As a former coke driver 2015-2019 and pro driver in 2021-2022 the biggest thing that will help you these days is having time or being young. I’m 30 work a full time job pay bills and no longer live at home so it’s much harder once you are having to balance all that and find time to practice for races it’s mostly my experience propping me up at this point. Having time to turn laps and “grind” is huge in the current “pro level” climate it’s definitely a young man’s game but some of us old heads are still hanging around and relevant. Hopefully I can stick around and make coke again one day.
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
Yeah man I agree! I made the decision this year I'd rather spend whatever time I had on making content instead of making some half baked coke attempt. I wish you luck!
@Caseytucker12
Жыл бұрын
@@DJYeeJayI enjoy your content man keep up the good work and if you ever need information on anything feel free to reach out to me on iRacing or wherever you can find me and I’ll try to help.
@mrj3217
Жыл бұрын
What does becoming pro pay if anything? I am new to Iracing so I am learning every thing.
@davanierodriguez
Жыл бұрын
@@mrj3217you can earn up to $10 if you participate in 8 weeks out of 12 weeks in a specific series, and if you make it to the iRacing Coca-Cola Series and win the championship, you win $100,000. That is excluding the potential sponsorship that may arrive when you climb up the ranks.
@rolux4853
Жыл бұрын
It became a real children’s game which is really unfortunate in my opinion.. I wish there would be additional age restricted leagues like 30+, 40+, 50+ etc. That would also be great for morale and all the ramming kids can be on their own and have fun taking all those unnecessary revenge hits. When it comes to online stuff I’m much more happy with Assetto Corsa and RFactor2 private vintage racing servers which are amazing and have the best cars. I only use iRacing for ovals and especially dirt ovals since no sim has them somewhat correct at the moment. The iRacing FFB is the worst imaginable and the tire physics are so completely wrong it’s laughable, but at least drift physics and changing dirt track state work correctly which is the most important thing for ovals (reminds me that I finally should find out how to install nr2003 and add proper mods!)
@coledelahooke809
Жыл бұрын
This was a great video, would love an even longer form interview with these guys in the future.
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
I’m going to upload all the interviews in full unlisted and link them in the video over the next day or two!
@AJRGaming_
Жыл бұрын
Always have mad respect for pros. Their mindsets are incredible.
@JeffG24Rox
Жыл бұрын
and in turn I think most people have a crazy amount of respect towards you for having the ability to be as competitive as you are despite being deaf. mad respect
@AJRGaming_
Жыл бұрын
@@JeffG24Rox much appreciated. ❤️
@ShawnKissane
Жыл бұрын
From racing Nascar Heat leagues as a kid to racing A class in iracing in high school. This gives you a lot of motivation
@SwordnScale
Жыл бұрын
Love the content, it gives everyday iracers a realistic view of what it takes and also a reality check to those who can’t dedicate the time
@nihontiger
Жыл бұрын
Good video as always, and yeah, it's all seat time to practice and learning as much as you can but at a pace where you can process things and put them to practice. That's what I've learned so far.
@scottleitner4801
Жыл бұрын
I've met Liam. He was working at the HoF when we visited my son at Pope AFB. That's when he was spotting for Ray Alfalla. Charlotte was the one place I wanted to visit while we were in Fayetteville.
@mrj3217
Жыл бұрын
So passion, enjoyment of racing and just log many laps to get better every time you drive.
@blackmac1970
Жыл бұрын
Great video. Love your mix of content recently. Great job.
@CharlieBird15
Жыл бұрын
Interesting that there was zero mention about having the most expensive sim rig
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
Nope some coke drivers run on basic gear!
@JeffG24Rox
Жыл бұрын
good equipment (wheel, pedals, rig, etc) doesn't directly translate to being "faster". the biggest thing is that it can help you be more consistent, which in turn might help you be faster. best example is with pedals. fanatec v3's are the choice of a lot of people for upgrading to because they're at a reasonable price point, are easily obtainable, and widely known about for advice/suggestions/help. a better set of pedals can help with consistency under braking (with the load cell) or throttle control (with a stiffer spring) which, if anything, can at least make you feel more consistent. but buying a direct drive or buying a crazy expensive rig won't have an immediate impact i'd say over have a good set of pedals.
@CharlieBird15
Жыл бұрын
Yep, I totally agree you defo don’t need the most expensive gear, just thought it was interesting that gear was never mentioned Maybe there’s an advantage to using basic gear that they don’t want to reveal 😉
@killorfill6953
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this was awesome :)
@tonyiverson5613
Жыл бұрын
This was a cool video. I think this could apply even to player ran leagues. I've been finding myself in a lot of bad situations in my current league. Despite having speed, something always seems to happen. I blamed myself at first, but now, I just don't know anymore. I'll be having so much fun until that moment disaster strikes. What would be some advice to someone like myself?
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes things happen. Just consider if anything led to you being put in that bad situation, and if so just work on cleaning that up. If not, just gotta try again
@mattalford3932
Жыл бұрын
Ive seen so many people that got to esports pro level racing say they stopped enjoying it. When you get that good all you usually do is chase lap times or ride around way ahead of everybody. They end up missing the racing they did before getting that good.
@robertisler8557
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this insight. Seat time, you cannot go around it. And you can only do it for a long time, when you have fun. Obvious, but how fast do you forget it ;)
@oleskool6259
Жыл бұрын
The most interesting iracing video I’ve ever seen I could have listened to those guys for hours. I’m no spring chicken but I’m hellbent on getting to the top it’s gonna be long an tuff road but like I say I might get beat but I won’t get beat down or the other way around I forget what I always say sometimes lolll 🤯 Rock On ✌️
@KevinKing29
Жыл бұрын
Good stuff.
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Kevin! I gotta get you on one of these sometime
@Noodle_onaplate
2 ай бұрын
as someone who had iracing for a month and had to drop it as i simply couldn't afford it this really sucks to watch knowing i cant practice but hopefully i can save up
@Armed4Gaming
Жыл бұрын
Now the real question is, are you gonna try to go for pro Justin? You’re always really fast and I believe you could do it
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
Nope not this year at least! I will do Daytona for the memes though
@Armed4Gaming
Жыл бұрын
@@DJYeeJay I’m gonna probably run the NIS on Saturday for Daytona for fun, but any kinda pro stuff no thanks haha but I use to run all the NIS races for a while
@strovich
Жыл бұрын
That's great. The nice thing though is that they said they're mixing up SOF this year which will even everything out more.
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
Oh really? I was hoping they’d do they, where’d they say it?
@strovich
Жыл бұрын
@@DJYeeJay it was on the member site a few months back. Should be incorporated into the series coming up in February.
@strovich
Жыл бұрын
@@DJYeeJay when it comes down to it. It's so important to have that opportunity for up and comers too because of how skewed irating is now
@justinkrizenesky
Жыл бұрын
Snakes will NEVER happen in pro.
@strovich
Жыл бұрын
@@DJYeeJay following up. I guess I was wrong. I'm going to do some digging and try and find the article.
@kennystorkson1991
8 ай бұрын
Love the videos keep on keeping on 🤘💯
@toobrafter
Жыл бұрын
Very cool video!
@cashboss0895
Жыл бұрын
Good video
@TChapman500Gaming
Жыл бұрын
The real question is: How quickly does iRacing translate into real life success? On a side note, how much does this pro series pay? Or is iRacing still a money sink?
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
Real life success requires a larger money sink than iracing will ever be haha
@TChapman500Gaming
Жыл бұрын
@@DJYeeJay At least IRL pro racing series' pays enough to make a living if you don't constantly crash.
@davevieira1963
Жыл бұрын
There are several drivers who have gone from iRacing to real life racing. I can't recall names at the moment but a few run the truck series on TV. The top irating driver in iRacing went on to real life racing. I think that is Ty Majewski. I may be wrong. There are also iRacing road course drivers racing in real life. iRacing pays $100,000 to the top NASCAR Pro Oval Champion. This is up from $10,000 several years ago once NASCAR endorsed iRacing. iRacing is for fun for most people. After the wheel/pedal setup $300 and a yearly sub to iRacing ($112.50 during Black Friday week), you'll buy a few cars and tracks as you get better. Those run about $12 to $15 each.
@TChapman500Gaming
Жыл бұрын
@@davevieira1963 I know that there are iRacing drivers that are now in NASCAR, which is why I asked the question. And now I know where all of the subscription fees go.
@robbyc408
Жыл бұрын
Iracing is not that expensive or a "money sink" when you put it in context.... cut out a daily Starbucks or fast food for 2 days and boom you have a months worth of subscription or enough for another car....
@djsuupaa
Жыл бұрын
Great video, I hope I can find someone do a similar one for the road routes
@sopadesopita
9 ай бұрын
i’m kind of in limbo of what i want… i can see myself making it there with the pros eventually but i just don’t know if it’ll be … worth it? i’ve been rallying in sims for about 4 years as a hobby. i have been full time sim racing for the past 4 months and i’m moving to the midwest early next year to begin my karting journey full time. i really enjoy the process and i’m satisfied with my progress but outside of that i feel really lost. i believe its because it’s just sim racing on a screen. the race is over and i can just hop off and … then what? you know? i wonder if i’ll get something out of it once i start doing this stuff for real and won’t just feel lost when i’m out of the seat. maybe this is a question for my therapist 😂 idk do any pros feel that way?
@TobiasMathesonRacing
11 ай бұрын
aint is crazy how i started iracing and won offical races at 6 years old
@bradleygarrett6526
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if most of the pros use triple screen setups or VR?
@DJYeeJay
Жыл бұрын
The vast majority are on triples or ultrawides. A few are on singles. None are on VR
@ACE-ll2rb
6 ай бұрын
im trying to go pro and currently am just looking at youtube videos I started feb 1 and current hold a c license and half way through to get auto license to b!! i would love to race and take some lesson from a pro!!!
@seanboundy8365
Жыл бұрын
Moral of the story.. it starts with who you know more than what you know... so that way who you know will open up to teach you what they know... otherwise, your competitons lips are sealed shut and dont want to teach you anything
@mrj3217
Жыл бұрын
What does going pro pay?
@chrisadams3145
9 ай бұрын
Dude should of hit up Michael cosey jr
@user-jt8xw6fd1v
3 ай бұрын
How much can you make as an iRacing pro?
@DrSpoculus
Жыл бұрын
So, basically, know a pro and get a team invite.... basically luck.
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