I agree there have been lots of great experienced feedback on the NTM forum on iRacing about where it differs from real life, and I will be the first one to admit there is still some obvious tweaking needed with the NTM, you can tell by how much extra grip the tires have first 2 laps out of the pits and then they lose a bit of grip as they heat up and stay stable after that, which is backwards from what I would expect with cold tires coming out of the pits until they warm up and then until they wear out.

Still outside of that when I don't focus on the academic/statistical performance of the NTM, the driving feel and physics of it feels much more realistic/predictable compared to the OTM and yes also compared to nKPro.



Not sure what you mean by "you people" but I don't have any agenda (pro or anti iRacing) or belong to the Illuminati, I just love driving sims and calls them as I sees them, I like iRacing and nKPro but the NTM on the GT feels better to me than nKPro, your mileage may vary and it won't stop me from lapping Nordschleife, Macau, Imola or Trento-Bondone in nKPro and loving it.

Listen, that's all great but I think we all know the true #1, above and beyond all of those titles...

Well it's obvious iRacing is too porked for the truly sublime.

Please continue to enjoy your sim.

This is like the guy who proclaims Little League is so much purer baseball than the big leagues.

Fine, stick to whatever floats your boat.

iRacings biggest flaw is it's subscription based... And for that reason alone it will never take up space on my PC unless I hear nothing, and I mean nothing but good things about it... For now iRacings only claim to fame is it's tracks and netcode, 2 things that won't be hard for the competition to catch up on... So I'll continue to look at other options before even bothering with the iRacing website...

iRacings biggest flaw is ... that once you've tried it none of your current racing sims are good enough any more!
As an overall package nothing else compares.
Though WMD looks to have the potential.
Cheers
Keith

Here's your favorite race buddy putting on his official SimHQ Forum Manager's hat, which I hate to do in here because of all the places in SimHQ, this is the friendliest and needs the least amount (if any ever) moderating!

A simple question was asked about the best race sim. This is a loaded question in any forum, but I thought this could be different in here than the other forums. We all have our favorite sims. Give your opinion, but don't argue...and don't continue to argue.

ar·gue/Verb: 1.Give reasons or cite evidence in support of an idea, action, or theory, typically with the aim of persuading others to share one's view.


Whatever you choose, get out there and drive. Racing is all good!

I for one don't really enjoy iRacing as much as rFactor or GTR2. The prices aren't really an issue for me, but if I buy a track on there to race, and they only race it once a season, then it seems like a waste of money to me(I know you can practice and stuff but I really only like to play online). I don't do the oval racing so there are only a couple of series that you can run that have a lot of people on the road side. Skip barber series is who can drift the best around the track, rookie series is all right, people make more mistakes but that's fine, they are learning. The only series I ever enjoyed was the Corvette series, but it barely had anyone on when I was on. Here at SimHQ where I started sim racing, we race two to three times a week on all sorts of different stuff and we always have a bunch of people. You don't have to worry about safety rating or running into someone and having them report you. Plus after you buy the game everything else is free, sure the quality differs but it's still fun.

On the subject or real drivers using Iracing, I'm sure they are sponsored by Iracing so they have to say nice things about it, sure they probably have fun playing it too, but there are probably just as many real drivers using rFactor and GTR2.

Well said. No other racing sim, regardless of simulation infallibility or not, is as addicting as iRacing. Once you try it, nothing else will satisfy your sim racing needs like this one.

Unless you hate iracing, then something else will satisfy your needs.

IMO there is no 'best' sim. There is only the sim that fits your individual needs the best. For some that may be iRacing, for others it's GTR2, rFactor or something else. They all offer things that the others don't. It's just a question of what you want and the kind of environment you like to race in.