Can I Beat A DTM CHAMPION In A £1,000,000 Racing Simulator? 

Who said he was jokin?

being a factory driver is so much more than just laping on iracing

@@SirNuk3 TIL its also about getting your ass handed to you by an absolute chad of a RU-vidr

he made sure the joke made the cut

@@SirNuk3 I don't know much about sims this price, but this isn't actually running iracing though surely

@@jonathoncook8367 Too scared? Have you seen him race the Praga? Jimmy has done now quite a lot of racing irl and has shown incredible skill. I'm not saying put him in a LM Hypercar straight away but he is a great driver.

​@jonathoncook8367 Not hard to keep it on track but hard to drive fast because every car is the same

​@@jonathoncook8367It's pretty damn far from low level, mate.

So what is next, irl LeManns 24hrs race driver perhaps? What would be his rating for that, Bronze?

​@@jonathoncook8367have you not seen any of his IRL driving? Praga champion won a few rounds of time attack. Doing the 24hrs of Nurburgring...

Congratz on 1mil

😂

It might be in the works.

call up jimmy for some development sim laps while the team is at the track👀

@@damoncuccia788It wouldn't be surprising at all. Even without competitive lap times, a driver with as much of a following as Jimmy's is a significant asset for a race team - major sponsor draw. I can well imagine that they might find an excuse to get him some laps in the real car and see how he gets on. It will only drive Jimmy's audience to pay special attention to the BMW's results next season, even if a single test is the only time he drives it. I'm already more interested than I was before watching this. There's no real downside to getting him a test in the real car so long as he doesn't put it into the wall or another car, and his performance in the sim would seem to indicate that the likelihood of that is close to as low as with their pro drivers.

I'm pretty sure Jimmy and Misha raced in a BMW at the Nurburing 24hr this year.

Really is. Have you used the sim before jimmy? "yeah sort of", and just smash out a lap like that. It's a craft that you simply can't measure in iRating.

Well yeah but he would get destroyed on the actual track by him. Simulators are not real life. People who play a lot will be better than people who don’t. This includes race drivers.

@@raskolnikov6443 maybe in DTM, but Jimmy has shown pro pace enough times on real race tracks to prove he can not only race but also be competitive with drivers who've done many multiples more races than him. The way he adapts to real life cars, tracks and conditions is genuinely elite level

which is a legit "Everyone liked that " moment

For real.

Man was joking about contracts, but sometimes those lead to serious conversations down the lines. Who knows.

EA: Write that fucking down!

thats the beauty of rFactor Pro + genius BMW factory mod developers that know the software inside out

graphics bit shite tho, get custom shader pack innit@@papalenny

It's been like watching a good friend that doesn't even know you succeed. Why do I love it so much?

I don't think you meant it that way, but Jimmy and a team of sim racing goobers in the 24 Hours of Lemons (yes, Lemons) would be spectacular.

@@StarkRaven59😂Either would be great!

A group of sim racers podiumed at Le Mans before, I'm sure a group of sim racers could MAYBE finish Lemons if they're lucky.

@@SeaGLGaming Even the best teams MAYBE finish Lemons if they're lucky.

seconded, and less zooming in and out of his face to put emphasis on something i already can see and hear him saying

It just keeps on getting better. There’s a lot of power behind your position as an “influencer” even if you’re not as experienced behind the wheel. Just stay safe!

He could probably easily get the sponsorship to be in that position with how big of an influencer he is.

Not exactly factory

You could tell within a couple of races in original goldie that he really had something, the more real everything got the more his levels just rose to meet the challenge. What he did with that 330i was beyond impressive, doing that stint with a bent door and no rear view mirror, nearly actually avoided it too - opening lap escapes seem to be something of a speciality he has - when there's pace to show he shows it, consistently. For all the joking/not joking humility there is a pretty epic human and genuinely talented real life racing driver before us.

I would’ve thought you probably go slower in the super realistic sim, simply because you can’t exploit the flaws in the game like overrevving, tyre physics, etc.

@@GuilNascimento But Jimmer has recently upgraded his rig. He's also using a much more faithful mod of the Nurburgring now.

@@GuilNascimento im pretty sure the original comment is talking about the immersion of the physical rig itself, but on the same software. i would say the realistic sim would gain time, because you gain so much new sensory information that would be lacking on Jimmy's home rig. someone who is racing real cars would not become overwhelmed by it all, but utilise as much of that additional knowledge to go faster. if someone is a "casual" driver, then im sure they wouldn't really know what to do with that information and would likely make more mistakes without it -- that would be me :-)

Probably not. NDAs and all that.

@@Tcgaming67 Agreed. No risking the charmed aspect of where you are and what allowed you to be there. Discipline. Integrity. Jimmer surely doesnt need the views like others, thank goodness for that. I wish there were more Jimmys in the world

Simple way to answer it find a car that is in iracing and in rfactor 2 (make sure it's a official one) and see/feel the difference that will give you a idea as it looked like it was running rfactor pro

@@blairwalton4456 rF2 fan here: rFactorPro is mostly a graphics engine to which teams attach their physics packages, that, I have been told, are in many cases done in "Dymola". But, at least one Pro driver Ye Yifei said that LMDh in iRacing are way too much on rails and previously also said that the Dallara LMP2 on iRacing was a far cry from the Oreca in rF2 which, nonetheless, still wasn't as good as he wished it to be. On the other hand, Guy Cosmo said that the Oreca in rF2 was very very close to the real deal on all inputs and behaviour and Pagenaud said the same about the Caddy DPi, even with the very forgiving previous tyre model it uses.

my god, if jimmy ended up in a lemans 24h race, i'd be up all day and all night rooting for him.

Real life drivers will take big risks on qualification laps, too.

He would love to but he wouldn't do it now. so much pressure

He's on his way.

not necessarily true. Some real fast simracers would be able to adapt to real life racing, real pressure of crash, shaking, more sensations... Sim and real life can be very similar (mostly driving technics) but also very different.

@@maxencelesprillier4234 They would be able to adapt if they had the same amount of seat time and experience as IRL driver has. Both are human. There is no difference other than opportunity and money 👍

@@OleBih may be for most, but not for all simracers. Some could never overstep the amount of stress, extra sensations,... and so be as good IRL as in the sim. But the opposite is also true, some real pro drivers could not adapt to simracing, with the lack of perspective and sensations.