Hello Forum Members,
I'm very new to sim racing, but I've noticed some fairly strong effects that it is causing on my normal street driving; almost all negative!
I drive a reasonably high performance car (Audi R8 manual). And darn-it, I have started to miss occasional shifts and stuff! Grab for the shifter and it's not there! Silly me, the shifter isn't in the same place as on my sim rig, and it's a longer-throw H-pattern instead of the snick-snick sequential on my rig.
Also, my normal safe and courteous driving habits have started to wander, as I find myself thinking about racing lines and how fast that corner could be taken. I have to check myself!
I figure this will pass soon enough, but for now I feel like I need to be a little more present and careful.
How has sim racing changed your real-life driving?
I'm very new to sim racing, but I've noticed some fairly strong effects that it is causing on my normal street driving; almost all negative!
I drive a reasonably high performance car (Audi R8 manual). And darn-it, I have started to miss occasional shifts and stuff! Grab for the shifter and it's not there! Silly me, the shifter isn't in the same place as on my sim rig, and it's a longer-throw H-pattern instead of the snick-snick sequential on my rig.
Also, my normal safe and courteous driving habits have started to wander, as I find myself thinking about racing lines and how fast that corner could be taken. I have to check myself!
I figure this will pass soon enough, but for now I feel like I need to be a little more present and careful.
How has sim racing changed your real-life driving?