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Originally Posted by MaximeT
We call that cheating physics. You'll get close to it too with the best sims. That's why I stopped racing and only train now. Or race fixed setup series.
You got so much time to learn the car that you can practice extremely hard to drive setups. They will make you spend a lot of time at the tire physics limit. At the transition between grip and drift.
At some point you'll spend all the time on the physics inaccuracy because it's faster. The car setup will help you spending time there. It will not feel real anymore.
But to reach this point, you will have to be an international level simracer. You would already have learned a lot for track days.
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It's interesting you say that specifically because I find myself wanting to race more and practice less. I find that racing is a more realistic challenge because it forces you off the ideal line, not to mention the challenge of looking beyond/through cars for reference points, as well as using more of your mental capacity for managing things like checking mirrors, etc. which is much more of a preparation for real world track time.
That said, training alone in a sim is definitely still a good tool for pushing the limits and figuring out the ideal line. Training is also great for learning to try new things but it can teach bad habits too. For me I really need to look through corners more and keep my eyes up... a bad habit learned from racing with a simulator on a tiny PC monitor.
Sims are definitely a great tool if used appropriately
