Digital Sportspage

While I'm happy to see the announcement of Forza Horizon 5 releasing this November, the news comes with a troubling subplot: What's the future of the Forza Motorsport series? Still coming, eventually: https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/forza-motorsport-everything-you-need-to-know Very much flying un...

Having failed to come up with a sensible alternative and knowing I'll never order anything if I don't do it now, I ordered a CSL DD and the new pedal set a couple of nights ago. I'll stick a load cell kit in there once there's a load cell kit to stick in there too. I should apparently expect it to s...

That's a very kind and very tempting offer, mate. Much appreciated. Mind if I drop you a line as soon as I'm done dithering over making a decision? I know I want to upgrade, because I've been using basically the same tech for nearly 15 years now and there's clearly a massive leap to be made in terms...

I've started to see a few comments suggesting that recent updates have made now a very good time to be jumping into AMS2. The content appeals just as much as it did first time around, some of the newer additions to the car and track lists are right up my street, yet I'm still a bit concerned that my...

Azerbaijan this weekend. Any bets on where Mazepin will crash? Seems like the left into the old city is perfectly set up for him to lose it. At least he's had half the grid keeping him company this weekend. It's been a long time since I've seen quite so many top-line racing drivers recreate one of ...

Wow, what a response. Thanks all, much appreciated. Thinking, thinking, thinking...the two Codemasters IndyCar Series come to mind, goodness the online racing of the second one was brilliant the two or three times it actually worked. There were a couple IndyCar dogs released that maybe would be fun ...

Apologies for the little deviation: I've got a bit of a retro question to ask you all. It's dawning on me that thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I can now go back and play all of the games I might have played when I was younger if they'd ever been released in Europe. We tended not to see g...

Graham was a lucky boy. Had his stop lasted a couple of seconds longer, that spin would have had him coming up the track right in the firing line, instead of clearing up the racetrack before the leaders got there I'm not the only one that got Zanardi vibes from that crash, right? A damaged nose con...

Nope. Not having that stand as my only posted thought... If that's the noise a limited-capacity crowd makes when Conor takes the lead, what'll happen when he does it in front of a full house? Spine-tingling stuff and an incredible illustration of what live sport gains when there's somebody there to ...

This sounds so horribly trite I want to punch myself for even considering posting it, but between that race, that spectacle and that result, it felt a bit like we all won the Indy 500.

Rod, there's a good obituary on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/57231465 I particularly liked the overview of Max and Ron's relationship, which didn't at any time have the potential to be more than it was because both men were completely right about each other. We are none of u...

One I maybe should have seen coming but didn't: there's a Superstar Racing Experience game coming next week. XB1, PS4 and Steam versions for $39.99 via Monster Games:

https://youtu.be/3vI1DIQWFkM

Was the Vietnam track in this game when it was released last year? I gave it a go and what a borefest. It reminds me of Sochi only more boring. It was. The last sector isn't bad but the rest of it is pretty dreadful. Doesn't look like we'll ever see the circuit return to the calendar now, which is ...

Wow, I completely forgot about Rossi... What's going on at Andretti, mate? It feels like something you could almost start pinning on the drivers - maybe RH-R is beyond his peak, or Hinch no more than a solid midfielder and so on - until you get to Rossi, or look at the weekend Herta had, and realise...

As a northerner who gets really quite annoyed at London media folk referring to everything more than 50 miles away from them as "the north", I am required to point out that Jack Harvey is from the Midlands. As the name suggests, the Midlands are not in the bloody north, Leigh. Notes from an IndyCar ...

The six (maybe more?) year old Playseat Challenge is starting to flex and move around more than I'd like. No recommendation, I'm afraid, but I do have a question: how have you found the Playseat Challenge with a CSL Elite? I'm still rocking my G29 + TV tray + dining chair set-up and am hoping to up...

Thanks for the tip on the truck game, Adam. I LOVE giving niche racing series titles a go. Some suck, some are surprising. Hell, arguably my favorite racing game for its sheer sense of speed and Dark Souls-like challenge is the Isle of Man TT: Ride on the Edge series. And true motorcycle road racin...

New WRC 10 trailer. Looks so damn good. https://youtu.be/jZLyseyp9dQ Yup. Really looking forward to seeing how they do those historical events. Hopefully they'll have a good spread of iconic moments, not just a few scenarios cherry-picked to suit the car licences they've got. A man can dream. XBox ...

Portimao! :D What a fantastic roller-coaster of a circuit. Have driven it in other games. So underrated. Now I keep thinking PORTIMAO sung to the tune of "Panama" I've substituted one particular track into a song so often that I'm now pretty much convinced the Beach Boys had success in the late 80s...

An interesting start to the weekend for F1. Aston Martin: The FIA rule changes are unfair to low-rake cars and we demand changes Mercedes: Runs 1-2 with low-rake cars Aston's argument seems to boil down to there being a need to change the rules urgently because their car isn't going as quickly as t...

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Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:13 pm

Much respect at that score, Adam. I'd be lucky to get 15.

While I think you'd do a lot better than 15, reading that and remembering how pleased I was to have typed "Claude Bourbonnais" earlier is making me wonder how badly I wasted my youth.

Had a bit of a binge tonight after months away from the wheel. Tested some Assetto Corsa mods, having finally got round to modding it, then had a blast around Silverstone in its sequel before trying KartKraft. Having read what James said, I thought, naively, that I might be able to flatten the learn...

On the off-chance that any of you are trying to kill some time between now and the Imola/Barber weekend, here's a link to the hardest racing quiz I've ever tripped over: https://www.sporcle.com/games/michaelbungay/international-f3000-and-us-open-wheel-racing-drivers You're given the driver's nationa...

Possibly of interest: the Burn Rubber package currently available at Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/burn-rubber?hmb_source=humble_home&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_2_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_burnrubber_bundle KartKraft alone would be ...

I'd take another 22 races of that, personally. Mercedes, with a slower car and a theoretically slower strategy, beat Red Bull today because they employ Lewis Hamilton. Had Max kept his head when he had to cede position to Lewis, either by picking a better place to do it or by not lobbing his car off...