Thanks Richard, that seems reasonable.
As they average your best, it would appear that giving yourself as many opportunities to be at your best sounds like a good idea.
I suppose there are diminishing returns to quantity of races. We probably “revert to mean” or something over enough starts.
You will regress to the mean in all scenarios. Even if you only race when you are fresh and mentally on you will have better and worse races. In KK you might be #1 on the global leaderboard but most of your laps will cluster around some slower time.
But if you go for quantity you may drag your mean down over time. Sloppy, distracted driving might cement sloppy habits causing your mean to drift down instead of just seeing your average point regress to the mean.
I could see that for sure. Here’s a different possibility, at least for the early days of ones Iracing experience.
It seems to me that as we change tracks, the week results in progressively faster times (track knowledge). Also, as one plays, one starts to get the “hang” of things and figures out a “play style” that allows them to get best results.
I wouldn’t be surprised if more laps early increases rate of learning and thus results. But it probably falls off quickly?
I will do as much as I can (laps/races) for science.
That’s a very true observation. The important laps are one-offs. I would nibble at the ultimate fast lap and somehow break through. Once I did, I would invariably enjoy higher pace for a day or two, fall off, then find it permanently.
The bulk of my TT laps were in a range. The fastest were low probability which became more and more probable.
I think you might be right about the people who front-load time at a new track placing higher later in the week and earning more points. Faster times, less crashing, probably. Long term, total hours driven is probably the better indicator of success than when those hours are driven, but it may have a non-zero impact.
My guess is that this advantage fades in the higher categories where people know the tracks beforehand and are just better drivers.
That seems very likely indeed.
Faster
Stay out of trouble and there’s another podium for you, Dominique! These fastter drivers go boom because they all seem to want to win too much. My pace is, surprisingly, fine. I went into the .4s, today. Still trying to feel where the front right can just start gripping on the oval exits. It is so very subtle and I am just beginning to feel/see it.
I can’t help but think of TJ starting to work with me on strategy in driving. All the stuff he’s taught me about self-control, reflection, patience is starting to take. By nature I am impatient, insecure about my abilities, and likely to self-destruct. I am starting to fake it less and feel it more.
4th was 4 laps down! Lollorskates
Yep. That’s how it always seems to roll. Hang in there and let them explode. I’ll timestamp a fiasco that I drive through. It doesn’t take much, just one guy in the pack trying to stick his nose in.
This line has become a running joke I use on my boss all the time! 
Oh by the way, this is all fine and well, staying out of trouble. The problem is it only works some of the time. The Bumper Ninjas usually get me! In next race, they did. It seems that some folks get so upset thay are down laps that they basically start trying to make dumb passes. They never freaking learn, either.
Man I can’t wait to get back on iracing. Still waiting for one cable I ordered 2 weeks ago. Amazon it seems we’re incapable of delivering it (they kept sending it to the (completely) wrong area. Now it’s being returned to the seller 
It’s a bit like living over a candy store if you have a sweet tooth. It’s really hard to not jump into races. I had to shut myself down at 5am. I need a cable to get lost in the mail to find balance lol.I think I ran 7 or so races last night/this am (for science).
One of them was epic! My SR is just under 4, I have gotten really good at avoiding oval chaos!
Oh my days 7 races! Bahaha awesome.
I am taking a foced sabbatical tonight and will play project cars on xbox with @AndreLafond and @E13
Plan is 8pm (USA Eastern Standard) if anyone feels like goofing around. I warn you that I am incompetent at PCars and will likely punt whoever has the misfortune of driving near me.
Tale of the tape:
I was at the sim studio yesterday and had a breakthrough in understanding weight transfer to help the car rotate into fast turns. I might even have started trail braking a tiny bit. I dropped .9 seconds off my PR on a 70 second lap.
I also did my first race with a bunch of people. Navigating faster and slower drivers is a skill set I’m going to have to work on but reading Dom’s race reports here was a big help on that point.
That is very cool! I am happy to hear all this has been useful to someone else! Thank you. Feel free to jump in and share experiences or ask questions. My hope is that folks see this as an open discussion. I just try to keep it alive with my antics.
Warren @speedcraft advocates using the ghost feature. Apparently there is a way to go into Iraces and race alongside everyone in no-contact mode. They can’t see you.
This would be a great way to get more experience in traffic. It’s OK to noob it up, tho, as well. Everyone crashes into each other a bunch at first. Thus, the splits system.
Well I finally managed to be late for a race. I realized it was 3:11 am and that I was in deep crap. I hopped in with about 13 mins left in the race, I estimate. So, I ran my way up to 7th pretty quickly.
Then, with 2 mins to go, there’s a horrendous wreck and I zoom into 3rd, I think!!!
And then my VR helmet konks out. Black screen. (Crashing noises). 
That would have been a small miracle, to podium whilst being late for a race. Were it not for technology, alas.
Ha, my next one, I get rear ended in formation lap, try to go into pits. Oops, pits, closed.
As a consequence I watch the race start without me, as I serve a 30s penalty in the pits.
My races earlier were unreal, though. I got a podium in a very tough field. The races were hard work but I placed very well, overall, thus far. These two last fiascos are a bit of white noise.
Few months ago, lap 1. Skippy at Spa
