I don't know if you guys got a tweet from Stefano a couple of days ago about joining him and Luca on the track for some racing action. Gergo (pankykapus) ended up joining in the fun too. Sadly, I was in a car when I got the message and I wouldn't be home in time to jump in. Luca was testing something to do with the Oculus Rift. Stefano was streaming normally while Luca was streaming the VR view.
Stefano's YouTube page has the full 2 hours available for viewing. Luca does too, I believe, but I didn't watch any of it. Anyway, the reason I'm posting the video here is so you can watch our fearless leader transform Turn 1 at Zandvoort into one giant cluster-🤬!!
Oh, I was laughing... I only watched a couple of laps and then I skipped to the next race at Vallelunga where Stefano became a victim at Cimini 1 on the first lap. That's basically the first real turn after the highspeed leaners following the starting line. I wish I understood Italian.
Skip to 15:30 if you want to start from when Stefano first gets on track to do a few warm-up laps and then the race begins. I'm too lazy to look exactly where the 2nd race begins, but you'll see they switched to 911 GT3 Cup cars from the 911 Carrera RSR 3.0 they ran in the first race.
How good is Fat-Alfie at designing and building tracks? Hot damn! If I'm not mistaken, Bilster Berg was his first AC mod attempt. While it's not a track with a lot of buildings and/or trackside objects, but the track has a butt-load of elevation changes and twists & turns for a 4 km track, in my opinion. It's no wonder someone made him an offer on the track.
This Thompson Road circuit is like the complete opposite of Bilster Berg. A ton of vegetation and trackside objects. One object that is harder to make look real than you'd think are trackside advertising signs. The kind that he has at the hairpin turn midway through the track. I don't know if they're supposed to be vinyl or whatever, but too often the signs are just too flat and squared perfectly. He expertly adds in some droop when necessary and he models the signs to have slight deformations and it adds life to something as mundane as a Bosch Spark Plugs trackside sign. Thompson Road has a ton of 'em too.
He has another track coming out. German. He gave me a very early build to look for bugs and see if the road felt good - I haven't really seen it in a long time, I'm sure it'll blow my mind just like his first two track have.
Seriously. I really, really hope we get a Ferrari Testarossa so our Countach's have a buddy to play with. 👍
You'll probably notice I have Simulation_Value set to 4 right now. As I get more used to V10 tires on all the cars, I'll probably go up to a 5...maybe 6 but definitely not higher. That's just too much for me to handle.
