![]() There has been some evolutionary attention paid to those modes as well, and in ways that I found to be highly favorable. It has long been a pet peeve of mine (and remember, I collect pet peeves like a lonely widow collects cats) when I buy a game, and then have to spend hours working my way through mindless three lap sprint races to unlock all of the cars and tracks that SHOULD have been unlocked when I pulled out my credit card to buy the game. There is none of that silliness in GTR-E. You bought the game with an intended use in minds, and SimBin has made the proper decision: get out of the way and let you play the game the way you want to play it. With GTR-E, you can set up a race or championship any way you want. You can mix classes and types of cars to your heart's content. If you want to race a class of Dodge Vipers concurrent with a class of Mini Coopers, well, that's up to you. ![]() Choose your competitors, choose your track (or tracks, in the case of a championship), and go racing. You can customize your own rules, or you can use the preset WTCC or GT rules. Some of the existing issues that I had with previous versions are still there, however. They’re nit-picky, of course, and I only point them out to remain in compliance with the Game Reviewers Code, a fundamental tenet of which is the immutable belief that there is no such thing as a perfect game. In the constructor championship, it annihilated Porsche with 146 points over 49.Here’s an example: when you race in an open cockpit car, your first-person view is restricted at the top and bottom by the confines of your virtual helmet. Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta won the championship over teammates Schneider and Webber. In the 1998 season, Mercedes-AMG was an unstoppable force, winning ten out of ten races of the season, including six 1-2 victories. Source: Daimlerīoth CLK LMs suffered engine failure at the 1998 24 Hours of the Le Mans, but proved to be of greater success in the FIA GT Championship. At the third race of the season, the 1998 FIA GT Hockenheim 500km, Mercedes-AMG switched to the V8-powered CLK LM. The following season saw Mercedes-AMG saw two teams consisting of Bernd Schneider and Mark Webber in the CLK GTR and Ricardo Zonta and Klaus Ludwig. Throughout the season, the CLK GTR constantly battled against the McLaren F1 GTR and the Porsche 911 GT1, outperforming them both in the driver and constructor championships. Patrick Ernzen ©2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’sĬonsistent performance and the addition of one more racing squad raked in more 1-2 wins at Zeltweg 4 Hrs, Suzuka 1000km, Donington 4 Hours, and victories at Sebring 3 Hrs and Laguna Seca 3 Hours. Still, the most interesting ones were two examples equipped with tartan-clad seats, a fitting throwback to the 300 SLR race car. All of them had four point seat belts, yet some CLK GTRs were racier and had the dashboard wrapped in Alcantara, while the others were upholstered in fine soft leather. When it came to finish, it differed from car to car. Patrick Ernzen ©2018 Courtesy of RM Sotheby’s Given that the vehicle had sequential manual transmission, the gear shifting commands were positioned on the backside of the AMG steering wheel, while the front side had convenient reminders in form of upwards and downwards pointing arrows.īehind the wheel and in true Mercedes-Benz fashion, the instrument cluster confidently displayed only water temperature and fuel level, while the dominating dial was a speedometer etched to 340 km/h. Darin Schnabel ©2012 Courtesy of RM Auctions As a slight touch of convenience, the vehicles featured air conditioning and a slot for a radio, provided that anyone needed any music other than the howling AMG V12. Once the wheel was reattached, the dashboard looked very much like the CLK, but the finish was a bit crude to keep the race car aura alive, yet also to avoid building costs for unnecessary features like intricate pieces of trim on the center console. So, in true race car fashion, the four-spoke AMG steering wheel was easily removable in order to enable the driver to even enter the cramped cockpit by hopping over an ultra wide sill. The CLK GTR was still a race car accommodated for the streets.
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