how to become a professional off road racer

On the road course side, the series tends to lean towards the open setup stuff. In iRacing on the oval side, the fixed setup stuff is so popular, you could race for years without ever touching a setup button (like me). PK: It depends on what sim you are in and what racing you are doing. Comparing your data to people faster than you and see how they treat corners differently is the best way to gain time, I find. But if you have none, it's probably easiest to focus on driving first. MB: Setup is definitely important, but it's not the be-all-end-all! If someone has technical knowledge of a car and setup, I think playing with the setup is definitely OK to do. iRacing How important is a good car setup? Should newbies just stick with baselines, or immediately start fiddling around? 'Feel' is a huge part of dirt racing, and a huge challenge when you can't feel anything. (I have been known to tweak those settings per track at times!) I suggest working on learning audio and visual cues with a basic easy setting on force-feedback and eventually tweaking that force feedback setting per car as you move through the ranks. But this is really a personal preference in terms of what you want to feel through the wheel and how much you allow it to 'fight' you. Most sim racing wheels have a form of force feedback, where the wheel actually will attempt to provide feeling and fight you like a real car. Unlike real life, you can't 'feel' the car obviously, so learning the visual and audio cues of what the car is doing is what separates the good sim racers from the struggling. PK: The two most important things in sim racing are visual and audio cues. With a high-end, direct-drive wheel like the DirectForce Pro, it's a lot easier because there is much more detail in the force feedback.

Play with the settings of the wheel a bit until you're comfortable with what you feel through your hands. MB: A good wheel definitely helps! Even entry-level wheels nowadays are very good compared to what a few years ago. What's the most important aspect when it comes to learning how to 'feel' a car through sim racing?

How to become a professional off road racer