The Motor Sports Association recognizes the racing game as an official motor sports

by Michael Himbeault

Deutscher Motor Sport Bund (DMSB), a German organization for motor sports, announced that it will recognize the race simulation (racing game) as a formal motorsport.

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German DMSB has revealed that the race game was decided to be regarded as a kind of formal motor sports in the presidency of the German Motor Sports Association held on October 4, 2018. As a result, in Germany, organizations will be organized to become the e-sports version of DMSB, and at the same time professionalization of racing games will be done.

DMSB wrote in the press release that "Unlike other sports, in the case of motor sports, reality and digital simulation are in close proximity", it is said that between the reality and the game rather than other sports The fact that the difference is small has revealed that it became a major factor to acknowledge racing game as motor sports.

In fact, even with professional racing drivers, there are increasing cases of using race simulation like iRacing as part of training, and there seems to be a background that the precision of the simulator is evolving year by year.

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In 2015, Florian Strauss, who took a driver training program using the Gran Turismo series, which is a staple of classic racing games, won the overall victory in the 12th race of Bathurst. Land Norris , a 18-year-old professional racing driver who will enter F1 as a positive driver of McLaren in 2019, said in an interview that e Sports helped to hone his skills as a driver. Besides, it is clear that Ford, an American car maker, uses race simulation to make racing cars, and also incorporates race simulation into driver training programs.

In addition, DMSB seems to be the first motorsport governance organization to admit racing games as motor sports.