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by yummy
3123 days ago
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I've been watching F1 for about 13 years and it's always the same after a boring race. No matter how exciting a couple of preceding races could have been, there's gonna be a shit storm. Too bad it's the last race of the season. Back in 2009 it was clear the track is rubbish. E-sports? That's nice, but we've had sim racing for a long time. And F1 2017 is not even a simulator. It's made for the broad audience, who would play it on a PS4 with its controller, but not for hardcore sim racers. Vandoorne competed in a serious rFactor F1 league and it's not like he was the fastest guy. |
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Having had a royal ass-kicking delivered to me by Stoffel Vandoorne and Rubens Barichello in iRacing, I have to say that they might not be the fastest simracers out there but boy are they fast! I'm not a top-tier simracer by any means but these guys were at a whole different level.
Verstappen also used to do tons of simracing at top levels in the past. I wonder why they never mention that in the broadcast, because I think it's a major influence to him. Before he ever sat in a single seater car, he had had thousands of hours in a virtual one. His epic save in the rain at Interlagos 2016 was a classic simracer move. Anyone else would have braced for impact but he sat there as calmly as one can because he'd been there before in a sim, just waiting for the front wheels to bite and then let go of the brake at the right moment. You can't practice that in a real car because you don't end up in that kind of situations often enough and walk away from them.