---
title: "A Pro Racer Wrecked So Hard in iRacing that His Sim Rig Collapsed"
description: "That's, uh, pretty realistic."
date: "2020-04-15"
modified: "2020-04-15"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/33028/a-pro-racer-wrecked-so-hard-in-iracing-that-his-sim-rig-collapsed"
categories:
  - "Culture"
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  - "Video Games"
---

# A Pro Racer Wrecked So Hard in iRacing that His Sim Rig Collapsed

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With real racing impossible under shelter-in-place orders, the pros have taken to simulators to stay sharp. These fledgling sim racers are discovering, however, their digital competition is just as cutthroat, the [punishment just as painful](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/33016/with-kyle-larson-esports-racing-has-its-grow-up-moment>), and as Corvette Racing driver Jordan Taylor found, the crashes just as jarring.

While competing in this past weekend's [eNASCAR Monza Madness event](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/32741/fox-sports-will-broadcast-the-entire-nascar-iracing-sim-racing-season>), Taylor cut to the inside of one of the circuit's banked corners to allow faster traffic past. Some of this traffic, however, was busy fighting for position, and one of the overtaking cars misjudged the available space on the track, colliding with Taylor as he passed. Both drivers speared into the barriers, and Jordan's sim rig shook violently to simulate the impact—if anything a little *too* violently because Taylor found himself on the floor as his setup collapsed.

https://twitter.com/_/status/1249723303180337154

Taylor later explained on social media that the failure was not caused by the supplier of his full-motion rig, SimCraft, but by a component manufactured by another, unspecified company. He was able to organize prompt replacement of the failed part and [tweeted](<https://twitter.com/jordan10taylor/status/1250233249630224386>) Tuesday evening that he was back up and running, with a lobby open to his fans, many of whom are likely too intimidated by the notion of [spending thousands of dollars on expensive setups](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/32881/i-spent-8085-to-build-my-pro-sim-racing-rig-heres-what-i-bought>) like Taylor's, seeing it as a necessity to be competitive.

Yet sim racing fans confident of their racing skills should heed the [examples set by NASCAR's Ross Chastain](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/32845/this-bargain-basement-pc-setup-trounced-a-40000-sim-racing-rig>) and retired [Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/32991/f1-champ-jacques-villeneuve-uses-xbox-controller-to-finish-sixth-in-pro-sim-racing-debut>) and simply start racing, no matter how pedestrian their sim setups may seem. As these pros and their bargain-basement rigs have shown, it isn't *what* you drive—it's *how* you drive it.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)