Motorsports

[Hauskaz]

This should probably belong in vehicles I guess but I'm specifically referring to motorsports rather than cars themselves.

I guess like Mohamdu's become obsessed with golf, I've been starting to follow motorsports a fair deal these past few months, particularly eSports since the real thing hasn't been able to exist since March. I stayed up to watch the fucking 24 Heures du Mans Virtual and loved every moment of it.



Having gotten into Gran Turismo Sport pretty seriously during quarantine and actually getting pretty respectable at it it's entertaining to watch the top real and virtual drivers go at it for a full 24 simulated hours, making plays or defending positions, managing fuel strategy, and watching LMP2 cars deal with GTE traffic. Circuit de la Sarthe is also an interesting as fuck track to both race and watch, with the absurd Mulsanne Straight requiring draft partners and good fuel strategy ending in the corner with a kink before it fucking up your braking zone and requiring careful trail braking to navigate. Indianapolis is also cool as shit because it requires you to enter the first turn on the outside in order to gain access to the inside on the second turn to make a pass while also requiring a lot of the same care as the Mulsanne Corner. It's just cool watching the pros tear it up. Weirdly enough though I've also been catching the virtual F1 series but couldn't really get into it, F1 and open wheel racing other than kart racing has just never interested me all that much for some reason, I can't really explain why.

Oh and Alonso's a retard for running out of fuel in the pit lane rofl

[Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers]

Honestly if there's one thing I think this pandemic has done, it's made people appreciate sports a lot more. With literally no kinds of sports to watch it made me get interested in something I usually wouldn't. All those scenes of Jordan smoking cigars while wearing berets on the golf course in between NBA matches probably helped. It made me get into watching sports documentaries a lot, I have an ESPN 30 for 30 folder that's over 120 GB now. I had no idea they were doing this virtual race thing to replace actual in real life motorsports. Another thing is just how weird the phenomenon of professional sports being played with no fans in the audience.



Apparently my brother stayed up at night to watch some baseball match in Taiwan where they put stuffed animals in the stands.

[Hauskaz]

That's pretty fucking hilarious, and yeah a lot of real motorsports like F1, Le Mans, GT, etc. have had a fantastic transition to virtual racing, helped a lot by the fact sim racing in general is already a super robust and well structured environment with plenty of accurate simulators to choose from and the built in infrastructure to easily broadcast them live, because let's be honest watching a bunch of NFL players play Madden or some shit would be fucking retarded. Sitting in a chair with a force feedback steering wheel and pedal set in front of you gets you pretty close to the real thing without much investment and translates a lot better than a lot of other real sports that involve actually moving around or throwing shit or whatever. It's even better if you have a VR headset and can look into corners and check blind spots and whatnot.