NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — If there's an opportunity to drive something fast, I'm all over it.
At Oasis Sim Racing, you may think you're going as fast as the car will go... but your body never moves. Well, that's not completely true, it shakes and bumps just like you were in a real race car.
"That's our goal," says owner Reid Lincoln.
He got into sim racing when he was younger, but says there was no place to check out anything. As he got more into it, Lincoln had the idea to develop it as a business.
"From the idea to opening the doors was about six months," says Lincoln.
Oasis was the first simulated racing facility for the public in Texas. Now with 20 simulators at his New Braunfels location, the place is packed all the time and he already has plans to expand elsewhere. That will be expensive though, each simulator runs about $30,000.
The simulators are unreal. You sit in Recaro seats, hit the switch and the simulator starts vibrating just like a real car. You're surround by three, wrap around screens, you can choose virtually any racetrack in the world, slip on the headphones and choose most any type of car.
Lincoln says the great thing about it is, you can come race as an individual or with a group of friends, or maybe even come in and join a group that is already racing. They have a league, they host corporate events, birthday parties, bachelor parties...or any type of situation or party you want to have.
If you love to go fast and want to race, but don't want the risk...you need to check out Oasis Sim Racing. You can find their website and book time on the machines here.