Sim Racing

iRacing’s Growing Influence on Driver Development

iRacing F4 Race Car

iRacing is having a growing influence on driver development and this week I will bring you just a few examples of the trend. In addition to drivers using iRacing to transition to the real thing, I bring you a comparison of a real-life Mercedes AMG GT4 to the same exact car in iRacing from someone … Read more

Racing Prodigy Goes Mobile

Street Kart Racing

Racing Prodigy has gone mobile as they have launched a new global driver search on the iOS platform Street Kart Racing. Why? Their reasoning is simple. Not everyone can afford a sim racing rig, but millions of young people have an iPhone so a competition featuring the popular Street Kart Racing game makes their mission … Read more

Sim Racing Gives You a Platform to Raise Your Racing Skills

Setshaba Mashigo

This week you will learn how sim racing gives you a platform to raise your racing skills no matter where you live. Whether you hail from Scotland like Lucas Blakeley, New Zealand like Ryan Wood, the United States like Josh Berry, or South Africa like Setshaba Mashigo, all have demonstrated their skills through sim racing … Read more

Sim Racing: The Ideal Gateway to Real-Life Racing

Beginner Sim Racer

While I continue to champion the cause that sim racing is an ideal path to real-life racing, I am going to tone down the hard sell. Instead, I will just continue to bring you examples of sim racers who have started to race IRL (in real life). This week continues that tradition. While I bring … Read more

The Potential of Apple Vision Pro in Sim Racing

Apple Vision Pro

What is the potential of Apple Vision Pro to the future of Sim Racing? A critical one according to this week’s edition of the Sim Racing Roundup. I also bring you more news on the potentially ground-breaking sim racing to real world motorsports program Racing Prodigy, comparing a real racing car to iRacing, exercises that … Read more

Racing Prodigy Launches Prodigy Racing League Using Esports as a Pathway to Real-World Racing

Prodigy Week

Innovative racing league will make motorsports more accessible using esports as a pathway to real-world racing Registration opens today for the first iRacing esports tournament, starting June 19, with additional tournaments planned across Street Kart Racing, rFactor 2, and RaceRoom over the summer/fall JACKSONVILLE, FL, June 1, 2023 – Racing Prodigy™, a groundbreaking sports, entertainment, and … Read more

How Sim Racing Has Helped the Career of Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen Sim Racing Setup

Max Verstappen is adamant that sim racing has helped him in his Formula 1 career and in this edition of the Sim Racing Roundup, you will learn how. In addition to this, I look at another sim racer experiencing real-world racing, how esports can grow the motorsport ecosystem, multiclass racing tips from Daniel Morad, Formula … Read more

How Sim Racing Can Help You Prepare for a Real Track

Sim vs Real

Sim racing can indeed prepare you to race on a real track and in this week’s edition of the Sim Racing Roundup you will find out how. I feature three drivers who are specifically applying what they are learning in a sim to racing on a real track and each example is instructive of what … Read more

Finding the Best Seating Position for Sim Racing & More

Next Level Racing GTLite Cockpit

Finding the best seating position for sim racing is just one of the topics covered this week and as always there is plenty more. From the latest news on the Gran Turismo movie, watching a sim racer race in a real F4 car and a look at esports and marketing, there is much to learn … Read more

Will the Gran Turismo Movie Put Sim Racing in the Spotlight?

Gran Turismo Film Trailer

Will the Gran Turismo movie put sim racing in the spotlight? The trailer has been released and we will know in August, but I hope so. In addition to the Gran Turismo trailer and my interview with Jann Mardenborough whom the film is based on, I bring you the details on how Cooper Webster is … Read more

Challenges and Rewards in Going from Sim Racing to Real Racing

Direct Drive Sim Wheel

The challenges and rewards in transitioning from sim racing to real racing are numerous and this week, Yashish Manohar describes the challenges he faces. In addition to the transition from sim racing to the real thing, I also touch on the new Gran Turismo film that will be coming out this August, how to set … Read more

Using Esports as a Launch Pad to a Motorsport Career

Jarno Opmeer

Using Esports as a launch pad to a motorsport career would have been unthinkable just 5 years ago but Jarno Opmeer is one sim racer who is following this new and very modern path. I also look at how simulators are integrated into real world racing with an example of their use during a race … Read more

Why Are Race Simulators Important?

Racing Unleashed

Why are Race Simulators important? From learning a track, improving your racecraft or building your confidence, it is an important tool for the race driver. This week on the Sim Racing and Esports News Roundup I bring you details on how a GB4 competitor uses sim racing to hone his skills, how sim racing is … Read more

More Sim Racers Going Real World Racing

Max Esterson on the Ray FF1600

This week I again feature more sim racers going real world racing and the trend is growing month over month. From a sim racer that helped a NASCAR driver with a recent win to an FF1600 champion who explains how to race his car in iRacing, the trend of sim racers going real world racing … Read more

Nico Hulkenberg: The Sim Gives You Endless Possibilities

Cosworth Sim Racing Rig

As Nico Hülkenberg explains how sims can give a driver endless possibilities for driver development, I also have yet more sim racers moving on to real racing in my weekly Sim Racing and Esports News Roundup. I give three examples of sim racers that are now participating in real racing, one professional race driver who … Read more

What Skills are Transferable from Sim Racing to Motorsport?

Ash Vandelay

What skills are transferable from sim racing to motorsport? This is often answered in the From Sim Racing to the Real Thing section of my Sim Racing and Esports News Roundup and has prompted a discussion and debate that I discuss this week. While Scott McLaughlin and Dale Earnhardt Jr agree on the benefits of … Read more

The Lines are Blurring Between Sim Racing and Analog Racing

RB18 Sim Rig

The lines are blurring between sim racing and analog racing, and this can only be a good thing for the future of motorsport. Now, before you scream “it’s not the same thing!” just remember that nobody is saying it is. What they are saying is that it is both a great way to prepare for … Read more

Transitioning from Sim Racing to F1 Sim Driver and then Real-World Motorsport

Sebastian Job

This week I once again bring you examples of drivers transitioning from sim racing to real world motorsport, but this time by way of an F1 team. In addition to Sebastian Job’s transition from sim racer to sim driver for the Red Bull F1 team, I show the importance of sim racing to a Porsche … Read more