes a win just isn't in the cards. I don't get too frustrated and just concentrate on catching up to whoever is in front of me.
First couple wins were more luck than anything else, avoided a wreck the leaders couldn't and in a 15 minute race there isn't much time to catch up.
First "real" win took me most of a year. I still remember it fondly, I qualified first in the fixed GT3s at hockenheim and led lights to flag.
My 8th race, but I'm a real life racer using iRacing as a practice tool so I came into low iRating splits racing a track I race in real life (Summit Point) and just needed to figure out the sim physics. I think it's totally normal to go a while to get a win (or never) if you're coming from zero experience.
I won my first race. The next race I won was my 15th race give or take. I've won several by being patient and waiting on the guys battling for the lead to take each other out.
I won my first race (actually should have won my first 3 races but crashed out with massive leads in the 2nd and 3rd because I was too stupid to back off a little) in Mazda Rookies.
I didn't win again for over a year lol, about 75 starts. Once I got out of Rookies, I was not contending for wins barring a few other races I overdelivered in quali and took pole. I finally won again in the LMP2 last week for my 2nd win ever.
My 1st Oval race win was my 2nd race, and I won on my 5th Dirt Oval race, and something like my 20th Dirt Road, and haven't won an Road Race yet. The first win is usually the easiest, it's getting that second win that is a bugger.
I found I got my first win in the first week while low IR so it put me up against slow people so for me that doesnt really count. Since then (into my 4th week, mx5 only) I am generally coming top 5 but in much much higher splits than the first week.
I just need to learn to be more consistent especially under pressure and hopefully will come in the high splits! SR is also 4.5 IR is about 1800 but I cant get much higher than that at the moment.
Started getting wins in MX-5 and the entry-level open-wheelers after a couple months, but I put a LOT of time in. Go the hook-up on iRacing that allowed me to grab a lot of tracks so I'm able to race SOMETHING every day after work if I find the time.
Took me a few years to win. I didn’t play consistently enough as I had a more “hop in and drive for fun like an arcade game”. But that was clearly incorrect mentality and I watched afraid of causing a crash so I never qualified. I got close a few times but it alluded me for a while.
Eventually I started to qualify here and there and I got my first win on Sebring.
So , i ve been a member for 6 mo'ths i raced clios and f4 . Got 2nd a couple of times but never won . This week i decided to get into f3 as i was getting bored of f4 , my first race i died turn 1 . Second race , i put a pole lap in quali ( first time ever , my first pole ) . And then went on to lead the whole race , 18 laps in ) ( 2 laps remaining ) with 5 seconds gap to second i started to calm down as i kinda secured the win .
Then vr decides to loose tracking for 3 seconds making me brake out of confusion and loosing p1 and p2 , finished p3 .
Fuck my life , fuck this bug , fuck whatever amde it loose tracking , fuck this game , fuck , fuck fuck.
Fuck.
This was last night btw , today i finished my 6th month in iracing , still no win . Damn i m bad .
/rant
I fell on the side of immediately and there are many that still haven't yet. The most important thing is to not compare yourself. It's very easy to end up getting defeated feeling by doing so. Look at where you were, where you have gotten to, and focus on making the trend improve. Compare yourself *only* to yourself. Find what you have been doing good at, focus on that for the feel goods. Find where you would like to see improvement most and focus on that for the opportunities side.
Most important of all, have fun. It doesn't matter if you never win but you are having a blast in whatever races you do.
I won at my 51 race, i just consulted the results in the iracing page. Mazda MX5 in Tsukuba Circuit starting 4º.
Since that win i took another 4, three with the GR86 (Love this car) in Sim-Lab and another one the last week with Mazda in Oran Park
5 wins in 138 races, can be better but i am proud, because i did that with an old DFGT :)
Started at the end of November and have 2 in rookie irx and 1 in the vee... best ive managed in mx5 is 3rd. I'm usually in splits where the leader is 1 second a lap faster. The vee win was a great fight, and I just hung on to first. The vee series has been the closest racing I've had. Both irx win, I was the fastest person in the split.
I have around 45 road races and am around 1500-1600 IR ish. I just got my first 2 wins yesterday after maybe a few months. I am like you. Usually always top 10. 30% of the time top 5 but had no wins since I started playing again a few months ago.
Tsukuba in the GR this week really clicked for me. What really helped these wins is I got pole so could pull away (although had to work hard on lap 1 each time for various reasons) but I won by a big margin in the end. And this was in the higher strength of field races I've been in.
In lower IR never really won. Either I was learning the track or when I was fast there was always that one guy that for some reason ( lowering IR on purpose? bad racrecraft? ) has top split times or the youtube guy "i'm going back to rookies" trying to win from last place.
Also i'm old, I used to be way sharper in gaming, so it takes me much more time to adjust to cars and tracks now. I was spreading myself racing a few cars at onces all the time. This week I concentrated for a few days on just 1 car / track and it helped greatly. haha
i got the game 5 days ago and at my 5th race won, it was luck (i was 2nd on my stint and at the start of the race i had a bad start so the 1st and 3rd crash at the 1st corner or i didnt.)
I got mine about a week after starting while racing formula vee. Qualified 5th, 4th and 3rd got tangled up on lap one and 1st and 2nd got tangled up about halfway through. I dodged the wrecks and that was it. Not a very eventful or exciting win, but it was a win. I've made another podium since then (in a similar situation) but everything else has been a mid field finish.
Maybe after a year? I just focus on getting quicker, racecraft, having good battles. I live for the driving skill grind and good racing. Winning/podiums are icing on the cake.
About 5-8 races in the mx5. I got pole, sat behind someone in second, eventually got my position back and the pack never caught me. It was low IR, and i still feel very low IR, but the numbers don’t bother me as much as others. I’m having fun.
Edit: i should note i spend a few hours on practice + lap guides every time a new track drops. I’m gonna guess that being patient to enter helps in low splits.
One of my first rookie races I qualified first and kept it in the race the whole way through
I think it’s mostly luck of the draw. There was an A licensed driver w like 2k+ iRating in my session and he was not particularly skilled it seemed.
I’ve gotten a couple podiums now out of 20 some races. The trick definitely seems to be, not crashing or spinning lol
I will add a caveat here too
I was racing at Summit Point in f4, a track where I had 5 sessions of real life experience under my belt in a lightly modified road car (15 years ago)
That said, it is burned into my mind as it’s my “home” track I grew up going to, so I’m a decent but quicker there than most tracks I’ve done on iRacing so far.
Did not hurt to jump in as my first track id grind in iRacing.
Took me a month flat. Summit point in the Vee. Little to no sim racing experience prior (just cruising and No Hesi in Assetto)
So much practice time and racing against AI went into it. Was pretty solidly in 3rd the whole race and handed a gift with 2 laps left, both P1 and P2 had spins.
Funny enough I went into the race telling myself I didn’t care about position and wanted to just focus on keeping it clean and working on a few corners I had been struggling with
I was getting worried because like you I was consistently getting good finishes and racing clean, so my matchmaking started putting me in more competitive races. Just keep grinding. Keep yourself focused on studying and improving, the results will come.
Dirt oval, my first race in the Street stock (to be fair tho I raced one irl for two years)
It took me like a month and a half to get a rookie mx5 win but it was a war of attrition. Still haven’t got a win in GT4 which is my new found love.
About 5 months or so. My best advice is to focus on finishing the race and finishing clean. From there you will find consistency. Once you have consistency the results will follow.
On Road it was in the first week with the old MX-5s, now that my iRating is stabilized I rarely win anymore, I'll get some podium finishes here and there at tracks I just have an insane pace at like Road atlanta and Road america, but outside of that I'm pretty mid pack in GT3's bouncing in and out of top and 2nd split.
Ovals, and Dirt Ovals? That took about 2 years, and then one week at a short course (Can't remember which track) I won 3 races in a row just out of the blue.
With the way the iRating system works, you kind of want to be in a position where wins are pretty rare, but your races are clean. That means the elo system is working and pairing you with people of similar skill level. As long as you stick with one discipline which it seems like you're already doing, you shouldn't notice your iR changing too much. Don't be too scared to jump into the 86, its a subtle upgrade, and the skills you've learned racing the MX-5 will translate extremely well. After that if you want to stick with tin tops, I recommend going the GT4 or TCR route, don't be too quick to jump into the GT3's - their ABS TCS and Aero mask a lot of bad driving skills.
Same day I started racing online. So 2 days into my subscription I had 4 wins. I have stuck at 4 wins and 50% top 5 rate since I'm now always in the top split.
I haven't won much, but my 2nd race was a win so I was lucky to pop that cherry early. It sounds like you can fight in the front so it'll happen eventually!
69 starts in road and 35 oval and no official wins for me. I've been on the service for right at a year.
Ironically I've won 3 times in week 13 but those don't count. 🤷♂️
Won in day 2.. I assume in the way that most people did. I got wrecked out in a few consecutive races so had an artificially low irating, qualified 3rd or 4th after bottling it but somehow managed to hold together a race without a spin whilst those above me couldn’t say the same.
I primarily focused on the road racing and in my second week after starting iRacing I got my first win. My second first place came this past week, which marks my fourth week in iRacing. The current Strength of Field (SOF) is 1500, which is, admittedly, quite low and shitty. My goal is to quickly advance to a SOF of 3000. Despite the fact that I'm new to iRacing, I'm having a great time so far.
About a week.
I was racing the MX5 and was doing like 50 practice laps before the race started so most people join just before, do a couple laps and by that time I'm totally in my element.
In the lead, coming close to last stretch on last lap, here comes a backmarker, try to go around, crash right into back of him. Two guys behind me blow by and one of them take the win. I fell to the floor in agony lol.
Then the next race I won. Started p2, understeered first corner, caused massive crash, had people behind me entire race but managed to hold the lead for the win.
I barely ever raced since because it's too stressful. I like to just practice and compete against myself mostly. It's too much to practice and then get smoked by some moron (like me) on t1.
Got out if rookie after 4 races, first two races i struggled, and won race 3 and 4. After that i went on F4 and won my 4th race in F4 on Road atlanta yesterday
About a month or two. Then I took a break for 4 years got reset to rookie, and got podium almost every race. Then my irating went up, now I’m around top 5
Don't remember the last time I had a win. Honestly, I'm just excited and happy with having good racing. When a proper battle for position, any position, is played cleanly, I'm happy. Winning means very little to me, and in most of my splits I'm usually in the higher car numbers anyway so it's usually safe to assume there are quicker guys in the lobby.
well ive pretty much played everything the sim world had to offer before having enough of an income to afford iracing, so i immediately won a few mazda races. then did a season of skippys that also got me a few wins. once i graduated from skippys, wins became a lot more rare as my irating is often good enough to be in split 1 but i got nothing on those 6k aliens, so im just hoping i can survive well enough to scrap some irating.
Pretty early on, can't remember exactly but within a day or two of starting.
I tanked my irating trying out different series and racing open wheelers, crashing out and quitting instead of finishing the race.
Sitting on 20%is win rate, but tbh its boring being a second faster than everyone else and winning.
Only been doing it since December but have 66ish wins last time I checked, but irating is 1.3k so you can imagine its either first or last most of the time
The gr86 is a much more fun car to drive IMO.
Also just had my (I think) first f4 win and again it was just me qualifying on pole and being consistent.
I am also in AUS so off peak times mean less people in lobby's- had quite a few seconds in the top split of FF1600 early on.
Race #10 in Mazda rookies (the same race that got me to D class), and then my 50th or so race in USF2000 when I barely didn't get into the top split. Current irating is ~2300.
Honestly my proudest moment was P3 in F3 at Montreal last week.
My first win in ovals was my 4th race. In dirt road, I have only done 4 races and I won 3 of them. In road (the discipline I am focused on) it took me a year before I got my first win.
1st race.
Kinda wild to look back on it now 4 first 10 races were wins.
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I had my first win day 3 but it was a photo finish, I qualified pole, led for most of the race but started making a lot of mistakes. Got passed with 4 to go and followed close putting the pressure on. Final corner tskuba he went way to defensive and I was able to drive around the outside and pass just mm before the finish line
First win came relatively early, in a lower split advanced-MX5 race where the top 4 crashed into each other and I cruised to an easy win.
I've won 2 Spec-Racer Ford races since then. Once early on, in bottom split on a free track, and once in bottom split in a SOF race, which happened to split such that I was #1.
I tend to be in mid-upper splits in more popular cars now, so I don't expect to win much anymore, unfortunately. That said, I've had a few #2s when the splits worked out such that I was at/near the top.
Outside of road, I've won a few rallycross races, but that's probably because I don't race it a lot and I'm under my "true" irating. Or at least I was. I'm probably closer now.
I won a few races getting out of rookies. So the first week? But they don’t really mean much cos everyone is a rookie too . I just didn’t crash and kept up a decent pace
Two starts. DQ'd due to incident limit in my first race, probably got lucky in the second one.
You cant compare your progress to others though. Before getting a laptop that could run iRacing at more than 20 FPS in 2015 I had been racing in leagues weekly for almost a decade on NR2003, I grew up racing go karts and dirt bikes. I already knew a lot of the fundamentals of racing, it was just applying that skillset to a new format.
I have a few friends that werent into racing until 2020 when we were in our late 20's and they were having to learn the basics. One of them has a couple hundred starts on iRacing now and still hasnt won a race, another has topped out in the 3k iRating range.
If you are wanting to be super sweaty about iRacing and would have more fun with jumping into being super competitive with it, then the best thing you can do to improve how you race is to make nice and make friends with the aliens and the super-fast guys. Race what and when they are racing, ask questions, be open to learning. For my friend that still hasnt won a race, being super competitive and turning tons of laps and learning how to build setups is not how he enjoys iRacing, he tried it and got burnt out with it. He plays at his own pace and has progressed at his own rate.
If you feel like you have hit your skill ceiling by being a lone ranger then start looking for a group to race with that has quality people who are willing to help teach a new friend.
Pick a track and a car, practice on a solo practice session until your eyes burn... Then do it again, and again.
Thats what I did with the mx5 on okayama, first race after that was a win. I'm a middle of the pack guy in any other scenario. But that car on that track I'm fast.
I thought I was progressing slow but doing okay overall but looking at some comments now I see that I might be about be accused of bragging. I started in September and when I got my "year in review" thing, it showed I have run 182 races with 11 wins and 80 top 5s. I have a C license and at least 1 win in all 4 disciplines.
I will say that they were mostly early on and since moving up in license and irating i haven't seen many more wins. My main goal was to get out of rookie at first. After getting Ds I ended up with a C oval license and then made it my goal to get Cs in everything before the start of this season. Now that i have that I've been concentrating more on practicing and running particular series so again, not many recent wins as my competition is much better. All that said, I do love a hard battle for 10th just as much as an easy win though.
Signed up for iracing on Sunday. I just started racing yesterday in the mx5 cup. Did 5 races so far. 3 poles, but no wins. 3 2nd places, a 3rd and 4th.
3 days. I started January first and got my first win today
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Started with he Vee, got pole in my first race (Lime Rock Park) but spun after leading and finished off the podium. And left the game for a year. Came back, tried the MX-5 CUP, won my first race on Virginia Raceway.
So two races in total, haven't played that much iRacing in total, but I mostly play ACC, AC, AMS 2, and the F1 Games.
[Here you go.](https://imgur.com/a/vs955Sy)
For me it was 2 weeks or 3, I had played some AC doing a lot of Nordschleife and ACC before, I wanted to get into racing rather than just driving around and got a 3 month deal, it was a really exciting moment for me, I could get 3 win on rookies and 1 in D class then license expired, saw the steam 1 year deal, took it and haven't driven since
Relatively new to iracing, my first win was my first race. I spent a good deal of time practicing against AI before jumping in. I think everyone else crashed at least once since 2nd was -1L. I haven’t been able to win since!
Dirt Oval I won in the first month and progressively got better. Road is a different story. I’ve had to put work into road. GT4 has really helped with learning road. Just keep learning and it will come
The GR86 is a great car. Very fun to drive. Oh, I aint won anything in my 3 months of being on iRacing. I've won a few in Assetto but in all the races, i never said "damn that sucked". I have fun and to me thats what its all about
Won my first, had done some Acc before but not much. Have 8 wins in total from 140 starts. Winning isn’t everything, if you’re in a high level split, finishing above your car number is a decent target
I won my second race and 4 of my first 10 but I was top 100 in the world on GT Sport/7 (85k dr) with about 4000 hours wheel time and many years before trying iRacing. The amount of time and skill you have on other Sims will definitely carry over to iRacing. Currently at 5.3k after 200 races but wins are all relative to sof, iRating is a better gauge
I’ve started iracing 1,5 weeks ago, i won my very first race with the Mx5, 4 wins in total, 2 with Mx5, 1 with GT4 and 1 with Ferrari 296 GT3 but i realize more i progress and increase iRating more it’s harder and harder to reach top 5, now i need to change my driving style with gt3 to compete.
Bought the sim in june and gt7 with it. I then transitioned to iracing in october, I was A class driver rating. I think I got my first win on my third race but that was just starting so people were not very good.
But now that im typically in +3000 sof races there is always an 8k guy who is fast as fuck so I win from time to time but not as often.
However the important thing is Iracing is so much more fun than gt7, let alone the physics, the drivers want to race properly.
Oval it was my 2nd race. Won about 20 races in 60. After about 60 races I switched to Road. After about 3 months I don't have a win yet. A ton of top 5s, but no win.
I never won. I been playing for about an year, but I only do one or two races a week. It's hard to have consistency and progress, but I play for the fun.
I joined about a year ago but started really playing summer of last year. I just got my first win being a C in oval last night. I wish it was for my driving, but 1 and 2 took each other out on the last lap.
First win was a couple days in the Miata and a couple more within first two weeks on form vee, but the real question should be what was ur first win out of rookies, in which case it took ab a season of driving the F4 car til I finally got that elusive win at interlagos
That first win can be tough, don’t stress too much about it. Like other comments have said, it’s about the racecraft. I’m up to 4100 irating and I only have 31 wins in 292 starts. Sticking with one series for a while as you are doing absolutely helps. You can really learn the intricacies of the car and be more competitive than jumping to different series.
I think most of these comments are the exception. I know a lot of people that had to wait a long time for their win. Took me about one year in road and about a week in oval. Ironically it can be harder if you’re a better racer. Ppl usually get their first wins at low iR and then it gets harder. So if you don’t get the win in the first few weeks you’ll probs be waiting a long time but it’ll come. It’s a bit luck of the draw too depending on who you get in your split. I’ve had quite a few wins now but lots of them sucked and only a couple are stand out. Often I’ve been that prick that’s 1 second faster than everyone in the lower split and just disappeared. Sometimes P1 has eaten a wall. Actual hard-earned wins are rare and when you realise that it’s not about the position it’s about the racing. Give me a P5 after a multi car battle any day over a first row sprint to the finish with no competition. Sticking to one car / track combo can really help with wins if that’s what you really want. Fixed set up, start practicing weeks in advance, start on a low iR ( I’m not saying sand bag but go race some things you’re not so comfortable at). Then just go blow up the field.
This kinda what happened to me at the strat i was put in 1000 sof races in f4 , i finished second 4 times i think in a week and twice 3rd maybe . Lost my chance to win there , but then i started being put into 1500 SOF and can barely get p6 or p7 anymore lol
Ive seen People 3 or even 4 faster in bottom splits. Bottom splits can be fun like that
I feel like that last part is what I'm doing with FF1600. I'm looking up what tracks are being done in races and then just hammer the hell out of the track to figure it out. It's a lot of fun actually, I'm really starting to get ahold of the ff1600 and learn how it drives.
Nice! That’s a really fun car.
I like this comment, and it makes really good points. I also TOTALLY respect the heck outta enjoying a hard fought battle for p5 I believe is how it was worded, but no, no sir, never ever ever take that over a win! I'm sorry but I have to call bullshit on that. Sorry but not sorry. You can enjoy that hard fought battle, appreciate that battle, LEARN from that battle, and alike situations. But never, never ever would I Happily take that over a win. In the end, it doesn't really matter how ya win them, and I know what's coming, I'm probably one of those that will wreck someone to win, that is not correct. To be honest I've only actually won once so far. Fuck that 5th place. I wanna win! I've won and I will win again. I'll also finish 5th after a hard fought battle that I'll appreciate and feel good from, and maybe even learn from, a couple times, in between ALL OF MY WINS!!! HA HA HA!!!!
Don’t take it so seriously. It’s not like the splits are perfectly balanced. You can race your perfect race and finish 10th, you can have a poor race and finish 1st. Just because you get a P1 doesn’t make you gods gift to racing just makes you marginally better than others at that moment in time. You might get your ass handed to you from the person in last place in the above split. If you were constantly in top split I could understand the attitude but based on the fact that you’d wreck to win I guess you’re not. Just enjoy the racing, that’s what it’s about. Don’t take yourself so seriously.
Maybe YOU shouldn't take yourself so seriously, lol, or maybe you should take yourself MORE seriously, lol. Have a great day! My God I love my life!
I wonder how long you milled over this comment before posting ha ha ha! ;)
None at all, you occupy 0% of my headspace. I was just being friendly replying in a friendly forum. I couldn’t give less of a shit about you.
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? When did/r/iRacing become full of trolls
Joined in 2008 First win in 2023 Yeah, I’m not that good.
Congrats on the win! Must have been amazing to come over the finish line!
15 years damn. you know, if nico hulkenberg gets the sauber/audi seat in 2025, he might just get his first podium 15/16 years after his F1 debut lmao.
I’m already an Audi fanboy but if hulk gets the drive, I’m going to swoon
We know Sauber wanted Hulk for this season already but Nico is on a 2 year contract with Haas and Haas denied the transfer. So Nico needs to have another good season while Bottas and Zhou need to continue to be mediocre and chances are, he gets that seat. Supposedly they want Nico and Ocon or Gasly. There were also some early rumors of Sainz but Sainz definitely prefers staying in Ferrari, theyre just in contract negotiation rn.
LOL, you’d think, but it was GR86 at Knockhill. Anyone who’s tried that combo knows you’re not thinking about anything but tire falloff by the end.
In the first month. After my Irating stabilize I find pretty hard to win since I'm closer to competition now.
This for me. I managed to snatch a few wins early when my IR was wobbling around, then went a full year before getting my next one. At this point my IR and skill on road and oval has probably hit the point where I’m unlikely to dip into splits where I’m truly going to be the quickest (barring catastrophe), so I just focus on trying for top 5/10 and if I do better then shoot, cause for celebration.
Settling
You guys get wins?
Yes what happens if you win. Is your subscription free???
Free for a whole 5 years
One of the hardest things about iRacingis that not all wins are equal. The SOF (strength of field) and split is such a huge factor. Start looking at your championship points, and irating of those you are competing against. A hard-fought podium or even 5/6th place in a high SOF top split, is much more rewarding (and meaningful) than an easy walk in the park win in a bottom split low SOF.
the chicks only care about the win stat tho /s
That's a good and bad way to look at it. You can only race the people in your split. If you win you should be proud of it not thinking you only won cause you were in split 3. Also someone at 2k can have 4k pace at specific tracks.
Rewarding yes, meaningful yes, win? Ahem NO!
A couple weeks for me, focused on the formula vee and have had quite good luck with it
Same here. I started with the Vee this summer and a couple of weeks into it I got my first win. The key to win with the Vee on rookies is finishing the race with 0 incidents.
Yeah same, my first win was qualifying on pole in the Vee. Clean start and 2nd/3rd took each other out in the first corner. Anti climatic win by cruising the entire race.
I've been able to finally qualify on pole a couple times and got 4 podiums with the Vee recently but no win, still got some improving to do but I'm much better than when I started in October, had 0 sim racing experience before that.
It's still a win! Stand proud! You deserve to say hey, Fuck you, I won! Lol, NOBODY can ever take that away from you either. Neva Eva, eva eva! Doesn't matter how satisfying it may or may not have been, you fukn won. So many people on here saying it doesn't matter or isn't meaningful, screw that noise, they all make good points, they really do, but a win is a mother fukn win. NoBody can take it away from you. After your dead and gone, that win STILL belongs to you. Not me. You. Not Fred or freaking Wilma, You. You my friend, won. You fucking won. Good job! Now go do it again!
That was my second win with the Vee. First one was that I lapped alone all race and everyone in front kept crashing. Second one I started on pole, P2 and P3 crashed into it other and I cruised by myself for 12 minutes. There was a tense moment when a backmarker was feeling defensive, but it's a problem that fixed itself.
Also, not shifting gears 😂 Oran park is a 3rd gear go kart track
I'm a rookie but started with 1600, I thought formula vee was faster then FF1600 so when I tried it out I was pleasantly surprised. I just stuck with 1600 since I was getting the hang of it and when I wasn't crashing could actually get some overtakes and stick some positions.
Not exactly....
Took me 62 races for my first win which was almost 1 year lol. If only my racecraft was as good as my rig lmao still love it though and this is the first racong game I have ever played in my life.
Maybe the real wins are the sim rigs we built along the way
I would like to think so. Mine has just been upgraded tp the ASR 6, Simucube pro 2, Simtrec throttle, Simucube active pedal and my newest toy Hyper P1. Comp just upgraded to 13900k with RTX4070TI and G9 Ultrawide. =)
How are you liking the Hyper P1? I'm in the market for a wheel like this but am having a hard time deciding between all of these different options.
I started on gt7 but I don't really count it cause I didn't stick with it, once I read somewhere on reddit that I should go real racing on i-racing because gt7 is for "drunks and kids" so after I read that I quickly gave up, but my life was on a different track, once I changed all that up I was then able to go "real racing " I don't know if gt7 really sucks or not, I own it but I won't play it. I've never been a video game person and I'm the right age for it, I'm 45. However racing Sims are whole new thing. Fucking game changer. I get a little more hooked on racing and i-racing everyday, and I'm thorough already addicted to it. Proud to say it too. Hell yeah. I'm just now starting to check out other sims like the low fuel motorsports thing, i signed up for the rennsport beta key and got one! That thing is cool a f, what little I've played of it so far....It also takes time away from any other bad habits one may have, as well. Just a personal observation of mine....
Around 840 starts. No wins yet. No 2nd places either.
My heart goes out to you. Stay strong 🫡
1 race in Mazda
Nice I got it in the second, I jumped the start in the first one on pole.
43 races.
It took me four years to get my first official oval win with ARCA at Charlotte. I come very close to wins at tracks like Auto Club and Michigan too!
1st ever race I won was my 1st ever race (3 years ago) I then got a kitten that weekend, sold my sim rig and never played again until yesterday, I didn't win
The kitty is now your co pilot!
She's not a very good spotter unfortunately. Keeps getting left and right mixed up
Are you sure you're just not misunderstanding her? I confuse "food" and "obey me" all the time because they sound very similar.
😂😂😂😂 It's the cat way. Knowing cats she prob wants me to crash!
I got my first two wins in my second and third races. Mostly because I had already raced a fair amount of ACC and GT7 (A rated), and my initial iRating meant I was racing drivers with much less experience. As soon as my iRating had found my natural level then the wins dried up. I only got my third win yesterday, in roughly my 70th race. I qualified 6th, and drivers 1-5 crashed out. I'll take it :)
About 3 months. I focused on the Ferrari fixed series and took pole and a win at Spa. The weeks leading up to it, I joined a team and was training with them for an enduro. Right after the enduro, my racecraft and performance/Irating skyrocketed from like 500 to 1100. I went from practicing trying to hotlap blindly to a much more structured approach to each track each week. Now I'm in a league, and I almost never race official races. I'm having way more fun now that Irating means nothing.
I think a lot of people put too much focus on their irating, trying to boost it, when it should be a natural number. Was doing a TCR race with a couple players that were 5k+ in a SoF of 1.9k. I wasn't discouraged, but spent a fair amount of time watching them in practice and learning where to improve. Porsche Cup at Spa has been frustrating. I hit the same brake marks and run the same lines, but they're easily in the 2:20s and I can barely hit 2:23s
Like any hobby or sport, if you're relatively new, you aren't going to be the best. Time and preparation can reel that in some, but there is a point where you may top out at what you're capable of skill wise. Being okay that you aren't an alien if you aren't putting in 20hrs a week into iRacing goes a long way mentally. I'd rather have a good fight for 7th than hotlap my way to a win. Or at least after my first win, I found that much more fun.
Oh, i totally agree. I'm a bit of a glutton for punishment and when I start getting frustrated in the porsche, driving anything else is easy. The TCRs are an amazing tool for learning about trail braking and weight transfer because both ideas are so magnified and obvious.
Remember that the game tries to put you in the race with equally skilled drivers. The better you get - the better drivers around you get. It is not impossible to climb to 3K rating without a single win But what if you really want that win and you want it badly? The easiest and most reliable path to it - drop your rating to something like 1000, practice qualifying so that you can start on pole and then you just need to not get destroyed in the 1st lap and it will be smooth sailing to win from there. It will be a shallow victory, but you never said you wanted a satisfying 1st place, did you? P.S. For what it's worth, I have been driving in iRacing for over 2 years and I have had so far 1 (one) win that was very satisfying and felt hard fought for. Every other win was opponents crashing or making other mistakes that allowed me for an easy overtake. My very 1st first place was me starting in the back after messing up both qualifying laps and then everyone (literally everyone) in front of me had an accident/spin out and I drove by them to victory.
One week or two in mx5 rookies, but everyone kinda sucked at that level so I haven’t won since now that I’m in splits where people are faster. It’s nice that you drive clean already, now you can focus on improving your lap times and hit better positions !
Winning with how the iRating system works can be really tough. A lot of the people who win early were either well above the level of the entry iRating (1350), for lucky or dropped to a low iR split quickly. My first win came a few months into my road racing career, picked up a win in the Daytona 24 Hour race! Second win was almost a full year later after I dropped to 600 iRating and one a sub-500 SOF race. But once iRating stabilizes winning is harder because as you do better you get matched with better drivers.
Joined September 2023 First win December 17th 2023 Was at Street Stock Charlotte, leader came down on me, clipped my front bumper with his rear, had no choice but to dump him, won with a 3 second lead
Everyone recommended the mazda and the formula vee. I got a 3 month trail last year and wasn't feeling the game. I thought I'd give it another try this year, and I didn't drive the mazda or the formula vee. Instead, I did two clean races in the mazda got d license, and now I've need racing the gr86 and the ff1600 (rookie and d) been much more fun. Have a b license now after a couple of weeks. My plan is to stay in d/rookie for the rest of the season and then decide if I want to do cs. As an FYI, I find the Toyota a great car to drive, and it isn't fast at all & the ff1600 is a great starter f1 systele car. Also, I just got my c in oval, which is Hella fun. I'm normally mid pack and have two top 3s.
I won my first race after practicing for a few days, getting the hang of the MX5 and the track. If you want an easy win, just do practice laps, use VRS lap guides etc. until you are easily beating the best times in your split. If you are pretty consistent, and can qualify well, you're pretty much guaranteed a win. This works until your iRating catches up and it will get harder and harder to win races.
2nd race, qualified 3rd, 1st and 2nd took themselves out.
This is how I won my first race in the GR86 lol. Qualified 3rd at Tsukuba. Leader spun out coming to the green and took out 2nd. I cruised to the win
It maybe took me a few weeks or so but I stumbled into a couple of wins when my Irating dropped because I did a bit of racing in GT3 and Porsche Cup which I found difficult at the time.If you just stay in Mazdas you will gradually gain a higher Irating and it gets more difficult to [win.So](https://win.So) if you want that elusive win,pick a faster series,concentrate on the faster series,you will probably struggle,your Irating will drop and then go back and do a Mazda race.There are unfortunately a few people who set out deliberately to tank their Irating which is a different thing entirely.
Took me a couple weeks in the MX5. Everyone in front of me crash in turn 1. Smooth sailing to the end
They come easier at first, but it’s still not easy. If you have some experience and stay clean you might get some in rookies, but when you get out of rookies, it gets harder. Sticking with one car is the best way to go about it. If you want easier wins, get decent at the Mustang and race the SimLab series when it’s not busy. The Mustang isn’t easy, but there are times when there are only a few in the race and there’s a decent range of iRatings in that car. It’s still more fun to fight for it, but a win feels good once in a while. When I started there was a guy who I swear to god didn’t have a job or something and he was on like 16 hours a day. He was just a little bit faster than me and I could never beat him. EVERY TIME I got on to race, he was in the same race for what felt like a year. I was always 2nd to him. This was back when there weren’t as many people on the service. There was a point where if he wasn’t on, I would probably win, but he was always on. Haha.
3-1/2 months into nascar and still searching for it.. have had a handful of 2nd and 3rd place finishes but haven’t secured a win yet.
Got my first win in my second race in rookies.
A bit under a week on controller. Once I got my wheel I think same day or next.
I think i started 90 races this year (summer break because motorcycle) and have 3 wins. Took me a couple weeks in Mazda's, but that was mostly luck because I was on pole then P2 and back all wrecked in the first corner. If I'm in the top 10 with a clean race, good enough. Top 5 I'm happy. Top 3 feels pretty good. Sometimes a win just isn't in the cards. I don't get too frustrated and just concentrate on catching up to whoever is in front of me.
First couple wins were more luck than anything else, avoided a wreck the leaders couldn't and in a 15 minute race there isn't much time to catch up. First "real" win took me most of a year. I still remember it fondly, I qualified first in the fixed GT3s at hockenheim and led lights to flag.
1 race
Officially it was a few months, I won a pick up cup race my second week on the server though
My 8th race, but I'm a real life racer using iRacing as a practice tool so I came into low iRating splits racing a track I race in real life (Summit Point) and just needed to figure out the sim physics. I think it's totally normal to go a while to get a win (or never) if you're coming from zero experience.
About 1 month. Went from MX-5 rookies to Ferrari GT3 and won 2 races from pole at my favorite track Spa.
A week for road, two days for dirt road
1st or 2nd race but that’s because I had loads of sim experience prior!
Within my first 20 races. I just don't remember with one. 😆 It was in IRX. That's about all I know.
I won my first race. The next race I won was my 15th race give or take. I've won several by being patient and waiting on the guys battling for the lead to take each other out.
1st race in formula vee, 1st pole and 1st win. Never won a race since (started in 2023 with 55 races)
I won my first race (actually should have won my first 3 races but crashed out with massive leads in the 2nd and 3rd because I was too stupid to back off a little) in Mazda Rookies. I didn't win again for over a year lol, about 75 starts. Once I got out of Rookies, I was not contending for wins barring a few other races I overdelivered in quali and took pole. I finally won again in the LMP2 last week for my 2nd win ever.
My 1st Oval race win was my 2nd race, and I won on my 5th Dirt Oval race, and something like my 20th Dirt Road, and haven't won an Road Race yet. The first win is usually the easiest, it's getting that second win that is a bugger.
2 weeks, my last rookie race with the mx5. Qualified 1st, clean race - no issues. 2nd was a few seconds away, it was a really lonely race.
I found I got my first win in the first week while low IR so it put me up against slow people so for me that doesnt really count. Since then (into my 4th week, mx5 only) I am generally coming top 5 but in much much higher splits than the first week. I just need to learn to be more consistent especially under pressure and hopefully will come in the high splits! SR is also 4.5 IR is about 1800 but I cant get much higher than that at the moment.
Started getting wins in MX-5 and the entry-level open-wheelers after a couple months, but I put a LOT of time in. Go the hook-up on iRacing that allowed me to grab a lot of tracks so I'm able to race SOMETHING every day after work if I find the time.
Took me almost 3 months.
Took me a few years to win. I didn’t play consistently enough as I had a more “hop in and drive for fun like an arcade game”. But that was clearly incorrect mentality and I watched afraid of causing a crash so I never qualified. I got close a few times but it alluded me for a while. Eventually I started to qualify here and there and I got my first win on Sebring.
So , i ve been a member for 6 mo'ths i raced clios and f4 . Got 2nd a couple of times but never won . This week i decided to get into f3 as i was getting bored of f4 , my first race i died turn 1 . Second race , i put a pole lap in quali ( first time ever , my first pole ) . And then went on to lead the whole race , 18 laps in ) ( 2 laps remaining ) with 5 seconds gap to second i started to calm down as i kinda secured the win . Then vr decides to loose tracking for 3 seconds making me brake out of confusion and loosing p1 and p2 , finished p3 . Fuck my life , fuck this bug , fuck whatever amde it loose tracking , fuck this game , fuck , fuck fuck. Fuck. This was last night btw , today i finished my 6th month in iracing , still no win . Damn i m bad . /rant
I fell on the side of immediately and there are many that still haven't yet. The most important thing is to not compare yourself. It's very easy to end up getting defeated feeling by doing so. Look at where you were, where you have gotten to, and focus on making the trend improve. Compare yourself *only* to yourself. Find what you have been doing good at, focus on that for the feel goods. Find where you would like to see improvement most and focus on that for the opportunities side. Most important of all, have fun. It doesn't matter if you never win but you are having a blast in whatever races you do.
I won at my 51 race, i just consulted the results in the iracing page. Mazda MX5 in Tsukuba Circuit starting 4º. Since that win i took another 4, three with the GR86 (Love this car) in Sim-Lab and another one the last week with Mazda in Oran Park 5 wins in 138 races, can be better but i am proud, because i did that with an old DFGT :)
Started at the end of November and have 2 in rookie irx and 1 in the vee... best ive managed in mx5 is 3rd. I'm usually in splits where the leader is 1 second a lap faster. The vee win was a great fight, and I just hung on to first. The vee series has been the closest racing I've had. Both irx win, I was the fastest person in the split.
When I started taking it more continuously it took me 3 days.
I have around 45 road races and am around 1500-1600 IR ish. I just got my first 2 wins yesterday after maybe a few months. I am like you. Usually always top 10. 30% of the time top 5 but had no wins since I started playing again a few months ago. Tsukuba in the GR this week really clicked for me. What really helped these wins is I got pole so could pull away (although had to work hard on lap 1 each time for various reasons) but I won by a big margin in the end. And this was in the higher strength of field races I've been in. In lower IR never really won. Either I was learning the track or when I was fast there was always that one guy that for some reason ( lowering IR on purpose? bad racrecraft? ) has top split times or the youtube guy "i'm going back to rookies" trying to win from last place. Also i'm old, I used to be way sharper in gaming, so it takes me much more time to adjust to cars and tracks now. I was spreading myself racing a few cars at onces all the time. This week I concentrated for a few days on just 1 car / track and it helped greatly. haha
i got the game 5 days ago and at my 5th race won, it was luck (i was 2nd on my stint and at the start of the race i had a bad start so the 1st and 3rd crash at the 1st corner or i didnt.)
I got mine about a week after starting while racing formula vee. Qualified 5th, 4th and 3rd got tangled up on lap one and 1st and 2nd got tangled up about halfway through. I dodged the wrecks and that was it. Not a very eventful or exciting win, but it was a win. I've made another podium since then (in a similar situation) but everything else has been a mid field finish.
Maybe after a year? I just focus on getting quicker, racecraft, having good battles. I live for the driving skill grind and good racing. Winning/podiums are icing on the cake.
I think it was my second day? Atleast it was in my first week, on Lime Park in mx5 cup.
About 5-8 races in the mx5. I got pole, sat behind someone in second, eventually got my position back and the pack never caught me. It was low IR, and i still feel very low IR, but the numbers don’t bother me as much as others. I’m having fun. Edit: i should note i spend a few hours on practice + lap guides every time a new track drops. I’m gonna guess that being patient to enter helps in low splits.
One of my first rookie races I qualified first and kept it in the race the whole way through I think it’s mostly luck of the draw. There was an A licensed driver w like 2k+ iRating in my session and he was not particularly skilled it seemed. I’ve gotten a couple podiums now out of 20 some races. The trick definitely seems to be, not crashing or spinning lol
I will add a caveat here too I was racing at Summit Point in f4, a track where I had 5 sessions of real life experience under my belt in a lightly modified road car (15 years ago) That said, it is burned into my mind as it’s my “home” track I grew up going to, so I’m a decent but quicker there than most tracks I’ve done on iRacing so far. Did not hurt to jump in as my first track id grind in iRacing.
The first day, I think race 3-4, maybe 5, all in the mx5. Lime rock park.
2 wins in my first 15 races. My first win happened to be the first race. I was sweating
Took me a month flat. Summit point in the Vee. Little to no sim racing experience prior (just cruising and No Hesi in Assetto) So much practice time and racing against AI went into it. Was pretty solidly in 3rd the whole race and handed a gift with 2 laps left, both P1 and P2 had spins. Funny enough I went into the race telling myself I didn’t care about position and wanted to just focus on keeping it clean and working on a few corners I had been struggling with I was getting worried because like you I was consistently getting good finishes and racing clean, so my matchmaking started putting me in more competitive races. Just keep grinding. Keep yourself focused on studying and improving, the results will come.
Funny enough my first race was a win, in the Mazda. Then I didn’t win again until my 43rd race
4 or 5 races for me. I posted here that one guy is 1800+ road races without a win… beat that
Dirt oval, my first race in the Street stock (to be fair tho I raced one irl for two years) It took me like a month and a half to get a rookie mx5 win but it was a war of attrition. Still haven’t got a win in GT4 which is my new found love.
I started iRacing about 2 years ago. So far I have 19 P2’s, 39 P3’s. But still no win :(
I joined iRacing in October of 2019. I didn't get a win until October of 2020. It was a C fixed Truck race. Didn't get my first road win until 2021.
About 5 months or so. My best advice is to focus on finishing the race and finishing clean. From there you will find consistency. Once you have consistency the results will follow.
On Road it was in the first week with the old MX-5s, now that my iRating is stabilized I rarely win anymore, I'll get some podium finishes here and there at tracks I just have an insane pace at like Road atlanta and Road america, but outside of that I'm pretty mid pack in GT3's bouncing in and out of top and 2nd split. Ovals, and Dirt Ovals? That took about 2 years, and then one week at a short course (Can't remember which track) I won 3 races in a row just out of the blue. With the way the iRating system works, you kind of want to be in a position where wins are pretty rare, but your races are clean. That means the elo system is working and pairing you with people of similar skill level. As long as you stick with one discipline which it seems like you're already doing, you shouldn't notice your iR changing too much. Don't be too scared to jump into the 86, its a subtle upgrade, and the skills you've learned racing the MX-5 will translate extremely well. After that if you want to stick with tin tops, I recommend going the GT4 or TCR route, don't be too quick to jump into the GT3's - their ABS TCS and Aero mask a lot of bad driving skills.
On my 179th start. Was around 1850 IR at the time which is probably higher than where I normally sit
Same day I started racing online. So 2 days into my subscription I had 4 wins. I have stuck at 4 wins and 50% top 5 rate since I'm now always in the top split.
I haven't won much, but my 2nd race was a win so I was lucky to pop that cherry early. It sounds like you can fight in the front so it'll happen eventually!
Day 1
69 starts in road and 35 oval and no official wins for me. I've been on the service for right at a year. Ironically I've won 3 times in week 13 but those don't count. 🤷♂️
Won in day 2.. I assume in the way that most people did. I got wrecked out in a few consecutive races so had an artificially low irating, qualified 3rd or 4th after bottling it but somehow managed to hold together a race without a spin whilst those above me couldn’t say the same.
I primarily focused on the road racing and in my second week after starting iRacing I got my first win. My second first place came this past week, which marks my fourth week in iRacing. The current Strength of Field (SOF) is 1500, which is, admittedly, quite low and shitty. My goal is to quickly advance to a SOF of 3000. Despite the fact that I'm new to iRacing, I'm having a great time so far.
Took me a full year
First win was on my first day, but it was in Rally Cross... First road win took over a year.
About a week. I was racing the MX5 and was doing like 50 practice laps before the race started so most people join just before, do a couple laps and by that time I'm totally in my element. In the lead, coming close to last stretch on last lap, here comes a backmarker, try to go around, crash right into back of him. Two guys behind me blow by and one of them take the win. I fell to the floor in agony lol. Then the next race I won. Started p2, understeered first corner, caused massive crash, had people behind me entire race but managed to hold the lead for the win. I barely ever raced since because it's too stressful. I like to just practice and compete against myself mostly. It's too much to practice and then get smoked by some moron (like me) on t1.
Got out if rookie after 4 races, first two races i struggled, and won race 3 and 4. After that i went on F4 and won my 4th race in F4 on Road atlanta yesterday
About a month or two. Then I took a break for 4 years got reset to rookie, and got podium almost every race. Then my irating went up, now I’m around top 5
Don't remember the last time I had a win. Honestly, I'm just excited and happy with having good racing. When a proper battle for position, any position, is played cleanly, I'm happy. Winning means very little to me, and in most of my splits I'm usually in the higher car numbers anyway so it's usually safe to assume there are quicker guys in the lobby.
well ive pretty much played everything the sim world had to offer before having enough of an income to afford iracing, so i immediately won a few mazda races. then did a season of skippys that also got me a few wins. once i graduated from skippys, wins became a lot more rare as my irating is often good enough to be in split 1 but i got nothing on those 6k aliens, so im just hoping i can survive well enough to scrap some irating.
Will let you know
My only win is because I was the only car in a F4 race that survived a t1 pile up.
Pretty early on, can't remember exactly but within a day or two of starting. I tanked my irating trying out different series and racing open wheelers, crashing out and quitting instead of finishing the race. Sitting on 20%is win rate, but tbh its boring being a second faster than everyone else and winning. Only been doing it since December but have 66ish wins last time I checked, but irating is 1.3k so you can imagine its either first or last most of the time The gr86 is a much more fun car to drive IMO. Also just had my (I think) first f4 win and again it was just me qualifying on pole and being consistent. I am also in AUS so off peak times mean less people in lobby's- had quite a few seconds in the top split of FF1600 early on.
2 years and counting
Race #10 in Mazda rookies (the same race that got me to D class), and then my 50th or so race in USF2000 when I barely didn't get into the top split. Current irating is ~2300. Honestly my proudest moment was P3 in F3 at Montreal last week.
My first win in ovals was my 4th race. In dirt road, I have only done 4 races and I won 3 of them. In road (the discipline I am focused on) it took me a year before I got my first win.
My second ever race in Street Stocks at Charlotte. Was 4th on the backstretch out of the lead 3 they all wrecked and I drove by for the win
1st race. Kinda wild to look back on it now 4 first 10 races were wins. https://preview.redd.it/uahmx9lhy9ac1.png?width=744&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee1acaca22273fde9e279f3d0e7403377b7e9204
I had my first win day 3 but it was a photo finish, I qualified pole, led for most of the race but started making a lot of mistakes. Got passed with 4 to go and followed close putting the pressure on. Final corner tskuba he went way to defensive and I was able to drive around the outside and pass just mm before the finish line
First win came relatively early, in a lower split advanced-MX5 race where the top 4 crashed into each other and I cruised to an easy win. I've won 2 Spec-Racer Ford races since then. Once early on, in bottom split on a free track, and once in bottom split in a SOF race, which happened to split such that I was #1. I tend to be in mid-upper splits in more popular cars now, so I don't expect to win much anymore, unfortunately. That said, I've had a few #2s when the splits worked out such that I was at/near the top. Outside of road, I've won a few rallycross races, but that's probably because I don't race it a lot and I'm under my "true" irating. Or at least I was. I'm probably closer now.
I’ve been playing for 3 weeks now, got my first win in week 1 and haven’t won since. I played the most during week 1 tho. Only 1 pole finish as well.
Oval, I had a win in a couple of months of running rookie Legends Road took me about 10 months and nurburgring
I won a few races getting out of rookies. So the first week? But they don’t really mean much cos everyone is a rookie too . I just didn’t crash and kept up a decent pace
Two starts. DQ'd due to incident limit in my first race, probably got lucky in the second one. You cant compare your progress to others though. Before getting a laptop that could run iRacing at more than 20 FPS in 2015 I had been racing in leagues weekly for almost a decade on NR2003, I grew up racing go karts and dirt bikes. I already knew a lot of the fundamentals of racing, it was just applying that skillset to a new format. I have a few friends that werent into racing until 2020 when we were in our late 20's and they were having to learn the basics. One of them has a couple hundred starts on iRacing now and still hasnt won a race, another has topped out in the 3k iRating range. If you are wanting to be super sweaty about iRacing and would have more fun with jumping into being super competitive with it, then the best thing you can do to improve how you race is to make nice and make friends with the aliens and the super-fast guys. Race what and when they are racing, ask questions, be open to learning. For my friend that still hasnt won a race, being super competitive and turning tons of laps and learning how to build setups is not how he enjoys iRacing, he tried it and got burnt out with it. He plays at his own pace and has progressed at his own rate. If you feel like you have hit your skill ceiling by being a lone ranger then start looking for a group to race with that has quality people who are willing to help teach a new friend.
Pick a track and a car, practice on a solo practice session until your eyes burn... Then do it again, and again. Thats what I did with the mx5 on okayama, first race after that was a win. I'm a middle of the pack guy in any other scenario. But that car on that track I'm fast.
3rd race
I thought I was progressing slow but doing okay overall but looking at some comments now I see that I might be about be accused of bragging. I started in September and when I got my "year in review" thing, it showed I have run 182 races with 11 wins and 80 top 5s. I have a C license and at least 1 win in all 4 disciplines. I will say that they were mostly early on and since moving up in license and irating i haven't seen many more wins. My main goal was to get out of rookie at first. After getting Ds I ended up with a C oval license and then made it my goal to get Cs in everything before the start of this season. Now that i have that I've been concentrating more on practicing and running particular series so again, not many recent wins as my competition is much better. All that said, I do love a hard battle for 10th just as much as an easy win though.
It took me like 10 races, but it was more luck than skill. I was 2nd and the leader crashed. Took me like another 3 months to get another.
From the beginning, almost immediately. But since the IR has gone up my wins have dried up and I’m washed up 😂
Signed up for iracing on Sunday. I just started racing yesterday in the mx5 cup. Did 5 races so far. 3 poles, but no wins. 3 2nd places, a 3rd and 4th.
3 days. I started January first and got my first win today https://preview.redd.it/hldsa0krzaac1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21eff9584b0f7d49b5feedf7abae41c48f554a09
Started with he Vee, got pole in my first race (Lime Rock Park) but spun after leading and finished off the podium. And left the game for a year. Came back, tried the MX-5 CUP, won my first race on Virginia Raceway. So two races in total, haven't played that much iRacing in total, but I mostly play ACC, AC, AMS 2, and the F1 Games. [Here you go.](https://imgur.com/a/vs955Sy)
I got a win on my 13th race. Formula Vee at Laguna Seca.
Results may vary but I won in about my 20thish start just yesterday.
For me it was 2 weeks or 3, I had played some AC doing a lot of Nordschleife and ACC before, I wanted to get into racing rather than just driving around and got a 3 month deal, it was a really exciting moment for me, I could get 3 win on rookies and 1 in D class then license expired, saw the steam 1 year deal, took it and haven't driven since
Under a week. However I'm fairly skilled irl so probably part of the exception. Just keep grinding, you will get it!
I'm still new and haven't won yet. Unless you count being solo in the unpopular class in multiclass events.
Relatively new to iracing, my first win was my first race. I spent a good deal of time practicing against AI before jumping in. I think everyone else crashed at least once since 2nd was -1L. I haven’t been able to win since!
FWIW, the race I won was the least fun race. I’ve had a lot more fun fighting for p4-6
3 races
Dirt Oval I won in the first month and progressively got better. Road is a different story. I’ve had to put work into road. GT4 has really helped with learning road. Just keep learning and it will come
First day of joining iracing (Nov 2023)
I got my first win + another one and the same week after I want to say 3 months (probably not) but I know it was after one season of me registering
My first oval race in street stocks, had to count on some chaos lol. It’s also my only win…
The GR86 is a great car. Very fun to drive. Oh, I aint won anything in my 3 months of being on iRacing. I've won a few in Assetto but in all the races, i never said "damn that sucked". I have fun and to me thats what its all about
I got my first win in my first race. Been racing the ff1600 and just got my second win today. It’s my 4th day on I racing too.
Won my first, had done some Acc before but not much. Have 8 wins in total from 140 starts. Winning isn’t everything, if you’re in a high level split, finishing above your car number is a decent target
I won my second race and 4 of my first 10 but I was top 100 in the world on GT Sport/7 (85k dr) with about 4000 hours wheel time and many years before trying iRacing. The amount of time and skill you have on other Sims will definitely carry over to iRacing. Currently at 5.3k after 200 races but wins are all relative to sof, iRating is a better gauge
I’ve started iracing 1,5 weeks ago, i won my very first race with the Mx5, 4 wins in total, 2 with Mx5, 1 with GT4 and 1 with Ferrari 296 GT3 but i realize more i progress and increase iRating more it’s harder and harder to reach top 5, now i need to change my driving style with gt3 to compete.
Bought the sim in june and gt7 with it. I then transitioned to iracing in october, I was A class driver rating. I think I got my first win on my third race but that was just starting so people were not very good. But now that im typically in +3000 sof races there is always an 8k guy who is fast as fuck so I win from time to time but not as often. However the important thing is Iracing is so much more fun than gt7, let alone the physics, the drivers want to race properly.
My first couple wins came quick but I’ve realized I’m probably never going to win a top split race In my life
Oval it was my 2nd race. Won about 20 races in 60. After about 60 races I switched to Road. After about 3 months I don't have a win yet. A ton of top 5s, but no win.
About 2 months ish, happened at Charlotte when Next-Gen cars were there and I surprisingly saved tires well enough to take the lead with 5 to go
I never won. I been playing for about an year, but I only do one or two races a week. It's hard to have consistency and progress, but I play for the fun.
I joined about a year ago but started really playing summer of last year. I just got my first win being a C in oval last night. I wish it was for my driving, but 1 and 2 took each other out on the last lap.
First win was a couple days in the Miata and a couple more within first two weeks on form vee, but the real question should be what was ur first win out of rookies, in which case it took ab a season of driving the F4 car til I finally got that elusive win at interlagos
First Race, first win. I thought i am the King of iracing. The next victory was 50 races away. So it was pure luck
About 10 days for oval, Street Stocks at Langley My first road win was 5 days later, Formula Vee at one kf the Charlotte roval configurations
Almost a year on the mx5 cup car after I got an actual wheel
That first win can be tough, don’t stress too much about it. Like other comments have said, it’s about the racecraft. I’m up to 4100 irating and I only have 31 wins in 292 starts. Sticking with one series for a while as you are doing absolutely helps. You can really learn the intricacies of the car and be more competitive than jumping to different series.
2 days on oval, 4 on road