Comments on: Sim Racer Impresses in Formula One Simulator

By: Pandamasque

Pandamasque — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:02:01 +0000

Darren Turner is a works driver for Aston Martin Racing at Le Mans. He’s good.

By: michael

michael — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:53:56 +0000

> “proving the driving talent of avid sim racers”

Lol. Let’s be serious now.

You have to smile when the article basically says the guy has hardly any driving experience blah blah blah. Yes, because what he’s doing doesn’t need any and doesn’t require any great skill. D’oh.

“Slower than the great F1 driver Darren Turner” Err, WTF is he? We saw a test driver try out F1 for Ferrari this year. He’s still finishing one of the season’s earlier races. Any buffoon can be a racing driver, just lay down the cash (or have a dad called Nelson)

Being genuinely F1 standard though…that actually requires talent.

“nice to finally see something like this done with a real simracer instead of some Playstation kiddo” – Whassup Mikkel, can’t get your crappy code to run on it?

By: AndreasT

AndreasT — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:35:08 +0000

Of course there are forces although no “real forces” you would feel in an F1 car and for sure nothing like 5g. But still it’s a full-motion system as you can see better in the pdf article, which is only 2 klicks away…

By: Pandamasque

Pandamasque — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:09:59 +0000

pleb: Yeah, because driving on your home computer, and driving on an F1 teams simulator that has forces acting upon your body, against real F1 drivers, is the same thing.

Forces on your body? You were not reading carefully. There's no such thing on earth as F1 simulator with real forces acting on the body. It's not actually possible without going anywhere. FAIL!

Zenitchik: Darren Turner, haven’t shared his setup would be interesting to hear the differences between the high end sim and lets say IRacing or rFactor

...and Luca Badoer

By: pleb

pleb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:55:52 +0000

“Actually it’s a bit of a disappointment for me. He is a sim racer after all so I think he should have been less than a second behind.”

Yeah, because driving on your home computer, and driving on an F1 teams simulator that has forces acting upon your body, against real F1 drivers, is the same thing.

By: henbrleape

henbrleape — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:24:41 +0000

Way to go Dom! Show them the potential

By: Zenitchik

Zenitchik — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:05:06 +0000

commodore: Actually it’s a bit of a disappointment for me. He is a sim racer after all so I think he should have been less than a second behind.

Darren Turner, haven’t shared his setup

would be interesting to hear the differences between the high end sim and lets say IRacing or rFactor

By: commodore

commodore — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:50:40 +0000

Actually it’s a bit of a disappointment for me. He is a sim racer after all so I think he should have been less than a second behind.

By: Shum94

Shum94 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:09:46 +0000

Way to go Dom. I hope i’ll see you in rFactor 2.

By: Mikkel Gram-Hansen

Mikkel Gram-Hansen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:00:41 +0000

Good stuff (and good work Dom) nice to finally see something like this done with a real simracer instead of some Playstation kiddo ;)

By: Pandamasque

Pandamasque — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:15:46 +0000

What a surprise! A good simracer turned out to be good at simracing!