Patent ID: 8257084

Claim:
A method for using data from a race car in virtual setting, the method comprising: launching a simulation program on a computing device; establishing a voice channel between participants of the simulation program; receiving the data in real time gathered from the race car in a live racing event at a motorspeedway; measuring wind speed encountered by the race car during the live racing event; accessing the data during the live racing event by the computing device; associating the data from the race car in the live event with a virtual car in the simulation program; mimicking movements of the race car in the live event to movements of the virtual car in the simulation program; remotely driving another race car in the live event using the data from the race car; incorporating at least a portion of the data into the simulation program; retrieving a profile associated with each participant of the simulation program; indicating in the profile that one of the participants is a child predator; and disabling the voice channel when the profile indicates the one of the participants is the child predator.