Virtual Racing : a new magazine about Simracing

For beginners in SimRacing, Larivière editions launched a new magazine in french : Virtual Racing.
Those who also publish MicroSim, the magazine dedicated to aviation simulation mainly, are not the first, to my knowledge, to have taken the step of a publication dedicated to our passion. There had been before them, Live-Sim, which had the advantage of being free.

This new medium has therefore the aim of introducing to us the SimRacing and of helping us, beginners, to take our first steps.

Let's say right away : it's very beautiful, very well laid out, very well written, with interesting subjects.


In summary :
- Software and hardware news,
- Presentation of simulators rooms, here I-Way,
- Interview with a simracer (in the first issue, it's Gaël Paletou, one of the winners of the GT Academy, now Nissan GT driver),
- Article about Project Cars,
- Articles about the wheel Thrustmaster T300RS and cockpits,
- Decryption of Spa-Francorchamps circuit and how and where to brake and accelerate again,
- A description of the driving aids,
- And finally an overview of the main platforms of simulation (some call it even video games).
In short, a good general view of the discipline.

I remain a little on my hunger. Maybe I'm too perfectionist, or am I simply already beyond the beginner stage? But it suffers from a lack of depth, precision techniques. Finally, it is intended for beginners, not hardcore simracers which I must be part of.

Let's expect the next issue to see if this impression is confirmed.

The Rookie.