ATRS Coaching
ATRS eSports Driver Coaching
Apex Tech Racing Supply is proud to offer the opportunity to be coached by the Pros from our world class sim racing team. If you want to race like the best, learn from the best, and our Pros are available one-on-one for live coaching for you and your friends.
From the rookie sim racer looking to develop the basics, to an experienced racer looking to hone their craft, our coaches will be able to help you get to victory lane. Coaching sessions are tailored to your needs and experience; whether it's chasing lap time, understanding setups, improving knowledge about telemetry or planning endurance race strategies.
After buying a session, we will be in touch to understand your experience and to schedule a suitable time and a suitable coach based on your car, track and desired focus. Further information is available below, or via email to our sales team. If you are a team that needs group coaching or a racer who wants to build out a coaching schedule we offer bulk rates upon request.
Apex Tech Racing Supply is uniquely positioned with our own professional sim racing team, containing a vast amount of sim and real world racing experience. You should choose us for your coaching needs because:
- We have exceptional credentials. All our coaches are hand-picked, tested and have genuine experience in the sim or real world racing to ensure the coaching we deliver is of the highet quality.
- We have a wide range of specialties. We have multiple coaches to suit your needs with different experience and specialities, whether it be GT, Open Wheel, Prototypes or Stock Cars.
- We understand the student. ATRS eSports contains drivers of all abilities; our coaches hone their craft with their amateur teammates on a weekly basis, and know what drivers of different abilities need to perform at their best on the track.
- Valuable Add Ons Included: The whole coaching session will be recorded, saved and sent to the student to be used for reference and review later. Not just the replay files in iRacing but the whole session.
Our coaching program is for any sim racer who wants to be faster, more consistent and more confident. We focus on the fundamentals and aim to equip you with the skills, knowledge and techniques to get the most out of yourself and your car. Our goal is always for the value of the coaching session to last much longer than just the time you are with us.
The coaching session will be tailored to your experience, and will tend to focus on one car/track combination that you are already familiar with. Generally, a coaching session will be broken into the following parts:
- Pre-session prep: Let your coach know what car/track combo you’d like to focus on. This should be something you are already familiar with, so we can spend the time most productively. If you’d like, send a replay of your best lap so the coach can do some pre-session analysis. The coach will also set a benchmark time ahead of the session.
- Introductions: The session will start with a short introduction from the coach and a discussion about your experience, things you’ve tried and anything in particular you want to learn.
- Sim Setup (Beginners): This is a valuable opportunity to ensure your sim is set up correctly. Having correct force feedback, pedal, FOV and graphics settings can make a real difference to your driving experience.
- Warm up and first laps: A chance for you to get warmed up with a couple of laps and set a first time with the coach watching. This will be reviewed live, with feedback given after the laps.
- Lead and follow: Depending on your experience, the coach then may start a lead and follow exercise where you follow their lines and braking points. Having someone to follow can often make all the difference.
- Five lap stints: Based on what you’ve learned, the rest of the session will be split into 5 lap stints, with the coach watching and providing feedback, aiming to help you understand the fundamentals of going faster.
- Final review: After the in-game session ends, the coach will recap the session and show you your progress, and end with some ‘homework’ and further techniques to improve going forward.
- Questions: Finally, there will be an opportunity for you to ask any questions.
Aside from improving your lap time, there are many areas you can choose to focus on in your coaching session, such as:
- Car setups
- Sim setups (force feedback, pedals, graphics, ergonomics)
- Racecraft
- Traffic Management
- Strategy
- Telemetry
- Post-race analysis
- Replay Review From Previous Races
- Incident Review and Mitigation
Our Coaches
As a professional sim racing team, ATRS eSports can pull from the vast experience of many of our top-level drivers, with a variety of sim and real world racing experience. You can see the full ATRS eSports Driver Lineup here!
An iRacing veteran with 9 years in the service, ATRS eSports Manager Chris specializes in beginner to intermediate coaching focusing on driving fundamentals. With an engineering background and time at the McLaren F1 team, Chris can also help you further your knowledge of telemetry, setups and race strategy.
Coaching Terms and Conditions
- Sessions are one-on-one, and the quantity purchased is per hour which is the length of the in-game session; pre and post session conversations and reviews are included in the hour fee.
- In-game session cost is included in the coaching price
- "30 Min Trial" pricing option is limited to one, single use per client
- We specialize in coaching on the iRacing and Assetto Corsa Competizione platforms
- Sessions must be rescheduled or canceled 48 hours in advance to be eligible for a refund