“I’ve just been a part of iRacing for a while, and it’s cool to see the progression of it, just from even a few years back when you’d have world championship races that iRacing had put together and everybody would be running those. I have all the other ones, but I’ve probably done like 10 laps on rFactor 2 and five laps on Assetto Corsa or whatever – I don’t even know what it’s called. “It’s just kind of always been the one I feel like when you go talk about major sim programs, it’s always the top one people talk about.

“So I’ve been a part of it for a long time. Karam won Ind圜ar’s first iRacing Challenge“I’ve been on iRacing since 2007 like when it was in beta mode,” he said yesterday. Sage Karam, who won the first round of Ind圜ar’s iRacing Challenge, has over a decade’s experience with the game and has seen how much it has progressed in that time. “Would I recommend F1 games to serious racers?” he added, “No, iRacing or rFactor.” However Norris is due to return to F1 2019 to take part in the Race for the World series to raise money for the pandemic relief effort today.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Whereas iRacing is a little bit like an actual car.” The game’s handling is “why Max doesn’t play”, said Norris, “because it’s nothing like an actual car. He did so after broadcasting a conversation with Max Verstappen, who criticised the official F1 game series, and has not joined the Virtual Grands Prix. However technical problems thwarted his effort to compete in both events, and during the latter he removed the game from his system. It’s rubbish because of that, that’s why no one does it.”į1 2019 is used for the Virtual Grand Prix seriesNorris, a prolific simracer, is one of just six F1 drivers who entered the official Virtual Grand Prix series which was launched this year. “Whereas F1, Gran Turismo – especially Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo is terrible, it feels nothing like a car, you just slide everywhere. It’s more like a simulator in terms of how it feels through the wheel, the set-up changes and stuff. “iRacing is more like a simulation programme so you have better feedback through the wheel, it feels more realistic, basically. “You don’t drive them anything like you do a real car,” Norris explained.

He said the official F1 licence and popular PlayStation series Gran Turismo are “too much like arcade games. Speaking to viewers on social media yesterday, Norris compared F1 2019 with iRacing and other popular motorsport games.

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