The Sustainability of Sim Racing & Real Life with Saorise Fitzpatrick

Saorise Fitzpatrick is a delightful human being and the 2023 winner of Screen to Speed and we are posting this conversation with her on the eve of the Screen to Speed Holiday Invitational, a very special event where star real life racecar drivers compete with sim racers.

Saorise won the Sim Racing competition first,  then got to race for real at the Las Vegas speedway in a Porsche with Sabre Cook of Kelly Moss there for support.  Before driving the Porsche, she had only ever driver her mom's car in the parking garage.  Saorise describes it all here for us and for those not yet familiar with sim racing, she gives a good overview of what it is, and how it feels to be a virtual racer and then become a real racer on a real track.

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This Episode goes along with a post on Forever Motoring called Simulated Motoring.

And it is broadcast in honor of the Screen to Speed Holidays Invitational, a special event that pits real female race care drivers racing against female sim racers. 

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Transcript

Saoirse Fitzpatrick: Barista, SIM Racer, Delightful human being, Winner of Screen to Speed

Saoirse: [00:00:00] The kind of variation of things that you can do in sim racing is very similar to what you can do in real life.

Really the only, restriction is what the software you're using can do. Like if there's content for, say, , Formula Vs. On iRacing we have Formula Vs. Which is great because Formula Vs race everywhere. And if like, you really want to try Formula Vs out, you can get iRacing and download the Formula V.

Turn some laps or, um, you can do oval racing on iRacing. You can do a dirt oval, dirt road, like Raleigh cross. There's a hill climb course on iRacing, um, or as well with most of my experiences in sprint races, so like one hour and shorter or endurance races. So like four ish hours and more. Ranging from open wheelers to touring cars to GT cars like the GT3s and GT4s or prototypes.

Kind of the sky is the limit.