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    1. 2026 IMSA Rolex 24 at Daytona - Jan 24-25

      ~sports.motorsports Ask
      Thought I'd share, especially while many of us are still waiting for Formula 1. Schedule, starting grid, and other info. Starts today at 1:40p EST (18:40 UTC). Literally just started as of this...

      Thought I'd share, especially while many of us are still waiting for Formula 1.

      Schedule, starting grid, and other info.

      Starts today at 1:40p EST (18:40 UTC). Literally just started as of this post.

      In the US, I think it's on Peacock and NBC. Internationally (or with a VPN...) it can be viewed on YouTube.

      I don't watch a lot of endurance racing, but I do try to watch the 24hr races like Spa and Le Mans. I've yet to stay up a whole 24hrs, and I doubt this year's Rolex 24 will be different for me, but it's a fun little challenge!

      8 votes

    8. Nürburgring 24 Hours 2025 (June 19th to 22nd)

      ~sports.motorsports Ask
      Full Weekend Race Schedule Main event - Saturday June 21st: CEST/GMT+2 14:00 Gridwalk 15:40 Formation Lap 16:00 Race Start Track Information: 25.378 km combined circuit located in Nürburg, Germany...

      Full Weekend Race Schedule

      Main event - Saturday June 21st:
      CEST/GMT+2

      • 14:00 Gridwalk
      • 15:40 Formation Lap
      • 16:00 Race Start

      Track Information: 25.378 km combined circuit located in Nürburg, Germany

      Track Map

      Race Website

      Official Entry List

      Track Weather

      Spotters Guide

      Streaming/Radio

      ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring (YouTube) - Official ADAC race streams and many on-board streams available.

      Nürburgring (YouTube) - More official race streams/24h Classic race stream.

      GTWorld (YouTube)

      AutoAddiction (YouTube)

      Radio LeMans (English)

      Radio Nürburgring (German)

      Live Timing

      Azure Websites - Live Timing

      wige SOLUTIONS - Live Timing

      Will try to update info/links as the race goes on.

      9 votes

    10. The 2025 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans

      ~sports.motorsports Ask
      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      It's that time again for the greatest race of the year.

      Race Start:
      Saturday, 14 June 2025 - 16:00 CET (14:00 UTC)

      Qualification Results
      Position Class Number Driver Team Qualifying Hyperpole 1 Hyperpole 2
      1 Hypercar 12 Alex Lynn Cadillac Hertz Team Jota 03:22.8 03:23.6 03:23.2
      2 Hypercar 38 Earl Bamber Cadillac Hertz Team Jota 03:23.5 03:23.1 03:23.3
      3 Hypercar 5 Mathieu Jaminet Porsche Penske Motorsport 03:23.5 03:24.0 03:23.5
      4 Hypercar 15 Dries Vanthoor BMW M Team WRT 03:22.9 03:24.1 03:23.7
      5 Hypercar 4 Nick Tandy Porsche Penske Motorsport 03:24.6 03:23.5 03:24.0
      6 Hypercar 20 Sheldon van der Linde BMW M Team WRT 03:23.8 03:23.2 03:24.0
      7 Hypercar 30 Antonio Fuoco Ferrari AF Corse 03:23.5 03:23.3 03:24.2
      8 Hypercar 311 Felipe Drugovich Cadillac Whelen 03:23.9 03:22.7 03:24.4
      9 Hypercar 36 Frédéric Makowiecki Alpine Endurance Team 03:23.9 03:23.5 03:24.4
      10 Hypercar 8 Sébastien Buemi Toyota Gazoo Racing 03:24.0 03:23.5 No time
      11 Hypercar 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi Ferrari AF Corse 03:23.2 03:24.1
      12 Hypercar 35 Paul-Loup Chatin Alpine Endurance Team 03:24.7 03:24.2
      13 Hypercar 83 Yifei Ye AF Corse 03:24.0 03:24.3
      14 Hypercar 101 Ricky Taylor Cadillac WTR 03:24.0 03:24.8
      15 Hypercar 9 Marco Sørensen Aston Martin THOR Team 03:24.9 03:25.3
      16 Hypercar 7 Nyck de Vries Toyota Gazoo Racing 03:25.1
      17 Hypercar 94 Stoffel Vandoorne Peugeot TotalEnergies 03:25.2
      18 Hypercar 93 Jean-Éric Vergne Peugeot TotalEnergies 03:25.5
      19 Hypercar 99 Neel Jani Proton Competition 03:25.5
      20 Hypercar 7 Harry Tincknell Aston Martin THOR Team 03:26.3
      DSQ Hypercar 6 Kévin Estre Porsche Penske Motorsport 03:23.4
      22 LMP2 Pro-Am 29 Mathias Beche TDS Racing 03:36.2 03:35.9 03:35.1
      23 LMP2 43 Tom Dillmann Inter Europol Competition 03:37.0 03:34.7 03:35.3
      24 LMP2 Pro-Am 199 Louis Delétraz AO by TF 03:35.5 03:35.3 03:35.4
      25 LMP2 Pro-Am 23 Ben Hanley United Autosports 03:35.7 03:36.5 03:35.5
      26 LMP2 22 Pietro Fittipaldi United Autosports 03:36.5 03:35.5 03:35.6
      27 LMP2 37 Tom Blomqvist CLX – Pure Rxcing 03:37.7 03:36.4 03:36.2
      28 LMP2 Pro-Am 183 Matthieu Vaxivière AF Corse 03:37.4 03:36.3 03:37.0
      29 LMP2 Pro-Am 16 Ryan Cullen RLR MSport 03:37.1 03:36.5 03:38.9
      30 LMP2 28 Sebastián Álvarez IDEC Sport 03:37.0 03:36.7
      31 LMP2 Pro-Am 45 Nicky Catsburg Algarve Pro Racing 03:36.0 03:36.8
      32 LMP2 48 Franck Perera VDS Panis Racing 03:36.6 03:36.8
      33 LMP2 25 Lorenzo Fluxá Algarve Pro Racing 03:36.6 03:37.1
      34 LMP2 Pro-Am 11 Bent Viscaal Proton Competition 03:37.8
      35 LMP2 18 André Lotterer IDEC Sport 03:37.9
      36 LMP2 9 Reshad de Gerus Iron Lynx – Proton 03:38.5
      37 LMP2 Pro-Am 34 Luca Ghiotto Inter Europol Competition 03:39.3
      38 LMP2 Pro-Am 24 Colin Braun Nielsen Racing 03:40.3
      39 LMGT3 27 Mattia Drudi Heart of Racing Team 03:57.1 03:54.7 03:52.8
      40 LMGT3 21 Alessio Rovera Vista AF Corse 03:58.1 03:54.7 03:53.1
      41 LMGT3 46 Valentino Rossi Team WRT 03:56.9 03:54.3 03:55.0
      42 LMGT3 61 Maxime Martin Iron Lynx 03:58.7 03:54.7 03:55.0
      43 LMGT3 92 Richard Lietz Manthey 1st Phorm 03:57.3 03:54.7 03:55.1
      44 LMGT3 81 Rui Andrade TF Sport 03:57.7 03:54.6 03:55.7
      45 LMGT3 95 Marino Sato United Autosports 03:59.0 03:55.2 03:56.0
      46 LMGT3 78 Jack Hawksworth Akkodis ASP Team 03:57.3 03:54.9 04:03.7
      47 LMGT3 193 Chris Froggatt Ziggo Sport – Tempesta 03:58.0 03:55.9
      48 LMGT3 88 Giammarco Levorato Proton Competition 03:57.8 03:56.2
      49 LMGT3 59 Sébastien Baud United Autosports 03:58.1 03:56.2
      50 LMGT3 54 Francesco Castellacci Vista AF Corse 03:58.6
      51 LMGT3 77 Bernardo Sousa Proton Competition 03:59.0
      52 LMGT3 87 Răzvan Umbrărescu Akkodis ASP Team 03:59.0
      53 LMGT3 57 Takeshi Kimura Kessel Racing 03:59.1
      54 LMGT3 31 Yasser Shahin The Bend Team WRT 03:59.3
      55 LMGT3 10 Derek DeBoer Racing Spirit of Léman 03:59.5
      56 LMGT3 85 Célia Martin Iron Dames 04:00.0
      57 LMGT3 90 Andrew Gilbert Manthey 04:00.4
      58 LMGT3 13 Antares Au AWA Racing 04:01.1
      59 LMGT3 150 Custodio Toledo Richard Mille AF Corse No time
      60 LMGT3 33 Orey Fidani TF Sport No time
      61 LMGT3 60 Stephen Grove Iron Lynx No time
      62 LMGT3 63 Ben Keating Iron Lynx No time
      Finishing Results
      Finishing Positon Number Team Driver 1 Driver 2 Driver 3 Class STATUS LAPS Total Time Raced Gap To Previous Car
      1 83 AF Corse Robert KUBICA Yifei YE Philip HANSON HYPERCAR Classified 387 24:02:53.332
      2 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Kévin ESTRE Laurens VANTHOOR Matt CAMPBELL HYPERCAR Classified 387 24:03:07.416 14.084
      3 51 Ferrari AF Corse Alessandro PIER GUIDI James CALADO Antonio GIOVINAZZI HYPERCAR Classified 387 24:03:21.819 14.403
      4 50 Ferrari AF Corse Antonio FUOCO Nicklas NIELSEN Miguel MOLINA HYPERCAR Classified 387 24:03:22.998 1.179
      5 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA Will STEVENS Norman NATO Alex LYNN HYPERCAR Classified 387 24:05:11.971 1:48.973
      6 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Mike CONWAY Kamui KOBAYASHI Nyck DE VRIES HYPERCAR Classified 386 24:03:08.984 1 Laps
      7 5 Porsche Penske Motorsport Julien ANDLAUER Michael CHRISTENSEN Mathieu JAMINET HYPERCAR Classified 386 24:03:45.861 36.877
      8 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA Earl BAMBER Sébastien BOURDAIS Jenson BUTTON HYPERCAR Classified 386 24:04:30.532 44.671
      9 4 Porsche Penske Motorsport Felipe NASR Nick TANDY Pascal WEHRLEIN HYPERCAR Classified 386 24:05:28.957 58.425
      10 35 Alpine Endurance Team Paul-Loup CHATIN Ferdinand HABSBURG Charles MILESI HYPERCAR Classified 385 24:06:16.781 1 Laps
      11 36 Alpine Endurance Team Mick SCHUMACHER Frédéric MAKOWIECKI Jules GOUNON HYPERCAR Classified 384 24:03:37.826 1 Laps
      12 94 Peugeot TotalEnergies Loïc DUVAL Malthe JAKOBSEN Stoffel VANDOORNE HYPERCAR Classified 384 24:04:18.871 41.045
      13 009 Aston Martin Thor Team Alex RIBERAS Marco SORENSEN Roman DE ANGELIS HYPERCAR Classified 383 24:03:51.079 1 Laps
      14 99 Proton Competition Neel JANI Nicolas PINO Nicolas VARRONE HYPERCAR Classified 383 24:05:04.367 1:13.288
      15 007 Aston Martin Thor Team Harry TINCKNELL Tom GAMBLE Ross GUNN HYPERCAR Classified 381 24:02:56.333 2 Laps
      16 8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Sébastien BUEMI Brendon HARTLEY Ryo HIRAKAWA HYPERCAR Classified 380 24:05:28.156 1 Laps
      17 93 Peugeot TotalEnergies Paul DI RESTA Mikkel JENSEN Jean-Eric VERGNE HYPERCAR Classified 379 24:03:16.528 1 Laps
      18 20 BMW M Team WRT René RAST Robin FRIJNS Sheldon VAN DER LINDE HYPERCAR Classified 375 24:02:56.020 4 Laps
      19 43 Inter Europol Competition Jakub SMIECHOWSKI Tom DILLMANN Nick YELLOLY LMP2 Classified 367 24:04:09.023 8 Laps
      20 48 VDS Panis Racing Oliver GRAY Esteban MASSON Franck PERERA LMP2 Classified 367 24:06:04.776 1:55.753
      21 199 AO by TF PJ HYETT Dane CAMERON Louis DELETRAZ LMP2 Classified 366 24:05:56.819 1 Laps
      22 9 Iron Lynx - Proton Jonas RIED Maceo CAPIETTO Reshad DE GÉRUS LMP2 Classified 365 24:03:03.559 1 Laps
      23 29 TDS Racing Rodrigo SALES Mathias BECHE Clément NOVALAK LMP2 Classified 365 24:05:44.469 2:40.910
      24 11 Proton Competition Giorgio RODA Rene BINDER Bent VISCAAL LMP2 Classified 365 24:06:09.797 25.328
      25 22 United Autosports Renger VAN DER ZANDE Pietro FITTIPALDI David HEINEMEIER HANSSON LMP2 Classified 364 24:03:43.736 1 Laps
      26 25 Algarve Pro Racing Matthias KAISER Lorenzo FLUXA Théo POURCHAIRE LMP2 Classified 364 24:04:06.445 22.709
      27 183 AF Corse François PERRODO Matthieu VAXIVIERE Antonio FELIX DA COSTA LMP2 Classified 364 24:04:41.940 35.495
      28 34 Inter Europol Competition Nicholas BOULLE Jean-Baptiste SIMMENAUER Luca GHIOTTO LMP2 Classified 363 24:03:03.480 1 Laps
      29 23 United Autosports Daniel SCHNEIDER Oliver JARVIS Benjamin HANLEY LMP2 Classified 363 24:06:04.223 3:00.743
      30 16 RLR M Sport Michael JENSEN Ryan CULLEN Patrick PILET LMP2 Classified 362 24:02:54.768 1 Laps
      31 45 Algarve Pro Racing George KURTZ Nicky CATSBURG Alexander QUINN LMP2 Classified 362 24:04:06.381 1:11.613
      32 15 BMW M Team WRT Dries VANTHOOR Raffaele MARCIELLO Kevin MAGNUSSEN HYPERCAR Classified 361 24:04:22.255 1 Laps
      33 37 CLX - Pure Rxcing Aliaksandr MALYKHIN Tom BLOMQVIST Tristan VAUTIER LMP2 Classified 358 24:06:11.786 3 Laps
      34 92 Manthey 1ST Phorm Ryan HARDWICK Riccardo PERA Richard LIETZ LMGT3 Classified 341 24:03:22.925 17 Laps
      35 21 Vista AF Corse François HERIAU Simon MANN Alessio ROVERA LMGT3 Classified 341 24:03:56.184 33.259
      36 81 TF Sport Tom VAN ROMPUY Rui ANDRADE Charlie EASTWOOD LMGT3 Classified 341 24:04:34.635 38.451
      37 27 Heart of Racing Team Ian JAMES Mattia DRUDI Zacharie ROBICHON LMGT3 Classified 341 24:05:38.047 1:03.412
      38 87 Akkodis ASP Team Petru UMBRARESCU Jose Maria LOPEZ Clemens SCHMID LMGT3 Classified 340 24:02:57.829 1 Laps
      39 90 Manthey Antares AU Loek HARTOG Klaus BACHLER LMGT3 Classified 340 24:05:17.091 2:19.262
      40 33 TF Sport Ben KEATING Jonny EDGAR Daniel JUNCADELLA LMGT3 Classified 339 24:04:43.509 1 Laps
      41 57 Kessel Racing Takeshi KIMURA Daniel SERRA Casper STEVENSON LMGT3 Classified 339 24:05:03.870 20.361
      42 77 Proton Competition Bernardo SOUSA Ben TUCK Benjamin BARKER LMGT3 Classified 338 24:03:30.810 1 Laps
      43 13 AWA Racing Orey FIDANI Lars KERN Matthew BELL LMGT3 Classified 338 24:03:33.531 2.721
      44 150 Richard Mille AF Corse Custodio TOLEDO Lilou WADOUX Riccardo AGOSTINI LMGT3 Classified 338 24:05:03.140 1:29.609
      45 61 Iron Lynx Martin BERRY Lin HODENIUS Maxime MARTIN LMGT3 Classified 337 24:06:46.484 1 Laps
      46 10 Racing Spirit of Leman Derek DEBOER Valentin HASSE CLOT Eduardo BARRICHELLO LMGT3 Classified 336 24:03:05.865 1 Laps
      47 193 Ziggo Sport Tempesta Jonathan HUI Christopher FROGGATT Edward CHEEVER LMGT3 Classified 335 24:04:20.784 1 Laps
      48 63 Iron Lynx Stephen GROVE Brenton GROVE Luca STOLZ LMGT3 Classified 334 24:03:12.269 1 Laps
      49 85 Iron Dames Celia MARTIN Rahel FREY Sarah BOVY LMGT3 Classified 334 24:03:57.025 44.756
      50 59 United Autosports James COTTINGHAM Grégoire SAUCY Sébastien BAUD LMGT3 Not classified 314 22:52:42.255 20 Laps
      51 28 IDEC Sport Paul LAFARGUE Job VAN UITERT Sebastian ALVAREZ LMP2 Retired 308 20:18:29.995 6 Laps
      52 78 Akkodis ASP Team Arnold ROBIN Jack HAWKSWORTH Finn GEHRSITZ LMGT3 Retired 268 19:02:41.151 40 Laps
      53 311 Cadillac Whelen Jack AITKEN Felipe DRUGOVICH Frederik VESTI HYPERCAR Retired 247 16:00:31.169 21 Laps
      54 18 IDEC Sport Jamie CHADWICK Mathys JAUBERT André LOTTERER LMP2 Retired 206 13:34:12.511 41 Laps
      55 54 Vista AF Corse Thomas FLOHR Francesco CASTELLACCI Davide RIGON LMGT3 Retired 192 14:04:56.647 14 Laps
      56 101 Cadillac WTR Ricky TAYLOR Jordan TAYLOR Filipe ALBUQUERQUE HYPERCAR Retired 189 11:55:38.240 3 Laps
      57 24 Nielsen Racing Naveen RAO Cem BÖLÜKBASI Colin BRAUN LMP2 Retired 170 11:10:29.565 19 Laps
      58 31 The Bend Team WRT Yasser SHAHIN Timur BOGUSLAVSKIY Augusto FARFUS LMGT3 Retired 168 13:17:27.884 2 Laps
      59 46 Team WRT Ahmad AL HARTHY Valentino ROSSI Kelvin VAN DER LINDE LMGT3 Retired 156 11:02:28.095 12 Laps
      60 95 United Autosports Darren LEUNG Sean GELAEL Marino SATO LMGT3 Retired 80 5:35:58.499 76 Laps
      61 60 Iron Lynx Andrew GILBERT Lorcan HANAFIN Fran RUEDA LMGT3 Retired 57 6:05:02.685 23 Laps
      62 88 Proton Competition Stefano GATTUSO Giammarco LEVORATO Dennis OLSEN LMGT3 Retired 46 3:11:36.304 11 Laps
      18 votes

    16. Recommend me a racing/driving game on PC

      ~games Ask (recommendations)
      My parameters are Any kind of racing - F1, Moto GP, X games, rallycross, antigravity... you name it. No subscriptions I lean away from sim/management games... I don't mind some customization, but...

      My parameters are

      • Any kind of racing - F1, Moto GP, X games, rallycross, antigravity... you name it.
      • No subscriptions
      • I lean away from sim/management games... I don't mind some customization, but I don't want to have to choose from 10 different types of brake pads for best performance on each track.
      • Combat optional
      • If it makes a difference, I'll be playing with a controller, not a racing wheel.

      [Edit: I should have specified - a modern racing game. I'm pretty versed on the options pre-2010, it's the new stuff I'm looking for.]

      I originally wanted a rally game to scratch a hillclimb itch but I'm open to whatever now. Trawling through Steam has made my head spin though.

      Previous racing games/series I've played and liked - Rallisport Challenge (really, if I could just play this again I'd be set), Wipeout 3, Road Rash, Ridge Racer Type 4, Twisted Metal 2, Jet Moto, Wave Race, Mario Kart, Sled Storm... OutRun! Showing my age here.

      Somehow I've never really liked Need For Speed.

      22 votes

    26. Anyone watching the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend?

      ~sports.motorsports Ask (survey)
      I watch it every year, though it's not ideal to follow from the Pacific time zone of the United States. My daughter and I always get up super early on Sunday morning (6 AM) to watch the last hour...

      I watch it every year, though it's not ideal to follow from the Pacific time zone of the United States.

      My daughter and I always get up super early on Sunday morning (6 AM) to watch the last hour of the race. My dad has started coming over to our house to watch the last hour with us, too.

      14 votes

    28. Nürburgring 24 Hours (May 30th - June 2nd)

      ~sports.motorsports Ask
      Friday Qualifying 3: 13:30 - 14:45 CEST Top Qualifying: 17:30 - 19:15 CEST Saturday: Green Flag: 17:30 CEST, 11:30 EST, 15:30 GMT, 01:30 (Saturday) AEST Track Information: 25.378 km (15.770 miles)...

      Friday

      Qualifying 3: 13:30 - 14:45 CEST
      Top Qualifying: 17:30 - 19:15 CEST

      Saturday:

      Green Flag: 17:30 CEST, 11:30 EST, 15:30 GMT, 01:30 (Saturday) AEST

      Track Information: 25.378 km (15.770 miles) located in Nürburg, Germany

      Track Map

      Track Website

      Official Entry List

      Track Weather

      Spotters Guide

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      Streaming/TV/Radio

      ADAC TotalEnergies 24hNürburgring (YT Channel) - Official race streams and many on-board streams available.

      AutoAddiction (YT Channel)

      SpeedSport1 (US viewers)

      Radio LeMans Commentary (English)

      ----

      Live Timing

      Official 24h Rennen Live Timing

      Azure Websites - Live Timing

      wige SOLUTIONS - Live Timing

      ----

      Social Media

      Use the hashtags #24hNurburgring and #adacn242024 to get involved!

      /r/WEC for official race discussion threads

      9 votes

    34. Forza Motorsport

      ~games Ask
      The new Forza Motorsport has released to the masses as of today, and has been available to those who paid extra for premium upgrades and the like for about a week. I got it via Xbox Gamepass and...

      The new Forza Motorsport has released to the masses as of today, and has been available to those who paid extra for premium upgrades and the like for about a week. I got it via Xbox Gamepass and played about an hour of it this morning, and so far it feels like a nice return to form for the series, which hasn't seen a new non-Horizon edition since Forza Motorsport 7 in 2017.

      That game had some baggage with the card system/gambling mechanics, and I'm glad to see none of that thus far in the new Forza Motorsport - which, you may have noticed, has dropped the number. There's a feeling that Microsoft/Turn 10 may be aiming to make this something of a long-term platform play rather than just another game in the series.

      I'm enjoying it so far, and after playing Forza Horizon 4 and 5 a lot since FM7 came out, I'm glad to have the return to more traditional circuit racing, and absolutely do not miss the supremely annoying voiced characters from those games.

      The thing I most immediately noticed upon playing the game (besides the graphics, which are a real showcase for the Xbox Series X or a sufficiently beefy PC) is the new upgrade/tuning system, which requires you to actually spend time driving a specific car in order to unlock the various upgrade parts for it. You earn car points for doing things like clean racing and fast lap times, which you can then spend on upgrade parts between races. The game keeps calling those CP, which makes me think that nobody at Turn 10 has spent any time on the internet. An unfortunate acronym...

      I'm curious to know what everyone's opinion on this game is. I know a lot of the audience is turned off by the more sim-like/boring nature of the Forza Motorsport games versus the arcade fantasy for the Horizon games, but I'm very much on the FM side of that divide.

      14 votes

    39. Are there any other simracing enthusiasts?

      ~games Ask (survey)
      Hey all, I will admit, one thing I will miss about the other site is having the strong simracing community. Have any other sim racers made the jump? I told myself I wouldn’t buy another F1 game...

      Hey all,

      I will admit, one thing I will miss about the other site is having the strong simracing community. Have any other sim racers made the jump?

      I told myself I wouldn’t buy another F1 game (hell, I partially got a PC to keep F1 22 alive with mods), but F1 23 looks like it’s a huge step better. Maybe that will be my last F1 game, lol.

      Otherwise, I find myself really only playing Assetto Corsa. I know other games are better at one thing or another, but AC just seems to have the best all-around. I play single player almost exclusively, so I want a decent AI and also be able to race everywhere they do IRL. For example, I hear the indycars are better in Automobilista 2, but AC has all the track mods, and I’m honestly having fun using AI apps to fix any kind of AI dumbness that occurs. Same with WEC- AC probably isn’t the best physics, but I have all the cars and the tracks.

      Any other sim racers here?

      21 votes

    40. 24 Hours of Le Mans running right now

      ~sports.motorsports Ask (survey)
      The 24 hours of Le Mans is about 6 hours in! Anyone watching? Thoughts? Besides the hour-long safety car during the rain, it's been a lot of fun so far. It's my first year watching after getting...

      The 24 hours of Le Mans is about 6 hours in! Anyone watching? Thoughts?

      Besides the hour-long safety car during the rain, it's been a lot of fun so far. It's my first year watching after getting into F1 and Indycar in the past few years and I'm having a blast.

      19 votes

    42. Racing / driving games: What do they get right? What do they miss?

      ~games Ask (survey)
      I was playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with my kid the other day and it was a blast. Nintendo have really nailed this game, especially in the balance of accessible enough for beginners to have fun but...

      I was playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with my kid the other day and it was a blast. Nintendo have really nailed this game, especially in the balance of accessible enough for beginners to have fun but hard enough for people to have a challenge too.

      My other favourite game (although I haven't played it for a while) is Sega Rally Championship on Sega Saturn. This game has 4 tracks (one of which needs to be unlocked) and 3 cars (and again, one of these needs to be unlocked). The tiny number of cars and tracks means that you get to do the same corners over and over. This might sound tedious, but when you hit the corner just right you know it. You can get a sense of mastery over it. I've spent many hours playing games in the Gran Turismo series, and I really enjoy them, but fair play some of the tracks and cars are just shovelled into the game and you don't spend much time with them

      In the first Gran Turismo the licensing tests were properly hard. They weren't messing around. Getting bronze requires people to read the manual and understand what the point of the test is. Getting all gold is an actual challenge for experienced players. I feel like the tests (at least, the bronze levels) got easier in later games. The UK soundtrack was small but pretty good.

      My final mention is the Burnout series. I loved the crash junctions. I'm not sure the open world of Paradise was fun - it meant spending a lot of time driving across a map to get to the start line of various events. I feel the same way about many games - I'd rather just have a menu of levels and what I need to do to complete them (GoldenEye, SNES PilotWings, BlastCorps are all good examples) than have this stuff obscured by the open world. Burnout on the Nintendo DS was a genuinely awful game. I think Burnout Dominator was my favourite in the series.

      So, what do driving games get right? What do they miss? What interesting game mechanics do you enjoy?

      7 votes

    43. Does anybody have advice for getting better at racing sims? (Both circuit and rally)

      ~games Ask (advice)
      I’ve always enjoyed rally games but only recently decided to buy a wheel (just a used Logitech G29) and also decided to give F1 22 a shot. I feel like I’m okay-ish at DiRT Rally 2.0 and WRC 10 but...

      I’ve always enjoyed rally games but only recently decided to buy a wheel (just a used Logitech G29) and also decided to give F1 22 a shot. I feel like I’m okay-ish at DiRT Rally 2.0 and WRC 10 but atrocious at F1 22. How do I actually learn to be better instead of constantly making mistakes?

      9 votes