Assetto Corsa Competizione: Audi R8 LMS EVO Preview

Paul Jeffrey · Oct 17, 2019

Continuing the Assetto Corsa Competizione 2019 season update previews, next up we have the rather striking Audi R8 LMS EVO...

Before getting into the article, I want to go ever so slightly off topic for a moment or two and talk in general terms about GT3 racing cars. I'm a fan of closed top GT racing, have been since the good old GT1 / LG Super Racing Weekend days of the early to mid 2000's.

Thanks to the ever increasing exposure of GT3 and series like the Blancpain GT Series, both trackside viewing and various news outlets and TV / internet broadcasts, it is easy for one to become a little blase about the sheer variety and style of the current generation of GT3 specification machinery.

Seeing them regularly but never really noticing them properly, I've found it rather cool indeed to study these latest Assetto Corsa Competizione preview images from the impending 2019 season update - and realising all over again just how thoroughly stunning the new cars actually look.

Aggressive, sturdy, racy, dramatic.. whatever you want to use to describe them, it's probably fair to say that many of the racing public find these exceptional cars as beautiful to behold as much as the drivers enjoy racing them throughout the world.

Take the Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO previewed at the head of this article for example. The road going R8 is a nice machine for sure, but just look how sweet the racing version looks! Folks, take a moment to savour what we have here.. GT3 racing is awesome.

Assetto Corsa Competizione is available now on PC.

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Proto 3.0 · Oct 18, 2019

coming soon....

ExA_Lupo · Oct 18, 2019

Kriss047 said:
Nice, will we see Porsche 911 GT3 R 2019 soon?

I hope

Terry Rock · Oct 18, 2019

Audi is the brand I look forward to most in simracing but for some yet to be determined reason, I can't seem to get them around corners.
Hopefully this one will break that trend.
It is one nice-lookin' piece of kit.

Corey Rogers · Oct 19, 2019

The Audi is so gorgeous!!!!

Now I'm excited for the DLC update.

Brendan24 · Oct 19, 2019

MPortnoy said:
I wouldn't particularly call a 30 car grid small.
I don't understand tho how not having a 60 car grid is a make it or break it kinda thing.
I mean, I do understand the appeal of doing a very long offline race at Spa every once in a while with 60 cars but that's not all ACC is about.
I'd say most people do 1hr races tops most of the time. If you're able to pass 30 cars in 1hr then there's something wrong with your AI difficulty level
In rF2 you can do multiclass races, in which case I can justify bigger grids.

Didn't have a chance to reply to this until now, but small maybe wasn't the right wording. More so that it just isn't an accurate representation of the grid size in a real Blancpain Endurance race. I also never said it was a make or break thing, I do still drive ACC every now and then. It'd just be nice to see at least 35-40 cars to bring it closer in line with reality. Plus sometimes it's just fun to start at the back of a 60 car grid and see how far up you can make it.

Serge.M · Oct 19, 2019

Brendan24 said:
Didn't have a chance to reply to this until now, but small maybe wasn't the right wording. More so that it just isn't an accurate representation of the grid size in a real Blancpain Endurance race. I also never said it was a make or break thing, I do still drive ACC every now and then. It'd just be nice to see at least 35-40 cars to bring it closer in line with reality. Plus sometimes it's just fun to start at the back of a 60 car grid and see how far up you can make it.

My personal opinion is one way or another it will happen at Spa at least, more likely for MP rather then SP. the pit boxes are all there, just need to enable them.

Will possibly be an “experimental feature”