TCR World and life

34 SIM RACING VIRTUAL COMPETITIONS DRAWS TO A CLOSE AS REAL-LIFE TAKES OVER How tokeepdrivers happyinlockdowntimes The 2020 TCR simulator season is coming to a close, with just one round remaining in the TCR Europe SIM Racing series, which has been a highly successful experiment in taking the TCR platform into the virtual world. Kicking off during the global lockdown, the season started with a bumper entry of racing drivers who were all itching to be behind the wheel of something, even if it was just their computer. Some drivers already had complex systems in place, while others had to quickly adapt – purchasing their own gaming PCs and racing wheel set ups. Interest in the new TCR SIM Racing series has been very high, with TCR making sim racing part of its future strategy, and with an updated mod with full input from manufacturers in development and will be released to all later this year. The TCR SIM Racing series itself was designed as a coronavirus-season replacement for real racing, and it was focussed on having real-life racers participating exclusively right from the very start, while other series experimented with mixing experienced sim racers with their real-life drivers, to varying degrees of success. TCR’s approach has seen some exciting racing, but also, just as in real-life, drivers with the most experience coming to the fore – but in this case, it’s simulator experience that you need. Drivers such as Hungary’s Dániel Nagy