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AutoSimSport Media has been publishing AutoSimSport Magazine since January 2005.<ref>http://autosimsport.net</ref> The magazine is dedicated to sim racing. AutoSimSport Magazine is the first magazine dedicated to sim racing. It presents content relative to the sim racing genre.

AutoSimSport Magazine has had 294,500 total issue downloads since its inception.
The magazine averages a circulation of 12,000 readers per issue.
AutoSimSport Magazine is read by people in an average of 70 countries worldwide on a monthly basis.
The AutoSimSport website has had a cumulative average of 1,178,713 website hits per month since July 2006.

Content

AutoSimSport Magazine is currently the only magazine dedicated to simulated-racing.

AutoSimSport Magazine features interviews with notable personalities within the sim racing community such as Gjon Camaj founder of Image Space Incorporated (rFactor), Ian Bell founder of Blimey! Games Ltd., and David Kaemmer co-founder of now-defunct Papyrus Design Group, now heading up iRacing. Sim racing has many enthusiasts and organized groups known as modders who create user generated content, more commonly referred to as 'mods,' for commercial racing simulators. As well as interviews, AutoSimSport Magazine contains reviews and previews of sim racing hardware and software products. The magazine has also reviewed and organized reader-based awards for simulation software. Live for Speed was a winner of one of these types of awards.

Alongside coverage of simulated-racing AutoSimSport Magazine publishes articles related to professional motorsport. It has featured interviews with Formula One drivers such as Giancarlo Fisichella, Jarno Trulli, and Pedro De La Rosa. It also features articles which provide advice to those who wish to make the transition to real racing and accounts of their experience written by those drivers who have.

AutoSimSport regularly publishes articles written by guest writers including notable figures within the sim-racing community such as Steve Smith, the writer of the manual for Grand Prix Legends and former editor of Car and Driver and Becky Rose, developer of the largest sim racing governing body, the CTRA. As well as articles by notable figures, AutoSimSport considers for publication articles written by members of the sim racing community at large.

AutoSimSport publishes the results and standings of several online sim racing leagues and race-reports written by their organizers.

Companies that wish to market their products to sim races utilize AutoSimSport Magazine as a medium with which to promote their products. Hardware companies such as Logitech, Matrox, and CXC Simulatons, software companies such as Image Space Incorporated (rFactor), iRacing, and Blimey! Games Ltd., and vendors such as GoGamer, among others, advertise their products with AutoSimSport Magazine.

The magazine is distributed for free and is available in PDF form.

Publication

AutoSimSport Magazine is published by AutoSimSport Media LLC on a semi-monthly schedule, and was created by Alex Martini in 2005.<ref>http://autosimsport.net/staff.php</ref>

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