For the record, yes I use (used) rFactor, Live for Speed, GTR, GTR 2, GTR Evolution, Race07, NASCAR Racing 2003 (Papyrus), GT Legends, Grand Prix Legends, Precision Racing, etc. etc. I was networking racing games/sims back in the day via RS232 serial ports (pre-Internet).
Nothing against arcade racers at all, GRID is fun, so are the Need for Speeds -- but a different type of fun. iRacing is about simulated racing oval and road courses. iRacing's Laguna Seca and Infineon is extremely close to the real track.
I think you'll find that as simulations progress in realism, you'll find more and more professional drivers being told to use them as part of their training.
iRacing tracks have a theorectical resolution of 1 inch, this data is then compressed so that current computer hardware is able to display the track at reasonable frame rates. They actually went out to the tracks and painfully mapped them (this takes a lot of time and effort and expensive equipment) -- none of the tracks are converted from any other/older sim, that's why their accuracy is top notch.
I'm using a G25 also (cheap but works good enough for me), haven't taken the jump to ECCI wheel/pedals yet ($2K).
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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Carson Pent
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