[joncrane]

You still need thousands and thousands of dollars for a decent Sim racing setup, a stable internet connection, and a room to do it from.

Sure, it's not formula racing, but there are still massive barriers to entry for sim racing.

[reidjs]

True but it’s at least an order of magnitude less money to do the e-sport than the real one

[sokoloff]

True and, further, those costs are almost the same whether you race for 1 hour or 1000 hours in the sim-world. Definitely not the case in the real-world racing series.