Fun fact: After Dario won this race in '98, he and Greg woke up the next morning on the front lawn in front of their hotel! 😂

Jake always gets you in the mood for racing. The most contagious sim tuber out there.

I cant believe how good racing sims are nowadays. From just decades of tweaking the tire models and physics to what you can achieve in your home with great racing sim hardware. Great stuff!

glad you got the wheeel and shifter accurate. always interesting no paddle shifters on these calls.

Your AMS 2 videos have convinced me to buy my first gaming PC in the next month or so. Gonna get something refurbed and fairly low cost for now and enjoy some long distance IndyCar AI races. Looking forward to places like Road America, Cleveland, Indy, Gateway and some fantasy races like Adelaide

If you get bored of sim racing you should totally write a book on motorsport history. I'd buy it!

This was a heartbreaking finish! Love AMS2. Love your videos.

I live near the track and the train tracks are definitely not that close to the track. They are possibly 200ft away and that area of the track the elevation drops with a hill down to maybe 75 ft where the tracks are actually located. Im presuming it was added there to make the track feel more immersive. Turn 6 on this track is by far my least favorite especially when the sun is setting. Its kind of a blind corner and if youre in a fast car you can lose traction if you dont hit your braking point just right coming up that hill. You truly dont get a sense of the elevation changes until you play in VR( which I do in iRacing). Its amazing how accurate it is. I had never turned many laps in Road Atlanta in VR until recently and I couldnt believe how much of a difference there was between monitors and VR when it came to the elevation of the tracks.

I believe Road Americas corner numbering is actually where the original Marshall stations were, and it just stuck over the years.

Fantastic race. Keep the great content coming. Love your videos.

Such a good effort and great to watch.

You should DEFINITELY so a full season on AMS2. Can add Montreal interlagos and Jacarepaguá as scheduled fillers 👌🏻👌🏻

Awesome stuff Jake. A Shame about the ending - I've been there.

In regards to fuel saving i always coast and lift (obviously) but i also leave it a gear up for the slower corners (so 2nd instead of 1st for the hairpin at the end of the middle straight), i try and carry in a bit more speed too with just the coasting into the corner.

Thanks for putting this up! I immediately went and got this! I used to go to the CART races at Laguna Seca, talked to Herta, Fittipaldi etc. I did racing school there as well, and I was in the stands for the famous "the pass" of Zanardi over Herta in the corkscrew. Getting these cars back after all these years feels like coming home! Brilliant liveries, physics and AI. This game rocks!

Your videos are fantastic. Hearing you get deep into the history of the sport is great! Should be a podcast

You can definatelly make a series of an F1 driver racing from the lates 80s up to mid 90s and then jumping ship to other side of the Atlantic for some mid to late 90s IndyCar races. Maybe he's Ritchie's son, mimiking the Andrettis???

It's cool that the company sends you newly-released gear (peripherals?). They're a smart company, because you are a likeable hombre and create great and diverse racing videos. I love your Good Year hat. Where did you get it?

My fav fuel saving tips : lift eary in the braking zone, let the car coast just a BIT longer through the curve, and dont top out on the big stretch, rather hold the throttle at 90% so if top speed is 300km, hold at 295. hope this helps anyone who reads this edit: if you THINK you need fuel, go in at 3 laps left, grab fresh tires while youre there. its gonna take a lap to warm the tires and another lap to break into the time loss for pitting

This was AMAZING!

Amazing... as always!

Awesome video! More AMS2 please!!

Just brilliant.

Road America is local to me and I've been attending races there for 30yrs. I now run many laps there on my sim. I watched this race live on tv and remember the Bryan Herta turn 5 incident. I'm thinking Michael Andretti and Al Unser Jr may have still been racing at this time as well as Bobby Rahal, whom Herta was driving for. Regarding the train on the back side I knew there was a track back there but on AMS2 is first I've seen a train on it. Cool AMS2 is my new favorite sim after using AC for last few years. Side note: Give the V8 Super cars a try on either RA or Watkins Glen. What a hoot they are to drive.

This sim looks awesome

What!?! A train at Road America? I never knew. I can't believe the new Forza, with its big marketing push and puffery didn't add that in. The more you show of this game, the more thoroughly impressed I am. How does it play on controller?

If the Billy Mitchell bridge was still there, you would've taken out Dario (at least) & likely got that full course caution you so desperately needed. 😉Is there a good version of Nazareth in AMS2? If so, that's where you should go next. Best "oval" for apex CART to race at in a sim imo.

I followed CART all the time in those days and attended several races. This sim would be awesome.

I remember that Herta crash vividly... It was one of the Gurney AAR Toyotas that climbed up his car. Took what seemed forever to get the car off and get him out, but he just walked away... The Herta's have a knack for scaring the crap out of people with their crashes... See Colton's Indy flip on board... Great vid as always. LOVE the AMS2 updates. They got it right. Finally.

Need Texas Motor Speedway oval for these!

I don't know if it's the timbre of your voice or the excellent commentary but it is so much fun to watch your videos. I spent many years going to many different tracks to watch CART/Indycars live in the 90's, including Road America. What fun it was to watch you take it on. I would say more but I have to have an offline race in the '98 CART cars right NOW! Thanks for these videos. Richie needs to run a season in these cars.

After your last video I took the jump and bought AMS2 and I'm hooked! Awesome video btw, I know what I'm doing after work :D

Damn i'd like be playing this rn with that setup

Based on one of your other films I gave Automobilista 2 a go after only playing Assetto Corsa for a while (and GPL years ago). I find it far more enjoyable and better to play than AC. I don't know why but I find I can actually improve in it and the cars just feel more how I would expect. And that's out of the box. I never got Asseto Corsa to feel right. Maybe one is more realistic than the other but it's a game so I want it to feel fun not necessarily be right. Your races sell these games far better than any review can!

like the new wheel cam

This is incredible!! My favorite era of IndyCar racing back to life. Thank you for this amazing video 🙌🏾

Appeared smooth pass that looked. 😂

Great video! Love these longer races you’re doing in the era that I grew up watching. Boy do you make me wish I had a wheel and spare time again!

Well GP, You hit the wall backwards like you said you couldn't hehe.

I've always thought AMS 2's 90's indy line-up is their strongest section. I haven't tried it much since the patch though tbh. Have to do some

Some of the best years for Indycar but also some of the saddest. I met Greg Moore on the Gold Coast in 99 but 2 weeks later he was gone😓

I think that is the era that have the best cars

last update is nice, a.i. is way more realistic, no strange movement on the track, my only complain is no matter how low i set my downforce, a.i. cars are always faster than me on the straights and slower in the turns, my tires are degrading too slow and my fuel too fast. my race feels like i'm always battling someone slower but with DRS and KERS while i have none.

Thanks for the great videos. I'm just coming over to AMS2 from iRacing and your recent videos helped me to decide to do that. Part of why I watch is to learn about the "game" and how it works, and how to get the most out of it, so I appreciate this kind of info in your race commentary.

People forget, but CART only got stronger in the first few years of the IRL split, and it really seemed like the IRL was not going to be long for this world...somehow at some point this was retconned to "Michigan '95 was a mess and CART was doomed from the beginning of the split" but it's really not true. 1996-2001 in CART were as good as any other period in indycar racing and maybe even better. Two things during the 2001 season let the IRL get the upper hand: 1. When Penske followed Ganassi in cherry-picking Indy (and having their way with the clown show that was the IRL field at the time), it raised the legal question of whether appearing in both CART and IRL put Marlboro in violation of the then-fairly-new "you can only sponsor one sport" rule for tobacco brands...and the answer came back yes, which is why only the chevrons appeared on the cars with no other branding. At that point the writing was on the wall that Marlboro was going to push Penske to run the full IRL schedule and ditch the series he founded 2. the horsepower started getting 2000 when Toyota blew the whistle on Honda exploiting (and cultivating) turbulence in the intake plenum to defeat the pop-off valve, and Honda and Toyota both eventually quit over the ensuing controversy after it spilled over into 2001. The dumbest part was that Toyota actually made noises about quitting first, and then Honda quit because they felt CART had tried too hard to appease Toyota by promising an IRL-esque NA formula for 2003, and then Toyota quit because Honda wasn't going to be there anymore and they both went to the IRL. It was an issue that would have been moot just a few years later since pop-off valves were dinosaur tech for regulating boost anyway and would soon no longer be used to enforce boost limits regardless.

Thanks for the inspiration 👍 I shamelessly ripped this off and did my own race this morning. Was a bit worried after qually when i put 1 sec to the second place car but thankfully in the race as in practice they were much more competitive (AI 105 / MED). Even had a full course caution when TK crashed with 11 laps to go. Was in a tense fight for 3rd with a couple of laps to go when I ran wide in the carasol and dropped to 6th where i finished. See, I even mirrored your race to a degree! Out of interest do you recall your qually time. I did a 42.5 and wondered if that was decent?

I really love the AMS2 content ❤ thank you

Agree with thoughts on medium aggression. In my experience it still provides great racing and still forces you to be consistent and smart with your tires/fuel. Great race here!

Sorry, I didn’t catch what wheel you’re using. Looks perfect for me. I’m on a Simucube 2 DD though

Unlucky. Great race though. Thanks for posting :)

What video card are you running? Looks great

just did a race at Suzuka in the 1993 cars and the formula ultimate gen 2, no matter what it would seem that the AI is just faster than you down the straights, annoyingly so. the racing is better overall but there are still some rather annoying issues with the AI, huge step in the right direction though.

Great Fun ... this indycar racing looks very accurite indeed !!! Made my morning !! 🏁🏁

My favourite era of open wheel cars EVER, at one of my favourite tracks ever? Boy you're spoiling me today Jake!!

I'm glad you did not redo this race. THIS is racing! It was so fun to watch. Thanks for this and all your other great videos!

Jake: I just might let him go, need to save tires and fuel. Also Jake: Throws everything but the kitchen sink at the Penske to keep him behind.

Lovely! I do have a rig setup with ICR2 to play myself, but in the end I rather crash on my couch to watch and listen GPLaps!

Completely agree about these classic CART cars. I spend so much time with all of them. They are so great. AMS2 is my current favorite sim racer.

I saw the thumbnail and clicked immediately

Fuck yeah, Bud!

What a beautiful game and mod. that's excellence. I went to the Mid-Ohio CART race I"m pretty sure in 98 and 2000 and it was so good.

nice!

Jake, your fuel! Turn down your map! Lift and coast! 🫣 Edit: haha exciting ending anyways, it’s always tricky to drive and strategize

is it just me or is the AI's acceleration out of corners insane? Other than that, it looks pretty exciting, I've always loved the CART cars in this game.

As much as I like AMS2 for Indy and F1, I am still hung up with GTR2 and F1 Challenge 99-02.

I requested this on your twitter haha. Thank you for the Cart content. You are the man! I think you would have run out of fuel on the hill up the pit lane

RA is legit my favorite track in America.. all the major us racing leagues should be running RA

I remember the Brian Herta incident!..I watched it live and it was the most freakish thing at turn 3 at road America. Great memories.

You cracked under pressure lol nice race anyway

sit down at desk to start work, jake's video goes live. Well I guess work will wait a tad longer

Oh, Greg Moore, what a nostalgic moment unlocked here

So engrossing. That spin and crash at the end just broke my heart.

I run this sim in VR... it is absolutely amazing...

Road America was famous for indycar fuel mileage races. Good to see it here.

Great race, was really waiting to see if you ran out of fuel! Entertaining!

GG

HB F1 V8 Crank to 11 With Turbos. and The Shaft spun faster than that.

CrewChief is amazing. The fact that he can also curse at you if you screw up hard enough is a nice touch. I can also only recommend it!

Now this is what I'm talking about! Even though you binned it, it was on edge racing. I love it! Maybe Richie Axelson will come out of retirement for a season of this? Use the F-USA Gen 1 (1995)?

Crazy ending !

You can commentate and gesticulate during driving. I would shred my car by doing so. ☺

Great video as usual. And good to note that offline revival in simracing is coming.

Sponsors are happy to be associated with you because you have the gold standard of sim racing content. It’s only Daniel Morad comes close and he drives the proper race cars we all dream about for a living. I’ve turned into a 50 year old fanboy lol.

Would've had better mileage fuelwise with the Honda engine...that era ;)

If I’m being honest, I never knew that RA had a r/r track next to it! If I were you, I’d plan on visiting a race or two, it’s truly heaven on earth!

GP will you ever host open lobbies

Great stuff!!! Not redoing kept the late race drama. There was so much going on, truly exciting. Now there will be another goal for next time.

Wow, that trackside camera view is incredible. So realistic. I truly believe this will one day be indistinguishable from the real world. Btw, i don't think it's allowed to block in indycar. Too bad about the crash at the end, but that is racing, anything can and will happen.

Id love to see a full season with these cars!

i gotta say, thats the first time ive seen you DNF in a sim-race. Very good effort, miscalculating the fuel really did you dirty

I have been trying to find a difficulty sweet spot to do a full season with the indycar/CART cars on AM2 its on par with Iracing imo. Cleveland is very fun with the last update.

This mod was the full 1998 CART driver lineup? JJ Lehto (Finnish ex-f1 driver and won at Le Mans couple of times) drove for Hogan Racing in 1998 :)

Hi what tyre wear and fuel wear settings do you use ?

Great racing. Hope there will be a future series where Ryan Axelson returns to the Indycar series after a successful (or otherwise) tour of duty on the F1 circus.

I think the AI aren't doing as many separate strategies since the fuel burn was so high and one lap is a disproportionately high % of the tank so there aren't as many options to stretch or shorten a stint by just a little. On a longer length race or even a short one without accelerated fuel burn the stops will be a bit more realistic?

This cockpit view reminded me of Super Speed Racing from Dreamcast

Great video--as always. I know this didn't end as you wanted, but you were commentating and keeping us entertained the whole time...a major distraction and energy sap. I would consider using the more sophisticated speedometer and tires widgets--way more useful information than the very basic one you are using.

That looked more like a PacWest strategy than anything else.

I am on a controller and at the smallest touch of the trigger and the rear wheels just spin out.

is the cockpit view the only view you can have while driving ? if not how do you change it as there is no manual with this game it's ridiculous.