“I Get So Mad” – Michael Jordan’s NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace Discloses Failure to Exploit Multi-Million Dollar Toyota Advantage

Racing simulators have now become an integral part of modern-day racing. Almost every form of motorsport has its driver’s train hours upon hours in state-of-the-art multi-million dollar simulators. However, for 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace, sims are more of a hindrance. Recently, during an interview, Wallace explains how he is unable to exploit the benefits of the simulator provided by 23XI Racing’s manufacturer, Toyota Racing Development.

Wallace said, “So we have our biggest thing is all three manufacturers in the sport have a multi-million dollar simulation rig. It’s full motion, it’s basically the center section of our race car on actuators that move it. Just like real life, although it’s the virtual side. But for me, some drivers can get in and make it happen and be with it. But I have a hard time like disconnecting, hey reality vs virtual. So I get so mad, I’m like this isn’t real. They’re like, no s**t, it’s virtual.”

“But you can develop bad habits doing it. So you go to these places, the biggest advantage for me is when we go to like road courses, so we went to the Roval in Charlotte last weekend. And in Wednesday before, we were in there for a couple of hours and it’s like okay, I remember this bump, I remember this corner now it flows after this one, okay it feels good.”

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“But then you start running more laps, and laps, and laps, and things not really vibing with you, and it’s like, oh s*it when I get there in real life is this going to happen. So you go into it hesitant and when you go into a racecar hesitant you are slower. So you gotta take some of the stuff with a grain of salt, but that’s probably the biggest tool for everybody in the field is simulation time.”

Bubba Wallace once highlighted the importance of Simulators

Last year, Wallace spoke about how these simulators prove to be a huge advantage for the teams, even though it isn’t as accurate as real life for the drivers.

Wallace mentioned, “You know it’s not a hundred percent true feel, but it still gives you a general idea of what to expect when you unload. And it gives the engineers some data to look at to get that much closer.”

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But simulators are more of a recent thing, something that has grown over the last decade or two, there is still a long way to go, and perhaps who knows in the future we might actually have lifelike replications of on-track environments.