Forza Petit Le Mans early sign-up post!

"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
07/21/2015 at 10:52 • Filed to: fourza, forza 6, forza

Let me start off by saying that this race will be quite a bit different from anything we’ve done so far, as it will be held not only over two different consoles, but also across two different games .

Considering that Forza 6 comes out just two weeks before the Petit Le Mans, what better way to celebrate than with our own Petit-Petit Le Mans? Of course, I don’t want to leave out those of you who won’t be buying the new game, so Forza 4 will also host the same race, hopefully at the same time. The way this will work is that we will have four different classes of competition, which I have so cleverly decided to name LMP6, GT6, LMP4, and GT4. Oddly enough, however, I expect LMP4 and GT4 to be faster than their next-gen counterparts. This is because, with Forza 6’s dynamic weather, we will run according to the actual weather of the real-life race, (and hopefully we’ll be able to set it to turn to night time for the last few minutes) while the Forza 4 race will be sunny and dry the whole time.

Here are a couple of polls to decide exactly how it will work:

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That’s about all for right now. I’ll post this and other updates periodically for the next two-ish months leading up to the race. Hope to see you there!

DISCUSSION (3)

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > Rainbow
07/21/2015 at 11:28

Damn, that’s an ambitious undertaking, lol. Who’s the masochistic SOB that voted for the full 10 hour race???? Who the hell has that kind of free time?

Rainbow > Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy
07/21/2015 at 12:07

I have to admit, though, I’d love to do the 10-hour race if there was a way for us to all be together in the same building, and on teams of two with a required driver change at least once during each five-hour leg.

But if it’s just me spending my entire day sitting on the edge of my bed, eh. I’d still love to do it just for the fact that we could probably get some real media coverage. Not just on the FP, but I’m sure at least one of us could get the local news to show some of the Twitch stream. Plus I’m sure that would be some sort of world record, which would be neat.

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > Rainbow
07/21/2015 at 15:01

Yea, that would be awesome if we were able to pull off something like that. We’d need to have real sim setups too though, not just using the dinky little controller. I’m talking full 3 monitor screens, wheels, pedals, harnessed in to a racing bucket.

And if we want to get really authentic, maybe even make everyone who’s “driving” wear a full helmet/HANS device and a fire suit?

Somebody needs to call up Microsoft and Turn 10 and see if they’ll sponsor this thing, lol.