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There's a few times on the climb up where you're really high in the revs of a gear, and could maybe be in the next year and on the throttle earlier thanks to reduced chance of wheelspin and then losing time shifting, but nothing major. I've found its some times better just staying in one gear for a sequence instead of shifting up and down a lot.

Easiest spot I see is into the last chicane after the back straight (the very quick right hander feels insanely quick in a car with not loads of grip :lol:

), where I nearly go off due to leaving my braking a few metres too late.

Hoping to get a few more hours on it this weekend, proper got its hooks back into me after the last couple of sessions on it!

Oh yes that was an obvious bit, and it messed up your next sequence.

Had a great chat with a colleague from a partner company last night. He's really in to iracing and does (or did) a lot of endurance stuff, so it was great to actually talk with someome who plays it.

I don't think I know anyone off line who plays many racing games really, well except Mario Kart.

Randomly stumbled upon a thing today while reading about simhub, saying you can use any old phone as long as it has a working Wi-Fi connection, as a display for a real time dash.

I've got my old galaxy s7 knocking about, let's give it a go:

Now of course im just holding the phone there so I need to devise a way to not only mount it there (which is between the wheel rim and the wheel base), but be movable to one side so I can access the settings screen built in to the wheel. It's an ideal place for this as it's just below my eyeline, and sits in the void between the centre of the wheel and the top of the rim. It'll mean I can then move all info off the monitor and have more immersion.

Best part is the software is free, and the phone looks great and is really hi res. Just need to figure out the mounting part. Very happy.

Nice! There must be some sort of mobile phone sat nav mount that'll do the job?

Roonmastor wrote:Nice! There must be some sort of mobile phone sat nav mount that'll do the job?

Exactly what I've just ordered. Hopefully it's up to the job and subtle enough to not look gooseberry fool or be distracting.

Edit: I did get a holder:

It's very good, and the dashboard readout is spot on. Only problem being that im currently having a gooseberry fool patch on racing games and I'm slow and just spinning nearly every lap :fp:

Try spinning, that’s a good trick!!

Was looking on the Xbox earlier how long I’ve actually spent on ACC, only 67 hours…. I thought I’d spent a load more to be honest! Actually feel a bit better about dipping into the high 1:48s at Monza when you’d mentioned about hot lapping round there in the McLaren Evo, I mean it’s not quick in the slightest, but I think 67 hours puts me in the rookie range still :lol:

I’ve also been looking at what my next wheel update could be, frankly I’ve no idea! Fanatec seem to be an absolute mess with their shipping currently, Moza seem good value but something about the included wheel feels off and as nice as the Logitech Pro DD looks, I cannot justify £1k plus on a new wheel. I kind of hope Logitech will scrap the G923 line and introduce an entry level DD wheel to compete with the likes of Moza and Fanatec’s entry level offerings. Till then the G923 will stay, it’s still a very solid wheel really.

That dashboard setup looks really slick.

Still amazes me how large the Logitech DD wheel base is, I guess thats not a tiny phone but its dwarfed by the wheel base :lol:

I'm a little surprised they've not tried to cash in by releasing different wheels for it yet either, as looking at the other main wheel manufacturers, thats where the money seems to be for them at least.

Roonmastor wrote:That dashboard setup looks really slick.

It's very good, but I'm also aware its a phone sat there as being an older model, it has that rounded phone look. If I was to use my current phone it would look amazing, but it's my actual phone so I'm not going to. The alternative is to buy a dedicated screen but those are £200 odd pounds :dread:

Robbo-92 wrote:Still amazes me how large the Logitech DD wheel base is, I guess thats not a tiny phone but its dwarfed by the wheel base I'm a little surprised they've not tried to cash in by releasing different wheels for it yet either, as looking at the other main wheel manufacturers, thats where the money seems to be for them at least.

The base is actually starting to become a problem with my setup, as I can't lower the hard mount point for it as the playseat is fixed in that way, and the large base means I can't bring the monitor any further forward or have it lower as the base will start getting in the way.

Robbo-92 wrote:
I’ve also been looking at what my next wheel update could be, frankly I’ve no idea! Fanatec seem to be an absolute mess with their shipping currently, Moza seem good value but something about the included wheel feels off and as nice as the Logitech Pro DD looks, I cannot justify £1k plus on a new wheel. I kind of hope Logitech will scrap the G923 line and introduce an entry level DD wheel to compete with the likes of Moza and Fanatec’s entry level offerings. Till then the G923 will stay, it’s still a very solid wheel really.

If I were you, I'd look at least a 10Nm base, pick the style of wheel rim you'd like the most, and get some entry level pedals. Later on you can upgrade the pedals to something better if you like.

I didn't pay for my pro wheel so I can't say if I'd have forked out that kind of money for it if I was making the choice. I would stay away from the moza one purely as they look like toys rather than real life wheels, which becomes important for realism. Also if I run a lower Nm like 5 then it's not really that much better than my old g920. It's smoother but not realistic. I run iracing at the full 11Nm and it's about right. On harsher games like rallying, I'd put it down to about 8.5Nm.

If you make the jump to a DD wheel, I think you'd regret not going for something better pretty quickly, as they're not cheap things and as you can see with me, you will end up.putting more and more in to a setup and you'll regret buying something like a moza wheel.

If I was to buy now with the benefit of hindsight, I'd buy a decent fanatec base with a GT/F1 style rim (with display on it), some decent pedals, and for the seat I'd spend the money on one made of aluminium profile with a proper seat, which gives way more options for adding things along the way.

I feel I'm limited in my options, purely as I'm stuck with my Playseat Challenge, its a great seat so its not a bad thing, but for longevity I do worry the poor pedal mounting on it wouldn't take anything loads stronger than the basic G923 set really. I need something that can be folded away at the moment, I was looking at this as a potential upgrade down the line,

https://fanatec.com/eu-en/ready2race/cs ... S4wLjAuMA..

Sure out of the box its only 5NM, but it can be upgraded via a beefier power brick to go up to 8NM, plus you can get a load cell option for the pedal, quite like this style of wheel as well. I'm not going to upgrade for now though, maybe one day when I can have me wheel set up all the time I can get something better. I am looking at a brake mod kit for the G923 now though, even though I don't think the seat would take it :lol:

Robbo-92 wrote:I feel I'm limited in my options, purely as I'm stuck with my Playseat Challenge, its a great seat so its not a bad thing, but for longevity I do worry the poor pedal mounting on it wouldn't take anything loads stronger than the basic G923 set really. I need something that can be folded away at the moment, I was looking at this as a potential upgrade down the line,

https://fanatec.com/eu-en/ready2race/cs ... S4wLjAuMA..

Sure out of the box its only 5NM, but it can be upgraded via a beefier power brick to go up to 8NM, plus you can get a load cell option for the pedal, quite like this style of wheel as well. I'm not going to upgrade for now though, maybe one day when I can have me wheel set up all the time I can get something better. I am looking at a brake mod kit for the G923 now though, even though I don't think the seat would take it

Yeah that would be a pretty sweet setup there, good price for what you get too.

My playseat challenge Pedal mount did break due to the load cell and that was with it set to the lowest force required to reach maximum. Also the thing felt like it wasn't far off breaking from the wheel strength and it did flex a lot.

Yeah it's pretty good value really, good that they do official upgrades as well so you can play it out of the box and see what might need to be upgraded down the line, I also feel something like this, the Challenge could actually handle without problem as well, I do love the seat, once you're in it, you're just sat really snuggly and it doesn't feel far off what I imagine actually sitting in a proper racing car feels like really!

I do agree that the base Moza wheels look a bit like toys, the standalone wheels you can get look a lot better, but of course they're more expensive, should let you build your own bundle really.

Been back on ACC a little this morning, trying a different car (2022 BMW M4) as I've found a Youtube channel with some set ups for it (actually got a load for loads of cars), its odd how some circuits click a lot more than others, round Zolder I feel like I can't put a decent lap time in at all, but Nurburgring? Feels great my comparison.

Edit, while the BMW does go well, I miss the sound of the Aston and the Porsche, kind of hope we'll get an updated Aston when the Nurburgring DLC comes out, the most recent one is still from 2019, while we have quite a lot of 2022 onwards cars now.

Edit 2, spent a few hours on it this evening, back in the Aston which just feels great to drive, managed to dip into the high 2:20s at Spa, which is obviously on the slower side, but probably one of the best and most consistent sessions I’ve had in ages.

Got a sega model 2 emulator running today and spent some time playing Sega rally :wub:

It's amazing really that the entire game can be played in one 3.5 minute setting.

VERY LONG EASY RIGHT MAYBE

Seen a rumour that the Red Bull Ring could be bundled with the GT2 DLC pack for ACC, I was on the fence about getting the GT2 DLC, but if the RBR is included I'd find it hard not to buy it really.

Robbo-92 wrote:Seen a rumour that the A1 Ring could be bundled with the GT2 DLC pack for ACC, I was on the fence about getting the GT2 DLC, but if the A1R is included I'd find it hard not to buy it really.

FTFY

It's a great track, and a real rarity in that it's such a short lap. It's pretty gooseberry fool for overtaking in faster cars though I've found.

I really should get back to playing A.I. races in ACC instead of just time trialing as the A.I. is great to race against.

Victor Mildew wrote:
Robbo-92 wrote:Seen a rumour that the A1 Ring could be bundled with the GT2 DLC pack for ACC, I was on the fence about getting the GT2 DLC, but if the A1R is included I'd find it hard not to buy it really.

FTFY

It's a great track, and a real rarity in that it's such a short lap. It's pretty gooseberry fool for overtaking in faster cars though I've found.

I really should get back to playing A.I. races in ACC instead of just time trialing as the A.I. is great to race against.

Last week when I managed to put a few hours into ACC, it was probably 50/50 between lapping random tracks and races. The AI is great in this, put them into the very high 90s (I find that on 100, they do like to try and murder you on the very rare occasion) on the aggressiveness setting and you have very realistic feeling AI to race against, which is much better than getting punted off constantly online.

I think the A1 Ring will be great to race the GT3 cars round, GT4 as well. I keep meaning to try a multi class race in ACC as well as I imagine they are a lot of fun.

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