iRacing porta in pista William Byron

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Dopo la felice storia di Glenn McGee, iRacing torna ad "aiutare" la carriera di un pilota virtuale portandolo fino alle competizioni reali: come ci racconta questo articolo infatti, non solo il sim americano ha aiutato William Byron ad imparare a guidare e venir fuori dalle gare senza danni, ma ha fatto capire a suo padre che era un buon affare investire sulla sua carriera di pilota reale! E William ora corre in una serie minore della Nascar ed ha già ottenuto alcune vittorie...

Air wrenches chirp through the walls of the high-tech garage as I ask the 18-year-old rookie to confess the dumbest thing he's ever done on the track. He grins like he's been caught shooting spitwads. "Oh yeah, well, one time i went through the grass in the infield to make a pass," says William Byron, the points leader in the NASCAR Camping World Trucks Series.

Such a grotesque transgression of racing code would demand frontier justice at 165 mph, before any race official could black-flag the offender. The sanctions would probably compound for being a blue-eyed hotshot with a pop-idol's blonde mop of hair. But Byron avoided punishment because he didn't actually do this in real life.

He did it in iRacing, the PC driving simulator that he credits with training him to drive professionally, racking up a rookie record five victories that have made him one of stock car racing's it-boys, seemingly overnight. When the Truck Series Chase playoff begins Sept 24. at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Byron, who graduated high school just this May, is seeded first.

 

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Alla faccia della serie minore ... il ragazzo è il leader della Camping World Truck Series (e non è dire poco).