Pixels or Pavement? How good are modern Racing Sims?

For Episode #131 of the Podcast, Tasso, Mike Pettiford, Dylan, and Jon sit down to talk about the newest racing Sims like Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo 7, and Assetto Corsa.  

For a lot of us, the first time we got to experience anything like driving a car on track was in a video game.  In the beginning, there was a pretty big gap between driving an actual car and playing these games.  But with this newest group of games/simulators and the new technology that is going into wheels and pedals from companies like Fanatec and Logitech, that gap is closer to the real thing than ever before.

So how close is it to the real thing?

Have these games become realistic enough that you can use them as a tool just like professional race teams?

Or is there still  a ways to go even for these newest driving games?

We do our best to get to the bottom of this question with Tasso from OTC Racing and Mike Pettiford of Go 4 it Racing (who has won more than 50 SCCA Championships).

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