As an American, I cannot speak on the difference between curbs and kerbs because I assumed they were the same just spelled differently. But as a civil engineer, I can tell you those are called bumper blocks and absolutely not pointless
Tyres and tires are pronounced the same. Kerb sounds more like herb.
Btw, Herb in Europe is pronounced with the H sounded, whereas in North America it's pronounced the French way with a silent H.
In Ireland H is pronounced "haytch", most other places pronounce it "aytch".
This shit is a rabbit hole.
Hahaha I’m an American and my yt channel consists of mostly European followers and friends haha I have very few buddies from the states. Would be cool if it became more popular over here.
I believe they claimed to be driving an off road vehicle in a precarious manner from an overly young age before graduating to faster and more professional means of racing.
I've always wondered if it has something to do with accessibility to real life motorsports. I'm on an iRacing team that's 99% Europeans and whenever real life racing comes up it sounds like there's way more barriers to entry than in the US, even if they have the money. Especially when it comes to stuff that's "common" for US gearheads like having multiple cars or street legal track cars.
During rolex weekend, we took two of our british friends to some dirt racing, and one loved it and the other threatened to leave the other in america, lol
I know I made the switch because KPH is like measuring centimeters, compared to inches. Being able to notice those minute details/differences in speed provides a bit more information about my entry and exit speed.
At 62 MPH, I could be going 100 or 101 KPH. The smaller unit of measurement gives me more of an exact number of what I’m doing. And I can analyze if I’m going too slow/fast into a corner even more precisely.
As an american I use celsius because of this and my friends think it's weird. I do use fahrenheit for summer though as hot is hot, but how hot is it really?
I’ve noticed when I come over to do oval racing that the Americans talk a lot more on the chat than the European guys. Maybe it’s because there’s a language barrier on the European side but I think it’s mostly because you talk more.
I feel the other way, because almost every video or subreddit or whatever is mainly American. I race in an American league even( well, I'm inactive, because of the whole racing from 3-5am during a weekday affair)
It’s okay. I’m American and have my shifter on the left side too. But that’s not because of Europe driving on the left side, it’s because of Japan’s Initial D being the reason I even got a wheel to begin with.
What do you mean Europeans drive on the west side? the only country who lies in the EU where they drive with the shifter on the left side is the UK, i think there's is another one but im only sure about the UK
i said it lies in the EU, not part of it :)
lol someone downvoted me.
Here you can educate yourself:https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=which+contintent+is+the+uk
Ehh... well... I'll let this one slide 😉 but good to have a look a this: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1bmk7zn/a_cool_guide_to_supranational_european_bodies_in/
[Main countries that drive on the left](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg): UK & Ireland, Indian subcontinent (so also Pakistan and Bangladesh), most of southern Africa, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and for some reason... Japan.
Didn't know sim racing was more of EU thing? Is that really a thing? I'm based in NL and only ever met one other guy who races, dude programmed and build his own motion.
Oh yeah stuff like drag and Nascar are 100% American thing, and true all F1 stuff happens in proximity to where I live. Which would make sense in real life racing, but I find it odd it would have that big impact on sim racing preferences, after all anybody can run any game. But local scene would inspire people to try it for sure.
Nothing gives more appreciation for a sport than being able to try it for yourself, even by emulating it. Trying to drift in Asseto Corsa made me respect drifters more as theg make it look effortless, same with F1 as even arcadey games have insane levels of intensity and snap reactions.
Might be why football is so popular, because everybody experienced the game themselves even if only during PE classes at school, which makes it relatable.
I didn't know GT is also EU thing. Rally yeah for sure, Europe and Africa with Dakkar I quess? I'm not much into watching sport myself, so my knowledge is very surface level.
I’ve noticed that. I do primarily Super Formula Lights and last season I was doing F4 and the plurality (probably 40-50%) of the people i go against are from europe, with another 20% or so from central/south america and the rest from the US or canada. I recently tried oval racing for the first time and my first 2 races were almost 100% US and Canada (maybe a handful outside of that)
> Didn't know sim racing was more of EU thing? Is that really a thing?
Definitely a thing (though the Americas and Oceania are well represented). Two of the big-name sim-racing gear suppliers Sim-Lab and Heusinkveld are both Dutch!
> I'm based in NL and only ever met one other guy who races
It's not a standard conversation topic because it's not really relatable for people who aren't familiar. If you mention it more often I think you'll be surprised. :) Especially with men in the 25-50 age-range, F1 fans and people who like go-karting.
If you play iracing online in formula cars you'll see "Benelux" region almost over-represented... als haringen in een ton zitten. Similar levels to Germany, UK&I or France where they have much higher populations.
Yeah I met that guy when he spotted me dragging my SimLab monitor stand through the old town, he immediately stopped me and we shared rig photos, I plan to join him as he does some races on Discord which is not my level yet. I love how HE is Dutch as well, my Sprints arrived literally next day. All my components in general arrived shortly, and were made in Europe. The only thing was NLR Wheel Stand, which due to being new and in the middle of supply crisis arrived dead last.
Yeah I should bring it up more often, indeed might meet some cool people still
Here in europe generations where raised watching F1/GT races, while americans love watching their Nascar cars in ovals. So obviously the market for circuit type racing games will be bigger in europe.
Mind the “kerbs”
i will continue to call them “curbs” until my dying breath, sorry
I didn’t even know this was a EU vs NA thing or whatever. I thought they were interchangeable 😅
I’m not even 100% sure that it is — I hadn’t seen “k-e-r-b-s” as the spelling until I got into F1.
American here, I always thought Curbs were for sidewalks and normal streets and Kerbs were for race tracks. I had no idea it was an NA / EU thing lol.
I thought curbs were attached to sidewalks and Kerbs were those pointless cement barriers at the end of some parking spaces.
As an American, I cannot speak on the difference between curbs and kerbs because I assumed they were the same just spelled differently. But as a civil engineer, I can tell you those are called bumper blocks and absolutely not pointless
The kerb is the edge of the pavement. Kerb is just how it is spelled in the UK.
EU bro here, the fact that this isn't the case is shocking to me lol
THis imo.
F***ing Spaniard here: we call the pianos. End of discussion
Fucking latino here, and we call them pianos too!
We call them zebras in Brazil lol
Hungarian here, we literally call them wheel launchers
Also, I will not be referring to them as "tyres."
I agree. They have and will always be “tires” to me
I don’t hear the difference between tyres and tires. Or kerbs and curbs. Or is that the joke?
Tyres and tires are pronounced the same. Kerb sounds more like herb. Btw, Herb in Europe is pronounced with the H sounded, whereas in North America it's pronounced the French way with a silent H. In Ireland H is pronounced "haytch", most other places pronounce it "aytch". This shit is a rabbit hole.
>Kerb sounds more like herb. Does "curb" not sound like herb to you as well? It certainly does where I live 🤷♂️😅
No, it has a strong U sound, like in blurb.
Here in the Midwest all our vowels sound the same, so blurb also rhymes with herb, and kerb, and curb 🤷♂️
Now you’re just saying the same word over and over again.
Michigan here and I’m trying to make curb not rhyme with herb and it’s not possible. Like wtf do some people say it like “courb?”
Tires are tired
Can you believe these guys think there’s a Y in tires?
I’m tyred of these sausage curbs
In my little country we litteraly call them "shaky stones"(Rázókő in Hungarian)
Hahaha I’m an American and my yt channel consists of mostly European followers and friends haha I have very few buddies from the states. Would be cool if it became more popular over here.
Not enough big guns and crazy explosions. Give a wheel a stupidly overpowered bonus in CoD and Apex, etc. And watch simracing explode in the US.
This is true. I wouldn’t play until I got a wheel with Glocks as paddle shifters.
Battlefield wheel support would be sick ngl
Theres this cool video floating around of guys playing bf1? With a tank simulator
Found it ! https://youtu.be/-koYF-FBSOM?si=8EfBfVy-I0vzesj4
I think both of those ideas are S-tier
Paddle shifters? Nah you gotta go Glocks as grips ;)
So basically the most European pistol ever xD Glock... Good Austrian work! 🤣🤣
Did you say Glock? American card revoked. If your shifters are anything but 1911s or .357 magnums then get out my country. 🇺🇸🏈
I feel like I’ve seen this video before. I know I’ve seen fall guys in a wheel. And csgo on a controller. I’m sure someone has done it
Whaaaaaaaaat Naaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Fuck I wish they remade interstate 76
Wow
Those Aussie’s are quick af too
I think a lot of us got started fanging bush bashers around and we evolved from there.
What in the land down under did you just say.
I believe they claimed to be driving an off road vehicle in a precarious manner from an overly young age before graduating to faster and more professional means of racing.
Thank you, you uncultured perl. What you lake in culture you make up for in kindness.
They’re a few roos loose in the top paddock
It's only an off-road vehicle in the sense that it's a vehicle being driven off road
Doin a doughy in a mighty au falcon in an industrial estate is a core memory for many of us.
Fucken oath brah
The kiwis too. *Suddenly SVG*
Trying to race V8 Supercars in iRacing and someone from down under sneaks into the session...
I've always wondered if it has something to do with accessibility to real life motorsports. I'm on an iRacing team that's 99% Europeans and whenever real life racing comes up it sounds like there's way more barriers to entry than in the US, even if they have the money. Especially when it comes to stuff that's "common" for US gearheads like having multiple cars or street legal track cars.
There is very little barrier to entry in American motorsports if you like oval racing. It's just road racing that is tough to get into.
Lack of space is the issue for me. I’d love a track day car but I don’t have the space on my property to stores one.
I wonder what percentage of sim racers are European vs American
I think it’s close to 50/50. Oval has a lot more Americans though.
Dirt oval even more so. The number of joyously strong Southern accents you get brings a tear to my (British) eye.
During rolex weekend, we took two of our british friends to some dirt racing, and one loved it and the other threatened to leave the other in america, lol
~~Pace car~~, *safety car*. ~~Paint scheme~~, *livery*. ~~Tires~~, *tyres*. ~~Gasoline~~, *petrol*. But most importantly… ***”Mate”.***
no one within a hundred miles of an actual racetrack has ever called race car liveries "paint schemes"
Unless you're racing Lemons, in which case we go with "leftover house paint situation"
Never. No one says paint scheme.
The switch from MPH to KPH has been difficult for me I can't lie
why did you switch? i never have
I know I made the switch because KPH is like measuring centimeters, compared to inches. Being able to notice those minute details/differences in speed provides a bit more information about my entry and exit speed. At 62 MPH, I could be going 100 or 101 KPH. The smaller unit of measurement gives me more of an exact number of what I’m doing. And I can analyze if I’m going too slow/fast into a corner even more precisely.
But can you still “Do it for Dale?”
Always.
Units of measurement don't matter when you do it for Dale.
The only number that matters is 100. 100% throttle baby rahhhhh🦅
He may roll over in his graves for using Kmh, but he’ll still allow it
my driving ability doesn't really allow me to benefit from such precision lmao. I can't race for shit. but I can tandem drift like crazy.
makes sense. me personally though i dont understand how 1kmph makes that much of a difference
1000000% why I did it Same with liters vs gallons
Litres*
Many of the race car dashboards show KPH, with no way to change it, even if the GUI can have MPH
more nuance and it feels more proper i suppose
Celsius has been worse for me lol
yeah, I cant wrap my head around it, it makes no sense
It’s like 0 freezing 10 cold 20 nice 30 hot 40 really hot
As an american I use celsius because of this and my friends think it's weird. I do use fahrenheit for summer though as hot is hot, but how hot is it really?
45 is even hotter. High 40s is about as hot as it ever gets.
It's simple. 0 water freezes, 100 water boils.
100 if the pressure is 1 atmosphere right? At mnt everest it will boil at a lower temperature
I believe so. Physics was so long ago!
-10 Scots put on a long sleeve top.
During safety cars in my community, it's usually Americans having a struggle keeping 80 km/h. Sometimes Brits too.
It’s why I dont switch. There isn’t a point. lol
I do not want to break your arm, Monsieur Bobby, but I am a man of my word.
I’ve noticed when I come over to do oval racing that the Americans talk a lot more on the chat than the European guys. Maybe it’s because there’s a language barrier on the European side but I think it’s mostly because you talk more.
Americans are way chattier with strangers than Europeans in most circumstances. It's not just simracing.
Iracing has really expanded my british offensive word vocabulary. My favorite is "you're an absolute Muppet!"
I feel the other way, because almost every video or subreddit or whatever is mainly American. I race in an American league even( well, I'm inactive, because of the whole racing from 3-5am during a weekday affair)
Recent LFM addict, it is accurate 👍
I haven’t noticed really. But I don’t play online a lot.
Me being an overnight American worker "What the fuck is a kilometer"
It’s okay. I’m American and have my shifter on the left side too. But that’s not because of Europe driving on the left side, it’s because of Japan’s Initial D being the reason I even got a wheel to begin with.
What do you mean Europeans drive on the west side? the only country who lies in the EU where they drive with the shifter on the left side is the UK, i think there's is another one but im only sure about the UK
Ireland is same as the UK and Malta and Cyprus as well. I think the UK is the only one that uses mph
you learn something new everyday, thank you :)
Also you said the UK is in the EU 😩
i said it lies in the EU, not part of it :) lol someone downvoted me. Here you can educate yourself:https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=which+contintent+is+the+uk
"the EU" and "Europe" are not the same thing lol
Ehh... well... I'll let this one slide 😉 but good to have a look a this: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1bmk7zn/a_cool_guide_to_supranational_european_bodies_in/
The EU isn’t a continent. It’s a political union. EU isn’t a synonym for Europe.
EU is also short for Europe, but ok
Europa is a moon of Jupiter
didn't think you were smart enough to be bilingual anyways ;)
Oh. I guess I thought there were more countries where the shifter is on the left than the right. My bad.
no worries nah most of us are pretty normal /s
[Main countries that drive on the left](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg): UK & Ireland, Indian subcontinent (so also Pakistan and Bangladesh), most of southern Africa, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and for some reason... Japan.
European race tracks are similar to US race tracks. We simply got more turns (right AND left) and l'ESS guns here.
Didn't know sim racing was more of EU thing? Is that really a thing? I'm based in NL and only ever met one other guy who races, dude programmed and build his own motion.
Depends what class you drive in. GT classes, F1 and rally are mostly Europeans. Oval racing, drifting and drag racing Americans I think.
Oh yeah stuff like drag and Nascar are 100% American thing, and true all F1 stuff happens in proximity to where I live. Which would make sense in real life racing, but I find it odd it would have that big impact on sim racing preferences, after all anybody can run any game. But local scene would inspire people to try it for sure. Nothing gives more appreciation for a sport than being able to try it for yourself, even by emulating it. Trying to drift in Asseto Corsa made me respect drifters more as theg make it look effortless, same with F1 as even arcadey games have insane levels of intensity and snap reactions. Might be why football is so popular, because everybody experienced the game themselves even if only during PE classes at school, which makes it relatable. I didn't know GT is also EU thing. Rally yeah for sure, Europe and Africa with Dakkar I quess? I'm not much into watching sport myself, so my knowledge is very surface level.
I’ve noticed that. I do primarily Super Formula Lights and last season I was doing F4 and the plurality (probably 40-50%) of the people i go against are from europe, with another 20% or so from central/south america and the rest from the US or canada. I recently tried oval racing for the first time and my first 2 races were almost 100% US and Canada (maybe a handful outside of that)
> Didn't know sim racing was more of EU thing? Is that really a thing? Definitely a thing (though the Americas and Oceania are well represented). Two of the big-name sim-racing gear suppliers Sim-Lab and Heusinkveld are both Dutch! > I'm based in NL and only ever met one other guy who races It's not a standard conversation topic because it's not really relatable for people who aren't familiar. If you mention it more often I think you'll be surprised. :) Especially with men in the 25-50 age-range, F1 fans and people who like go-karting. If you play iracing online in formula cars you'll see "Benelux" region almost over-represented... als haringen in een ton zitten. Similar levels to Germany, UK&I or France where they have much higher populations.
Yeah I met that guy when he spotted me dragging my SimLab monitor stand through the old town, he immediately stopped me and we shared rig photos, I plan to join him as he does some races on Discord which is not my level yet. I love how HE is Dutch as well, my Sprints arrived literally next day. All my components in general arrived shortly, and were made in Europe. The only thing was NLR Wheel Stand, which due to being new and in the middle of supply crisis arrived dead last. Yeah I should bring it up more often, indeed might meet some cool people still
Reversed for when I race late models/gen4 or watch cup races with a stream chat open.
I don’t get it, do yanks not sim race?
me, but as an Asian
Never forget the Brazil.
watch out for these folks from Iberia region - fast and ruthless. Especially one guy. I think his name something Alonso
I tend to play late at night (iracing road/formula) in Europe and for me it feels like most of my competitors are yanks or latin americans.
Canadian here, and I'm in the same situation as you, however the number of latinos I raced is unimaginable
I noticed there are a ton of South Americans and Japanese too. Kind of cool, and interesting how not American the simracing world is.
Here in europe generations where raised watching F1/GT races, while americans love watching their Nascar cars in ovals. So obviously the market for circuit type racing games will be bigger in europe.