I Won a Thing! 🏁

The guys over at Mutiny Motorsport are celebrating the 1 year anniversary since their inception, and to mark the event the guys decided to organise a charity race at the famed Watkins Glen circuit in upstate New York. MM is a growing community on the fairly niche sim Automobilista 2 or AMS2 for short, I've raced a couple of seasons with them now and you would struggle to find a more welcoming bunch.

Thank you TTAR for the poster!

I've never felt completely comfortable on AMS2 although its a sim that I really want to enjoy to its fullest, I struggle to describe it but its almost as if the cars feel a little floaty compared to other titles. That being said I think it is absolutely excellent at simulating older formula cars and that's where it can really shine, add on the fact that it has a good number of official historic versions of famous race tracks and you've definitely something worth investing in.

For the anniversary race we were running the Formula Retro Gen2 cars which are based on late 1970s F1 cars, a time where aerodynamics were really kicking off with ground affect becoming the new fashion. Going off a few pictures I'd say they are copies of the 1979 Shadow DN9, and these things were crazy fun to race with. 

Every now and again you just have a car/track combo that you really gel with and this was certainly mine. Normally I can't really keep up with the fastest guys in MM (not without making lots of mistakes anyway) but I felt right at home lapping the Glen with this machine.

The charity that the community voted to support was the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which is a global organisation set up to protect marine wildlife and our ocean ecosystems. Former F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel famously promoted this charity by wearing the "act now or swim later" shirt at the 2020 Miami GP and now lists it on his website where €30 from each shirt sold is donated to Sea Shepherd. We managed to raise $269, which I don't think is bad at all considering that it was only a small group of us driving pretend race cars. Thank you to everyone that donated, raced and the admins at MM for organising the event and for the t-shirt, it was a pleasure to take part in as always.

I've always thought of myself more of a winter person but these past few have got me questioning that, luckily today it seemed as though the sun had raised high up enough to be noticeable and that finally, spring is close. It's like I get to mid January and I just shut down, and while that is not unheard of for many people I don't like how it can affect me so much, and how as a result effect others in close proximity to me. I've basically had this album on repeat for the past god knows how many weeks, "Northern Attitude" is the first track but I would highly recommend listening to the whole Stick Season album if you have a spare hour, its a banger and highly relatable.