iRacing - Flaying Mazda: The Sequel!

So I racing the Production Cars championship at the Jefferson course (reverse) at Summit Point Raceway, minding my own business, doing really badly, when I *just* miss a Mazda flying over from the other side of the track!

In retrospect, I really wish I had save the race replay so I could see that incident in glorious detail, but sadly I didn't. I'll be putting the full race up in the coming days!

Getting to grips with Game Stock Car Extreme.......

...... Or at least getting friendly with their tyre barriers anyway!


I've had Game Stock Car 2013 (and with the free update GSC Extreme) for a while and haven't been able to give it much time. I decided to change that and get to grips with the updated vehicles. I went through all the Formulas, from Vee to Extreme, and I made a reel of the crashes from practices and racing for all to see! I've been spending some time putting some mods on, and I've been really enjoying the game as a whole. Hopefully I'll get some free time and you can expect to see some good racing videos in the near future!

My shortest race in iRacing!

Did a lot of racing this week on iRacing. The pinnacle of the events was supposed to be the Mazda MX-5's at Summit Point Raceway, but that race turned out to be my shortest in my iRacing career so far *sadface*.

Here's what happened:

Test Drie Tuesday - McLaren MP4-28

Honestly, I had bought this as soon as it came out that it was the TDT car this week! I've been waiting for a modern F1 car for some time on Simraceway (affordably anyway), and I was not at all disappointed with my purchase!

Being an F1 car, there's not much to say about its performance other than it being completely fantastic. Stability, speed, braking are all superb, as you'd probably expect from the pinnacle of motorsport. It does take a while getting used to the sheer pace of the machine, but once you get to grips with it, the pace is fantastic. The only car that comes in comparison is the 1988 McLaren MP4/4 which we did a few weeks back. Despite being 25 years older, the MP4/4 is surprisingly on the pace of the MP4-28, but still the advances show, with the MP4-28 being faster on more of the tracks.

The mechanical perfection of the F1 car makes it very difficult to talk to about. You point it in a given directions and so long as you can keep it bolted down on braking or accelerating - thats where it goes. It all then boils down to just how aggressive you can be without losing control. I tried a 30 minute time trial at Silverstone. The fastest time was 1:32.0 which is roughly on par with pole at the 2013 F1 Silverstone GP. At that race, the 107% time was ~1:37.6 and I managed a time of 1:36 - so I would have made the grid but not well!

I've included the full track day on my youtube channel. That and the hotlap and crashes videos are below too:

CRASH!

Testing these cars every week is great fun, but it usually goes far from plan. Not being a significantly experienced racer, as well as pushing these cars to their limits when I'm not really familiar with them, results in my fender becoming good friends with the wall on many an occasion! The last two weeks in the classic F1 cars have been a joy but also a great challenge, and here's two videos of nothing but spins, near misses and crashes that I found particularly funny. Hope you enjoy!