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Sim racing and eSport are fun but won't carry teams for long

Virtual racing has been the small saving grace for motorsports since the coronavirus pandemic brought nearly everything to a halt reports AP's Jenna Fry. Timmy Hill's iRacing victory on national television gave the journeyman driver and his sponsors' exposure they would never receive during a normal NASCAR weekend. “What I'll gain from this is recognition. It's hard to get that recognition because of the level of competition that we are in real life,” said Hill, who at 27 has bounced around NASCAR’s three national series since 2011 before making his first Daytona 500 this year. “We just don't have the money, the dollars, to compete at a high level. Every once in a while we'll get...
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