Comments on: From racing games to the real thing http://www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk/2009/01/05/from-racing-games-to-the-real-thing/ The original motor racing magazine Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:14:10 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: rob widdows http://www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk/2009/01/05/from-racing-games-to-the-real-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-22410 rob widdows Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:48:32 +0000 http://www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk/?p=2636#comment-22410 Filipe, you probably know that Lewis Hamilton spent approximately 1,000 hours in the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre before coming to the grid in Melbourne in 2007. He is also known to be a devotee of of computer games. Ase many of the younger drivers. Says it all, really. Personally, I prefer to watch a film or read a book...... Anyway, Happy New Year. New blog coming to a website near you soon - once I've finished researching, and writing about, the new Red Bull RB5 and the implications of the new rules for 2009. To be published in the February edition of Motor Sport. I can tell you that KERS may not be all that it's cracked up to be.......... RW Filipe, you probably know that Lewis Hamilton spent approximately 1,000 hours in the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre before coming to the grid in Melbourne in 2007.
He is also known to be a devotee of of computer games. Ase many of the younger drivers.
Says it all, really.
Personally, I prefer to watch a film or read a book……
Anyway, Happy New Year.
New blog coming to a website near you soon – once I’ve finished researching, and writing about, the new Red Bull RB5 and the implications of the new rules for 2009. To be published in the February edition of Motor Sport.
I can tell you that KERS may not be all that it’s cracked up to be……….
RW

]]> By: Filipe Amoroso http://www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk/2009/01/05/from-racing-games-to-the-real-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-22165 Filipe Amoroso Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:32:40 +0000 http://www.motorsportmagazine.co.uk/?p=2636#comment-22165 I love all the GT games, and I can't wait for the new GT5. (Actually, I can wait. Because I'll have to buy the PS3 to go with it, so it won't be cheap). I agree that the relationship between gaming and real life driving is not as "Real Driver Simulator" as the marketing guys would like you to believe, but I do think you can benefit from it. You get to think more about what you're doing with the car, how to balance it, how it will react to different inputs, and with different characteristics (driven whells, engine location, etc.). This would probably not happen as much if you'd be stuck to your daily driver. So you actually get more from your real driving time than you would if you weren't gaming. (Also, you benefit from track knowledge, so, 'ceteris paribus', a driver that has practised a given track in a goodish game, will have an advantage over a someone of similar skill over that track, supposing the two of them will race in it for the first time. For real, that is.) I think what nails it is that most F1 teams run simulators, which could be described as a brutally developed racing game. In fact, why don't they sell it? :-) I love all the GT games, and I can’t wait for the new GT5. (Actually, I can wait. Because I’ll have to buy the PS3 to go with it, so it won’t be cheap).

I agree that the relationship between gaming and real life driving is not as “Real Driver Simulator” as the marketing guys would like you to believe, but I do think you can benefit from it.

You get to think more about what you’re doing with the car, how to balance it, how it will react to different inputs, and with different characteristics (driven whells, engine location, etc.). This would probably not happen as much if you’d be stuck to your daily driver. So you actually get more from your real driving time than you would if you weren’t gaming.

(Also, you benefit from track knowledge, so, ‘ceteris paribus’, a driver that has practised a given track in a goodish game, will have an advantage over a someone of similar skill over that track, supposing the two of them will race in it for the first time. For real, that is.)

I think what nails it is that most F1 teams run simulators, which could be described as a brutally developed racing game. In fact, why don’t they sell it? :-)

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