Are Rally Racing Games Total BS? Let's FIND OUT

Are rally games *anything* like real life? Can you learn to drive a REAL rally car in games like Dirt Rally 2.0, EA WRC or Richard Burns Rally? Let's take my sim racing skills to DirtFish Rally School to find out.

Here are the incredible companies helping make this series happen:

DirtFish Rally School:

0:00 - Excuse my French
1:03 - DirtFish is the Freeroam map!
1:38 - The real car. No pressure.
2:26 - Real cockpit Vs Sim Cockpit
2:40 - Real steering Vs Sim steering
3:08 - Real brakes Vs Sim brakes
3:44 - Real handling Vs Sim handling
5:02 - The biggest hurdle
5:48 - And then it all clicked
6:13 - Don’t let ANYONE tell you otherwise
7:08 - The major differences
8:04 - They closed it (sad)
8:56 - How to match up the sim car to the real car
10:27 - The BIG thing

#simracing #rallyracing #eawrc

[ZedNinetySix_]

It's silly for people to fight and gatekeep sims and simcades, they're all close enough to transfer skills with. The main thing is whichever you find more immersive/enjoyable for YOU.

[NoxNyctores]

Arguably one of the biggest problems of "simcades", as the more hardcore fans call them, is that they make the IRL problems notably more difficult than the actual problems. This probably comes from a desire to balance the fact that since you're not in any real danger or that can't represent other real problems so they make you pay more attention to the issues they can replicate, but it comes at the cost of feeling natural and authentic, so I'm not surprised you found out that some elements were easier

[greenfefo_fpv]

Dude if they gave me car number 43 i would just break down into pieces... I don't think i could handle it. LOVING the journey my man

[geoffwnz]

Can confirm, that sound never gets old. Had my Version 5 STI for 11 years now. Purchased as a road car, built into a rally car. Next rally in just under 3 weeks.

[AsherSkylark]

For someone who had a thousand hours of playing a bunch of rally games (Dirt Rally, EA WRC, WRC7, 10 etc) you are very lucky to have that sort of immersion in your area. We don't have much opportunity to slide around cars without having to buy a car.

[FreddoLeFrog]

Man this is so cool, if the car at the end is what I think it is then it's one of my favorite rally cars of all time

[hugovai]

Dirt rally gave me the skills to make awsome real life saves in my car. Lost it a few times in the wet and snow and the reflexes to countersteer, stay on throttle and straighter the car are all thanks to Dirt Rally.

[EASPORTSWRC]

This is a great video (your explanations of the sensations in game/reality are excellent), awesome that you got to experience DirtFish in real life too 😀

[Pixel_bt]

This second channel is underrated fr fr

[Zombiefruit]

I think the thing this is missing about the force feedback is that the ffb from the wheel base isn't meant to only simulate the forces at the wheel, it's meant to simulate the g-forces as well (which, as you mentioned, are quite strong). Even in something like my Prius, which has super light steering, if I take an on-ramp with enough speed I'm going to feel a lot of weight in my arms and body trying to stop me from continuing to steer.

Since we don't have any g-forces in a sim, the wheel strength has to be a lot stronger to compensate for the overall lack of information.

Great video btw! Awesome that you got some sponsors, and an ambitious goal!

[punkxmetalxcrust]

So pumped for you, man! I love tagging along with your journey. Even learning some things along the way!

[averagesimracergbr]

Love what your setting out to do with your channel. Wish you the best of luck! Every sim racers dream!

[jamal]

I did the same, but took my WRX to SCCA RallyCross event in OK. Got completely hooked.

[TacoTechnica]

Dirt Rally 2's physics are not realistic, but simcades can still teach realistic driving concepts without a steering wheel, which makes them a great place to learn the basics. Despite DR2's arcadey physics tweaks (ex. Car's center of mass is artificially adjusted to the front during rotation), I learned concepts like weight transfer in DR2 (on controller) that I used to get a head start when learning how to play RBR (with a g29).

[ThatScreaminCat]

used to watch you for mtb vids and slowly fell out of it but just got back into cars and was suprised to see that your the same guy glad to see u doin well and will be supporting this cool journey :D

[cognitonito]

I once saw a guy from YouTube saying if you have the budget try to avoid moza r9, go for r12 at least because more force means better. Who tf uses 12Nm to drive cars? Cars have power steering unless you plan to drive cars made before 1926 you don't need that much force. Provided you want realism of course.

[thechaticblacksmith]

As a new racecar driver I’m so glad that someone else is finding sims useful.

[cncgeneral]

The best way to test this would be to hook a sim racing wheel and pedals up to a real car, drive the real car with the exact same inputs and see if they end up in the same place after a few turns

[ricardotorres]

Sometimes, YT recommend a jewel content like this. Subscribed! Love it!

[DCFHazardRebornChannel]

What an amazing video mate. In 11 minutes you practically went over everything I was interested in knowing. That is called doing it right.