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While in no way, shape or form would I encourage my kids to hoon on the game (unless they're doing a practice session by themselves), at the end of the day it's a video game. Yeah, that's one of my concerns with this, how "serious" some people take it. I'll touch base with you offline and we'll figure out shipping costs and I'll Paypal them to you. OK, if you're going to twist my arm hard enough, I'll borrow it from you. I can ship this thing to you, but don't feel obligated to borrow it. I meant to put together some sort of more permanent seat and wheel mount setup but then the race came and went and we bought the big house and had a baby and with another on the way it will probably be five-ten more years before I'm sim racing again. I just had a rolling table I clamped it to and put it in front of a chair. Actually reading your post made me think it would be nice for someone to get use out of it. Maybe I'm sneakily making you buy it from me. That said - my son raised my CR to A level for a while there when he was 13 because he had a lot of time on his hands to become good at it. Maybe turn off the chat all together because despite the tone of serious professionalism everyone seems to want - they do not communicate with each other in that way. So, if you are going to allow them to race or run in a live practice make sure they drive like a real race car and never speak in squeaky child voices on the chat. They want the illusion that they are racing pro level seriousness at all times. There are people who will practice all week for a race and be seriously pissed off if an 8yr old is hooning around doing what kids do with driving games - even if the 8yr old is deadly serious about winning he does not actually know how a car drives or how to manage space so a lot of practice is required.
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There is no reason that kids can't - but it isn't cartoony and it's actually difficult to race well and stay clean, especially on starts. Assetto Corsa for PC seems to be the next big thing if you like user mods like cars and tracks, but you'll need a powerful PC rFactor is also pretty old but has lots of mods. LFS is limited with mods, especially tracks, and the game is pretty old. IRacing is certainly a game that is still very popular, very active online racing community, lots of mods available. Keep in mind with any PC simulator, you may spend a few hours getting the force feedback settings dialed in. LFS and rFactor you can run with AI cars, and are old enough to run on most computers. Buy a second hand Logitech G25/G27, pick up a simulator that does not need a subscription to try out. Although participation is dwindling, the game is a few years old and many have moved onto other games (myself included to be honest) PS3/GT6 GRM league racing? Many guys use a controller. The biggest thing is you'll lack the force feedback that a wheel provides, which is a huge part of figuring out what the car is doing. More realistic simulators like iRacing are not that great to play with a controller in my experience (disclaimer, I have not done so with iRacing, but have tried with LFS and rFactor). Sounds like you already have an xbox, is online racing with Forza out of the question? If its a 360, Forza 4 might be kind of dead. Yes, the long term incentive would be for him and his older brother to earn the proper steering wheel/pedals, seat, etc.but can we really start off with just a $50 iRacing one year membership, my current laptop computer and the Xbox controller? Is there racing that a 9 year old can do and not get eaten alive? For a 9 year old, he's darn good at all the Xbox racing games, and on those rare occasions we take him to do indoor gokarting, he's very fast, but he is just 9 years old. I was looking at their website briefly and it said you can play the game using an Xbox 360 controller, which we have. I tried iRacing, but it was many years ago and I only did it for a very short time. My 9 year old has some behavior issues at school and we're working on incentives for him. My oldest is already planning on how he can make his debut in LeMons as soon as he's old enough. Both are very active in sports, but if they had their way they'd want to be race car drivers. Long story short, I've got two boys, ages 9 and 12.