![]() Unlocking new pictures for my team logo or pre-made livery designs simply isn’t exciting when the creative tools in peers like Need for Speed, Forza, and even Hot Wheels are lightyears ahead. There’s a bit more to do off-track as well, with sponsorship objectives to select and achieve and boosts to buy for your teammate and mechanic, but Grid Legends is still spinning its wheels elsewhere. On the other hand, I did feel a bit more railroaded this time around, with some event types randomly locked behind the completion of unrelated others. Grid Legends breaks its career mode into chunks rather than displaying every available event on a single screen, like Grid 2019 does, which is a neater and more traditional approach to a racing game career. The curated set of 36 events in Driven to Glory took me roughly seven hours to work through and ultimately serves as a springboard for the broader main career mode. "Devon Butler? Never heard of her." Urban Legends They’re not the only characters dusted off for resurrection in Grid Legends, either, but I certainly won’t spoil the late, Cobra Kai-esque reveal here. ![]() It’s also nice to finally put a face to his nephew Nathan – a long-time Grid series AI opponent who’s been terrorising us on the track since 2008. Nonetheless, the official re-introduction of the McKanes is a cute touch for me as a long-time fan it’s fun to see retired TOCA Race Driver hero-turned-heel Ryan again after two decades. The villainous McKane duo ham it up slightly as Driven to Glory’s token toolbags, although there’s admittedly nothing here quite as memorably cheesy as a Command & Conquer: Red Alert-era Tim Curry declaring his intent to flee to outer space. Sex Education’s Ncuti Gatwa is particularly entertaining as the playful Rwandan-Scottish racing driver Valentin Manzi, though his appearances are limited. I’d also be lying if I said I buy all of these actors as credible racing drivers, but the cast’s performances are decent and broadly earnest. It’s a simple story – unconventional upstart team Seneca Racing seeks to upset ruthless champions Ravenwest – but it’s effective enough, even if I find it a little incongruous to accept Seneca as penniless underdogs when their garage is stuffed with barely used racing machinery worth tens of millions. It’s certainly an old-school solution – and reminiscent of the so-called cutting edge FMV cutscenes the games industry excitedly filled CD-ROMs with back in the ’90s – but, despite being an uncommon approach, Driven to Glory is a slick and well-edited package that has been executed largely without hokeyness. PlanetF1.The live-action presentation has been pieced together using a mixed-reality process that places real actors on entirely digital backdrops, similar to the much-discussed technique employed to shoot The Mandalorian, and has actually worked quite well. George Russell was the big-name casualty from Q2, missing out on a place in the top 10 by just 0.004s behind team-mate Lewis Hamilton, with both McLaren drivers getting themselves into Q3 along with the AlphaTauri of Yuki Tsunoda.īut in the business end of the session in Q3, with the sun going down over the Baku City Circuit, it was an intense battle for pole position – with the Red Bull drivers looking closely matched over one lap, with Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc setting the exact same lap time on their first flying runs, down to the thousandth of a second.Īnd while Verstappen improved on his final run, Leclerc was able to go even faster still, eventually lapping 0.188s clear of his Red Bull rival and taking his first pole of the season, and his third P1 start in a row around the Baku City Circuit.Įsteban Ocon and Nico Hulkenberg will both start the race from the pit lane after their respective teams made set-up changes. ![]() Pierre Gasly suffered the same fate minutes later when the session restarted, and Kevin Magnussen was also forced to pull into the pits early with trouble on his Haas in Q1. Q1 was halted with a red flag after AlphaTauri driver Nyck de Vries crashed down at Turn 3, who let out a frustrated shout on team radio after he piled into the wall. The Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend structure is different, but qualifying took place on Friday and the F1 starting grid for Sunday’s race has now been set.
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