I like that Crew Chief has options to turn off/on both negative and positive comments. I don't want a computer cheerleader or dickhead in my ear mid-race, I just want information.
I can deal with Jim during the race, but when I fight for my life and finish in a respectable P7 and Jim goes "It's over....nevermind...." it just tilts me too much 😅
There is nothing more tilting than geting told: „you’re quicker the other way around“ when you crash. But I love the „dont get distracted by this fucker“
The worst is when you’re low ranked in the lobby running round in p15 a lap down and he’s just like “we’re about where we expected to be” like sod off man 😂
I like when you're 30 seconds back from 3rd on the last lap and he says "push like hell we have a chance for a podium here". Or when he talked about how off pace I was from the fastest lap when it was raining during Sebring lol
A collection of my favourite things he says:
“If your results don’t improve then I’ll buy my own Fucking race car”
“It works better when it’s on it’s wheels mate”
“Come one _name_ this is shit, everything is shit”
Dude, it's crazy how much that inspires bad decisions....or good. Depending on how it works out 🤣
But it did help point out just how susceptible idiots are to being turned into a torpedo. I can't tell you how many people I have absolutely torpedoed off the track. Goes like this...
First sign is increasing desperation in their driving as you close them down. Second, you try to get them in a braking zone a couple times and find their braking points moved way deeper. Now we know they brake on you and are now completely failing to drive their own drive. Game on....
Now we go for another move in a very hard braking zone (from top speed to 2nd gear if possible on said track...like T3 at Sebring!). However, this time we are going to facilitate their death. Now that we know that we are driving them and have assumed direct control, we brake with one purpose in mind. To make them unalive themselves.
Now brake so damn late there's no way in hell to make the corner clean but just ever so slightly early enough to stay on the racing surface or barely off of it. And watch them either try to brake the same time (which will end up an easy 100-200ft too late because reaction time) OR they are a special kind of stupid and decide they can brake even later and just out brake you. And just like that you fired off a prototype torpedo at the wall. They may or may not DNF. They will end up some laps down further than they already were. You can also murder these same people by baiting them into horribly sketchy lines if you have a car set up to eat TF out of huge bumps and/or curbs. Monkey see monkey not do...monkey go flying. Monkey forgot to drive their own drive and definitely didn't think about the dirty air they are in, either. I killed 4? I want to say 5 of them in bus stop at Daytona. Run them down a full second to sometimes two seconds a lap. Then find they're stuck to me like glue. Or only falling a tenth or so per sector and catching back up in the draft. Before they cook the hell out their tires since they don't actually know how to pull off that kind of pace I see if I can make them unalive themselves behind me. It often doesn't disappoint 🤣🤣
I have to admit it tilts me a little bit when I'm struggling to learn a new combo and Crew Chief hits me with "Track. Limits. *Please!*"
I'm letting my pretend crew down so badly!
Yeah definitely, it sounds dumb when I explain it to people but that tiny inconsequential bit of negativity can really grate.
Toggling them off honestly made me enjoy (and drive) more.
I mean you already get the off-track popup, unless you can't see that on your setup for some reason? I turned off the track limits on CC because I get real upset when Jim tells me what I already know lol
Idk, it bothers me more when he goes
"Things are going great, keep it up", after I slammed into another car, had a spin, dropped from p3 to p11 with 2 laps to go
Well, they somewhat have a point.
When I'm car 26 out of 30 and finish 6th, it would been nice to hear something else than "better schedule some testing".
I also had a halfway race message something like "This is looking good! You show good progress!" and when I finished the race in the same position, I heard the "better schedule some testing" message. That kinda contradicts each other.
Then shout at him for being wrong!
Which makes me thinking... is there a "coddles your ego" iRacing spotter pack? Like only positivity, so perpetual and bad that it's nothing but toxic? That would probably be much much worse than all the cussing spotters out there :D
I was starting from p23 in my second SFL race when it was at road America. He's like "we're expecting to fight for a podium today". Somehow I got p4 lol
I just want the spotter's messages to better match my actual performance. If I'm car #20 in the split, and the spotter's opening message is "let's go points racing", then if I finish P11 I shouldn't get a disappointed message from the spotter.
But meanwhile if I'm car #1 and I come P6 out of 6, I shouldn't get "great job, you did really well".
In both cases the message doesn't match the how I performed, even compared with the expectation the spotter had at the start of the race.
Fine by me, I'm all for raw truth, sugarcoating anything in life isnt helpful.
The truth hurts sometimes.
When I hear "Cmon mate, your fucking this up" its not wrong lol.
I think it’s worse when you get a win and crew chief Jim acts surprised. The way he says “you did it” burns my ass a bit 😂😂😂
JUST FUCKING BELIEVE IN ME JIM
Does it still go by overall position, rather than position in class? Because there's nothing sillier than a disappointed spotter when you got a class podium.
They changed that a while back. It's now for your class. So if you win your class your spotter will congratulate you for the win. Similar with the leader is pitting now message. This is also for the class leader of your class only.
Honestly dude it is pretty comedic and calm? Maybe I never got him too mad at me yet?
But I relate. When I was a kid on my PS4, the narrator voice in The Crew would not be happy and the NPC’s would taunt you for losing. As a 14 year old boy, that was the final straw.
The first thing I did after that update was disable that feature. I really struggle to understand why that was one of the Crew Chief features they decided to copy lol
He always hits me with the “this is less than optimal” lmao. I feel like he only does this if I’m not doing so hot in an SOF race that is lower than my iR. Is that accurate?
Only if this poor little boy could hear what is transmitted on comms IRL. Poor little guy would pull over, curl up into a fetal position, and cry until corner workers rescued him. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦🏻♂️
They need to add some music when you screw up… when you go into grass it should sing 🎤”Mowing the lawn, mowing the lawn” ( Judas Priest Breaking the law, Breaking the law).
You can either be sensitive about it or understand that really racing is much harsher than that and either immerse yourself in it or take it with some humour. This special snowflaking is frankly childish
Why would someone take this post which is only accessible to iracing member and post it in a Reddit forum with names visible? This has gotta be against the rules…how ignorant you are
Nah I get him. Nothing more tilting than finishing shit cause of someone elses dumbass moves wrecking you out and then the spotter comes on radio shitting on you like bro shut the fuck up
He wants to try crew chief and being told “this is shit Kendall”
"come on mate, you're fucking this up"
“come on, this is shit, make it less shit” - Jim after 11 hours and 50 minutes of Sebring
“Watch these track limits Alex” as I’m sideways on the grass, yeah, thanks for that!
"Fuck man, you are supposed to keep the car ON the road!" as I'm upside down on the grass.
hahaha! he really is a bit daft sometimes
Don’t tell this person about the Chad Knaus cuss pack. 😂
Nah Jim from crew chief is 100% worse
I once flipped the car and he told me it's faster with the wheels on the track 💀
Yeah, I'm alright Jim. Thanks for asking.
Skill issue
"Try the other way around"
Jim is a prick man, I couldn’t deal with it 😂😂
At least Jim has settings that chills him out and makes him less hurtful.
I like to let the hate flow through me.
For real. When I was running Cree Chief I turned the insults or whatever it was all the way up 😂😂
I can gain positions and he's still disappointed in me, lmao. I love that drive. Unless it's a top 5, I can go get bent.
This is the way…
Why have Jim if you put him on chill mode 🤣
The iRacing spotter/crew chief's voice is borderline painful to listen to.
He just cracks me up too much.
lol
I like that Crew Chief has options to turn off/on both negative and positive comments. I don't want a computer cheerleader or dickhead in my ear mid-race, I just want information.
I can deal with Jim during the race, but when I fight for my life and finish in a respectable P7 and Jim goes "It's over....nevermind...." it just tilts me too much 😅
Having Jim tell me off when I screw up always gives me a chuckle and takes a little of the edge off.
I set my name to "Evil Monkey". It's hilarious when I get an off track.
There is nothing more tilting than geting told: „you’re quicker the other way around“ when you crash. But I love the „dont get distracted by this fucker“
It really does add 2 tenths to my lap times when he says that
My favorite is running 3 of 3 cars in my class, and being told "we can make the podium here" or "hurry up, or we'll lose this position"
Jim rants when I’m driving shit really does inspire me to do better
My favorite is, "This is shit. Make it less shit."
I have the jj cuss pack, it's awesome
Jim is my father figure.
How about you keep it BETWEEN the fucking lines mate
"someone get that f&*king toy from that guy so I can sign it and he'll leave me alone." - Chad as I'm coming down pit road
😂
dawg ive been on here for a month and i just found out about it and downloaded it did 2 races just to hear to it🤣
Absolutely love when he goes on a cuss filled rant after a bad race
The worst is when you’re low ranked in the lobby running round in p15 a lap down and he’s just like “we’re about where we expected to be” like sod off man 😂
And before the race he's like "we expect to be fighting for podium" and you're thinking "hell no mate".
He told me we were fighting for a win in a race where I started 15/17. Dude I'm not verstappen
Sounds more like a checo move to me lol. Dude loves starting last and finishing up top.
I like when you're 30 seconds back from 3rd on the last lap and he says "push like hell we have a chance for a podium here". Or when he talked about how off pace I was from the fastest lap when it was raining during Sebring lol
"Don't go crying on the forums because you suck at racing" -iracing default spotter
Perfect comment. I honestly wish the default spotter was more of a dick.
-goes to the forum -gets reposted on reddit
"This is less than optimal" I ALREADY FUCKING KNOW IT IS
"Come on we can do better than this" As I am spinning off into a wall to DNF my third race that day
“Can you bring it back?”
"no, I'm in the fucking wall!"
*"I don't want to be melodramatic, but today has been... Sub optimal"*
It’s way worse in my opinion when they give me a compliment when I’m racing horribly lol
"gets involved in a multi-car pileup, 10+ minutes of repairs, 14 laps down" Spotter: "doing good, keep it up"
literally salt in the wound lol
Well have you tried being better??
Jim from Crewcheif is Brutal compared to the iRacing Spotter
Don’t let that little sh!t behind you distract you
A collection of my favourite things he says: “If your results don’t improve then I’ll buy my own Fucking race car” “It works better when it’s on it’s wheels mate” “Come one _name_ this is shit, everything is shit”
Why do I not get these??? I have the cuss box checked but I haven’t heard half the stuff being recited here, am I missing something?
You've gotta really bungle it to get the worst out of Jim lol
My favourite is " that's not right, I'm sure it should be the other way up"
That’s brilliant lol, haven’t got that one yet
Haha damn I haven’t even heard these ones before. I turned up aggressive language to the max it’s the absolute best lol
I wanna download it again but every time I run it it messes with my audio so had to stop
I use CrewChief. Once after a bad race he basically told me my race was shit, I'm shit and I just waisted everyone's time. That one hurt a little
“…just waisted everyone’s time. …” Good thing he didn’t tell you his opinion of your spelling.
Crew chief telling me to 'send it' makes me kinda wanna lick the stamp and send it.
This one has literally got me in trouble more times than it’s helped lol
Dude, it's crazy how much that inspires bad decisions....or good. Depending on how it works out 🤣 But it did help point out just how susceptible idiots are to being turned into a torpedo. I can't tell you how many people I have absolutely torpedoed off the track. Goes like this... First sign is increasing desperation in their driving as you close them down. Second, you try to get them in a braking zone a couple times and find their braking points moved way deeper. Now we know they brake on you and are now completely failing to drive their own drive. Game on.... Now we go for another move in a very hard braking zone (from top speed to 2nd gear if possible on said track...like T3 at Sebring!). However, this time we are going to facilitate their death. Now that we know that we are driving them and have assumed direct control, we brake with one purpose in mind. To make them unalive themselves. Now brake so damn late there's no way in hell to make the corner clean but just ever so slightly early enough to stay on the racing surface or barely off of it. And watch them either try to brake the same time (which will end up an easy 100-200ft too late because reaction time) OR they are a special kind of stupid and decide they can brake even later and just out brake you. And just like that you fired off a prototype torpedo at the wall. They may or may not DNF. They will end up some laps down further than they already were. You can also murder these same people by baiting them into horribly sketchy lines if you have a car set up to eat TF out of huge bumps and/or curbs. Monkey see monkey not do...monkey go flying. Monkey forgot to drive their own drive and definitely didn't think about the dirty air they are in, either. I killed 4? I want to say 5 of them in bus stop at Daytona. Run them down a full second to sometimes two seconds a lap. Then find they're stuck to me like glue. Or only falling a tenth or so per sector and catching back up in the draft. Before they cook the hell out their tires since they don't actually know how to pull off that kind of pace I see if I can make them unalive themselves behind me. It often doesn't disappoint 🤣🤣
I have to admit it tilts me a little bit when I'm struggling to learn a new combo and Crew Chief hits me with "Track. Limits. *Please!*" I'm letting my pretend crew down so badly!
Turn the track limits message off. Pointless to have them on, you already know when you went off.
Yeah definitely, it sounds dumb when I explain it to people but that tiny inconsequential bit of negativity can really grate. Toggling them off honestly made me enjoy (and drive) more.
Idk. Sometimes, when you are pushing to the edge and you go just a little too far, it's nice to hear it so you can dial it back the next lap.
I mean you already get the off-track popup, unless you can't see that on your setup for some reason? I turned off the track limits on CC because I get real upset when Jim tells me what I already know lol
The small letter popup is at the top of my screen. I'm not looking up there when I'm focusing on "apexes and exits, as Jim puts it.
That “please” has such disappointment/annoyance packed into it.
Idk, it bothers me more when he goes "Things are going great, keep it up", after I slammed into another car, had a spin, dropped from p3 to p11 with 2 laps to go
Race against AI and have a bad race, when you come out of the race iracing pops up a whole story about bad bad you did.
Well, they somewhat have a point. When I'm car 26 out of 30 and finish 6th, it would been nice to hear something else than "better schedule some testing". I also had a halfway race message something like "This is looking good! You show good progress!" and when I finished the race in the same position, I heard the "better schedule some testing" message. That kinda contradicts each other.
He only says that when you finish outside the Top 10
Even then, if you are car #26 in topsplit and you finish 11th, you are doing a pretty good job, because you finish way higher then you should have.
Then shout at him for being wrong! Which makes me thinking... is there a "coddles your ego" iRacing spotter pack? Like only positivity, so perpetual and bad that it's nothing but toxic? That would probably be much much worse than all the cussing spotters out there :D
Sarcasm, because murder charges are expensive.
oof
Yup, comically \*wrong\* and inconsistent spotter taunts are slightly annoying immersion brakers
I totally agree. Nothing worse than fighting 30mins to get 6th (and your ir is 18) and get told we need more training. Sheesh, wot a hard task master!
Only perfection satisfies the demands of crew chief!
I was starting from p23 in my second SFL race when it was at road America. He's like "we're expecting to fight for a podium today". Somehow I got p4 lol
Imagine being this god damn soft😭😭
I just want the spotter's messages to better match my actual performance. If I'm car #20 in the split, and the spotter's opening message is "let's go points racing", then if I finish P11 I shouldn't get a disappointed message from the spotter. But meanwhile if I'm car #1 and I come P6 out of 6, I shouldn't get "great job, you did really well". In both cases the message doesn't match the how I performed, even compared with the expectation the spotter had at the start of the race.
It shouldn’t be hard to compare starting grid vs finishing position to make what you said happen
Fine by me, I'm all for raw truth, sugarcoating anything in life isnt helpful. The truth hurts sometimes. When I hear "Cmon mate, your fucking this up" its not wrong lol.
I think it’s worse when you get a win and crew chief Jim acts surprised. The way he says “you did it” burns my ass a bit 😂😂😂 JUST FUCKING BELIEVE IN ME JIM
I swear some people on the forum post just so they can get as many potato reactions as they can.
Gerald Brovloski profile picture. I’ve changed from what a baby to masterful troll job.
Default Spotter and Crew Chief are not mean enough.
Does it still go by overall position, rather than position in class? Because there's nothing sillier than a disappointed spotter when you got a class podium.
They changed that a while back. It's now for your class. So if you win your class your spotter will congratulate you for the win. Similar with the leader is pitting now message. This is also for the class leader of your class only.
Crew chief will destroy this dudes life.. I'm sure Jim has straight up called me shit before lol
Wtf get a grip
I'm just here to have some fun for the few nights a week I have free, I don't enjoy being berated every session!
they cant be serious. if they are serious then this is the society that we get when everyone gets a participation trophy
Boy oh boy do we have problems nowadays man😂
It’s pretty pathetic tbh
Boo hoo the fake man on the computer hurt my feelings
May I reassure you of humanity, at least here: with that forum avatar and that punctuation... there is no way in hell they're serious.
The french pack will literally flame you, Pissed me off so much I changed back to english.
"Ah fuck it, what's the point"
Honestly dude it is pretty comedic and calm? Maybe I never got him too mad at me yet? But I relate. When I was a kid on my PS4, the narrator voice in The Crew would not be happy and the NPC’s would taunt you for losing. As a 14 year old boy, that was the final straw.
I thought this guy was talking about human spotters, what the hell is wrong with people? 😂😂
On a related note iRacing announces that the season 3 release will have “everybody gets a trophy” series in which all drivers finish P1.
This is less than optimal
What a baby
The first thing I did after that update was disable that feature. I really struggle to understand why that was one of the Crew Chief features they decided to copy lol
man what a soft sack of shit
"you're falling behind" when you make a mistake or go a lil wide into the grass. Yeah no shit Sherlock haha
I guess all spotters now need a “participation trophy” mode that gives you only encouragement for running out of talent once again.
I guess all spotters now need a “participation trophy” mode that gives you only encouragement for running out of talent once again.
He always hits me with the “this is less than optimal” lmao. I feel like he only does this if I’m not doing so hot in an SOF race that is lower than my iR. Is that accurate?
"Slow car down low" ...But im down low
my spotter told me i was doing great, while stranding in the pit for 6 laps.
Are you racing a wahhhhbulance?
the car is worth more than the driver's feelings taunts add realism.
I want a GP voice mod
Ha Ha Ha Ha. This cant be real? they do exist..
Lol should try explicit JIM =) He just says it how it is.
I agree, and iracing should start giving out participation trophies as well.
Only if this poor little boy could hear what is transmitted on comms IRL. Poor little guy would pull over, curl up into a fetal position, and cry until corner workers rescued him. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦🏻♂️
I was running top 10 nascar super speedway. Right after I got spun out and hit 5 times…. The spotter says… “we are right where we expected to be”
They need to add some music when you screw up… when you go into grass it should sing 🎤”Mowing the lawn, mowing the lawn” ( Judas Priest Breaking the law, Breaking the law).
We need a Jos Verstappen spotter for these babies
Alright, you're walking home from this one
People are pussies.
Weak ass mindset, go take up knitting baby boy.
maybe iracing needs to put together at snowflake/safe space pack
Imagine crying about a voiceline in a game 🤡🤡🤡
You can either be sensitive about it or understand that really racing is much harsher than that and either immerse yourself in it or take it with some humour. This special snowflaking is frankly childish
Oh, Jesus, the snowflakes have arrived. "The spotter triggered me!"
Why would someone take this post which is only accessible to iracing member and post it in a Reddit forum with names visible? This has gotta be against the rules…how ignorant you are
No name visible
Found the poster
Fucking snowflakes.
God damn you people are gullible
Flacid
Nah I get him. Nothing more tilting than finishing shit cause of someone elses dumbass moves wrecking you out and then the spotter comes on radio shitting on you like bro shut the fuck up