Hello everyone and welcome in this video something a bit unique,
Project Cars 2 Invited me out to Sonoma Raceway to try out the Mclaren 570s,
as well as try out their new video game Project Cars 2 and so in this video we're gonna be comparing myself
in the Mclaren 570s
on Sonoma Racetrack versus me playing it on Project Cars 2
versus a professional driver with me in the passenger seat and see which one of us is
fastest so we're going to start out with me playing Project Cars on a
simulator there's the start of the race and so
I'm gonna take the time from the exit of the pit to the entry of the pit lane that's because that's where the professional driver
exited and entered for his lap and so we've got our timer started there, ooh crashing in the back of the car that is uh?
Just so you know, protip if you hit the back of a car you
can actually slow your vehicle down a bit more than just using the brakes alone protip there.
Going off the track a little bit that's actually the real racing line a lot of these guys don't know about it.
Oh goodness, clearly a driving prodigy. Getting around that Mclaren.
Coming up on turn six, the carousel.
Passing a few cars, and let me just preface this by saying you know I don't play any video games.
The last time I played a video game was probably a year ago, i'm hardly ever
doing anything like this so you know it shows in my talent I believe, but nonetheless
passing a few cars i believe It was on just like the standard normal settings.
You know you don't have all the driver aids, but you have some forgiveness in the system.
Bump that guy out of the way. You know,
obviously I've attended many racing schools and I know the proper etiquette on a racetrack so I always make sure to follow that.
You know play safe, make sure nobody gets hurt, just a little love tap there nothing major.
Coming up on the end of our lap, which is the pit entry and there we have it:
1:27
for my gaming time, so 1 minute 27 seconds.
Okay so now we are viewing my lap in the Mclaren 570s
and yes that Is a mustang ecoboost which is my chase car and hopefully I can keep up with it. Coming out of turn one,
and you know something worth mentioning here in the Mclaren, so they didn't let us put it in track mode or turn off any of the
traction control,
and as a result if you look in the display, and yes i'm already making excuses. But if you look in the display in the
top right you'll see a little yellow light flashing when I put my foot down,
or even you know partial throttle like It was a pretty sensitive traction control system and so
It was fairly intrusive, and
even you know when you're getting in a straight line like right there and putting your foot down, it would kick on. It really didn't
want me to keep up with this mustang and so as awesome as the Mclaren 570s is, I do want
to say that in sport mode with all the traction control aids on, when you're on a track
it's pretty intrusive and it's not going to let you get crazy at all and it'll even let a Mustang
Ecoboost take off from you in a straight line. Here you can see straight line, almost
acceleration and that traction control light flashing as the Mustang Ecoboost,
stays ahead of me so
interesting to see.
Either way you know if you're new to you know watching someone drive on a track, this is where you start
commenting about my seating position, you tell me that i'm
too far away, too close, talk about you know my steering wheel position, that's too far away, too close,
my hands, I shouldn't wrap your thumb around
the steering wheel, my grip is too tight. My grip actually is too tight but aside from that you know people
this is where you just want to start really critiquing my technique and letting me know
how you're an incredible racecar driver. So i'd love to see that in the comments and appreciate your feedback.
Coming down to the end of this lap here, as we get to pit entrance
Letting Off The gas you know i'm gonna add a little bit of time but anyways,
1:46 on the clock there, a note that the seconds there at the end that's actually frame so it's out of 30.
But 1:46, so clearly slower than when I was playing the video game.
Okay and finally the question on everyone's mind; Can the
professional beat my lap time? Well of course he can beat my driven lap time, but can he beat my
amazing video game lap time which I set.
So one of the cool things to watch here is actually the G meter much higher G's then you'll see when I was driving and
I think It reads as high as 1.4 within this video, pretty cool to watch
notice the grip technique there one with the thumb wrapped around, one with the thumb on the
steering wheel. That's to make sure all the haters
are confused, they're not going to know what to do with this.
Some of them are going to say you know make sure you keep your thumbs out some are going to say keep your thumb in
and as a result you know he throws everybody off
1.1 G going through the carousel there, pretty cool.
I was riding passenger so he does have the disadvantage of a little bit of added weight
to keep in mind, but he gets to turn off all those traction aids. So he doesn't have to worry about traction control saying
'Hey no I don't want you to go fast' and as a result, you can see the lap is much quicker than my lap was.
Yeah I really don't know what to say I mean I can't really critique this guy
as he was my instructor for the day, so clearly much better at this than I am. It is interesting you know it's all about
driving smooth, right to drive fast as drive smooth. But When you're driving super fast your
movements have to be relatively quick because you're moving so fast so It may not look all that smooth,
But it honestly was you know driving as a passenger, riding along in It you see quick motions of the steering wheel but very
smooth execution and look at that
1:33 so,
gaming prodigy Jason Fenske has
managed to out take the instructor when he is out there in the real deal on the racetrack.
So we have all learned absolutely nothing today, of course a huge thank you to Project Cars 2 for getting me out on the racetrack.
and let me play their new game before it was released. I'll include relevant links in the video description thanks for watching!