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Max Verstappen got blank screen while leading virtual Le Man 24 hr, retires
- amelius 4y agoTurns out that hacking should be part of the core skills of a virtual F1 team, and they just got bitten. Evolve or go extinct ...
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- lsb 4y agoIf the cars aren’t real, why does time need to be real? Can’t the people paid to run the race pause/rewind so people don’t suffer through bugs?
- europeanguy 4y agoIf you were rewinding everyone, instead of having 1 player complain you'd be having N-1 players complain...
- napo 4y agoI might be wrong but I think they are suggesting that Max's game could be pause. The time the bug is fixed. And then resumed.
- europeanguy 4y agoAh. That makes more sense.
- sammy2255 4y agoAm I missing something? Why are they playing a game?
- ohyes 4y agoPresumably there’s a payday involved.
- doikor 4y agoMax just loves racing including on computers. Most of the young racing drivers are the same. He owns/manages his own esports racing team.
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- tokai 4y agoAll professional racing drivers use simulation racing training in some way. So its obvious to do off-season e-racing. It also synergises well with building a personal brand.
- DRW_ 4y agoHe finds the competition legitimately engaging on the proper sim racing 'games'. We're not talking Gran Turismo, Forza, the F1 games, etc but the more 'serious' ones like iRacing, rFactor, etc. He spends a lot of time on them, as do some of the other younger pro racers these days. Article here on how he believes it helps him become a better driver and how the sim racers are closer to real world racers than many people expect. https://racingnews365.com/how-verstappen-uses-sim-racing-to-become-a-better-driver https://racingnews365.com/how-verstappen-uses-sim-racing-to-...
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- ilyt 4y agoI was watching some other streamer racing in it and at one point 7 racers at once got booted off server. Maybe they shouldn't be doing 24h races if they don't get their server stability up to par, some people complained that if they were using iRacing instead of rFactor2 it wouldn't been a problem.
- benj111 4y agoOT but wouldn't is a valid contraction as is would've. So what about wouldn't've or wouldn've?
- pwillia7 4y agohttps://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/wouldn-t-ve https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/would...
- pwillia7 4y agoYeah -- How has IRacing not called max to have him do more pointed guerilla marketing against motorport/rfactor so they can dominate the esports arena. Maybe they are just so rich from their monthly subs with no debt they don't care or (rightly) believe their product is so great it will win with enough time either way. Max loves iRacing and simracing and is already poking motorsport anyway so maybe they were right.
- emanuelpina 4y agoMaybe I'm wrong, but rFactor 2 wasn't build from it's core for online racing. There were problems in the past but ACO keeps using it, just b€cau$€. Well, at least Max now has a teeny-tiny ideia how Lewis felt after 2021's season finale at Abu Dhabi. It hurts, right? And this is only on a video game.
- exabyte 4y agodoes anyone else think we're reaching some kind of critical point where the general public's dissonance with the complexity of what's under the hood (obligatory pun acknowledgement) of computers is going to cause significant issues... I realize this comment is loosely relevant, but it just keeps coming up in my head when people are like "why do they not do <x>"