Location: Motorsports Racetrack

This region, as well as the adjacent Autosports offer a variety of driving adventures.

I’ve not tried the dirt track at Autosports yet, but Tenchi and I, with varying degrees of success, drove the NASCAR-style banked oval. 

That’s us in my car, repainted red for racing--with a mouse-click (no masking tape or dust-masks needed). We are on the approach to the outer track. There’s a smaller oval inside it.

On both days we ran the track odd things happened. The first time, Tenchi brought her Lancer, but Second Life® was acting up and her avatar (not her car) crashed. For a weird few seconds, the empty Lancer did doughnuts in the warm-up area...then vanished. This was of course not the track’s problem, but Linden Lab’s® ongoing stability issues.  The whole region went off line not long after.

Both days experienced drivers made me eat their dust.  It’s doing to take long time to get decent at this track, at least at anything beyond first and second gears. I shudder to think of what would happen were I to get on the track with 10 or more vehicles.

As with other sports in-world, there are teams and scheduled competitions. I intend to keep practicing.  For the bold, there’s also a car lot with racers for sale. 

All in all, this is a nice “build.” The track is big and the distant turns look real as one roars up to them.

The physics of the racing work better than on the open road, though the location of the raceway, at the junction of two simulators, can lead to odd results during high-speed crashes--the car will send up hanging on edge, “neither here nor there.”

Rather like its driver

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