Digital Sportspage

Now available on Game Pass and EA Play for those who successfully waited it out. My impressions of this haven't changed a jot since I last posted - still Codies F1, still very much an iterative release, still a blast.

Yep, enjoyed that. I'm not sure how much the new rules contributed to the Leclerc/Verstappen dice - that first sector has historically been good for racing - but the midfield cars definitely seemed to be following more closely and putting themselves in play for moves that weren't possible before. It...

My TV tray says hi. I'm not convinced I'd ever leave that seat. One day... So the thought of trying to go back to a controller and a single screen sort of terrifies me. I'll probably give Gran Turismo 7 a spin here in the coming days, but not expecting much at all compared to what I get from iRacing...

John, you're meant to be driving on the black ribbons, mate, not from the black tees...:

I have a number of thoughts on GRID Legends, some of which jive with Paul's exactly. I'm on Series X for this one and it is indeed a fantastically pretty thing. Codemasters was starting from a high base here, with GRID 2019 being a thoroughly good looking game, and what you get here is essentially a...

What an unusually clean race they gave us at St Pete. I would very happily watch Scott McLaughlin do a lot more of that. What a wonderfully executed weekend's work, particularly during that opening stint where his reds lasted longer than everyone else's while also travelling faster. Palou continues ...

It would be a blessing if FOX turned down the volume on Clint Bowyer. What a circus clown. If I heard him say, "Dang it," one more time when a driver crashed, I think I was going to pull an Elvis and shoot my TV. I've only seen clips on YouTube, because I don't want to subscribe to the station that...

Happy F1 livery launch season, chaps! Aston Martin, or Matt Bishop at least, seem to be suggesting that their launch is going to feature something that resembles their actual car, rather than the FIA's mock-up from last year with a new lick of paint applied. We shall see, though whatever they launch...

It isn't every day that Hartlepool United lose a celebrity fan, largely because we only had three to start with. Here, Meat Loaf explains the events that took him from being unaware of our existence to having the Hartlepool Mail insist he was looking to buy property in the town: https://twitter.com/...

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Sun Dec 12, 2021 10:46 pm

I still can't quite process what I saw this morning enough to write a semi-cogent post. Insanity.

Fairly sure that makes two of us. Only one of us was daft enough to try anyway.

10 hours down the line and I'm still apoplectic. What message does it send when you remove the lapped traffic between 1st and 2nd, but leave the bloke in 3rd parked behind backmarkers so that no matter how well he restarts, he's got no chance of having a run at the cars in front? Why, if you were so...

Quick take: that's some steaming hot, farm-fresh, hugely odorous bullshit.

Chris could, had he wished, have also referred back to the penalties Norris and Perez took in Austria, when it appeared that attempting to pass on the outside was actually the golden ticket that would get your opponent penalised without question. It baffles me somewhat that Masi's decision making in...

Today I learned that making a conscious decision not to turn into a corner, thus forcing your rival to drive so far off the track he had to pay to be readmitted, falls under "let them race". At some point in the future, perhaps I'll also learn why it's taken two days for the on-board from Max's car ...

I haven't checked the rota, so apologies if it's not my turn this year: thank goodness NASCAR's obsession with "game seven moments" and bloody stupid scoring systems only threatened to deprive Larson of this year's championship, rather than actually doing so.

Are you guys playing on quality or performance mode? I haven't switched it from performance mode because I love the smooth 60fps. But, I am curious how much better this game looks (if it even can) on quality mode. Quality mode. It's absolutely jaw-dropping at times and, while I haven't tried Perfor...

Ha! Yeah, I've started thinking about exactly how it's going to look if I want to run a couple of routes on OMSI 2...shipping has been delayed twice but hopefully on Monday, the world's most inappropriately-equipped bus driver will hit the streets of Berlin. NASCAR 21: Ignition has made its way to m...

Of course the next thought it "if it's this much better with a belt-driven wheel, how great would a direct drive be?!?" I'm a few days away from mounting a direct drive wheel to a small folding table and I'm childishly excited. Will do my very best not to sell the idea to you too aggressively. The ...

Has anyone tried Circuit Superstars? Buy now, or wait for a patch? I’ve read the controls are twitchy on Xbox. I've had it for a couple of months on PC, not on XBox, and there's no twitchiness there either. There's a particular car behaviour that could possibly be mistaken for twitchiness, though, ...

I'm not sure what to make of Ed Jones inviting me to believe that he hit Pato because the traffic in front of him stacked up. I'm almost impressed that he's got the guts to try and make that one stick, though he's got a better chance there than he ever had of that pass sticking, so I suppose he may ...

"PS5 And Xbox Series X, Including The Halo Bundle, Will Be Up Restocked At Walmart Today 9PM EST" https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps5-and-xbox-series-x-including-the-halo-bundle-will-be-up-restocked-at-walmart-today/1100-6496470/ Ha. Bots gobbled up stock within seconds. Seriously. At least the B...

Spare a thought for Alex Albon, currently in an Italian hotel room contemplating a 'filming day' spent trying to land a 2019 Red Bull on a crash test dummy's head. I continue to be surprised, no matter how much I know these people are hard-wired this way, by how many racing drivers can see no issue ...

I may have bought F1 2021. For those who entered the sweepstake, the winning entry is "the last weekend of August". In my defence, it had been very lightly discounted. You already know whether or not you're going to like this. If for any reason you're unsure, there are free trials available now in t...

I have only limited experience of WRC10 so far but have a few brief impressions of the PS5 edition: - While we remain very firmly in 'evolution, not revolution' territory, there's no escaping the improvements to the handling. The general feel of it will be instantly familiar but it's easier to get t...

Let me sum up the notes I've taken, just to make sure I'm understanding this right: This race will last for 44 laps, unless it's a 39 lap race, which it might be because the FIA are deducting laps from the distance. They shouldn't be because the race hasn't started, unless it has, which they don't t...