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Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley and Simon Croft discuss their topics for the Race Sim Central podcast. This episode centers around Tim’s wishlist simulations and some of the major technological advancements in sim racing. Simulations mentioned vary, but include Grand Prix Legends ’72 and iRacing, focusing there on laser scanning. Email us at podcast@racesimcentral.net or just comment on this post if you’d like to raise a topic or just talk to us.
Music by Matthew Wright.
00:00 – Introduction of Jon Denton, Tim Wheatley and Simon Croft.
01:14 – Tim talks Grand Prix Legends ’72.
04:04 – The guys discuss the difficulties of bringing their wishlist to market.
07:00 – Tim’s wishlist and related discussion.
26:18 – Game-changing technology in hardware and software.
52:21 – Jon’s wishlist game-changers.
1:05:45 – Outro.
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