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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on November 29, 2010, 11:50:54 AM

Title: Top Gear puts the world's best iRacing driver into a real race car.
Post by: rcjordan on November 29, 2010, 11:50:54 AM
I considered putting this in Hard/Tech.

http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/geek-rebooted-2010-11-26

hat tip: reddit
Title: Re: Top Gear puts the world's best iRacing driver into a real race car.
Post by: jangro on November 29, 2010, 12:16:06 PM
Aside from the most annoying navigation/pagination ever, that's great. 

I was wondering if he was going to puke.  yep.
Title: Re: Top Gear puts the world's best iRacing driver into a real race car.
Post by: rcjordan on November 29, 2010, 12:52:43 PM
>I was wondering

That didn't cross my mind, though it should have -- peripheral vision at speed and low gforce can cause vertigo and nausea problems for non-commercial pilots, and not just student pilots, either.

Hauling him to Atlanta's heat & humidity wasn't such a bright idea, either.
Title: Re: Top Gear puts the world's best iRacing driver into a real race car.
Post by: grnidone on November 29, 2010, 04:27:47 PM
Boyfriend's son is 14 (legal age of getting a driver's permit here in Kansas) and I was teaching him to drive (simple stuff, just around the block) and I remember we got to turn the corner and he barely turned the steering wheel. 

We were going maybe 10 mph, and I grabbed the wheel from him and TURNED so the car woudl actually turn.  I asked him why he didn't turn it more, and he said

"Well, on the XBox, you only need to turn the wheel a little bit."

*rolls eyes*

Title: Re: Top Gear puts the world's best iRacing driver into a real race car.
Post by: Gurtie on November 29, 2010, 04:43:01 PM
>>14

14? Scary.
Title: Re: Top Gear puts the world's best iRacing driver into a real race car.
Post by: Travoli on November 30, 2010, 01:45:51 AM
Major credit to the kid who strapped into a real car and flew around Road Atlanta.  The consequences of blowing a turn at 100mph+ produce some pucker factor in me.  RC, you live near the newly-crowned U.S.A./Canada iRacing champion.  Jason (17) lives in Chesapeake, and is headed to Europe for the World Finals.  Super nice guy, and unlike the subject of Top Gear's story, superfast on the real racetrack.