DinnyHoon

No sleep ‘til Brooklyn

I don’t plan on sleeping this week. I was going to get my head down early last night, but instead we watched The Lion King. You’ll laugh you’ll cry etc etc.

The reason I have such an (optimistic) urge to stay above the line of consciousness this week is simple. Gran Turismo 5.

UNOFFICIAL LIST OF THINGS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT KILL ME ABOUT GT5:

• Nordschleife at night.
• Ferraris.
• Go-karts.
• Spa Francorchamps in the rain.
• The F2010.
• That crazy Red Bull supermobile that does the ‘Ring F1 circuit in 1:04.
• Nordschleife at night a few more times.
• Online endurance races with damage and tyre wear.
• Nordschleife at night, in the rain, in the crazy Red Bull car, 20 laps, online, with damage and tyre wear.
• The 6-minute intro that I plan to watch EVERY SINGLE TIME.

I just can’t wait to be king for online endurance races. I haven’t played Forza 3 as much as I played Forza 2, but the Matchbox360 endurance leagues in the latter were just mesmeric. It’s just you and a group of others, and you’re with them for an hour. Adter a while you just get into a trance, and you seem to stop blinking. You stop taking it corner-by-corner, and you check your sector times. Then your lap times. Then your last 5 lap times. That’s how you judge your form in an endurance race. The scale just gets larger and larger, while you forget that the rest of the planet exists. Doing all that in a Ferrari Dino might just ruin my last pair of undies. And that is why I will not sleep this week.

Also it’s The Ashes.