[Simon Meisinger]

The people on iRacing are taking it way too serious.

To keep up with the others you have to practice and race almost every single day. It's a complete grindfest like all the other massive multiplayer games where it's not about skill anymore but only who can put in the most time.

Even when you're around iRating 1800 (which isn't that much) people just follow the racing line like robots. F1 drivers are sloppy compared to the average iRacing guys, it's insane. I had my fun with it, loads of fun even, but I'm glad I had to take a break from it when we moved to another city and kind of went cold turkey on it because only then I realized how much time I put into it.

SRS is much more laid back. You can decide at 06:00 that you want to join a race at 08:00, practice a bit and then be part of that race. At least when you've got some experience. That's actually more "real" (you can't practice every single day in real life) and also more healthy for you and your social life ;-)