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Originally Posted by sprinter14
My favorite story of comparing computer racing to the real thing happened around 15 years ago:
I was in my 5th year of racing sprints and I had a 16 year old pit crewman. I had just recovered from a pretty bad right shoulder injury in a crash. It was around the time the Ratbag sprint car computer game came out. The kid played it every day all day - even at high school in study hall and he got really good at it.
He loaded it on my home computer and I tried to play it a few times laughing at how unrealistic it was. A few months later, he’s at my house and breaking all my lap records at every track - then looks at me as serious as could be and says “hey, I’m beating all your records, you should let me drive your car sometime”.
My reply was this: “okay, here’s the deal. You restart that 25 lap feature. If you win the race, you can drive my car next week. (Then I walked to the front door where I kept a wooden baseball bat and picked it up) But if you crash during this feature, I’m going to hit you in the shoulder as hard as I can with this baseball bat. While you are on the floor in pain, I’m going to take all the money out of your wallet AND you have to give up half of your paychecks for the next 3 months. Now let’s go”
The look on his face was priceless. And he didn’t take the bet.
The Iracing I hear is pretty realistic - but until you’ve rode out a bad crash or worked your ass off to buy the equipment - you aren’t a racer yet.
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You should have also told him you were going to throw rocks, clay and dust in his face the whole time too. I love the baseball bat part!