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Bought the GT2 DLC, will try and get some laps in later

Edit, put 10 laps in with the KTM, it’s great on the brakes for the most part, going to try the Maserati GT2 car next.

Bit of an update, tried a few of the GT2 cars, KTM is by far the best on the brakes, but it is the lightest. Maserati sounds ace, just jumping in the Audi now.

Oh and as usual after a reasonable update….. the stuttering is back

Are they more fun to drive than the regular cars?

Still fun to drive, but the GT3 cars are still the main draw and better to drive, will have to try the two GT4 cars I like round here as well as the GT3. You can see why they bundle the cars with a track, while the cars are fun on their own, people wouldn’t buy them if they didn’t come with a track.

You can tell most in the braking zones how much less aero these cars have, some of them are useless, by the time you’ve slowed down, the brakes are glowing red on the temp gauge

Saw something in a shop window in Newbury for you, Ad.
Imagine installing your sim racing gear in this!

Just dipped into the 1.29s at the A1 Ring in the KTM Still like 2.5-3 seconds off the ridiculous folk who play ACC, but I’m just happy if I’m not laughably slow

https://www.xbox.com/play/media/HTFzPDJcue

The one lap I’ve managed to dip into the 1.29s so far.

Edit, just done a 30 min race in the KTM GT2 and the Aston V8 GT3, I can see why they released the GT2 pack with the A1 Ring really, the pace difference is minimal round here, at least in my hands....... The GT2s fly down the straights but lose a little in the corners, opposite with the GT3s, think at a lot of other tracks they'd be a few seconds slower.

Robbo-92 wrote:https://www.xbox.com/play/media/HTFzPDJcue

The one lap I’ve managed to dip into the 1.29s so far.

Edit, just done a 30 min race in the KTM GT2 and the Aston V8 GT3, I can see why they released the GT2 pack with the A1 Ring really, the pace difference is minimal round here, at least in my hands....... The GT2s fly down the straights but lose a little in the corners, opposite with the GT3s, think at a lot of other tracks they'd be a few seconds slower.

Nicely done.

You've got the proper sim racer extra wide line thing going on where most of the car is off the outside of the track on entry. Have you noticed a lot of the younger F1 guys seem to be doing this in real life now?

Only thing that really stands out is hesitating to get on power, but it looks like the thing doenst want to stay near the apex at all, so all you'd do is wash wide anyway.

Victor Mildew wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:https://www.xbox.com/play/media/HTFzPDJcue

The one lap I’ve managed to dip into the 1.29s so far.

Edit, just done a 30 min race in the KTM GT2 and the Aston V8 GT3, I can see why they released the GT2 pack with the A1 Ring really, the pace difference is minimal round here, at least in my hands....... The GT2s fly down the straights but lose a little in the corners, opposite with the GT3s, think at a lot of other tracks they'd be a few seconds slower.

Nicely done.

You've got the proper sim racer extra wide line thing going on where most of the car is off the outside of the track on entry. Have you noticed a lot of the younger F1 guys seem to be doing this in real life now?

Only thing that really stands out is hesitating to get on power, but it looks like the thing doenst want to stay near the apex at all, so all you'd do is wash wide anyway.

Yeah I’ve noticed it a lot, especially at Bahrain where a lot of the braking kerbs are more or less flat. I didn’t actually realise till I watched something about ACC that the white lines don’t dictate the track limits, you just need to have a wheel or two just on the kerbs. The KTM does understeer a little, it can be horrific when closely following a car.

This looks like it's going to be a real challenge

How’s the safety rating now the rain has arrived?

I had a quick look last night and I think it's limited to a few car and track combos at the moment. It's not very clear how you get to play it. Also they are in whats called week 13, which is a week they beta test the next season updates so if it strawberry floats things up, you don't end up ruining your ratings on it.

Speaking of licences, it looks like a second road class dedicated to formula cars has been added and its taken my current road stats and applied them 1:1, meaning I should get a season promotion in that too next week. Not sure what it's for though.

I wish there was some decent way of recording footage form my setup, as nvidia capture only gets the centre monitor, and at a capped 60fps. In a moment of pure self indulgence I watched my last race replay with the different cameras and it looked incredible on the monitors. The low down bumper and rear facing cameras in particular really make it look like real life as the way the cars move around is so realistic.

Just seen a video on Youtube for an upcoming arcade Formula racer, called New Star GP, looks surprisingly in depth really, maybe one for me to keep an eye on.

Nintendo Life review, https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/sw ... Star%20gem.

Shame about the rain being limited on iRacing, still feels very odd how they treat their content as someone who has never played it of course.

I like the look of the virtua style games, like hot shots racing, but I feel like I'd never really play them.

B licence get

I kept meaning to pick Virtua Racing up, but never got round to it, it'll probably be the same for that game as well

You'll be racing Verstappen soon enough

Virtua racing Played it to death on the megadrive and 32x.

Discovered you can play wet races offline against a.i. in iracing. Only a couple of cars I own have wet tyres (which is how they limit what can and can't take part in wet races), so I picked one I've not driven before and chose the worst conditions going and went to the nordschliefe...



strawberry float me that's something else. I've not played any wet race like that before. Rivers running across the track, aquaplaning, grip in all the strangest places, pooled water being kicked up. Felt incredibly realistic. Will be total carnage online until everyone gets used to it, but I'd imagine it will also lead to some truly incredible races. The overtakes you can do when you find grip around the outside

I aquaplaned on the final straight and had a crash that ripped both front wheels off and left me upside down on the wrong side of a barrier

I tend to shy away from racing in the rain on most games? As most games just don’t do a great job of it, sounds like by taking the time, iRacing has nailed it, need to try more of the rain on ACC really.

Speaking of ACC……. The Ring is coming to PC on the 1st of April hopefully this means I’ll be able to get it on console by mid June although it’ll be too warm to race for long then

Oh you've got to try some wet races out! It's a completely different way to drive and will give you some great instinctual car control, which you can then carry on to handling really worn tyres. It increases braking distances, gives lots of different lines to try, so overtaking opertunities go up and races are generally much more fun and alive.

I imagine ACC does a lot better job of the wet conditions than the F1 games, where it just feels odd, it just feels like they've cut traction by X percent alongside cutting grip as well, which obviously happens in the rain, but I don't think the F1 games do a good job of it at all. if I get the chance to get the wheel out at the weekend, I'll load a wet race up. Watching a video on the Tempest weather system round the ring, looks phenomenal in a lot of aspects, watching some ACC footage and that looks pretty good too!

Anyone played Circuit Superstars? Looks a great little racer

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1097130/Circuit_Superstars/