Two of the world’s rarest hypercars compete in real life vs. sim battle

Comparing racing sims to real cars driving on real race tracks has been a thing for a while now. Way back in 2006, Jeremy Clarkson went head-to-head against himself at Laguna Seca in real life versus Gran Turismo 4. And I've been known to use Forza as a way of doing some training ahead of going racing for real. Now, courtesy of Castrol Edge you can watch two of the world's best racing drivers pit themselves against, well, themselves, in a pair of jaw-dropping hypercars at the Ascari Race Resort in Spain.

Darren Turner tries to beat his simulator time in the real Aston Martin Vulcan

If you saw Top Gear this past weekend you'll know about the Aston Martin Vulcan. It's a track-only hypercar (i.e. it's not road-legal), made from beautifully crafted carbon fiber and powered by an 800hp V12 engine. Just 24 Vulcans will ever be built, and if you wanted one you needed to stump up more than $2.6 million. Exclusive stuff!

Darren Turner was behind the wheel of the real and digital Vulcans. Turner has a long background racing for Aston Martin's works team, having won Le Mans twice for the marque. And he's no stranger to simulators either; when he's not racing for Aston Martin, he runs a professional simulator business that racing drivers use to hone their skills away from the track.

Read 4 remaining paragraphs | Comments

Source: Cars Technica – Ars Technica http://ift.tt/28OXQx3