A new update for the constantly evolving racing game Automobilista 2 has arrived on PC, bring with it a couple of new cars, tracks layouts and additional tweaks. Because it wouldn’t be AMS2 without tweaks now, would it?
This update marks one year since the game first release on Early Access on the 31st March 2020. It’s also the seven millionth update for the game. Probably.
Hey, that’s no bad thing, we have a hard enough time writing about the updates they come so quickly, so we can’t imagine the workload at developer Reiza Studios. Unbelievable.
Leading v1.1.3.5 is the addition of the Lotus 79 F1 car. Designed by the late, great, Colin Chapman in 1977, it famously used ground effect aerodynamics to deliver pioneering cornering performance. It took Lotus to the 1978 Constructors’ Championship and Mario Andretti to the 1978 Driver’s Championship and delivered 15 podiums, 10 pole positions and six race victories in its time.
To go alongside the Lotus, is a F-Retro Gen2 Model1, a fictional single-seater in the style of a late 1970s F1 car and delivered a choice between two vehicles in the F-Retro Gen2 Series class.
AMS2 has the biggest selection of Brazilian racetracks ever seen in a game or sim, and this update also builds upon that with four additional historical layouts for the Jacarepagua circuit – 2005, Oval, Sul, Stock Car Roval. The venue, also known as the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet, was sadly demolished in 2016 to make way for the Olympics but has formerly held ten MotoGP races, five CART races and ten Formula 1 Grand Prix. While it may no longer exist in real life, its legacy lives on here.
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