With the arrival of winter, when in the real world most racing cars are either stubcounted for warm storage, or disassembled for bulk and overhaul, it's time to carefully look at what the world of online races on simulators can offer, in particular - to the efforts of Porsche The creation of one of the most acutely competitive championships in cybersport.
Celebrating Porsche Super Cup, he also completed the second full season on the most rigid platform of simulatory racing - Iracing. Looking back for the last 20 years of computer games, I can say for sure: this is a serious turn.
Old school Slim-Reisers seems to be extremely gratifying me to see that Porsche finally joined the cyber revolution. Especially when you live in Russia, where, because of the climate, such a short "analog" racing season on the track. Of course, not all simulatory races are so serious as PESC. To participate in this Super Cup It is necessary to be a really good driver, so the best option for the general public is Last Visitors on YouTube. For most people, simulatory races are just a great way to spend an hour-other free time with pleasure and maintain their driving reflexes at the proper level. The number of Porsche virtual racing models in a wide variety of games and simulations, there was so much that there is a lot of small leagues and championships, where you can experience yourself in the role of Ciberian Porsche. It is better to understand this will help the site of the brand itself.
Even the official Moscow club Porsche held an electronic race competition this year, when we all turned out to be locked at home. I also fit into several final rounds and was glad to see among the participants of my acquaintances with whom I was competing in real life on different Russian tracks. And since the rings are virtual, all horizons are open here: by pressing a couple of buttons, we could arrange races even on the best highway of the world Spa Francorsham in my native Belgium, without having to book an expensive car transportation and flights. By the way, it is this track that the spa is famous among auto racing fans in the world's most dangerous turn - Eau Rouge. Those who have not yet traveled through this highway, in real life or in virtual, I recommend to read about this place - this is a real legend!
Some rounds used cars 911 GT3 R, in others - Cayman GT4 Clubsport. But the most cool thing in all this is what: somewhere in the virtual world there is always almost any Porsche racing car from ever built, which you want to manage.
Something in what the simulatory races even exceed real life: all the same cars are the same. Absolutely no differences. There is no difference here, who has more money - this will not increase your chances of winning, although, of course, we can lower huge amounts to the arrangement of a large home simulator. However, in my experience, extra investments in the hardware "iron" will not make you faster in the virtual world. You need a base: good pedals, more or less decent steering wheel feedback and not too tiny monitor. Everything else, over this set, will not give you a big advantage. I really like to use a virtual reality helmet, it all looks much more realistic with him, but again, you hardly have a circle with it faster.
A 40-year-old man in a VR-helmet, an energetic twigging steering wheel installed on the usual table, is a spectacle and really seem comic for the uninitiated. Do not pay attention to them, for they clearly do not know what they are deprived of themselves. If an adult does not have right from time to time to behave, as if he still did not grow out of a little boy, then this world is clearly rolling somewhere not there.
In addition, after the "Great Pandemic" of 2020, we can rightly refer to countless professional riders, who just like me, took up the simulators when world tracks were unavailable. Many famous pilots, among whom the Dutchman Max Festappen from Formula 1, and previously treated eSports, but this year it was popular with a new level when the races were displaced from real life into the virtual world. It is clear that this is not an ideal simulation and in no way an equivalent replacement, but even for real riders in cybersport there are its advantages. For example, the ability to thoroughly explore the new track before you find it on it. But studying the track and every turn virtually, you then sit behind the wheel of the real car and these knowledge physically help you to drive faster. Believe me, I experienced a hundred times personally. I am no longer talking about maintaining reflexes in the form - it is also very useful and really felt even when driving on a regular road.
Drinking a little bit from the game orientation of a virtual ride. Few, probably thinks that the role is played by virtual trips and test drives in everything concerns testing models in terms of safety. Test drives in virtual reality are cheaper, occupy less time and easier in the organization. But the main thing is not even this: they allow you to reproduce all sorts of variations of critical situations that may arise on real roads. In this case, computer simulation is able to help detect new hazards that are not realized at all, but are crucial for safety, such as autonomous driving. As we know, it is behind such a driving - the future, I like it or not. There is a whole center of virtual tests - Porsche Engineering. Dozens of programmers create virtual reality in it for testing and learning to drive systems for the driver and autonomous driving.
Returning to a pleasant one - never harmful, you agree? For this very reason, some of us (I repent!) It is impassively hiding for a long time on the Porsche configurator site. Now that their cars are adequately presented in all the largest racing simulators, each of us can skip the settings menu and create a digital embodiment of the car of your dreams, even choose a color - and immediately charge, without leaving your native chair. If you needed an idea than to take yourself in the New Year holidays - I give! Holiday greetings!