I really dont think its any level of actual race driving talent that makes people quick on these games.
Yes you need a level of talent, but in essence all you are doing is playing a game. In other words you are applying experience and knowledge to a game platform and understanding what things are needed, it doesnt take bravery, technical knowledge or feel.
Talent is actually going out there with your own car and having a go and being quick, beating people, showing improvement and learning.
Being able to understand how a game program works, how the programmers want you to play it and what tweaks you need to do in a game to be quick are talents but on a whole differnet level to being able to actually ride a bike or race a car quicly for real.
It's the same as playing poker online or anything like that.
I know the Nordschliefe intimately from gaming, but would that mean I went out there in a car and tried to go quick, of course not, because every programmer has things to incorporate in a game to make it playable and easy to PLAY, and thats the point. They can map the Nord but they cant make it utterly real coz you cant imitate wind, gradient, weather, car trouble perfectly yet,. Maybe the F1 teams can but theya re using supercomputers to do it, backed up by their own data logging.
If you watch Pau for instance, it is far narrower in real life than in RACE, you cant vault the kerbs as much etc. In the game, a quick lap there is about as destructive to your car as any lap anywhere. Try that for real and you would wreck the car. In a 6 lap race you can lap like that for 6 laps and only suffer minor degredation.
For me the aliens are special people! I dont know how they do it! Top Gamers of all types of games are a special breed. It comes form practice, playing the game for hour upon hour upon hour. Messing with settings til you get the feel you want!
I find that most of time I will be top six in qually but often podium in race coz these aliens can lap quick once but are often inconsistent as they are at the limits of game physics. Not all are like this, but some.
When I look at times set in Vwtcc or the top times they astound me, I have NO idea how you do a low 1.33 at Oscher for instance, I think I must be missing something!!
or a 1.33 at Brands, any of these laps are simply impossible for me to quantify!
Hi buddy,
Of course, partly i agree with you, racing in a sim is not the same as racing a real race car.
Or better to say i can not compare it, since i never in my life drove a real race car unfortunately.
The most powerful car i drove was a Ford Mondeo ST220 with a 3L V8 bi-turbo engine, but thats all.
However this is a sim-racing forum, so all what we do here is discussing and organizing our favourite hobby, racing in front of a computer.
I would like to believe that with the latest sims we are getting closer and closer to reality, but as i wrote above i am not the right person to judge it, however several real life racer confirmed, that what Race 07 offers, is anything as close to reality as it ever got so far in games, and car handling etc feels like real. So i believe them.
I know an american series side-car bike rider lady, who practises with Race 07 Radicals to prepare for the races, as this car handling is fitting perfectly to the reality of her bike.
We had racing with us in the Mini Cooper League Ben Spouse, a real life Mini driver, who also stated, that it was unbeleivable close to reality what he found in Race 07 with the Mini-s.
Gábor Wéber hungarian racer and sim-racer too, competes in the Seat Euro Cup, event next to WTCC, and he prepares for the races with Race 07 too.
Also we have some real life racers in this forum as well, maybe it is better to hear from them for their opinion.
About the pracitising, yes, practise makes the master, but in which part of life it isnt?
However i would love to spend hours and hours of only playing, unfortunately as so many others i also cant do it as much as i would want.
Cheers: Atti
