Just wonder, is Turn 10 aware, that there is no such thing as night races? Nobody in his right mind will race while not seeing where. Of course there are exceptions like 24 hours races for obvious reason, but regular night race?
I went to Porsche tour, first race practice is during the night where I barely could see where I’m going. Third race is during the night. Getting tired of darkness, went into career to continue JDM event - night again. Occasional night races are OK to bring more variety, but it is like every third race is in the darkness.
Yes, for years people were whining “we want night races” but don’t listen to everything players said. It would be much better, if you listen to those who say “bring back good career like FM4 or FM7”.
They do have night races in Formula 1, albeit on well lit circuits. Last weekend they had a night race in Jeddah.
I don’t see a problem with there being night races, the problem is in the lighting coming from the cars. Something like endurance lights for night races would fix this:
Yes, because they need to hit EU prime time with TV translation. FM night races are not as bad as Gran Turismo 7, where there is no track illumination at all and you can’t see literaly anything. Except Nurburgring, I just dropped event because Nurburgring night race.
I like night races. I just think that headlights should be significantly stronger.
Headlights are designed for highway speeds 65 mph. There is no headlights to help you when you are driving 180 mph, this is simply too fast.
What about the 24H of Le Mans? You think they can’t see at night driving faster than 65 mph? Oh I forgotten I am dealing with a troll here lol.
Or Nürburgring 24H.
I can’t see, don’t know about them. Typical FM race is well lit:
But night Nurburgring, I can’t see anything.
That’s just empirically false.
This one happened last year.
Singapore was the first modern F1 race held at night, and yes, they did it for the broadcast outside of Asia-Pacific. Though one would note that Australia, Japan, and China have had Grand Prix held in daylight, so I also think there was a big marketing “we’re being different” element to it.
For that matter, Bahrain switched to night time after years of daylight races, and I’m not really sure the move gave them more viewership from Europe. It did give them a distinguishing feature, plus there’s this whole building-a-track-in-a-desert issue. Which I think is more likely to explain why Bahrain, but also Jeddah, Lusail and Abu Dhabi are night races, but Sochi and Baku aren’t when they’re all in the UTC+3/+4 time zone.
The last night race is Las Vegas, whereas Austin and Mexico City aren’t. They’re in the same timezone give or take an hour, but Las Vegas is in the middle of a desert, plus it looks dreadful by day.
I would also note that NASCAR has night races too, and it’s certainly not to please European viewers.
V8 Supercars have had at least 1 night race/round since ~2018
you tried track limits?
What is track limits?
a visual aid that shows the track edges in a light blue highlighted colour.
Bristol under the lights. Richmond Motor Speedway. Charlotte Motor Speedway. Iowa Speedway. Daytona 400 under the lights. Darlington Speedway. More…
Lots of NASCAR racing at night.
At hundreds of small dirt and asphalt track ovals across the US every Friday and Saturday night.
I’m sure there are some IMSA, SCCA, and independent road races running night time events at local small track venues as well across the US as they don’t just limit their actions to the top tier race venues.