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Originally Posted by Uplink
Excellent write-up and my feelings exactly. To further illustrate the point, if anyone has been to Pole Position in Farmingdale, they have one of those crazy g-force simulators with WGI running. Watching a few people drive it, the little helper arrow trail that guides you around the track and says ideally where you should put the car is absolutely wrong in some locations. Keep off ALL the rumbles in the bus stop?!?!  They also don't get the camber fall-off at 9 and the extra grip/rut at the apex curbing of 10 (very much like the downhill at LRP).
So yes, to familiarize yourself with a new track or brush off some cobwebs, they are a great tool. To really get the finer nuances, you have to actually drive.
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Don`t know which simulator they are using, my guess is rFactor with a user made version of WGI. I might be a fanboy, but for any American driver, the best sim to learn tracks would be iRacing in my opinion, as they have most of the major American tracks, and they are ALL laser scanned to mm precision.