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Professional Racing Simulator Lounge located in Tampa, FL. Academy, Built by Drivers.

We also offer Custom builds and Rentals Service designed for people that are looking to experience Sim Racing and all of its joys.

10/27/2026

Grab your friends, pick a track, race each other all night. This is how everyone leaves.
Academy Sim Racing, Tampa. Book at academysim.com
Tag the friends you would race.

10/25/2026

Support the stream: https://streamlabs.com/allianceracing

10/24/2026

Tomorrow: 6 hours at Road Atlanta. Last call for teams! 🏁

The Petite Petit Le Mans goes green tomorrow, Sunday Oct 25, at 4:30 PM ET. It's a 6-hour iRacing enduro with GTP, LMP2 and GT3 classes, and there's still room if you want in.

🔹 Free to enter online
🔹 Racing at the lounge is $40 per team
🔹 Teams of 1 to 6 drivers, no drive-time limits
🔹 $20 cash to each class winner
🔹 Random full-course yellows, possible rain, open setups

Schedule (ET)
Lounge check-in 2:45 · Qualifying 3:00 · Briefing 4:15 · Green flag 4:30 · Checkered 10:30
See you on the grid. 🏎️

10/22/2026

If the secret to braking was just braking later, everyone would keep braking later and later. That is not how it works.

Most people brake late or too light, then drop the pedal and the car slides wide. Now they're tapping the brakes and adding gas just to rotate it. You want to sit on the limit of the tires, not override them.

When you come off the brake, the wheel shouldn't feel limp. You want a little pull in it. That's how you know you're at the actual limit of grip. Then get back to power and push the car out of the turn.

Come work on it with a coach at Academy Sim Racing in Tampa. Book at academysim.com

10/20/2026

Our flight sim is up and running at Academy Sim Racing, and it's ready for bookings.

Fly anything from a 787 to a Cessna, even a fighter jet. Switch from daytime to nighttime with one click, jump from a Boeing straight into a fighter jet, and pick free flight, landing challenges or just explore.

Book now at academysim.com

10/15/2026

it was supposed to be a normal sim rig

Tampa's only public motion sim. Come drive it at Academy Sim Racing.
Book a seat at academysim.com

10/13/2026

Single monitor guys, your virtual mirror can show you WAY more than you think it does.

Quick iRacing tip: if you're driving on one screen, your rearview mirror is probably hiding cars that are right next to you.

Go into your black box, down in the bottom right, and crank up the Virtual Mirror FOV. Watch what happens: now you can actually see cars almost the moment they pull up beside you instead of finding out the hard way.

I race on a single monitor myself and I use this setting constantly. Give it a minute to feel normal, cars will look a bit farther away than they really are, especially behind you, but the awareness you get back is worth it.

Come try it yourself: Academy Sim Racing in Tampa. https://booking.academysim.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shorts_vmirror

10/12/2026

Brad Gutierrez started 24th in the ISRL Dunder Mifflin 200 at Kansas. While the field wrecked around him, he drove the Academy #84 to the front and led the restart, and the booth called him the biggest mover of the night. He came home 3rd after a one lap shootout. That's Brad on our rig in the corner cam. Could you have held them off on the last restart?
Broadcast footage: xHoRsEbOaTx for ISRL.
academysim.com

Address

1421 Massaro Boulevard
Tampa, FL
33619

Opening Hours

Monday	12pm - 10pm
Wednesday	12pm - 10pm
Thursday	12pm - 10pm
Friday	2pm - 10pm
Saturday	2pm - 10pm
Sunday	2pm - 6pm

Telephone

+18133559071

Website

https://booking.academysim.com/, http://Events.academysim.com/, http://builds.academysim.com/

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