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Looking for epic driving roads? Ready to start planning your 2024 road trips and rallies? Then look no further than RoadCurvature.com!

We’ve got no affiliation to this website, nor is this a paid ad, but we just stumbled across their platform and it looks like a great resource.

Seems like they’re using some basic algorithms to plot roads with certain radiuses that they think we’d like. Even cooler, users can add details to this open source map with different sorts of data like road surface, local details, etc!

Shoutout technology..

Paddock Auctions

This 996 Porsche Turbo Cabriolet is a rare find with the x50 package. It was brought to the network by P1 Auto Auction and the action starts today..

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Race Cars For Sale

Need a new truck and/or trailer for your season? P1 Groupe is coming in hot with several new options listed on the Paddock Network.

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This 2020 BMW M2 CS is a factory-built race car that was running in the SRO TCX class - and it’s now available, needs nothing but a driver!

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Quick Bites

📚 More racecraft advice as you prepare for 2024

📇 Yes, a race driver still needs business cards

⛍ Using adaptive technology to help disabled drivers win on the track

News Racers Can Use

The New World of Sim Racing

In the year or so that I have been covering sim racing on Motorsport Prospects, my focus has always been on the use of sim racing as a tool to improve your on-track racecraft or as a method to transition to real-world motorsport. Therefore, I always state that my weekly roundup is intended for “racers not gamers.”

Week after week I see examples of both scenarios. Current drivers, whether they be club racers or seasoned amateurs, use sim racing to learn tracks, develop their racecraft and increase their confidence before they attack the real thing. The growing quality and accuracy of the current generation of prosumer sim racing equipment is bringing pro-quality sim racing tools to the masses and it is only helping today’s (and tomorrow’s) generation of race drivers in a way not possible even five years ago.

Then there are race drivers who have started out in sim racing and have progressed to the real thing, a scenario unheard of 10 years ago but demonstrated with the GT Academy Program and popularized in the recent Gran Turismo film. Just this week I profiled Dutch Porsche Supercup driver Larry ten Voorde, a driver who progressed from sim to real-world racing and he is just the latest. This trend is only going to accelerate.

Skeptics will point out how sim racing could never truly replicate the feel of a race car on a track, the weather, heat and humidity, the G forces or the fear factor of racing and they are right. But that is not the point. Sim racing is but a tool that race drivers can use to help them grow as a driver and a competitor and you dismiss it at your peril. If you want to get better on track, then sim racing offers you the tools to help with that.

News Racers Can Use is written by Mark Boudreau from Motorsport Prospects