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The Tip Jar – Special Pro Racer Edition

Sage advice from fellow sim racer and real-life pro race car driver, Tyler Cooke!

by Dean Chapman, Northern New Jersey Region PCA

What do you ensure you always do before a race?

Tyler Cooke, “I listen to some pump-up music, go over setup with the engineer, and focus on what I need to do to get the best result. A lot of times I am watching the broadcast and time charts to see how the car is doing throughout the stint and when the fall off starts. Knowing that information can help with finishing the race.”

What do Read More >

February 20th, 2021|Categories: tipjar, Uncategorized|Tags: Dean's List, driver training, interviews, iRacing, PCA Sim Racing, Porsche Club of America, racing tips, TYLER COOKE|

Dean’s List – Special Pro Racer Edition

by Dean Chapman, Northern New Jersey Region PCA

Congratulations! Welcome to our third and special web release!

You have found yourself on the pole position at the Dean’s List!

The Dean’s List is the place for me to ask questions of fellow PCA Sim Racing competitors, hopefully gleaning tidbits of information about their likes, dislikes, and equipment.
I’d like to thank Josh Vieira for hooking me up here. Josh is our very own PCA member, Senior Zone Coordinator Zone 2 and 4, PCA Pro SIM racer, 944 real-life podium grabbing champ, and all-around super nice guy. (I think that’s worth $5! Josh?…:-)

Let’s move immediately Read More >

February 20th, 2021|Categories: deanslist, Uncategorized|Tags: AUDI, BMW, DEAN CHAPMAN, Dean's List, Fanatec, interviews, iRacing, PCA Sim Racing, Porsche, Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche Club of America, TYLER COOKE|

Important server details for Series 4 drivers

Series 4 Prelude

Series 4 Prelude(s) will be announced soon.

Please be aware that they too may be oversubscribed, so PLEASE JOIN THE CORRECT SERVER.

We will be emulating the schedule to be used for Friday’s races

There will be 2 Prelude servers

Just as there are 2 servers for Series 4, there will be 2 Prelude servers named the same as the Friday race servers:

Server 1: PCA Sportsman and PCA Rookie classes ONLY

Server 2: PCA Club and PCA Pro classes ONLY

Joining the correct server

If you join a server as a participant for the Prelude on Wednesday or a Race Read More >

March 1st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

Race Comms: A Primer Q&A

Dewey… I just realized there is a section in the Guidelines PDF also on the same topic. Doh.

Can all of this stuff below from the Guidelines go into here, then I will change the Guidelines to go to this page?

13. Communications
As a condition of participating in PCA Sim Racing Series 4, drivers agree to the following items:
A. Race Stewards will communicate with drivers via the iRacing voice chat function during the event.
B. The iRacing voice chat function will be disabled for all drivers during qualifying.
C. All drivers must park their car in pit lane and listen to the Read More >

March 1st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

PCA Sim Racing Series 4 Planning Survey Results

By Matt Mitchell, Peachstate Region PCA

Introduction

Without all of you participating in our events they would not be possible. On behalf of the PCA Sim Racing Steering Committee, we would like to thank each one of you for your sportsmanship, participation, and understanding through our most successful series yet!

We saw outstanding growth during this series and had to adapt to changes to ensure participation.

Additionally, thanks to all the 167 people that participated in our series end survey. Without your opinions, we could not grow and adapt as we have done so far. The PCA Sim Racing Steering Committee takes your responses Read More >

May 30th, 2000|Categories: Uncategorized|