Racing Rivals
What is Racing Rivals?
Racing Rivals is an application for iRacers who like to discover all manner of interesting stats and facts about their online racing history.
Feeding off your official iRacing.com race results,
Racing Rivals allows you to compare yourself against
EVERY driver you’ve raced and find out who truly is the better driver!
You can discover things like :
- Which drivers have NEVER beaten me? Who have I NEVER finished ahead of (despite 50+ attempts!)?
- Who is the best driver in my friends or studied list?
- Show me ALL the races where I’ve raced that person (friend or foe!)
- Find the iRacer who is mathematically a perfect match for you, out of a potential 45,000+ driverbase!
- Which car am I best at? Which circuit gives me my worst results?
- How is my iRating/safety rating improving over time?
- And much more!
Anything else?
Racing Rivals expands on the core feature set and provides more statistical analysis of your iRacing career with the addition of several new data areas:
iRating / Safety Rating charts
Racing Rivals charts your iRacing history from day one so you can see how you are performing as a driver. You can easily see at a glance your peaks and troughs of your iRating and safety record story. Even Rookie drivers can see their rating, which is otherwise hidden in the official race results!
Average Points / Incident Rolling Average charts
Showing progression and improvement as a racer is a difficult thing to guage – these charts can show your actual race improvement, plus you have the ability to filter by road/oval, or by vehicle.
Vehicle & Track analysis
These screens are great for seeing which cars/tracks you perform best at, and which you struggle with. You might find you earn all your iRating with one combination, and then lose it all at another!
General summary overview
This view can give an interesting general overview of your performance, considering things like how clean your driving is compared to your rivals and who your closest rivals are.
Plus this version allows you to save your logon information between program launches!
How can I get Racing Rivals?
Racing Rivals can be downloaded
here! The latest version is
v2.5. The application can be used to retrieve 20 races to provide an intial view of your racing history. The full version of
Racing Rivals costs just $8 and can be used to retrieve your full iRacing history from the very beginning until way into the future. I hope you find the application useful and will consider purchasing as it enables me to continue adding improvements and more features.
Pre-requisites
In order to make use of the functionality that
Racing Rivals offers you will need to ensure you are running an up to date version of Java (1.6 or later). The easiest way of checking this is to visit :
http://www.javatester.org/version.htmlto see what version of Java it finds on your machine. If you don’t have Java (or you have a very old version) you can download the latest version directly from :
http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jspOnce you have Java installed you are all set to go.
- Download the latest version of Racing Rivals.
- Extract the zip contents to a suitable location, e.g.C:RacingRivals.
- Double click on RacingRivals_v2.5_64bit.exe. If the program doesn’t load you are likely running 32bit (and you should use RacingRivals_v2.5_32bit.exe instead) .
After a short delay you will be presented with the initial
Racing Rivalswindow (as shown below). If for some reason you don’t see Racing Rivals contact me via my email below and I’ll help you get things working.
Synchronising Your Race Results
The next step is for
Racing Rivals to retrieve your iRacing.com racing history from the iRacing member site.
Press the ‘
Sync‘ button to start the process
Enter your iRacing.com login details and
Racing Rivals will start the download process. Depending on the volume of your history this step might take a short while (allow 2 minutes per 500 races in your history as a rough guide). Once this step is complete you are good to go!
What If I Don’t Want To Enter My iRacing.com Login Details?
Racing Rivals needs to know of your iRacing account details as it uses them to connect to the iRacing member site and retrieve your racing history.
Your login information is not modified, re-transmitted or used for any other purpose then to download
your race results onto
your local machine. It’s as safe as logging onto the iRacing.com member site yourself.
Problems? Commonly asked questions
Q. I can’t login but I’m definitely using the right password!
A. First, make sure you are supplying your iRacing email address as your username (not your display name). If synchronisation still does not work you may be behind a proxy server and so
Racing Rivals is not able to connect to the iRacing membersite. If you know the details of your proxy server (your ISP can provide this information on request) you can add the details to the
Racing Rivals configuration file manually. Open the supplied app.properties file and change the following settings :
# Proxy details
http.proxySet=(true or false)
http.proxyHost=(name of proxy server)
http.proxyPort=(port of proxy server)
https.proxySet=(true or false)
https.proxyHost=(name of proxy server)
https.proxyPort=(port of proxy server)
If you continue to have problems and cannot synchronise your race data you can send me an email and let me know.
If you have a problem or general comments (perhaps feature suggestions) about the use of Racing Rivals please email me at
RacingRivals@samiad.co.uk – I’d be happy to hear from you. Please let me know what version of Java you are using (you can use the ‘About Racing Rivals’ button in the application for this).
Finally, Racing Rivals is the product of hundreds of hours of development and maintenance, and is provided to benefit the iRacing community. If you have found Racing Rivals useful please consider purchasing as it provides justification for me to invest time to continue working on it – thanks!
Link:
Racing Rival
