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This stuff isn't really educational, but it's entertainment that could inspire you even more to learn about cars:
- Top Gear (they have horrible politics, but it's a good show)
- Doug Demuro's youtube videos
whenever i bought a bike, i would pick up a haynes manual for it, it's important to know how to maintain your expensive things
I got into cars by watching funny haha media
Loved top gear, despite the questionable politics of clarkson in particular, the show is absolutely brilliant. Youtube shows as well, mighty car mods and donut media are hilarious.
I know this sounds like useless promo crap but thats just how I got into it. Watching entertainment stuff and in the background you’re picking up knowledge.
Biggest thing though is actually working on your car. Good skills to have anyway And you learn the most doing that. Tons of youtube videos on how to do literally anything to any car, it’s great.
Youtube is a good start. what are you looking to learn about? I "know" how to work on cars, but I still check youtube to make sure I won't run into surprises.
I think I can figure something out. I'm mostly into drag racing, which is pretty specialized and not well represented like circuit racing is in video games.
Actually, I don't recommend them for entertainment, but donut media seems to break things down more than most and they have a lot of explainers on car histories and such.
Something to consider about racing games is the numbers only get you so far, you'll have to drive the cars before you'll really understand what the numbers mean.
sorry it took me so long. I have a couple suggestions that I don't see in here
https://www.youtube.com/c/learntotune/ this is mostly about real racing cars that aren't driven on the road. It's not that the info doesn't work for the road, it's just that their examples tend to have 500-3000 horsepower.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Grassrootsmotorsports this is sort of the opposite. They are currently doing their $2000 challenge where you build a car for 2 grand and do concourse, drag, and autocross with it
Buy an older car that needs work and ask your dad for help. That's what I did. Then we had sex.
I also bought a car that has a huge enthusiast following, that helps I M M E N S E L Y; most older sports cars have gearheads who love to share their knowledge. I am partial to BMWs myself.
Make friends with someone who has a garage and likes to tinker, I guess.
ChrisFix on YouTube hands down. Dude has a lot of videos that mostly use basic hand tools or rentable ones from auto stores.
I learned from my dad, who is a car guy while I am not. In exchange, I teach him about gun stuff.
Without having something fun to drive and get hands on experience with I think you'll need to be pretty interested in mechanical engineering to get into cars, so I'm going to recommend some youtube channels mostly focused on explaining an building. If you want to learn the mechanical concepts I'd go with Engineering Explained but it can be kinda dry. I also recommend build series from the following: Bad Obsession Motorsports, Mighty Car Mods ,The Skid Factory, and Car Throttle.
