Risky Ride

Peugeot 908 on Ligne Droite des Hunaudières

Last summer I was busy catching up with Gran Turismo 4 and wrote that the endurance races offered there represented the apex of the racing simulation. Well now I've caught up to Gran Turismo 5 and there's a new apex. I'd actually been waiting for the price to drop but the PS3 was sitting idle for weeks at a time and I had a week off coming up, so I decided £15 wasn't really that much - the original GT cost me (read, parents) £40.

Drive Forever

Drive By Shooting : Electric, drp, 2004

I should be writing - I'm off work for a week, but it's the same old. This time three years ago I remember just driving for hours on end. I had completed San Andreas for the nth time and would leave the disc in the PlayStation for months on end. I used to put it on around midnight when everyone had gone to bed and blast down the country roads in an Infernus for three to four hours just listening to music. Unlike Two Lane Blacktop, the sound never cut out and the film never disintegrated. The endless road provided endless opportunity to glance in the rear view mirror until I became bored of being bored. Then a realisation hit me and I scribbled a few hundred words. I never published it because I didn't like that realisation. So I picked up the controller and just kept driving.

I'm currently seven and a half hours into Gran Turismo 5's rendition of 24 Heures du Mans. For now I have a goal, but I'll be searching again when the clock comes full circle. Open road. Let's just go. Drive forever.

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