Your love of racing or your love of racing sims?
Printable View
Your love of racing or your love of racing sims?
Good question!
I've always been interested in cars for as long as I can remember, and I used to like watching them race. But it wasn't until I got Toca Touring Car Championship that I really got into motor racing. 1998 was the first year I tried to follow all the races in the BTCC and F1.
both I think, my dad follows F1 so I watched some races there since I can remember(sadly my first memory of an specific race is the 94 San Marino GP). but I only started to follow other sports lately.
While for racing sims, I remember when the family bought our first computer in 1992, it came with that F1 game from Accolade, and I was instantly hooked up!
I definitely was into racing before getting into racing sims. I got into racing in the early 90s and the first racing game I got was GP2 back in 1996 and I was just a casual player. I started playing much more when I got internet access in 1998 and I found all the addons available for GP2 that kept the game up to date.
As I got into racing sims more I did play some games for series I didnt follow
racing sims for me - I started playing colin mcrae on the playstation, got into WRC and then from there into F1.
I was a motor racing toddler. I think my Dad was taking me to events when I was still in a push chair, I certainly remember being at rallies when I was only about 3 (1988). Fairly regular visitor to Castle Combe and Thruxton throughout my life. First racing sim would have been playing CMR in a shop, can't remember the year. Didn't actually get a playstation until a few years later (probably '97/8). TOCA 2, CMR and Gran Turismo became regular stalwarts.
I can't imagine doing it the other way around and I don't think that any game has influenced me into watching different motorsports :)
Racing for me, I've been watching racing for as long as I can remember and there were no sims back then. (Late 70's-early 80's)
My love of rallying and racing came 1st.. then only when racing/rallying sims became fun and realistic enough did I develop an interest.
Rallying came first for me!
I got introduced to Rallying when my older brother took me to a local rally in '87, I got hooked instantly, but didn't get into gaming untill some 13 years later when my boss introduced me to CMR1 while I was working at a community center..
I can still remember his exact words: "I work untill noon or two o clock, then I'm too burned out to do anything but play the rest of the day.." then he pulled down the CMR1 game from a shelf, popped it into a PC, and we spent the rest of the day rallying away.. ahh the memories!
I like watching races first - indy cars mostly, along with some sports cars & F1 when we could get it here. Even nascar... hey, you can't really avoid it.
Then when I got old enough, I started racing a little ameature racing myself.
Eventually I traded my race cars for kids & a wife, but a few years later I discovered sim racing :D which is much more affordable than real cars, and requires considerably less time to maintain the cars.
Luckily by the time I ran out of money I had discovered that I wasn't going to exactly be the next Danny Sullivan anyway.
That doesn't mean I don't still love it just as much though!