There is no question that car driving games are fun to play! Choosing to drive cars of a person's preference on some of the finest tracks throughout the planet, pitted against other sim racers couldn't be anything but fun.

What is simply not as well recognized, is if car driving games really make for a good training aid?

Dale Earnhardt Jr say they do!

During a recent interview, Dale was quoted as saying that when he goes to a brand-new track, its takes him just about an hour to get himself up to speed, and its not until that hour has elapsed that his feedback actually becomes beneficial to the team's engineers. Now, instead of "wasting" that hour, Dale heads out onto the new track on his computer, well before he ever gets to the real track.

So, how is it that a online game will make you a better racing driver? Lets take a peek...

To begin with, the tracks in modern PC racing games are exact replicas of the actual thing. Advanced technology, including precise GPS information is used extensively by developers when creating a all new track. This creates a exceedingly realistic virtual racing experience and furnished with this, racers may get to learn not just the broad layout of the track, but also their braking and turn in points for every corner.

As an illustration, when you go to turn one at the track on your personal computer, you'll notice that trackside objects in the video game are exactly the same as the trackside objects in the real world. Moreover, their placement along side the side of the track, relative to the corner, is precisely the same as their placement within the real world as well.

Likely the next most helpful section of the online racing experience is the car setup. The engineers that design today's games put immense effort towards the game's physic model and this leads to a far more "realistic" feeling race car. Ad to this the plethora of adjustments that one can produce in the garage, and the outcome is that the virtual racer has the opportunity to do extensive testing of various race setups; all from his computer. While the exact settings probably will not transfer to his race car, the principles behind the adjustments to transfer over, and that is going to make the driver drastically more valuable to his team when it comes to giving feedback to the race engineers.

Lastly, we have the actual head-to-head racing that today's online racing experience provides.

Within the real world, many a race has been lost because of an accident that occurred when the driver made an oversight in judgement. Basically, many races are lost in the first turn due to a crash.

With online racing, the mental attribute of the competition is precisely the same as it is in the real arena. The additional value of being able to find all this extra competitive seat time is tremendous, and without acquiring the PC racing experience, the only way to get all of this seat time was to head to the track. Now, without spending any cash, today's budding racer can log literally thousands and thousands of hours of practice against other racers; all from the hassle-free operation of his Pc. Of all the rewards we've just covered, this one is likely the biggest.

Trust me, I know from experience.