You don’t realize how useful downforce is until you hop out of a high-downforce racecar and straight into a road car. Suddenly, that car feels awfully clumsy and difficult to drive, and it’s all thanks to aerodynamics.
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Perfecting the art of sim racing – Going sideways (Part 2)
Drifting is much harder than television might have you think. You need to find precisely the right balance of steering and throttle, then sustain it for as long as necessary. The ability to find that balance, however, is very useful if things go south during a race. As such, my fellow sim racers encouraged me to spend some time getting the hang of it in Assetto Corsa.
Perfecting the art of sim racing – How hard can it be? (Part 1)
I’m off to a brilliant start!
Thanks to the recent arrival of Goat Simulator, simulation games have become the butt of jokes throughout the gaming industry. And it’s not an unfair criticism per se – there is a plethora of ‘simulators’ that were meant to be realistic, but pack a physics engine that makes Mario Kart look believable. Make no mistake, however – the simulator genre has some true gems, and no community knows this as well as sim racers.