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What separates some of the new generation racers from the old is that the new generation F1 racers are better at translating between sim and on-track. This was
by bborud 7y ago
What separates some of the new generation racers from the old is that the new generation F1 racers are better at translating between sim and on-track. This was very clear with the Vettel/Hamilton generation, but even more so now.
It isn’t so much a question of realism, but usefulness as preparation and working out a plan and a rythm.
- michaelscott 7y agoVerstappen is probably the best example of this in F1. He is both a world class real world racer and a frequent online player as well. His reason for not joining the new virtual Grand Prix is that he apparently hasn't had a chance to get into the F1 2019 they're using for it.
- saberdancer 7y agoHe thinks the game is shit and he is not wrong. F1 2019 is mostly a single player career mode game with multiplayer bolted on. It's not really a sim, it might even be pushing to call it a simcade. Max is competing all the time in more serious sims like IRacing, rFactor2 or the like. Lando is taking it a bit more casually so he is racing in F1 2019 as well, but he participates in iRacing races as well.
- braythwayt 7y agoThis goes back a long way. Obviously, Chess is a kind of wargame, but the Germans invented Kriegspiel specifically to simulate war well enough to train officers in strategy. Of course, playing Kriegspiel is nothing like actually standing on the battlefield in the era of Bismark, but nevertheless, the generation of officers who were trained in the simulation were better prepared for their first battle than those who weren’t.