![]() If the setup was open, I’d probably bring a photo of the garage screen or a USB stick to copy settings across.” So setting this, I went on the safe side because I didn’t feel as confident with the equipment as at home.”ĭavid: “As Jeremy said, the SimRacing Trophy event only allowed adjustments to the brake bias. For this competition, only the brake bias was available but that was a key one since the Porsche doesn’t have ABS. ![]() Jeremy: “In these events you generally have limited setup options available, as the difference is only supposed to be made on driving. How does it work with setups? Do you quickly make the changes you memorised? Depending on the event, that’s sometimes the key to a good performance because you have limited seat time to get accustomed to the rig you have to use.” Rigs for the competitors It’ll never be the same so you always need to adapt, but with experience you’re able to adapt quickly and perform decently with equipment you’re not familiar with. ![]() Jeremy: “It depends on the rig that you have at the event. ![]() Yet the format was great and forced everyone to adapt.” This year, each rig had slightly different wheel and pedals, which made things even trickier, because after each heat you’re in a different one. Fortunately I’ve got decent experience with unfamiliar rigs and so adapting wasn’t too much of an issue, however it’s always difficult and seemingly minor differences can throw people off what they’re comfortable with and what they have muscle memory with. But I must say it was quite hard to have only a short time to get used to a brake pedal that’s twenty times harder than what I have at home, and the seat was moving a bit!”ĭavid: “The software is exactly the same as at home, but the settings (no changes allowed) and hardware are very different. Yet when a camera man comes over and films you it can be very distracting, making it hard to concentrate.”ĭo you miss your own rig and the software you have installed at home? Or you just quickly learn cope with it?įrederik: “I didn’t miss my rig, because it was the same for everyone. But it’s a great experience if you’re performing well, because everything you feel is amplified as you can share it with the crowd!”įrederik: “It was definitely different to race with everyone watching, but after a few laps I forgot about it and was able to focus on the driving only. You really need to focus on what you’re doing because when you start thinking about who’s watching you, or see the cameraman trying to get good shots of you, then that really can lead to on track mistakes. You generally hear the crowd, the commentators, and that can be quite distracting if you’re not used to it. While at home it’s only you and your rig, on stage it really feels like you’re in an arena. In addition you have cameras moving in and out of the rigs, sometimes in your face, which can be very distracting! I have to say though, the excitement is something you don’t get at home, which you can feed off to fuel your focus.” There were moments during the final when Jeremy was fending off Frederik where I could barely hear the car, such was the noise level of the crowd and the live commentary through the speakers above the stage. Competitors ahead of the huge audience - © SimRacing Expoĭo you feel a different kind of tension when you’re racing in front of an audience and not in your own home?ĭavid: “You certainly feel the atmosphere, which is very audible while driving, even though we have headphones on. VRS coaches Jeremy Bouteloup and David Williams came second and third in the final, with Frederik Rasmussen of CoRe SimRacing taking the victory. With ten rigs from the organisation, forty gamers battled it out locally, with an audience at the venue, as well as viewers online. Last month, the world of simracing gathered at the SimRacing Expo at the Nürburgring, with some of the top of them competing in the 2017 ADAC SimRacing Trophy.
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