Stop messing around on racing games - use them to win!

You can burn hours fooling around on a sim game, or you can use it to transform your driving.

Welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Every week I take a deep dive into driving technique and unique racing driver perspectives, to keep you fully lit as a racing driver.

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This weeks edition is on how to create a perfect model of yourself as a wicked driver, that you can take to the track and strive to make real. That’s a hell of a lot better than just hoping things come together on race days!

The ultimate sim rig!

Look at that sim set-up! Proper…

Now I do have all the gear, Fanatec whatsit thing, with some amazing different titles like Assetto Corsa, rFactor and whatever. But it sits there, gathering dust, because I prefer just to fire up Indy 500 from 1989 and drive with a few buttons.

Sim rig in the corner, gathering dust and laundry.

Now, the reasons I like the Indy 500 game are the nostalgia, and that it reminds me of what you can learn without any kit at all, other than a computer.

In fact, I reckon you can develop your racing brain even more effectively with a 30-odd year old game, than if you have the full-on racing sim set up. I’ll go into that a bit more in a minute…

But, whichever way you want to do it, I want to show you how you can use the simulator right now, to create totally unexpected real world improvements. This is stuff I don’t think anyone really appreciates, even if they bash away at the sim for hours on end.

If you don’t pay attention to this, I think you are pissing away hours of potential development larking about on games. When instead you can be having the same fun, but simultaneously sharpening yourself up as a driver - big time.

This will take your track driving to new levels because you learned how much time is available from a cm.

So here goes:

What you should be doing on the sim to maximise your real world racing