What Are You Racing This Weekend?

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With so many sims offering new or improved content in recent weeks, we want to hear where you are currently spending your sim racing time.

The amount of high-quality sim racing content we have available to us currently could almost be seen as an embarrassment of riches. There isn't enough time in most of our lives to learn and enjoy the abundance of content that we're presented with in our shared hobby.

Continuing our Have Your Say series, we want to hear what content has risen above the rest for you. Amidst the seemingly limitless options, where are you spending your sim racing time these days?

Here are some, though of course not all, of the content options currently grabbing headlines in the sim racing community:

rFactor 2's BTCC

The British Touring Car Championship was supposed to come to us in the form of a complete game, but what we got instead was a DLC offering for rFactor 2. And it is fantastic. Studio 397 seems to have captured the wheel-to-wheel, curb-launching appeal of the series with just two cars and two new tracks.

Automobilista 2's Improved GT and Prototype Cars

Two years after launch, Reiza Studios is still hard at work bring significant updates to AMS2. Among the changes brought to the sim in version 1.3.6.1 were noticeable updates to the tire feel in many of the more popular car classes in the title. GT3, GT4, Porsche Cup and DPi were among the cars affected by these changes, and the community response has been overwhelmingly positive.

Assetto Corsa's Miami International Autodrome

The perpetual stream of content for Assetto Corsa gives us the opportunity to drive the latest cars and tracks making headlines in the real world of motorsport. This was evident recently as RaceDepartment member Pyyer released and updated the Miami International Autodrome Assetto Corsa mod to mirror the real F1 action this past weekend.

Let us know on Twitter @RaceDepartment or in the comments below where you are choosing to spend the majority of your sim racing time this weekend. Whether it's any of the above options, other new cars or tracks, or older sim racing content.
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Mike Smith
I have been obsessed with sim racing and racing games since the 1980's. My first taste of live auto racing was in 1988, and I couldn't get enough ever since. Lead writer for RaceDepartment, and owner of SimRacing604 and its YouTube channel. Favourite sims include Assetto Corsa Competizione, Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, Automobilista 2, DiRT Rally 2 - On Twitter as @simracing604

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Not much as I’m in the middle of decorating my home. The only thing I’m going to do is to do a test drive in AC and deleting all the, bad made, unfinished and shimmer tracks I have collected over the years. While for the cars I, thanks to an tip from Mascot, also going to delete never used or non historical fantasy skins from the car mods.
 
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Probably my hand over my wife's bottom...

Hopefully... LOL
If someone is overtaking you.... something is wrong. ;)

PS. This is just a goldmine. Mind just wanders.... "online"... "slipstream"... So many wrong associations. And so many very right ones. Thanks, Daniel.

PSS. rF2 BTCC @ Laguna Seca
 
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ACCSS Championship Series #13, round04, Bronze split, GT3s @ Laguna Seca, using the M4 this season. In game time is set to 22.00 so it's going to be dark on track.
 
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As I don't know yet which track we will be racing on next Wednesday's AC Club race, because our host @HF2000 is on vacation (lucky him!) I think I'll have some FM7 career or online race, or some casual multiplayer on PC2 or AC, or next championship race in ACC. Actually, I don't even know where to start from!
Just got back. Probably Catalunya because of the next F1 race there. Not yet decided for a multiclass with Audi TT/Mazda MX5 or monoclass with Abarth 500/Mazda MX5.
 
I can tell you what I will never drive this weekend and that is the Miami track. I spent about 15 minutes with it and deleted the folder.
 
AMS2, ACC maybe a bit of PC2.....oh and I always pull alongside other trucks at lights for the slowest drag races known to mankind in American Truck Sim and Euro Truck Sim 2!!! Oh and racing the Jackdaw around sinking ships! (Arrrrrrrrr!)
 
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rF2 BTCC - it feel so good to finally get something other than GT3/GTE/LMP. I've been wanting to have a good FWD car in rf2 for a long time.
 
My new Freightliner Cascadia sleeper cab, probably. I've got a combine that needs to go to the Nevada/Utah border. And I'm already behind thanks to an accident detour that put me though Las Vegas...
(Do you think truck drivers play bond investing sims in their off-time?)
 

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