Comments on: My VW TDI Experience

By: Sean Siff

Sean Siff — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:20:29 +0000

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for the thoughtful comments on this article. I was quite lucky to have this opportunity and greatly enjoyed sharing it with all of you. To answer your question, Sam, we drove the Patriot Course at VIR… which in iRacing is currently labled as Patriot Reverse. So, yes, it was the iRacing Patriot Reverse course that we drove in November.

I hope to complete another experiment like this later this spring and look forward to sharing it with all of you.

Have a great New Year!

Sean

By: DarioF

DarioF — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:05:21 +0000

“was Sean using the reverse layout of Patriot or not?”

Judging by the photo, it wasn’t the reverse layout.

Great read!

By: Sam Hazim

Sam Hazim — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:41:35 +0000

Great story – unlucky Steve, presumably you’ll get a chance to do something similar soon (always the bridemaid, never the bride it seems!)

Was this the reason why we had a 24HdF featuring the Jetta at Patriot Reverse some time ago? And I guess the next question is, was Sean using the reverse layout of Patriot or not?

By: Shawn Murphy

Shawn Murphy — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:01:04 +0000

Very cool.

Perhaps something will get signed with BMW someday and we’ll see a Spec3 series so a car similar to what I’m becoming familiar with will show up in Iracing.

By: Lincoln Miner

Lincoln Miner — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:54:27 +0000

That was a great story. I’m always impressed by how close real life and iRacing lap times can be. Often I see the times in sim racing are significantly faster as in 5 seconds or more, but iRacing always seems to be just about identical.

Well written article and glad you got a chance to run the Jetta in real life. Lucky you!

By: peeH

peeH — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:16:32 +0000

See that! Always be prepared, you never know when the flu will struck. That’s what I tell myself when I go watch a Nationwide race. “Hey you! You know how to drive a Class B impala?” “YES!!!”

By: Steve Myers

Steve Myers — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:08:29 +0000

Good story Sean! I was the unfortunate sap that got sick and went home or I would have embarrassed Sean.

Keep your eyes out for a 3 Wide Life segment in February about this day when we had one of their hosts run this same experiment.

Steve

By: Robin Clarke

Robin Clarke — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:34:32 +0000

What a great experience all round for you. Thanks for the great story behind it. Good luck in your future RL and virtual endeavors

By: John Prather

John Prather — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:11:17 +0000

Awesome, I’m really happy to see Sean get this kind of opportunity, he’s a great guy. The Jetta in iRacing is really very, very good compared to the real thing.

By: Steve Claeys

Steve Claeys — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:35:20 +0000

Nice read and also great to see that you learned from the iRacing experience and back.
You improved your virtual time immensly by racing the real thing.
The link between the virtual and the real thing is getting more important by the day.

Yea, I am jealous.

By: Peter Read

Peter Read — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:23:39 +0000

Way to go Sean!!