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What are some good Sim racing YouTubers/let's players you can watch?

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u/MJH78 avatar

Check out Matt Malone as well. He’s the most popular iRacing streamer on Twitch but also posts several races a week on YouTube.

u/malts13 avatar

Nicki Thiim (English), Matt Malone (English) and Heikki360 (Spanish) are the ones that I follow.

u/malts13 avatar

Nicki Thiim is also a real racecar driver (WEC Champion), so that's a plus.

Don't insult Nicki by stating he's English... He's a Danish viking! 8)

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I'm not saying he's English, but that he streams in English :P.. Sorry for the confusion..

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u/Digbedog avatar

Gamermuscle - funny, doesn't take himself seriously at all and some good reviews etc.

u/TR1M5T4R avatar

I love GM. He is very entertaining and a great guy. :)

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Jimmy Broadbent and Matt Orr aka Empty Box are the best.

I recently discovered RealRadman after racing with him in iRacing and really enjoy his videos. He's not extremely popular, but very good.

u/executer22 avatar

Thanks!

Raced Broadbent in a SRS server back at launch, salty but our pace was really close.

Jimmer if you read this, I'll take you on anyday anytime u salty bugger

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Check out Nicki Thiim. He's crazy and a real racecar driver (WEC, british GT, blancpain).

YT- SimRacing604 & Billy Strange. Not quite as 'entertaining' as some of the others mentioned, but I find their content to be informative. Billy has real world experience.

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Why thank you!!

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u/StixTheRef avatar

Jimmy Broadbent is fantastic. He regularly uploads really fun and interesting videos, and frequently streams online races (streaming on YouTube rather than Twitch).

u/ark1870 avatar

Hobbo88 is great for V8 Supercars And a bit of dirt as well. Nothing but racing. No reviews or anything else just pure racibgZ

Empty Box, Jimmy Broadbent, Jadier, The Extra Mile, Nicki Thiim, random callsign, and GamerMuscle are the ones I follow on YouTube.

u/Nivracer avatar

FailRace does some sim, and by far my favorite racing YouTuber. I occasionally watch Empty Box who usually plays iRacing.

u/Derpy_DerpFace avatar

TWITCH: Matt Malone, jplays, jesperoni, CoVallis, Quirkitized

YT: SimracingNC, nicki thiim, Whippy racing, president smug

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Jimmy broadbent

u/Mrwrenchifi avatar

Viperconcept

Some of my favorites:

YT: The Simpit, Sim Racing Paddock, SimracingNC, Georg Ortner, RickyBrosh Racing

Twitch: DanskyJR (Nicki Thiim), The WorlofKinduci, Quirkitized, CraigAWilliams, InJayzBrain, simracingchriz (real racecar driver), showdown1983 (Matt Malone)

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Shameless plug for my own channel if you're maybe also interested in something a bit different https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCtdzVmAroneTWEaMXf7jW5Q

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Hey I know you!

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Really? Interesting ;)

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What a small world....

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u/CrimsonTide_No5leep avatar

SUPER GT

u/BriGuy550 avatar

Main ones I follow:

Twitch: ShowDown1983 (Matt Malone), Quirkitized - both are iRacing streamers

YouTube: Jimmy Broadbent, Gamer Muscle

I also follow some of the other ones mentioned but these are the ones I’ll regularly watch stream live.

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Me. Am rapid

u/TheBadBoyRay avatar

Jardier, he's a great driver.

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Depends what you want. In my travels it seems a LOT of sim YouTubers are mediocre drivers who just fuck around and spout memes.

The two best all-around sim racing YouTubers are Billy Strange & Nicki Thiim. Both have real world experience (Strange is a sportsman sprint car driver, Thiim a WEC GTE champion), both are exceptionally fast/clean sim racers, both often go into the differences between sim & real world. You will actually learn something from watching them.

Runner ups in this category are Random Callsign, Jardier, & Georg Ortner (6e66o). While not real-world drivers they are all still very fast, competent sim racers.

In terms of "comfy streams" that you can turn on and converse with the host directly, your choices are GamerMuscle, Jeff Favignano, Empty Box (Matt Orr), SimRacingPaddock (Will Marsh), The Simpit (Shaun Cole) and Jimmy Broadbent. Their channels are more intended as sim racing "variety shows" so don't expect the best driving abilities or accurate reviews.

Now we get to the miscellaneous section. FailRace is unique in that he uses racing games to create pure chaos and his videos are always worth a watch. SlapTrain is the biggest racing game personality period but the guy cannot drive to save his life and most videos are just him trying to drift (poorly) in whatever game he's been given a key to that week. Lastly is Jason Jacoby; this is a 28 year old who has deluded himself into thinking he's a real NASCAR driver complete with a rig that costs more than most real cars & firesuits + racing shoes for each online race - worth watching a few times just to see that weird side of the community.

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Thanks for such a detailed answer!

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Didn't Jason put all his stuff up for sale?

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