{"id":91083,"date":"2025-02-17T02:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/can-sim-drivers-make-the-shift-to-f1-max-verstappen-thinks-so\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T02:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:14:43","slug":"can-sim-drivers-make-the-shift-to-f1-max-verstappen-thinks-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/can-sim-drivers-make-the-shift-to-f1-max-verstappen-thinks-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Can sim drivers make the shift to F1? Max Verstappen thinks so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Motorsports have long been a pay-to-play arena, with young drivers spending thousands of dollars just to get started in karting. Four-time Formula One champion Max Verstappen knows this all too well, but he also sees a way to change it through sim racing, a virtual form of car racing that closely replicates real-world racing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s maybe less crazy than it sounds. The sport has evolved into a serious proving ground for talent, with detailed setups and tire management \u2014 minus the crushing financial barrier. In fact, Verstappen, a passionate sim racer himself, believes the best virtual drivers deserve a shot in real cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His ultimate vision, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6134190\/2025\/02\/14\/max-verstappen-sim-racing-f1\/\">he tells The Athletic<\/a>, is a racing team that transitions elite sim racers into the real world, bypassing the traditional financial roadblocks. While sim drivers lack experience with G-forces, Verstappen thinks training and the right coaching can bridge the gap. He says sim racing has improved his own driving, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone always thinks that it\u2019s just a game and it\u2019s fun, easy going,\u201d Verstappen tells the outlet, \u201cbut I would say the competition is just as hard, or even harder, to nail \u2014 to win \u2014 than in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/16\/can-sim-drivers-make-the-shift-to-f1-max-verstappen-thinks-so\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorsports have long been a pay-to-play arena, with young drivers spending thousands of dollars just to get started in karting. Four-time Formula One champion Max<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}