Hi....glad to be on board

I'm a very keen virtual and real racing fan of the more mature variety (53) and have been racing on PC since the early 90's with many, many happy hours spent on the likes of Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix series (1 through 4) all the Indycar and Nascar sims from Papyrus and ultimately the best of them all Grand Prix Legends.. the Daddy of all sims in my book. After a hiatus from the virtual racing world for personal reasons I was brought back into it with my first ever console (Xbox 360) bought for me by my wife specifically for F1 2010 (my PC could no longer handle the current sims at that point in time) and I spent the next 5 years and many hundreds of hours on each racing mainly this series both offline and in an organised league amongst a great community of racers. Race Pro and latterly Grid Autosport (more arcadish but a lot of fun) also took their place in my racing resume adding some great fun in the different forms of racing they brought to the fore. The advent of Project Cars in May of last year (2015) pushed me towards the next gen console (staying with the Xbox) and that has been my main focus for the past 7 months. F1 2015 has also been in my drive since it's release in July but much less than in previous years due to the addictive nature and challenge of all that Project Cars entails. Next up of course is Assetto Corsa but it will take something very special to knock the SMS offering off the top of my hit list.


I'm really pleased to see a site like this put together and applaud Inthebagbud for the great initiative. I love the idea of the fortnightly Time Trial competition which should be a lot of fun, bringing back memories of my early days on F1 2010 where that was the only type of competition I took part in until finding some organised league racing some months later.

I hope to also get the chance to take part in some racing apart from the TT but work and family commitments may make regular participation difficult (I already race in a league on Saturday nights) but definitely will make my best efforts to get involved wherever I can. I enjoy the forum participation so hope to make some new online buddies of a like mind here too. I tend to be a pretty heavy poster so you may hear a lot from me lol.


Cheers