A Cup of Racing Founder and the Williams Esport Race Engineer Davide de Russis joined the podcast to talk a lot about Sim Racing, Actual Racing and his own Cup of Racing | How does one become a race engineer
| How did he create his own racing data analysis company during the lockdown |
How his company opened a door for him with Williams and their E Sports Team
What are the pressures of working as a Race Engineer in real life for a GT3/GTE team in series like Le Mans and World Endurance Championship (which he both currently does)
How do you go about preparing a stratergy for a team pro racing drivers vs “gentlemen” drivers in a Pro-AM class
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How does your approach change between stratergising for an E sports race and real life race
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What’s the best simulator software in his opinion and how the tyre model and physics is the most quintessential part of a sim
| What’s it like working with an E sports driver and how many hours do they spend training and collecting data to be competitive |
As he was Italian we had a good conversation about Ferrari and exploring why they are struggling stratergy wise in this years title fight
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What was his most impressive race weekend and how decisions he made changed the outcome and secured a team a win
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How likely are we to sim a cross over between E sports programmes that actually lead to E Sports drivers becoming full time test or full time racing drivers for teams at the top level in motor sports | And more important information So subscribe to our YouTube channel and stream us on Apple Spotify and Google podcasts and join the conversation with us on twitter at @StripTheDip | Follow Davide on Instagram @davideru |