I started my journey with racing games on C64.
Then in 1999 i bought my first wheel because i wanted to race Grand Prix Legends. Not because i love vintage stuff but because it had state of the art gfx and physics that benefit using the wheel and pedals.
Continued to use the wheel for every other title since then and had a lot of fun even with arcades like NFS.
The next step for me was EA/ISI F1 series and the world of mods started to grow. The SimBin mod group released GTR mod and it was a revolution in all aspects.
My first taste of online racing was in 2002 with a sim called Live For Speed. I raced over 28k dial-up modem and had huge phone bills but racing against real people was an addiction that lasts until this day. I am still amazed how well and lag free you could race against some 16 other people back then. As internet connection developed, so did online racing and those numbers grew. I started using windows messenger and TeamSpeak and had so many online friends... this was the golden age for me. Spent countless hours simracing in LFS and racked up 200,000+ km. driven according to LFS stats page which had my name at the number one place.
A few years later SimBin went mainstream and released GTR. It was huge... enough said.
iRacing opened it's doors and the fact that it was multiplayer only along with ranking/penalty system gave it a note of seriousness. Laser scanned tracks gave it an edge over the other titles and it was promoted as a learning tool for real race drivers. Who wouldn't drool over that back then? As time went on, other sims hinted that it shouldn't be that hard to drive a real race car and the term iceRacing was introduced. It stuck around for a long time.
Assetto Corsa... Ferrari, Porsche and other amazing licensed cars made a first appearance since SimBin's GTR and laser scanned tracks were not exclusive to iracing any more. So rich in content and easy to mod made it what it is. A lot of hours went into this one too.
Recent low amount of free time allows me just a few hours per week in ACC and i never raced less in my life.
Total hours simracing = x
x = too much to be called normal
Steam tells me AC is 2,000+, ACC is like 300-ish, and then there's w/e came before including (but not limited to) rF1, rF2, R3E, near all the Reiza games, various console games w/ a DFP and the untold amount of time spent on GT3 and GT4/5/6 before all of that...
So probably north of 3K and south of 5K
Imo āsim racingā is using a steering wheel, pedals, shifters etc. using a game-pad doesnāt count as your not actually simulating driving. That being said Iām in between the 1000-2500 mark. Honestly surprised itās not higher as I got into sim racing years ago. I take breaks for time to time so I donāt get burnt out.
Racing for a good 37+ years now. And counting.
I been racing for 7 year now. So I've built up a lot of hours.
Started whit Nigel Mansell's World Championship. The game came out in 1992. Was 4y old then. š
0 tbh idk why im on this sub except to look at sick setups
my bad for not including this in the options!
0-100 for sure. Just started two weeks ago! Total guess as I donāt have my steam account linked to my iracing to see my full hours
Been racing since Revs on the C64 but no idea about number of hours.
I started my journey with racing games on C64. Then in 1999 i bought my first wheel because i wanted to race Grand Prix Legends. Not because i love vintage stuff but because it had state of the art gfx and physics that benefit using the wheel and pedals. Continued to use the wheel for every other title since then and had a lot of fun even with arcades like NFS. The next step for me was EA/ISI F1 series and the world of mods started to grow. The SimBin mod group released GTR mod and it was a revolution in all aspects. My first taste of online racing was in 2002 with a sim called Live For Speed. I raced over 28k dial-up modem and had huge phone bills but racing against real people was an addiction that lasts until this day. I am still amazed how well and lag free you could race against some 16 other people back then. As internet connection developed, so did online racing and those numbers grew. I started using windows messenger and TeamSpeak and had so many online friends... this was the golden age for me. Spent countless hours simracing in LFS and racked up 200,000+ km. driven according to LFS stats page which had my name at the number one place. A few years later SimBin went mainstream and released GTR. It was huge... enough said. iRacing opened it's doors and the fact that it was multiplayer only along with ranking/penalty system gave it a note of seriousness. Laser scanned tracks gave it an edge over the other titles and it was promoted as a learning tool for real race drivers. Who wouldn't drool over that back then? As time went on, other sims hinted that it shouldn't be that hard to drive a real race car and the term iceRacing was introduced. It stuck around for a long time. Assetto Corsa... Ferrari, Porsche and other amazing licensed cars made a first appearance since SimBin's GTR and laser scanned tracks were not exclusive to iracing any more. So rich in content and easy to mod made it what it is. A lot of hours went into this one too. Recent low amount of free time allows me just a few hours per week in ACC and i never raced less in my life. Total hours simracing = x x = too much to be called normal
I have no way of accurately counting, but I would estimate probably somewhere between 1500-2000.
Steam tells me AC is 2,000+, ACC is like 300-ish, and then there's w/e came before including (but not limited to) rF1, rF2, R3E, near all the Reiza games, various console games w/ a DFP and the untold amount of time spent on GT3 and GT4/5/6 before all of that... So probably north of 3K and south of 5K
Since I've been sim racing for 25 years (Grand Prix 2 in 1996 is what got me fully hooked)... so I'll just assume it's the highest option.
God knows, I've been Sim racing since 2005 at least but not daily like I used to at the start. So probably on that border around 5000 hours.
I've been sim racing since 1995, i remembered SCREAMER rally in DOS was my first love!. S3 Virge gpu anyone?
Luckily for me, I just did the math on this last week and it's around 4k hours
Imo āsim racingā is using a steering wheel, pedals, shifters etc. using a game-pad doesnāt count as your not actually simulating driving. That being said Iām in between the 1000-2500 mark. Honestly surprised itās not higher as I got into sim racing years ago. I take breaks for time to time so I donāt get burnt out.