Ever wonder how to secure your spot in the elite ranks of Low Fuel Motorsport (LFM) racing? This week, Jeff and I lay out the road to glory in the virtual racing world, where sim racers put their skills to the test for that coveted LFM license on Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competizione. We’re talking razor-thin lap times, the nitty-gritty of ELO ratings, and Jeff's own tales of triumph and tribulation on the track. Whether you're a sim racing rookie or a digital Dale Earnhardt, you're going to want to buckle up for this ride.
If you think getting the latest high-end racing gear is your golden ticket to sim racing fame, you'll want to hear how Jeff's P1000 pedals transformed his gameplay—and how you can do the same. From aligning your training with the racing season for maximum impact, to the subtle art of maintaining a pristine safety rating, we've got the playbook to help you navigate the digital circuits like a pro. Plus, we don't shy away from discussing the importance of sportsmanship; after all, nobody wants to be the racer who gets black-flagged for bad behavior.
As we cross the finish line on this week's episode, we shift gears to the ultimate fan experience with F1 TV's Multi-Viewer, bringing Formula 1 action straight into your living room with unprecedented detail. Eric, Kelly, Jeff and I also chew over the week's racing escapades, blending hearty laughs with our competitive spirit. Whether you're all about the adrenaline rush or just cruising for a good time, join us for an episode that celebrates the joy of racing, offers insider tips, and kicks your week into high gear.
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Ever wonder how to secure your spot in the elite ranks of Low Fuel Motorsport (LFM) racing? This week, Jeff and I lay out the road to glory in the virtual racing world, where sim racers put their skills to the test for that coveted LFM license on Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competizione. We’re talking razor-thin lap times, the nitty-gritty of ELO ratings, and Jeff's own tales of triumph and tribulation on the track. Whether you're a sim racing rookie or a digital Dale Earnhardt, you're going to want to buckle up for this ride.
If you think getting the latest high-end racing gear is your golden ticket to sim racing fame, you'll want to hear how Jeff's P1000 pedals transformed his gameplay—and how you can do the same. From aligning your training with the racing season for maximum impact, to the subtle art of maintaining a pristine safety rating, we've got the playbook to help you navigate the digital circuits like a pro. Plus, we don't shy away from discussing the importance of sportsmanship; after all, nobody wants to be the racer who gets black-flagged for bad behavior.
As we cross the finish line on this week's episode, we shift gears to the ultimate fan experience with F1 TV's Multi-Viewer, bringing Formula 1 action straight into your living room with unprecedented detail. Eric, Kelly, Jeff and I also chew over the week's racing escapades, blending hearty laughs with our competitive spirit. Whether you're all about the adrenaline rush or just cruising for a good time, join us for an episode that celebrates the joy of racing, offers insider tips, and kicks your week into high gear.
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Jason:
The Hello and welcome to the Chicane Podcast, where we discuss all things in the sim racing world. I'm your host, jason Rivera, and I'm joined here again today by Mr Eric Kelly and Jeff Smart. How are you all doing today? I'm good, hey we're doing well.
Jeff:
We're doing well.
Jason:
Doing well. That's good to hear, man. I'm doing great myself, and we have a few topics to talk about today. We're going to cover LFM today, which is low fuel motorsport, and we're also going to cover an application that's called multi-view, and Jeff's going to cover that for us. And then, if we have time again which I said the same thing the last episode then we'll touch on the different sim racing platforms. It's just, we have so much info that's kind of taken precedence. We, you know, we want to put the, the, the, the meat and potatoes out first, if you know what I mean. So, without further ado, I'm going to get into LFM. So LFM is a server that hosts ACC and Assetto Corsa, the regular Assetto Corsa races. It is the most competitive thing that I've put myself through and I'm pretty sure Jeff can elaborate just a little because he's in the process of getting his LFM license. So I want your thoughts on that so far, jeff, on your progress and where are you with it.
Jeff:
Yeah, jason it's a, it's a challenge. Those times that those guys are throwing the requirements to qualify, if you will, for LFM is is a challenge. I, I'm on the limit now where I need to drive the car above my ability level. I can meet the time, but maybe a quarter second the cutoffs, you know. But there's not much room if I make a little bit of error. I'm driving the car at the limits that I have. So I'm sure you'll get into it more in some of the requirements, but I, I think it's like three or seven laps under a certain timeframe and I can do one or two laps at the at the meeting the requirement.
Jeff:
But, um, uh, I'll, eventually I'm too far on my limits that I'm going to, I'm going to go track limits and you need to do those, those. The laps need to be in a row. Um, I'm close, I'm close. Uh, it's a challenge with me. You know, with the two kids I can't get in there and really master the track before they. Uh, lfm changes the track for where you have to qualify on, but I'll let you go more into the, the, the, the requirements for qualifying to be able to race on LFM. Um, and then I can kind of chime in a little bit more.
Jason:
Right, and most of what you said is right on point. So the LFM license first of all you need a safety rating of a minimum of 80. That is the safety rating inside of ACC, which is a totally different thing, because to get that safety rating up when I first started it took me over 40 hours, 40 human hours, to get that, to get my rating enough to be competitive on the server. And then on top of that, the lfm server has their own safety rating, which I'll go into in a bit, and they also have their own kind of like. It's like it's called ELO and they kind of match you based off your ELO and it's based off your performance. But for a license to cover the license piece, it's seven consecutive valid laps driven on their server and you it's.
Jason:
It's a weird number because it says here that in order to obtain an LFM driver license, a hot stint, right. So a hot stint of seven consecutive laps must be driven on one of our two license run servers. So have a, a feature where if you have a safety that's higher than 95 and you're able to qualify, they'll start you at a higher safety rating is what they'll do. But the minimum is 80 and it says here the average lap time of this hot stint must not exceed 107% of the LFM track record race, basically the LFM track record on this particular race. On this particular track, excuse me, you can't exceed 107%. So there's a weird calculation that you have to do to get that. To get those times, I highly recommend just going on YouTube. There's a YouTuber that, there's a bunch of YouTubers that have the license guide, if you may, and they covered a track, they covered the corners, they covered the actual time that you need.
Jeff:
Highly recommend. Highly recommend. Go watch the video they're an hour plus long where you can go track limits, where you can go over the curbs, where you can't what gears you should be in setting up for the previous curve. So, Jason, I want to step up before you moved over there, just to articulate that to the listeners. That is good stuff. That is super helpful to people, especially if you have limited experience on the track that they're qualifying on.
Jason:
Oh, definitely no, no problem, definitely.
Erick:
So I guess, without not even being able to, I guess, dip my toe into that world. Yet is LFM only on Assetto Corsa?
Jason:
It's Assetto Corsa and the original Assetto Corsa. Assetto Corsa. Sorry, ACC, and the original Assetto Corsa.
Erick:
Okay, okay and the original set of Corsa.
Jason:
Okay, okay, so it's actually out of Europe, this server. And then, furthermore, it says here, just to cap this off, is that you need at least an 80 to require 80 safety. Sa safety rating is required to be able to connect to the server. So you can't even connect to it without having a high safety rating like that. So the procedure of the license run, they go into detail and it's basically seven clean laps.
Jason:
So if at any point you go off track, spin out, lose the car, you start all over again and it could be stressful, man, because it could be stressful, but at the same time, in my own personal opinion, it's worth it. Because think about it, because think about it. How many times have you jumped on a server that anybody can join? And you have people that just don't take racing seriously, without mentioning because a lot of people like to put the blame on kids, right, there's, there's kids out there that actually race and want to take it serious. So I don't want to do that, you know, I don't want to just point a finger at a, at a, you know, younger adolescent that is really competitive and is interested. You know what I'm saying. So, yeah, so it's, it's worth it and the uh the yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Jeff:
you're gonna have to be committed to qualifying on LFM. I mean, you're going to really need to put some time in practice on that track, specifically grinding out some laps In seven laps, full out at qualifying pace for those time limits. You're not going to just jump in the rig and do those times, but when you qualify you're going to have competitive, competitive racing, like Jason was saying.
Erick:
Yeah, that makes sense.
Jason:
So, usually clean question Usually clean If you guys watch my recent streams. That's not always the case now, but go ahead, eric.
Erick:
Yeah, so just thinking about it, because you know I've heard Jason talking about LFM before and how it's, you know it is very competitive With it being out of Europe. Are there any like network connectivity requirements? Do they require a certain ping or something like that or something like that if you're going to actually race? Because I assume that would kind of affect the quality of the race if you have somebody trying to race and have a terrible network connection that is a good question.
Jason:
That is a great question. I know that you will be kicked out of the server if you reach a certain ping. I'm not sure what ping that is. So they monitor. It is what I'm saying, but it's automated. Same thing with a set of Corsa If your ping is over 100 and something or 200, you're getting kicked. That's cool.
Jason:
Yeah, at least they have those measures in place for the server. But me personally, being out of Hawaii, it Hawaii is no secret and we're reaching European servers that's halfway around the world. I haven't had a single issue. I would see lag spikes but it's not server related. It's lag spikes with other drivers, but it's very minuscule, very like maybe a jitter here and a jitter there and that's about it. You know you can still hold close racing because you know it's it's um. You can check it out for yourself and one of my streams it's pretty smooth. It's almost like I'm not racing online. It's almost like I'm racing the ai. Is that smooth?
Erick:
Yeah, that's beautiful Because you know, being on console, there are guys connecting on Wi-Fi and you see cars kind of like just kind of blipping around the map sometimes and you know that can be frustrating. But also I'm in a lot more of a casual environment, so just curious about that for something that's a lot more structured, like that.
Jason:
If you're talking about GT7, I know GT7 has a pro league and they have different leagues that take it serious too. There's options for you. If you're on GT7, eric can definitely touch on different leagues because you're not forced, you're on a console. You limited. I understand that. But then there's people that are that are making these types of groups, that are making it so that way. Hey, you guys want to race and you really serious about this. This is the place for you, right?
Erick:
so, oh, yeah yeah, definitely, and not to say that that doesn't, that doesn't exist. I mean, they're having the manufacturers cup for 2024 right now, where you got pretty much every major sponsor and there's money too involved in that too oh, it's an entire product. It's like a race day level, it's a track day. They do that. They do that in lfm too.
Jason:
They have prizes, they. What impressed me on lfm recently is, you know, we just had the north slather track drop. So then, yeah, there's 50 cars on the track in real time I don't know how many. That is a lot of. Yeah. That is a lot to process on a 24-hour race. The server obviously it's not perfect. They had a crash because it was their first time, but they definitely bumped the numbers up capability-wise on the server side of things.
Erick:
Yeah, they had to. So was it all just all the same group, or they had multiple groups racing at one time?
Jason:
Great question, different categories. So it's insane, dude. You have the GT4 class, the GT3 class and there's one more, I think the TCR class, but TCR doesn't apply. That's my mistake. Tcr would be on iRacing. Apply. Um, that's my mistake. Tcr would be on iRacing. I believe it was gt2, gt3 and gt4. I need to go back and and verify that. But they do support multi-class, which is insane, because if you're in a gt4 and a gt3 is behind you, you need to move out the way. Yeah, that's confusing.
Jeff:
I've been in a handful of races like that and it's. It's a bit much for a beginner oh yeah, yes, definitely yeah and that's a good, that's a good point, jeff, go ahead, jeff I was gonna ask you know, being that you said it was out of europe, do you have any issues especially, you know, almost living on the other side of the world, when you get in the rig trying to find a race, or do they offer them every hour, et cetera? Is there enough people to fill a race? What does that look like?
Jason:
That is a great question. So in the LFM season there's different categories which I'll touch here in a second, but to give you a quick synopsis, right, there's different categories, like different classes. You have your gt4, your gt3 and now your gt2 class, but then they're divided by the type of license that you have and the type of safety rating that you have as well. So you have to be high enough, and then on top of that, for nordschle, you have to get another license just to race on the Nordschleife track, which I don't have, by the way, because I don't have the pace right now on that track. It's just huge, it's a beast. And I'll go over this really quickly. Everybody starts with a rookie license and then you can get better license with higher ELO, right? So the license is as follows Rookie iron, iron plus bronze, bronze plus silver, silver plus gold, gold plus platinum, diamond, legend.
Jason:
And then there's alien, and to be an alien alien you need a minimum of 8 000 elo. I'm only at 1200 elo, just to give you context. Okay, so for the uh, for the iron, you need to. For the iron you just need 10 ranked races and 1,000 ELO or less, and for iron plus you just need 1,000 ELO, anything over, and then bronze 1,300, and so on and so forth 1,300, 1,500, bronze plus Silver is 1,700, and then 2,000, 25 ranked races, gold is 2,550 races and gold plus is 3,200, and then it just keeps going up. Man Platinum 4,000. Diamond 5,000. Legend 6,000. And in addition I'll cover this really quickly For the safety ratings, you have F, as in Foxtrot E3, e2, e1, d3, d2, d1, c2, c3, c2, c1, b3, b2, b1, a3, a2, a1, and then you have an S, and I am currently, and very proud, I have a B3 safety rating.
Jeff:
Good for you, man, that's impressive.
Jason:
Thanks, man.
Jeff:
I appreciate that it takes a lot of work and grinding and technique and stuff. Good for you.
Jason:
That did take a long time, man, I'm not even going to lie. So the license does. The track for the license does change with every season. So just go on the website and check what the track is at that particular time. And you want to take advantage of that, right? Because if we're mid-season, just hear me out guys. If we're mid-season into the LFM season, whatever season, we're season 14 right now and you start learning this track and two weeks go by and you still don't have the pace. They're going to change the track. So it's going to be a waste. You want to start right at the season start. So if next season is, I don't know, spa, for example, and you love Spa, that's like Jeff's favorite track, love it.
Jason:
And you know Spa and you can definitely. If you know the track and you know the layout, it's not hard to gain those seconds or tenths Because you already know the track and all you got to do is find ways to push it. And I even mentioned to Jeff this morning that he just got a brand new set of pedals, the P1000s, that he just got a brand new set of pedals, the P1000s, and he told me that he's breaking his all-time fast records within a few days. And I told Jeff I was like Jeff, you should be looking at competitive setups to bring that time down just a bit further, to give you the boost to get a license. That's my opinion, though some people. I did the license test using the aggressive setup just to let you guys know, but I struggled. It took me a long time to get there, but I got there and and trust me, anybody listening to this podcast if I can make that safety rating, you can. Anybody can do it.
Jeff:
You know what I'm saying, even if it's a few hours a week, if you, yeah I was gonna say the safety rating on in the in acc is, I think, a lot more fun and enjoyable portion of it than than the grinding on the single track, because you can do it racing ai right and and just find a track you're comfortable with. Um, you know, you can turn down your ai just a little bit and you're going to want to run door-to-door as much as you can in those races. You don't have to win them. Set yourself mid-pack that's what I did and just good driving, clean driving door-to-door. I did waste a number of weeks trying to drive bumper-to-bumper. That doesn't help you out when it comes to safety. You got to be door to door.
Jeff:
You want to be side to side as close as you can Side by side, yep, and then just have fun as you're doing it, learn some technique while you're doing it and then once you get to safety, then you just have to like Jason was saying, time it right with where they are in the season and the track. You're comfortable with um and just you know, start grinding on that on the track to be comfortable with it and I have another.
Jason:
I have another thing for you, and this is gonna make you laugh. Jeff, for the love of god, if you have a visitor, come over the house. You know where I'm going with it. I do turn off the damn ratings. Just turn them off, because if you let somebody in that car, it doesn't matter if you're in a practice race. They wreck the car.
Jeff:
It's recording everything that you're doing, everything, yeah so everybody out there knows now that I had some friend came over and stay with us, obviously wanted to drive in the rig, jumped in acc and I did not turn off my safety rating. So anybody uh that started has done a sim racing, especially the gentleman. I always find it's the gentleman that throw it into the wall first turn. They think they can go, you know, gas pedal all the way around the track. Um, I find I don't know about everybody else, but the women first time drivers do much better than the gentlemen. They just kind of take their time. They're gentle, they're gentle, they're okay, they're happy to use that brake pedal. The guys just want to go hammer down around the car. You can't do that. So, yeah, turn your safety ratings off when your friends get in your rig.
Jason:
Yes, that applies to you too, Eric man. When you start getting into ACC like that, you might want to turn that off.
Jeff:
It's hard earned and it'll go away real quick.
Erick:
Yes, definitely turn that off. I may put them in need for speed or something.
Jason:
Yeah, no, definitely, and I mean the same thing can be said about GT7. I don't want to put them down. I mean the same thing can be said about GT7. I don't want to put them down. You don't want to have somebody join a race using your record, your profile, that's being recorded. You know what I mean? 100% has races at different times. I'll go ahead and check what's going on at this minute.
Jason:
But for penalties, just keep this in mind, guys it doesn't matter who did it. If you got hit or the other person hit the other person in whatever you got into a wreck, an accident, you just got tapped on the door. They're going to penalize every single driver that was involved in it. So don't go on the server and send direct messages to people cursing them out, because you will be banned from the server and it's a hard ban, it's a permanent ban. There's no way to get back from it 's. You can send them an email, but they have a code of conduct and they make you sign that agreement on every single race that you sign up for. Oh yeah, so they take this very serious, man, and sometimes you can be soft banned, and it could be a week, it could be a few months, you know, depends yeah, sound like you're speaking from experience, man I was gonna say that no man I, thankfully, bro, I've been a good boy.
Jason:
I've been a good boy. So right now, so right now, I'm a b3. Right right now they have the donnington park, that's with. That's the pro series. Gt another GT3 endurance race. That's a six hour race. If you want to jump in there, it starts in about 40 hours. Then you have a box one GT4 at Silverstone. It's a 30 minute race, and so on and so forth.
Jason:
Right, because these change daily. It changes based off the week and the season, and when you click on there you can see how many drivers are registered. And then it gives you the server number that you're assigned to once you sign up. And once you sign up and you got your server number, pay attention, because when you paste that server number into ACC in the multiplayer server browser, you might have a hundred drivers. So you got to check what split you're in. You know what I mean. You don't want to join the wrong split, um, because the once you type in the server number, it's going to bring up all the the entire server, and then if there's four or three splits, then you just got to make sure that you go back to the website and check Um free. I failed to mention that. They're $10 a month and they give you LMU setups, acc, iracing and, I think, assetto Corsa. Now they're starting to put setups up and these setups are created by aliens.
Jason:
The top of the top, the impossible lap times that you see on YouTube. So, if you can that's what I was telling Jeff If Jeff, if you can, you know, take one of those and try and see how the car feels, and then you can probably some people use it as a starting point. You take that setup and then fine tune it to make it more comfortable. On for your, you know, for your style of driving, because there is no one setup for all. It's impossible. Everybody has their own habits and Well, not habits, they have their own style. You know what I mean.
Jason:
So that's all I'm going to cover today on LFM, I absolutely love it. I drive twice a week on my Twitch channel. Check me out. I got wrecked many times because it's just, things happen in racing. It's just a racing incident. You watch F1. Those are the fastest people in the world. They get into wrecks all the time. They go off track. Don't feel bad, like Jeff said in the last podcast. Don't feel bad if you're tagged up for track limits because the pros do it. You know what I mean. So, with that said, I'm going to hand this over to Jeff and he's going to cover an application that's amazing and it's. I actually use this application while racing, you know, and it it's kind of cool, it's a tool and it'll help you compare lap times, but I don't want to take up jeff's time. Jeff, go ahead yeah, all right.
Jeff:
So, um, I'm a big f1 fan, watching f1, uh, and I stumbled across an app called multi view and it is blows the standard F1 broadcast out of the water. So if you're interested, you can head over to multiviewerapp and then download the application. The only catch here is it does require an F1 TV subscription. It's about $9 a month, but well worth it, even if it's just outside. If you're not going to use MultiViewer to get that, you can watch at your leisure. You can watch the free practice, qualifying, pre-race show, the race, post-race show, all that stuff whenever you want. But separate from that, the multi-viewer is fantastic. So what it really is is it gives you the ability to watch different cameras from the F1 broadcast. So if you've ever watched F1, you'll see the normal broadcast where you have the European broadcasts and they'll switch from camera to camera showing individual racing between first place and second place, seventh place, eighth place, a certain chicane, whatever. But it also lets you put up as many windows as your TV computer, whatever you're watching it on, can do. Push out and you can see clearly. So the way I kind of set it up is I have about two thirds of my screen is the main broadcast. And then, since I'm a Mercedes guy, I have my two Mercedes camera views, or first person view, so they have the camera right over the head of the driver. So I have George Russell and Lewis Hamilton from their individual car feeds. And then I'll grab probably one of the other Ferraris, because I think I'd be, my second favorite team is a Ferrari.
Jeff:
I'll put up a Sites of Leclerc there and then they also have a data wall that you can put up and they have every spec of data that you could possibly want. You're talking the RPMs that they're in the gear that they're in. It breaks each of the sectors of the track, the three sectors of the track. They break it down into five individual portions of each sector and they give you a green, yellow or red on speed, on how well they're doing. They have their fastest lap time, their average lap time, their last lap time. They have the time between the person in front of them, the person behind them, that has the data on uh, what wheel they're using or, excuse me, what tire they're using if it's a soft, medium or hard compounds, how many laps are on uh, that tire. You know, have they done a pit stop on every driver in real time.
Jeff:
So you have in real time all 20 drivers and it's spitting out the data in real time. And then I have another uh window that has the like a 40 000 view of look down at the track of where the, where each driver, uh car, is on the track. And the cool part is you just have to hit sync and all the cameras are synced up to to main video feed so you can look up on the One button, press One button press and you're looking at the broadcast of a Mercedes going around a turn and you can look down into the Mercedes FOV camera and he's actually doing that turn.
Jeff:
It's just gives you a much more better appreciation of what these drivers are doing in the car when you see all the data that they're dealing with changing modes on the car, drs are they using, overtake, the ERS, all while they're driving a car 200 miles an hour. It has totally changed the way I watch F1.
Jason:
it has totally changed the way I watch f1. It's basically like the, the, the screens that the race engineers are staring at, the weather and the track and the different cameras. And then the thing that I loved about and thank you because jeff jeff was the one that told me about this, he called me up and he's like dude, stop what you're, and you need to install this right quick. And I loved it. Because I love it? Because the audio. So when you're watching F1, sometimes they'll play audio like an audio message from a driver, but you don't get to hear the entire audio that's going on through the race and this thing lets you know. It's kind of nice. The ui it'll have a picture of the driver in a little circle and how much time did they speak for? And you can click on that and actually hear, um, what the person was saying on the radio.
Jeff:
It's amazing it's fantastic, like jason said, if you've ever watched f1 and you see what the race engineers, what they're looking at in the garage and how they're monitoring the car, you get that data. It's a lot to take in. You really need to hook your computer up to a TV to be able to really maximize it. Another really cool part is you lay all these windows out on how you want it and it fits well onto your TV and then you hit save and it saves where those windows are. So you get in for next week and you want to watch the race. You hit open up. You know last save broadcast and it will open up all the cameras of each individual driver that you wanted.
Jeff:
And you know the data wall where you want it and you don't have to rearrange all that stuff all over again. It's it's a spectacular app. It's free as long as you have an F1 TV subscription. It's impressive, well worth it. Everybody should at a minimum just YouTube multi-viewer F1 to see what we're talking about. It'll really change the way you want to watch F1.
Jason:
And then, how does you know? We included this on the show because at least on my rig I have a fourth monitor. So I use this fourth monitor to see the actual practice races. Because when I'm watching the practice sorry, free practice because when I'm watching the race I don't really want to play anything, I want to watch the race. But as I'm practicing I get to see different layouts and different perspectives on how they're taking the chicane, how they're breaking. Where is their break point? Who's doing what? What is the difference? Where is their break point? Who's doing what? What is the difference? And I'm in my rig and I'm driving the F-123 game and I'm replicating what's being shown on screen, and for it to be a free tool, that is a shit ton of telemetry. It is telemetry On steroids, wow.
Jason:
It is crazy, man. It is crazy and it's free and they have their own discord, so they have. They'll post stuff in the discord. They updated a lot and, like I said, like Jeff said, you need a F1 TV subscription. That is the only caveat, which I highly recommend anyway, because it's the best way to watch f1. Who wants to wake up at one o'clock in the morning to watch a race? You know what I mean. I know that they air it on some tv channels, but you're limited to a single feed. You know I like to watch the international feed because you have. You know, the international announcers just hype it up more.
Jeff:
It's just better you know they're just way more knowledgeable. They have way more insight. You know they actually talk to the drivers. You know, during the week, yeah to your point. If, if you have an option, watch the race with the international feed definitely all right.
Jason:
Again, we didn't touch on the popular sim racing platform, so I'll make that a priority on the next episode here I think we got enough personalities here that that could be a whole episode by itself with how prideful we are on our programs or our apps that we like to race on.
Jason:
No, I really want to thank you, jeff, for bringing the multi-view thing up, because it's just invaluable to me. You know what I mean. It's just the only problem I have with it is it doesn't work on mobile. You need a computer only problem I have with it is it doesn't work on mobile, you need a computer, yeah, yeah.
Jeff:
So I have a nice. Maximize it, though, on on a, on a computer or, excuse me, on a phone or mobile or ipad, just as it would be too small, because really to take advantage of it you really want a handful of windows. You know you're talking four or five windows open at the same time and it is disappointing, it doesn't work. But to really maximize it and I think, jason, you probably have the same thought I would rather delay watching it so I could watch the race on something that's worthwhile the big TV where you could really see all the feeds than try to watch it right now on my phone.
Jason:
When you create a layout, you can save this layout and name it. So let's say, I want to watch F1 multi-view in my garage, Then I'll have a layout saved for the garage, and then I can have a layout saved for the rig and all I do is press one button and all those windows open up at the same layout that I had saved it before. So it's really nice, very versatile. Thank you so much for covering that the multi-view, jeff. I really appreciate that.
Jeff:
Yeah, change the way you watch F1, for sure.
Jason:
Definitely we're talking more immersive and more involved and you get a better understanding on how these engineers plan out the pit stops. You really do, because you can see why they're doing this yeah, I can see the tire degradation and things like that yeah slow down, slow down from after.
Jeff:
You know soft tire gets. You know, after 15 laps it's going to really fall apart. You can see when they start falling off that plateau and how they plan their pit stops. Yeah, absolutely.
Jason:
Definitely yeah. So, without further ado, I guess this is going to be it for this week. I'm going to do the roundtable, as usual.
Jeff:
So does anyone have anything else they want to put out on this episode? Nothing, no. I think we hit two good topics. Lfm every. You know you should get in there and try to keep be competitive with yourself to qualify there right, I'm gonna let so for lfm.
Jason:
Um, check me out weekly on twitch and watch me get bashed up and laugh, you know, just have a good laugh, have a good time, because don't forget about, don't forget about the one thing, and the one thing is we're doing this, we're doing this for fun. That is the number, the number one thing. And you got to make the decision. And the decision is are you a competitive racer or are you a casual racer? So if you're a casual racer, lfm is not for you. If you're a competitive racer, a hundred thousand percent, go and get your license. Okay, this is going to be it for this week's episode. I want you all to take care of yourselves and have a great question, great start of your week, thank you.