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NASCAR Coursebuilders, Drivers Consult Videogame Version
Thanks to the St.Petersburg Times for their article discussing how NASCAR videogames are giving the real-life drivers tips on a newly redesigned course. According to the piece, which discusses the "$10 million... redesign of Homestead-Miami Speedway", the drivers are checking out EA Sports' new NASCAR title for tips on the as yet undriven new layout: "'The boys playing the video game said Homestead's going to be real fast,' said Busch Series driver Scott Riggs in September... 'With that new banking in there, they could be pushing 180 (mph) in the straightaway'." The coursebuilders at the International Speedway Corporation also got their first look at racing conditions from the game, according to an EA spokesman: "The first time we went down and showed the game to the ISC people they were jumping around the office... [the redesign] was going to add roughly 30 mph to the top speed and shave five seconds off a lap."
I'm sorry, american car racing is the dumbest spectator "sport" ever. They just go around in a big circle. For crying out loud, once you and your competition have both sweated out which is the best spark plug, and you're left on relatively even terms, one might as well just play a good video game simulation of the race rather than actually driving around in circles all day. It glorifies gasoline consumption and pollution, and its about as interesting as repeatedly slamming your head in a car door.
I'm told, back in the day, americans invented airplanes. I don't believe it, if this generation were warped back to 1903, they wouldn't give a hoot about Orville and Wilbur, they'd be at the carridge races.
Go ahead, mark me troll, mark me offtopic, make me your foe, I've got Karma to burn on this issue.