The most STUPID iRacing Cheese + Serial Protester? iRacing "news"

I always wish ppl good luck before a race

Finally something I know about before watching one of your videos! I was protested by the serial protester! For saying “Jesus Christ you guys suck” after the field randomly crashed on a straight lap 1 of an Indy 500 I did and then some dude that started from the pits slammed into me waiting for the track blocker to clear 30 seconds after the wreck happened. He used that weird formulaic “please correct this” format which was so weird to me, guess I know why now since he protests literally everything and doesn’t have the time to properly write out a sentence for each one. Bro needs to get a life and iRacing needs to mute all his protests.

Anyone that races knows it’s probably Jacob Klein…

I immedately disabled voice-chat the day it got introduced and I disabled text-chat (while driving) in my first year. There's nothing ever helpful coming out of anyones mouth after an incident. Still reading too many "how much fuel I need" on the grid... If I really fuck up, after I finished the race, watched the replay, I write a PM. Have not filed more than five protests in roughly 1000 races in over ten years. It's not worth the effort and the bubble of drivers is so small in the higher formula series, there's hardly ever a reason.

You know who, has just protested you for this video.

I got banned for calling some a "clown" after they used the in-game function to say to me "shut up, you crazy fool". Then a member of the iracing staff said to me she was a manager and that particular comment will be removed from the in-game chat function. Then I was told I wasn't banned for my language even though I have the email stating so and that in-game chat was not removed until 6 months later. So on top of being lied to twice, the other driver was not punished for saying "shut up, crazy fool" but I get banned for calling them a clown🤷🏽‍♂️. ✌🏼

This is why I only play AI cant stand the toxic kids n old dude

I got chat banned two weeks for sayin, "your mom cared!" which I thought was crazy. I think I still have the email if you want it, Also I got three months a week after that Ban for saying , "What the Fuck" out loud when I was intentionally wrecked out. It was totally unfair!!!!

Jacob Klein is a cancer in this community, borderline psychotic.

He has a folder of events, people and issues he keeps for later use.

The guy is griefing the rules and he should absolutely be banned, or sat down and told to knock it off.

he has a spreadsheet.. he has .txt documents for every single protest. all he has to do is copy paste add a few details .." he is a racist troll"... and the name of the person and send it in.... lol

I did 2 laps and it’s silly to cheat to get just .3 seconds

Yo I was in that race with Nick. I know exactly which driver it is

I ALWAYS run races in iRacing with voice off. I find, in general, people are VERY quick to anger and it just throws me off when I'm trying to concentrate. And I never get yelled at!

Absolute joke how people turn more laps pre-qualifying than the number of laps the event itself is. Used to see it often in big league races on the road racing side. Sucks all the realism out of it when trying to eke out the last thousandth of a second, for hours on end. Name one real race series where you can do 161 qualifying laps…
My opinion, it should be a maximum of 3 clean timed laps - do all the private testing you want, but 3 chances to perform under pressure and really sort out who’s best.

Talking about iRacing voice chat... With a Larson banner behind you... Oh the irony

If you have a spreadsheet with hundreds of protests, then you need to re-evaluate. And let's be honest somethings in the sporting code like swearing you should be lenient on and not report them because they let one slip.

If iRacing had "mature" races where they were very lax on the voice chat rules I think they would become the default. I love the shit talking and the joking about. I would absolutely adore seeing better drivers where it's actually allowed or even encouraged to banter, swear, anything of that sort. Sure they can keep the teddybear rooms if they want that option but let's not entirely kill a fun part of the game over it. You can still punish racism and unacceptable extremes whilst allowing moderate banter. Top racers just have a shit talking type of personality - let's embrace it.

The person in question is not doing this out of spite, he has a dream of perfect iracing world. He does really care about the sim, but I think he took it too far by protesting the racist troll comment. I also think that since he has revealed himself he has upped his protests. The racist troll protest was a good opportunity for iracing to clear the board and they did not. They should have denied that protest. Also, Iracing needs to talk to the serial protester, there are several ways to get a hold of him. Unfortunately, I feel like the protest staff needs a refresh from top to bottom. Nim needs to go, Nim needed to go when the Tire cooling at spa happened. My teammate emailed a month in advance about concerns and day of the race nothing happened. Iracing is in a good place right now with adding content and making improvements. A sporting code/protest system refresh is needed. too many times have I seen this serial protester get people on a technicality and yes i feel a few are downright petty protests. He's not the only problem, go into the Kneebon5 discord and watch a bunch of troglodytes act proud that they protested someone just because they work for a shop or take sponsors.

Turning off voice chat is the way to go honestly... however, i like to keep it on so i know when people are about to intentionally wreck eachother in front of me so i can be ready... and when the lobby is actually cool to eachother it makes the game far more enjoyable than just sitting in silence

There’s a reason actual NASCAR drivers can’t talk over the radio to each other unless they’re teammates I think

Pokémon and iRacing, what an unusual combo

As for this protesting fellow: this was funny for me to learn about, since the main reason I remember him is the couple of times he intent wrecked me. I regret not protesting him now.

"Shut up, You Crazy Fool" is an homage to the character of B.A. in 80s TV series 'The A TEAM'.
If you think this is bad language, you are too weak to run the human race.

I got protested for saying douche,

They had to wait for you to graduate to give other students a chance.

Why not just make qualifying events, you know, qualifying events. 2 laps and done. You want to do more? Go back out for another 2 lap run as many times as you want. I don't blame iRacing for having a physics problem when people are looking 2 hours deep into a session to see if things start to get weird. Just keep it simple with qualifying procedures

My problem with cheese stuff like this is I'm a bit conflicted. If we want sim racing to be taken seriously by real racers, they look at things like this and point out how unrealistic everything is in every simulator. And while the sim probably can't ever truly be 1:1 with real life, stuff like this kills that even more. At the same time, those same real life racing people do absolutely anything to their car in the gray areas of the rules to get the same amount of small gains. It's just based in the real world, and therefore real physics lol It's the same concept in both instances, just applied in a different way. Do I think people should cheese things in iRacing at the end of the day? Of course not. The idea is we're all signing up for a simulator that others are going to also treat like real life. But there are people that don't have a real life these days lol So you end up with these people that just know way too much about a video game because that's all they do

"THAT USED TO BE"

You said it yourself. Use some introspection. Calling someone a troll is toxic and isn't needed. They do not have the hotkey anymore for a reason.

Submitting that many protests is truly so time consuming I don't think people not on the service can understand how much time is dedicated for him doing this. Especially on top of time spent actually racing.

Rules being vague, welcome to the world of motorsport 🤣...great vid mate 🤙

What’s stupid is. When a driver gets mad when someone close to you actually took him out. But blames you, especially when you were leading when he plowed into you and got disqualified

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im literally on the 3rd week of a month long voice/chat suspension, and i believe it happened in NASCAR A race if i recall... im by no means a top split player but it was super-late in the morning in my timezone, so there was only a small total of entries... this is really interesting and a bit concerning

Why dont they do it just like the qualifying round in road racing. two laps. that's it. the car's gonna be cold for everybody, and you have to do the best with that you got. Just two laps.

I'm beginning to think this protest guy also serves on an HOA board.

Going with the hotkey stuff and people being little crybabies about everything, I have a custom hot key that is literally "Middle Finger Out The Window ,,l,," :D

Saw iRacing was down for maintenance this morning…. Lol

How about if you call someone a potato over chat you can get a VC ban but the forums let you call a post a potato and no repercussions...

They said I said something that offended someone. I asked what I said because what offended them, might not offend others. I asked how was I supposed to know what not to say if I am not told what I said to get the ban. They wouldn't tell me. I ended up having to appeal. I was finally told exactly what I said. I will admit I earned that chat ban lol.

Just another reason why I just keep my mic shut off.

If more people would use the protest system properly and police themselves and others the toxicity and intentional wrecking would improve. But videos like this push people not to use it. The rules are there for a reason and if more of the base came together, those of us like jake wouldnt have to send multiple a day, sometimes multiple a race. It doesnt make you less to help iracing take care of the service we all love.

The serial protester is my good friends co-worker.....And from what he tells me he is even worse to work with. Plus the guy likes this attention btw. I seen the messages where hes happy hes becoming famous.

This has nothing to do with the video but do you have to match the pedals with the wheel? Or in some cars do you not have to

You’re a looney.

Unfortunately we live in an era where we have to tip-toe around what may or may not be interpreted as "offensive" or "hurtful", to the point where it's just better to not interact with people at all for risk of getting in trouble for something out of left field. Racing, along with any other competitive sport, is aggressive by nature. Emotions and tensions rise, and it's just better to not even interact at all with other people especially in high emotional states because even if an individual is initially in the wrong with what they say or how they say it, if you respond in kind you open yourself up to being the one reported and penalized regardless of what the other person said or did in the first place.

Turning off voice chat was the best decision I ever made in iracing.

Jacob Klein, a guy who only has 17 wins in over 1200 starts. No wonder he's so pissed. With others on the track, it's a viable winning strategy in his mind😂😂