More more Four

And yet more of my career in Dirt4.
I'm not far off completing all the in-game career rally stuff, and I can see how others say that it's a short game. But... after that, I'll take the time to build a decent championship and see if can share it out with a mate or two. That would be awesome.
But in any case, enough cars and largely endless tracks means I'll be coming back to this game over time.
Happy days!

Name dropping

Looking at the soon to be awesome S5000 class, I started to wonder about other classes in open-wheel racing. After all, my mind is mixed on S5000, fantastic to have an Aussie formula class, but watching vids on them they sound a bit basic, make them rev to 10k+ rpm and they'd be awesome.

Perhaps it's testing times only at the moment, or perhaps it's a cost-control process which may well help it's birth, but it's not F1 (not that it's trying to be) and I'm undecided on it.

So I looked about, and I found this, from a lifetime ago, see how many names you recognise!

If you think current F1 is boring, you might be right - but at least they're trying to fix it.

And in the meantime there's F2. I've not seen a boring F2 race, to be honest: Exhibit A
(Boo to Formula1 for not allowing embedded content!)

Only me!

So I'm enamored with Assassin's Creed Odyssey at the moment. I checked, apparently, the main quest is 36 hours and the side quests are around 76 hours. Huge. But I'm 90+ hours in and really only doing the main quest now, there is just so much content and so much to do.

For example, dropping into your local quarry to say hi to all the local guards...

And this is why you don't let kids play games like this.
Cos there's no way they'd survive that 0% health moment I had...

Making it real

So we enjoy racing and we enjoy sim racing. But what is sim racing, is it ultra-realism in the cockpit or tyre deformation models. Maybe even it's a photo-realistic car...

Recently Jimmy Broadbent, Stephen Baily, Adam Hodgkinson and Nathan Lupson (All four, not just the net star!) competed in the iRacing 24Hrs Le Mans. And I reckon it's about as real as it gets actually...

Note though, iRacing isn't hyper-realism photographic designs, the interior is 'functional' at best though I do believe the physics aren't half bad. No, what makes this real is the racing, watching this, especially some of the late night moments you can easily see some very close calls and proper "It happened in the early hours of..." events.

Worth watching if you missed the live event, and I reckon good motorsport in any case...

Hard viewing

This is hard to watch I think.
Mostly as it's VR footage, in a 90's F1 car around Bathurst. And as a viewer, I felt like a pea in a tin-can. I reckon playing it would take some skills just to not vomit.

Anyway, why put this up here, well its an example of what I reckon is some proper performance driving... Bathurst in a Formula 1 car is too dangerous to race, but of course possible in sim land.

And, Jimmy does this race proud, much respect to driving skills in use here, especially when you consider he's doing it in VR...

Omagerd!

So the fun police are busy making Lakeside Raceway just "Lakeside". So long as the one person complaining is fine the thousands that enjoy it through the year should suck it up right?

In other news though, I went online and I found this! Which is Assetto Corsa (PC) meets Lakeside Raceway.

And it looks like this, (though I think misty, maybe the tears in my eye?):

A compelling reason to spend upwards of $4k if ever I've seen one.

Own up, who did this...

Spoilers if you're playing Odyssey, but blimey this is an amusing bit of dialogue...

Probably not ideal to play at full volume in front of Gran...

More Four

Still can't recommend this game really. Still really enjoying it.

Much the same reason for both - the tracks aren't as exciting as perhaps any other game, you start to see repetition in sections, indeed in this video, there's an exact same over crest section, it's identical.
And that's part of the appeal, it's 9pm, I've got a report to write and in half an hour I don't want to have to think too hard, but still be a winner. This game is that thing - it's not too serious, not too hard and I know I'll enjoy Nicky's dulcet tones as he tells me to tight left opens...

Holey Moley

We all know what Goodwood Festival of Speed is, in fact I suspect thanks to Gran Turismo 6 we've all had a go up the hill.

Ragged we are for sure, but this first dude in his "Ute", that's a scrappy scary thing and no mistake.

The rest aren't much better but you can see as things get more modern there's a certain calmness to the climb.

Respect to all of them though!

Motor life

I do like Harry Metcalf. I like his channel of no-nonsense everyday reviews of supercars, touched with a depth of knowledge that's not in your face makes for great watching.

And it's easy to think he's a lucky bugger, and he is. But then he also knows everyone and everything, as is evident by this video, in which Harry casually demonstrates that he not only knows every person you can imagine from motoring life but also the cars themselves...

Easy watching for sure from a great YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIB5XXHNAWWzTOw6guIMYCg

This is the life of motoring I aspire to. Just need a few mil' and I'm in!