Driver Sasha Linz presses hard on his car's brakes, and bounces back in his seat due to the force of reaction. Sasha turns the steering wheel a little, and says, "This way you can understand the way the freight car works. I cannot recognize this way through the simulator."
Usually
spends Linz month in July of each year, amid the loud sounds of friction car tires, which kicks off on an asphalt road track curves, as part of the Grand Prix of the annual trucks , which will be held at the famous Nurburgring complex sports car in Germany, the center of Deafening cheers from 100 thousand fans. Linz
leads a
truck - like jars involved in the largest and most series of racing cars in the world sublimity, a European Championship race of the International Federation of Automobile trucks.

The freight cars that compete in the race are equipped with 1,200 horsepower engines, weigh more than five tons, and reach speeds of 160 kilometers per hour.

However, the Corona pandemic cast a shadow over this type of racing, and even canceled it from the European arena - from the Czech Republic to Spain - and the virus forced these iron and steel vehicles to switch to virtual space.
Says
George Fox, president of the company "Atra promotion" (ETRA Promotion) in the German city of Koblenz, "we decided to conduct the race over the Internet", and hopes to then establish six races for trucks on the ground after the end of the month of August / August this, According to schedule, perhaps without an audience.

Corona virus forced these iron and steel vehicles to switch to virtual space (German)

The virtual world

Fox believes that the transfer of racing to the virtual world represents a "big step forward".

The first digital event in this field was held last May, and the last event is scheduled for mid-August. Fans are closely following the races, and Fox says, "So far we have 129,000 spectators on average."

Currently, 13 motorists are adapting their skills to match the simulators, as they grip the steering wheels and gearshift with their hands, as they watch the large screens in front of them, and parallel to them.
The
virtual races helped the Association to develop a digital racing series, where she founded everything on the real events as soon as possible accuracy, facing motorists who break the rules of sanctions on the simulator, and the price of a device of this quality 3 thousand euros ($ 3533 ), at least.