088 Auto Racing for the Average Joe | Chris Leone of iRacing
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Imagine being able to race any car on any track in the world! That's the power of simulated virtual racing and the realism is mind-blowing!
You could race a Porsche 919 in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for a couple hundred bucks from the safety and comfort of your home!
In this episode I got to talk with Chris Leone of iRacing. iRacing is an incredibly realistic sim racing program used by professional drivers but available to anyone. All you need is a computer and a digital wheel/pedal.
Join Chris and I in this episode as we discuss how iRacing scans every square inch of a track to properly replicate it, how they recreate the driving dynamics of real cars, how iRacing alters driving dynamics to incredible detail (like the temperature of the track pavement!), how to get started sim racing, what equipment you'll need, how to get better at racing, and much more!
For more info and to try sim racing for yourself visit http://iracing.com/
*This episode is not sponsored by iRacing. I just discovered them, thought they were doing cool stuff, and invited them on the show to learn more.
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the 88th episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Travis DeRose, the guy that's talking to you right now, the host of the show. |
| 0:17.5 | And I've got to say, I've always wanted to be a race car driver. It looks awesome. It looks so |
| 0:23.5 | fun. I've always liked cars, so I've always wanted to race cars, but who the heck am I? Who am I? I've |
| 0:30.1 | never, I'm not going to race. I don't have the racing family or the money to race, but I can do |
| 0:36.5 | ir racing. So I racing is basically like a computer simulation |
| 0:41.9 | of racing. And it's a simulator first. It's not a video game. It's designed to simulate real world |
| 0:48.6 | racing and simulate they do. So I have Chris Leon on this episode to tell me all about iraicing. And it's seriously |
| 0:56.5 | impressive. The amount of time and effort and thought that they go into the detail to make |
| 1:02.1 | eye racing realistic is insane. They scan every inch of real racetracks, every inch in component of real |
| 1:09.9 | race cars. And they even on a track if you're right if |
| 1:15.2 | you're on the track for a while the track starts to heat up the driving dynamics change because |
| 1:20.4 | the track is heating up it's crazy it's insane what they're able to do with this stuff so buckle in |
| 1:25.7 | this is a crazy episode we talk about all that stuff. We talk about |
| 1:29.2 | how to get started with iR, equipment you need, the cost, VR, everything. So let's get to the |
| 1:35.4 | episode. Here is Chris from iRacing. Chris, what's up? We're going. |
| 1:42.9 | Hanging in there. How are you doing, Travis? |
| 1:44.9 | I'm doing good. |
| 1:46.8 | It was kind of good. |
| 1:47.8 | I woke up this morning to these guys, |
| 1:51.1 | power washing the side of our apartment building, |
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