Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races
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#2Lol. Let’s see how they implant the rules. Or crashtappen wins?
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#3Is the game a good enough simulator? Should real drivers be the best F1 streamers with a good wheel setup?
This is really pushing the notion of work from home.
Re: Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races
#4Is the game a good enough simulator? Should real drivers be the best F1 streamers with a good wheel setup? This is really pushing the notion of work from home.
In the Netflix series, Drive to Survive, you could see one of the younger drivers (I don't recall who it was) play the Codemasters game at home. It didn't look like exposition or product placement, but rather like something that they regularly did to train.
Re: Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races
#5Is the game a good enough simulator? Should real drivers be the best F1 streamers with a good wheel setup? This is really pushing the notion of work from home.
No. In the less formal event last Sunday, the e-sports drivers dominated the race and the highest finishing "real" F1 driver was in 8th, and incredibly proud of that achievement.
Edit: this is for a variety of reasons. The greatest of which is that when you're actually going 200 MPH and risking hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage, and moreso your own life and limb and those of your competitors, your risk aversion is higher than when it's a video game.
Secondly, the drivers train massively to withstand the physical forces that F1 racing causes on the body. Take away those physical aspects and a) the barrier to entry is much lower and b) the drivers are probably used to being able to feel what the car is doing, and that tactile connection is completely broken in a video game.
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#6How about streaming some previous races? I could always watch last years German race again.
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#7Next up in remote work: the Olympics.
There's a great tradition of video games in Japan, surely if Formula 1 can do it, they can do it for the Olympics, too?
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#8I watched the virtual races and without damage or real marshalling they just seemed too forgiving of mistakes, and I got bored. Also shorter races = less strategy choices. Also, Codemasters is not the best simulation, would be a lot cooler if the teams modeled this years cars in a better engine.
Re: Formula 1 launches Virtual Grand Prix Series to replace postponed races
#9Is the game a good enough simulator? Should real drivers be the best F1 streamers with a good wheel setup? This is really pushing the notion of work from home.
In the Netflix series, Drive to Survive, you could see one of the younger drivers (I don't recall who it was) play the Codemasters game at home. It didn't look like exposition or product placement, but rather like something that they regularly did to train.
Both Max Verstappen and Lando Norris does this regularly. Lando also stream at times.
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#10Next up in remote work: the Olympics. There's a great tradition of video games in Japan, surely if Formula 1 can do it, they can do it for the Olympics, too?
I was a master of Atari Video Olympics on the 2600 system. Time to come out of retirement?