Driver61 – How Useful are Racing Simulators for Real-World Racing Drivers?

How useful is sim racing when it comes to learning and improving your skills for real-world racing? Here is a question often debated in both the virtual and real racing scene.

British racing driver and professional driver coach Scott Mansell, has some pretty extensive experience in real and virtual racing scenarios. Last week he visited SimTechPro in Barcelona Spain to test one of their professional grade simulators. After doing some sim sessions, Scott explains exactly how he feels a racing sim compares to its real real-world counterpart and talks about how racing drivers could improve their real-world skills when using racing simulators. results.

The video shows us one of the SimTechPro triple screen racing motion simulators fitted with a Thrustmaster T500RS Force Feedback wheel, a TS-PC Racer formula rim, SimTechPro Pro 2 pedals, an SRH T500RS Dashboard, SRH  G-Force LCD Display, and an SRH GI-Max Gear indicator.

Scott’s using here includes a Thrustmaster T500RS and SIMTECHPRO’s Pro 2 pedals set view through 3 Samsung Curved 27″ monitors – we’ll leave the full list in the description.