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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awesome, thanks for the link
I just watched it for a few laps - but then I thought is this actually for real?
I mean compared to my memory of old days racing it looks a bit meh.:sleep:
But then I saw from the headline that it was some kind of 2022 "retro trackday" where the drivers (ofcourse) dont want to crash these old expensive gems.

CatsAreTheWorstDogs: Honestly when I still thought it was a real race I was just amazed of the good filming quality. No kidding :thumbsup:
 
the AI was a bit.. meh.
Haha but to the contrary of you I WAS fooled.

CatsAreTheWorstDogs: What really started my suspicion was not my memory of old grand prix races - but my memory of the movie about these cars - in the movie Grand Prix. With absolutely no meh meh ;)
 
I like to race what's going on in real life when I can, so this weekend it's ACC at Bathurst. I had a real bad week at work and I wanted to do something that would make that feeling continue through the weekend.
 
Just ran the Tatuus 60 at Portland via the Comp System with rF2. I am now officially one of the top 100 lappers there. lol. The competition system has stagnated somewhat, they really REALLY need to get driver rankings finally installed.
 

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