While we can understand General Motor's fixation with the Nürburgring, we're getting the slight impression that the Detroit automaker may be overdoing it when it comes to promoting its cars.
After a ton of Nürburgring-related films on the Cadillac ATS and following the official video of the 2012 Chevy Camaro ZL1 lapping the Nordschleife in 7 minutes and 41.27 seconds, GM has published the fifth installment of its ZL1 video series that gives us yet another insight on how its engineers developed the pony car on the German race track.
Perhaps the most interesting part in this latest clip is when one of GM's testers admits to playing Forza on Xbox to hone his driving skills.
"Every night I am on my Xbox playing Forza, just driving the track [the Nürburgring]. They are so accurate now, they got the graffiti on the track and literally, I mean, it really helps".
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It's true, if you've played any of the better driving games, that have the real tracks programmed into them, and you're watching from a driver's perspective like this, you know right where the breaking points are, acceleration points, on and off camber turns etc. because they've gotten programmed into your brain from playing the game. No doubt this would give any driver an advantage when they hit a real track that you've never driven before, or just as a reminder for a track you're familiar with. Play the game the night before and it stands to reason you're going to be more confident and therefore faster right out of the gate. It seems that for race and test drivers everywhere this has become a standard part of training.
To play Forza 4 the night before?
As opposed to what, real world experience behind the wheel of real car?
You seem to be confusing at-home console simulator with the real thing. By extention, you probably think BF3 and MW3 should be used to teach people how to use firearms.
You'd make a great nurburgring tourist.
Agreed, Aaron.
On my dedicated driving/flight sim/game set-up, I practice courses
that I run, too hone a line and or to familiarize myself on a new track
I'm headed to for a track or competition day. I just wish there were
more tracks available.
The Nurburgring would require many laps to finally grasp the whole track. A race sim would speed up that process.
The military uses sims widely. All of the drones are flown from US
based military sites, though I suspect that the landings are done by an
autopilot program unless the operator actually has flight training, even
then, flight envelope conditions could not be sensed by a remote
operator in a timely manner during landings. I have found that in
teaching flying using a sim, the trainee can't seem to properly manage
the landings until they actually have seat of the pants, real world
experience. After that they can go back to the sim and land the
aircraft. 3Deuce27
I forgot to mention that Formula One teams use Simulators as do NASCAR teams. It is just part of racing now to be competitive and to save money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3KUfd4v0Gg
http://www.nascar.com/2008/news/features/12/29/nascar.simulators/story_single.html
"A ton of" videos...? more like a rough dozen or so.
"Over promoting" ...? It is about selling, and in this case... educating.
No problem here with GM promoting its engineering and cars through videos, I just wish they were of a longer duration. The competition is keen, GM needs to educate its market demographic and the press with what it is doing, the effort being made on behalf of their products and customers.
"Pony Car" Thanks for the proper market segment label/delineation.
Or porn.
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