Right now there is certainly no question that car driving games are entertaining! Getting to drive cars of your choice on quite a few of the most desirable tracks throughout the world, while going head to head against other sim racers couldn't be anything but a great time.
What is not as well acknowledged, is if car driving games in fact make for a good training aid.
Dale Earnhardt Jr say they do!
During a recent interview, Dale was quoted as claiming that when he is going to a new track, its takes him just about an hour to get himself up to speed, and its not until that hour has gone by that his feedback actually becomes usable to the team's engineers. Now, instead of "wasting" that hour, Dale heads out onto the brand-new track on his computer, long before he ever arrives at the actual facility.
So, how is it that a online game will make you a better racing driver? Lets take a peek...
To begin with, the tracks in modern PC racing games are exact replicas of the actual thing. Advanced technology, including precise GPS information is used extensively by developers when creating a all new track. This creates a exceedingly realistic virtual racing experience and furnished with this, racers may get to learn not just the broad layout of the track, but also their braking and turn in points for every corner.
As an example, any time you head into turn one inside the track of your choice on your personal computer, you will find the fact that trackside objects in the video game are precisely the same as the trackside objects in the real world. Moreover, their placement along the side of the track, relative to the corner, is precisely the same as their placement in the real-world.
Possibly the next most pertinent part of the online racing experience is the car setup. The engineers that design today's games put immense effort directly into the game's physic model and this leads to a considerably more "realistic" feeling race car. Ad to that the plethora of adjustments that one can create in the garage, and the outcome is that the virtual racer has the possibility to do extensive testing of various race setups; all from his computer. While the exact settings probably will not transfer to his race car, the principles behind the adjustments to transfer over, and that is going to make the driver a good deal more valuable to his team with regards to giving feedback to the race engineers.
And finally, we have the actual head-to-head racing that today's online racing experience provides.
Within the real world, many a race has been lost because of an accident that occurred when the driver made an oversight in judgement. Basically, many races are lost in the first turn due to a crash.
With online racing, the mental component of the competition is precisely the same as it is in the actual sport. The exact value of being able to get all this added competitive seat time is massive, and without going through the PC racing experience, the only way to get all this seat time was to go to the track. Now, without spending a dime, today's budding racer can log literally hundreds of hours of practice against other racers; all from the ease of his PC. Of all the benefits we've just covered, this one is likely the biggest.
Trust me, I know from experience.
What is not as well acknowledged, is if car driving games in fact make for a good training aid.
Dale Earnhardt Jr say they do!
During a recent interview, Dale was quoted as claiming that when he is going to a new track, its takes him just about an hour to get himself up to speed, and its not until that hour has gone by that his feedback actually becomes usable to the team's engineers. Now, instead of "wasting" that hour, Dale heads out onto the brand-new track on his computer, long before he ever arrives at the actual facility.
So, how is it that a online game will make you a better racing driver? Lets take a peek...
To begin with, the tracks in modern PC racing games are exact replicas of the actual thing. Advanced technology, including precise GPS information is used extensively by developers when creating a all new track. This creates a exceedingly realistic virtual racing experience and furnished with this, racers may get to learn not just the broad layout of the track, but also their braking and turn in points for every corner.
As an example, any time you head into turn one inside the track of your choice on your personal computer, you will find the fact that trackside objects in the video game are precisely the same as the trackside objects in the real world. Moreover, their placement along the side of the track, relative to the corner, is precisely the same as their placement in the real-world.
Possibly the next most pertinent part of the online racing experience is the car setup. The engineers that design today's games put immense effort directly into the game's physic model and this leads to a considerably more "realistic" feeling race car. Ad to that the plethora of adjustments that one can create in the garage, and the outcome is that the virtual racer has the possibility to do extensive testing of various race setups; all from his computer. While the exact settings probably will not transfer to his race car, the principles behind the adjustments to transfer over, and that is going to make the driver a good deal more valuable to his team with regards to giving feedback to the race engineers.
And finally, we have the actual head-to-head racing that today's online racing experience provides.
Within the real world, many a race has been lost because of an accident that occurred when the driver made an oversight in judgement. Basically, many races are lost in the first turn due to a crash.
With online racing, the mental component of the competition is precisely the same as it is in the actual sport. The exact value of being able to get all this added competitive seat time is massive, and without going through the PC racing experience, the only way to get all this seat time was to go to the track. Now, without spending a dime, today's budding racer can log literally hundreds of hours of practice against other racers; all from the ease of his PC. Of all the benefits we've just covered, this one is likely the biggest.
Trust me, I know from experience.
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