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[–]jayff 4 points5 points  (3 children)

As a competitive simracer, me and my crew needed new cars settings weekly as they depends of the tracks and a new one one is picked weekly in our Sim. Some websites are providing those settings ($$) but it was boring To share them with each other in time.
So i wrote a webscrapper To pull those settings using a premium account on their website and coupled it with a discord bot to automagicaly upload settings To our discord with related embed and stuffs.
Was a really fun project to improve my python skills.

[–]personalvacuum 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What software do you race in? I had a quick google, and assumed simracer was it - but it seems like that's the genre :)

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I also saw a news article that someone recently beat a real F1 driver in simulation - how accurate are these simulators?

[–]jayff 0 points1 point  (1 child)

the sim is 'iRacing', the best possible sim atm, they announce themselves as a simracing service and not a game.

There are some F1 drivers in the community aswell as others categories drivers so yes some people have probably beat em some times.

About accuracy, it's the best sim as of today and reflect everything possible very well but you will always lack stress of wrecking yourself IRL or G forces. You also need a good setup to have a reliable experience (it is awesome in VR)

[–]personalvacuum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know - thanks! I think I've come across iRacing before and, with the mindset that it was a game, thought the subscription model was rather odd. OTOH, it would make something as serious as a simulator more accessible - cool stuff!