Season 2 is unwrapping in days now and, as usual, we took a quick
pick at what the new series have to offer and, mostly, at how, what, and why it might be worth to spend some extra money, to have the best experience on Iracing, at least for roughly the next three months.
Being this only the second issue on this topic, allow me to quickly repeat some considerations listed also in our previous post that you can find here: Iracing 2017 season 1 best value package
- This analysis is focused on Road Racing;
- To be able to give the most valuable advice, I choose to plan a very affordable package of three pieces of content: two tracks and a car. Doing so I can keep the budget within the price of S37.66 before Tax, thanks also to the applicable 10% discount for purchasing three pieces of content.
- I opted for only one car because, personally, I think it's more important to focus on mastering your driving skills on that specific car and then apply the speed on multiple tracks than vice versa, especially when the level of competition is expected to raise.
- I focused my attention on looking at the options that better cover races between Class D and Class A included.
- In building my selection I'm assuming that I only own the basic contents that come with the subscription.
Let's start by taking a look at the tracks used in Season 2: Here below is a short ranking of the tracks that are used the most. the bold number indicates the number of times the track appears il all the competition during the season, the regular number indicates the number of weeks that track is driveable with basic content cars.
Note that for this season the best purchase, if you are not planning to add any car, will be Watkins Glen, which is run in any series above Class R that includes Basic content cars.
A special consideration has to be made in reference to the Nurburgring. The Green Hell, in its two configurations (Nordschleife and GP), ranks quite low in his season, with just 3 weeks schedule for each configuration and only 2 week each for basic cars content. That said, if combined, they outrun by far all the other tracks, allowing the user to race 15 Weeks, 11 of which with basic content cars!!! This is thanks mostly to the VLN Endurance Championship, which runs in Nurburg for the whole 9 weeks season and allows Global Mazda owners (all of us) to take part in the race.
When it comes to cars, this season doesn't really highlights any particular machine, with just a bunch of them guaranteeing barely 3 weeks of racing on basic content tracks. here's the short list: Kia Optima, Ford Mustang, VW Jetta, BMW Z4, Mercedes AMG, Audi R8, and the old good RUF.
So if you want to jump behind the wheel of a new car and stick to the 10% discount offer for three pieces of content, the combination available will be hundreds but with only few of them sticking out to be the best use for your money.
Here below the packages that we feel comfortable to say, guarantee the most track time for this upcoming Season 2.
Last couple of considerations:
1: The Nurburgring is one of the most fun and challenging tracks out there. That said, the length of the Nordschleife and the combine layout translate in a heavier file to be run by your PC. Make sure you are running a decent set of specs in your computer and make sure you optimize your graphic performance because this track is very demanding on your hardware and might give you problem that you don't have with other shorter tracks.
2: This season 2 has spread the basic content tracks quite evenly throughout the different Cups and Championship, Buying a couple tracks won't give the chance to gain any Race Participation Credits in this season. This is if you don't already have bought more tracks earlier. That said, any purchase it gets you closer!
I really hope this quick analysis was helpful for you and, as always, I'm open to suggestions and question to improve my contribution.
Good race!
