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Written by Mike Channell
It"s good to have a friend you can rely on. It"s particularly good when that friend is a purveyor of fine automobiles from the North of Italy. That"s the reason why a handful of Italian game development garagistas called Kunos Simulazioni managed to secure the notoriously elusive Ferrari license for their PC racing simulator Assetto Corsa. And from April 22nd, owners of TV-bound game boxes can join in the fun too.For those not versed in la lingua, Assetto Corsa is Italian for racing setup and the game is exactly that; it"s as stripped back as a competition cockpit. This isn"t a flowery tale of going from karting hotshoe to bionic world champion, this is a meticulously picked selection of iconic cars and a brace of centimetre-perfect stretches of famous tarmac on which to thrash them.That"s if they don"t thrash you first. Kunos is particularly proud of the inclusion of the Ferrari FXXK, the 1036bhp track-only physics experiment based on the LaFerrari. Given that there will only ever be 40 of them and that they"re 2.5m a pop, this is almost certainly the closest you"ll ever get to driving one. Well, unless you"re a billionaire oligarch, in which case can we borrow a tenner?
Date written: 20 Jan 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 1778
It"s good to have a friend you can rely on. It"s particularly good when that friend is a purveyor of fine automobiles from the North of Italy. That"s the reason why a handful of Italian game development garagistas called Kunos Simulazioni managed to secure the notoriously elusive Ferrari license for their PC racing simulator Assetto Corsa. And from April 22nd, owners of TV-bound game boxes can join in the fun too.For those not versed in la lingua, Assetto Corsa is Italian for racing setup and the game is exactly that; it"s as stripped back as a competition cockpit. This isn"t a flowery tale of going from karting hotshoe to bionic world champion, this is a meticulously picked selection of iconic cars and a brace of centimetre-perfect stretches of famous tarmac on which to thrash them.That"s if they don"t thrash you first. Kunos is particularly proud of the inclusion of the Ferrari FXXK, the 1036bhp track-only physics experiment based on the LaFerrari. Given that there will only ever be 40 of them and that they"re 2.5m a pop, this is almost certainly the closest you"ll ever get to driving one. Well, unless you"re a billionaire oligarch, in which case can we borrow a tenner?
Date written: 20 Jan 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 1778
