mantasisg
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I don't know what this post is about. It is either about how great is this car, or about how great is Sam Hancock.
Sam Hancock is my favorite cars person on youtube. Hundred percent real and on point, very classy guy, drives the cars very well and takes them up close to limits. Always shows some of most interesting cars ever built. Is good and nice at describing how cars feel and what they do. Highest class content.
This Maserati is easily in top ten or perhaps top five of cars from 1950s. Makes me think, what a lost decade in simracing it is... a lot of most pure drivers cars ever built were in 50s. Treat them with a little bit better tires, brakes, oil, fuel, filters, chassis and various suspension modifications while still preserving their original 50s essence and they drive superbly and perform amazingly. For example, Jenson Button/Alex Buncombe with early 50s Ctype did low 1'27 lap in qualification in 2025 Goodwood Revival, such pace could have made them competitive racing there in early 60s against Etypes and 250GTOs, so given some changeable parts 50s cars were similarly awesome as early to mid 60s touring/GT race cars. Even with "poor" tires, brakes, lesser power and some other lesser bits, 50s race cars are still lovely and very interesting.
Here is a beautiful race, and Sam Hancock also was there and won 2nd place
I am thinking about doing this 300s in rF2. I have made up to decent level 250F in rF2, and this one has the DNA, so it would make it quicker project. I remember when I had to make Ferrari 750 Monza physics, and I already had good 375Plus physics, it made the work very fast, and the results were very good (just had to have some tricky Engine reconfiguring, thanks to M.B. for help then).
I have been messing around with 300sl of SSSSGarage GTRevival for my own, I had its 1954 physics. I have been making its "60s" physics, I have learned that it definitely could have been made to be "almost" competitive against Etypes, Cobras, and 250s GTO, it could have been competitive against 250 SWB and DB4 (most amazign cars btw). 300SLR surely could have been continued on development and modified and made to race competitively against Cobras, 250GTO, Etypes, Mustangs, maybe Bizzarrini before those got developed way further in later 60s. Did you know fastest 289 Mustang did over 290km/h in late 60s ? Yes, that big brick.
Some of 50s cars probably also could have still handled even bigger tires, and some delicate aero modifications together with some chassis modifications, not saying to be competitive, but to get a lot faster still. So I think it is fair to put GT/Touring cars from 1950-1965 under single brackets.
Why 50s are so behind in simracing, I have no idea. Maybe because of 50s low advertising value and purity. You know well, you are always being advertised something, and some people are perhaps too trained to have to be advertised something and without it, life just feels wrong. Not without a reason liveries is such a big deal in simracing, probably more important than physics as it gets more gamified, replicating every sticker boosts up immersion and is almost a simulation of hunting for sponsorships, which is what modern racing is all about, look at F1 for Ferrari it is probably more profitable to fail as long as it leads it to being mentioned more in the media and grab more attention. I have seen one nascar lady in instagram, her whole thing is about how she attracts money to be able to race, not about racing. Perhaps advertising, consuming is not the end of the world, maybe even good or great thing, till it starts having perverse influence and control over your choices and attitude, leading to extermination of things that you like, because it just might be less advertisable, too pure and all concentrated only about itself - such as a race car just being a race car.
To me the very fact that there is no pushback of extreme overload of modern content, simulations that focus purely on just modern racing is perverse. People almost resisting to have any interest in good old 50s and 60s , barely any interest in 70s which were already heavily modern, is, in my personal opinion, completely perverse to what should naturally be happening judging by common sense if we assume that simracing was about simulating driving cars more than simulating just act of racing, names, brands, locations, stories, things... cosplaying reality hahahahaha