The modeling in iRacing is really striking in that way. It's good enough in practice that driving in the sim is extremely convincing, which makes the odd method

The modeling in iRacing is really striking in that way. It's good enough in practice that driving in the sim is extremely convincing, which makes the odd methods of exploiting the physics model that much more striking. I saw a video a few months ago of people running an endurance race in iRacing, and they'd consistently drop their left-side (IIRC, it could have been right) tires off the track on a specific straightaway. My understanding is that a) they didn't lose that much speed, b) because of the reasons stated previously, it's fairly safe in the sim, and c) it kept the front left tire temperatures closer to the optimum for the full duration of the lap. Thinking on it, one of the things I found cool was that, in a way, it's not entirely unlike what real drivers will do with wet-weather tires, where they sacrifice the best line to hunt for wetter stretches.