And Roger, do you have any idea what is ACTUALLY involved in going to a racing school? And I mean an ACTUAL, SCCA affiliated school that will get you an ACTUAL racing license, that lets you race in ACTUAL races? Try 3 days and $3700. That is 3 solid days of piloting an open-wheeled racecar. Now please explain to me how this is in any way equivalent to sitting in front of your computer with a Logitech steering wheel?

I agree with Henry - this simulation is just that, a racing simulation. The only difference I can see between it and GT4 is that iRacing costs a lot more without offering anything more.

I didn’t say it doesn’t require commitment to get good. Any competitive game does. While I was in Washington I lived with some of the top Smash Brothers Melee players in the world. They used to practice for several hours a day. Often, just sitting there repeating the same comples move combination over, and over again so that in tournaments they would not be off by a single frame.

What I said was that it is still a game. Unlike racing which requires a lore more than commitment. Just having your car work every weekend is more of a job.

Nadeo created a racing game a while back called Trackmania. They eventually expanded it into a huge tournament with a $400,000 prize and people from all over the world entered. (http://www.trackmania.com/en/) iRacing is just Trackmania but with different physics and prettier graphics. It’s not the first idea this “online sport” idea has been tried. I just don’t like this attitude that they are “more than a game”.

Of course it doesn’t require the commitment of regular racing like you’re twisting those words to read.

To be good at this type of simulator, you have to commit (oh, there’s that word again) an awful lot of time to it.

Simple tracks? Have you ever heard of Laguna Seca?

You probably read this on Slashdot and think you know something about it… Pansy.

– Henry