SthrnOldskool
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- Australia
reading these comments about real drivers saying AC has nothing to do with real driving is rather interesting.I have a good friend who is an absolutely car maniac and good driver but he has nothing to do with gaming .
I tried to convince him million times to try simracing and I let him drive several times.
Unfortunately driving AC he says for him it has nothing to do with real car driving m
Incomprehensibly while driving AMS2 he says that’s much closer to the real thing 😡
I know a number of real world drivers use sims like AC or Iracing. Some top level drivers, like Shane VanGisbergen (3 time v8 supercar champ, bathurst winner, gt3 racer, currently in Xfinity and some Nascar races) uses PC simulation to get some practise in. Scott McLaughlin is a big fan of sim racing too. When the Tatuus FT-60 was being tested for AC, real world drivers tested the mod on tracks the cars raced at and they remarked at how close to the real thing it was, if you ignore you dont get that g force feeling. at the end of the day, unless the mod creators have access to actual data from the cars (current F1 cars I cant see that happening) it's all down to guess work, and even with technical data sheets, it's near impossible to get the cars 100% accurate due to how the physics engine makes calculations and trying to work out how the real world data translates to the calculating method in game.. Most of us will never know what it is like to drive a current f1 car, and like was said above, most of us wouldnt get it out of the garage, let alone out of pitlane.
End of the day, these sims are games, not the real world. We do it for fun, arguing about which is the best mod or which is real is pointless and really detracts from the entire meaning of the word FUN.