So, our little group of misfits has been half-arsed following the IMSA season, so I spent what time I had Saturday prepping for, and Sunday racing, 51 laps at Laguna Seca. Wasn't too sure if I was going to drive the Proto-H or my beloved Oreca LMP2 dragon, in the end I went with the Acura ARX-05. That went okay, had pretty smooth sailing for myself, elsewhere in the field there was some PH on P2 crime and quite a five-way GT3 Porsche brawl, but I esaped all of that.
Then last night, had a little time to go back to the Grand Prix cars in Retro Racers. After spending a few hours driving modern prototypes with massive downforce, incredible grip, retina-separating brakes, and silly amounts of turn-in, that...did not go well. I have driven them before but really had a tough time re-adjusting to the old things that require a lot more gentle coaxing around. There were many crashes, I was killed a few times over. Race one at Brands Hatch was just a disaster. But we got through it and by Watkins I had wrapped my head around it again and had a pretty good race.
Amateur tip on the old GP cars- unlike most race cars in FM23, these guys are almost universally set up with very soft springs and with basically zero ground clearance- they're squirrelly already by nature and the constant bottoming adds yet more unpredictability into things. Fix that and they become merely terrifying to drive rather than some horrifically pschycopathic and schizophrenic nightmare.
