The quality of sim racing software and hardware is improving at a rapid rate, and aside from not being able to feel all of the motion of a real-life car, sim racing is one of the closest to real-life, of all the gaming options out there.
So, how close is sim racing to the real-world, what are the differences and if you’re fast in a sim, will you be fast in a real-world car?
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tryNtryAGAIN
30.03.2023Death is the game changer .
Chris Dean
30.03.2023More real than maxipad crashstapen's championships
Michael Warren
30.03.2023You should come drive a full motion simulator and compare it. 🙂 look up Force Dynamics on here
NochBesserer
30.03.2023Bro when i saw the thumbnail i was so scared of the Video… You can't compare a racingseat+Logotech G29… To real life… With a fanatec and motionseat you can.
Marc-Andre Carrier
30.03.2023Awesome video
Jasmijn ariel
30.03.2023Cant wait till its all affortable
N B
30.03.2023So VR is great but you look like a knob 😂
John Techwriter
30.03.2023I’ve got an MX-5, an ND2 set up for the street. My favorite place to use it is on the hundreds of miles of near-empty twisty two-lanes that run between Northern California’s Pacific coast and the central valley. (Case in point: Skaggs Springs Road north of Healdsburg.)
My idea of a fun sim would be a replication of two-lanes like these, populated by an online network of fellow sports car buffs in their Porsches and hot hatches. We’d enjoy back-road dicing and meet up at a cafe to swap lies and swill coffee as the shadows grew long.
TommyTarkov
30.03.2023its all cool and stuff until the wheel turns half way arround for no reason and breaks your fingers because some hacker was boring.
Len Jan
30.03.2023Gran turismo is the best by far.
Adam Kencki
29.03.2023how real are sims? not at all. 10 minute video could have been 5 seconds long.
Pollux Sim Racing
29.03.2023Awesome video!
Nicholas Holmes-Siedle
29.03.2023Think the phrase "James Baldwin" ,explains the carryover of sim racing in 10minutes less ! (Love the video though)
boomsqueezee
29.03.2023Things get weird when your real life car is faster than your game car 😆
Lee's Music Edits
29.03.2023real enough to break your fingers and wrists 😂
Orson W
29.03.2023To be fast in real life is to put yourself in harm’s way – I imagine lots of people get into real cars and find they don’t have the stomach for it.
A PE
29.03.2023I must say that i never cared so much about driving until i was forced to work as a pizza delivery guy for long time… the more i work the more i wanted to be better driver so i started sim racing. I must say that even on my totally shitty rig ive learned a lot, especially how to drive on slippery surface(i live in norway) so i'd say that sim racing helps a lot and its very productive thing to do in your free time
Roger Landry
29.03.2023At sixty-plus I have been real-world driving for 45 years and have some track racing experience but these days I am content with sim racing. I tried the games which you can play using a controller but it's just not close to sim racing and the best I can do right now is a cheap wheel and petals. Is it possible to well without the expensive gear and a rig or is it impossible unless you put at least a couple of grand into your setup?
Efosa
29.03.2023Hp reverb g2 is the best vr headset in my opinion with absolutly no screen door effect an amazing colors…the only problem that people are having wich sim racers that buy this dont understand is that they have potato hardware u need a rtx 3060 ti at least
R V Karthik
29.03.2023Don't you feel headaches and nausea when you play on VR Headset?
Nesbrick
27.03.2023Simple answer : yes
Stefan Marraccini
27.03.2023Realistic enough to be an indispensable training tool for all motorsports worldwide.
But you basically conclude that. Great vid. 👍
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27.03.2023Don't eat the microphone please
djpaulhannon
27.03.2023Great video but can I give one bit of advice; your voice sound clips are too tight, as in they start too soon after each other, so it makes you sound a little bit rushed. Space them out ever so slightly and it will sound more natural and as if you recorded it all in one take.
Jeffrey Levin
27.03.2023Just saw this. As an actual ferrari owner, no not realistic.
Toxic D. Cancer
27.03.2023Its not real, you don't get injured when crashed
Talon1
27.03.2023It's as realistic as I will ever experience. A sim race rig, wheel, pedals, butt kickers, vr headset. Im happy. 🙂
0kaczka0
27.03.2023Bruh YouTube cant drive in the Sims
airforcex
27.03.2023Thanks for the breakdown on the hardware. One thing I always hear about sim racing is how well you know what the vehicle is doing through your wheel. The problem with this is that, technically, if you haven’t driven the real car, you don’t really know how the wheel should feel. You just know how the wheel feels in comparison to other wheels. On the other hand, you can acquire skills without even noticing. I’ve saved my vehicle from losing control on the real world almost instinctively…from siming.
Zoran
27.03.2023Excellent video 😀👍
Dzek Lakovic
25.03.2023VR is great if you don't get extreme motion sickness like I do lol
syguy
25.03.2023I think a short answer is yes, it gives you a good understanding of weight transfers, basic skills, and for me drifting on sim helped a lot with my ability to destroy tires irl 😭, But I think one thing sim lacks and will always lack even with a motion rig is the sheer intensity of pushing yourself and a car to its limits, humans and cars are truly a beautiful connection that just can’t be felt as purely through a screen.
leonelle ignacio
25.03.2023You can never experience real G force and fear of bombing a corner From real life to a sim. Feeling that g force, the actual torque of a car pulling your skin back is different and what causes mistakes. The feeling you get from your butt cheeks squeezing from seeing that wall inches away from your car. Sim helps creating driving style and driving habits. But The feeling of real life death experience is what makes racing fun.
Firago Music
25.03.2023I can't with this compression on your voice – dial it back it's TOO CLOSE!!
CeeDeeLmao
25.03.2023Wait till the 5090 drops
White mage
25.03.2023i was once told you don't need a steering wheel to drive in racing games because a controller is just as good or even better. i know they're wrong but i didn't know how wrong until this video.
Playr One
25.03.2023sadly, but in sims you cant broke youre million dollars car and waste this money, this is not realistic, need to change it!
Alex Salazar
25.03.2023you know is RF2, nd not beacuse i like it or many like it, its : TIRE MODEL, FORCE FEED BACK , SETUPS, VARIABLES, FEELING ETC ETC , its not only a matter of good competition system ( iracing is the leader right there ) its a matter of realism and results, from that professional point oif view RF2 is the one and only, after RF2 you will have a solid battle between RaceRoom, ACC AC iracing and AM2.
Joël Klok
25.03.2023Mario Kart
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25.03.2023Depending of what you call a sim racing game. Grand Turismo is not quite there. I'm not sure about todays best sims – may be thats BeamNG. There is an old sim calling LiveForSpeed. If you have learned to drive good there, you will be drivin good a real car.
SpaceMissile
24.03.2023VR racing really is just a whole new level of fun. Absolutely blew my mind first time I tried it. you're spot on in this video.
ps: i'm here from Overdrive and I love you guys. heh
Tom Bosley
24.03.2023This video helped me go to sleep
Who cares
24.03.2023i had a maerd that Max Verstappen is dead.
BLESSED
24.03.2023I love this sport ! Is it possible to watch from his cockpit how a rival is driving in f1 2022??
Vipin Trisal
24.03.2023Time to Review GT7 on PSVR2
Ionut Ortian
24.03.202370-80% max
eatcheesekobe
24.03.2023No it's never the same, because you drive in a sim knowing nothing really is going to happen if you crash, versus in real life.
Ross
24.03.2023Since I started sim racing a few years ago it honestly makes my 1986 fiat x19 way more fun to drive. I am so much more in touch with the car now. The only difference is you don't feel the roll and give on a sim like a real car. The wheel feels very similar though. Also I have way more fun driving the rwd in the rain now because I know what the car will do
day 2 day
24.03.2023I agree , mariokart has made a great road driver. Especially against road rage.
Driver61
24.03.2023What's your favourite sim and why?
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