The Perilous Thrill of Road Racing - rFactor 2 

Apologies things get a little jittery in the video in spots. Recently updated the GFX card and have something to figure out. Was smooth while playing, hopefully you all enjoy the fantastic circuit still!

You're not a real sim racer unless you've ended up in the Longford field

Awesome video! I made the track, and it's so great to see it presented like this :) Fun fact: This project started in 2009, and shortly after received some assistance from one of the folks from the original and abandoned GPL version. If you drive way too far away from the track you can find one or two houses from their unreleased GPL project, which they allowed me to use to bootstrap my own version of the track. The earliest versions I released had many more of the GPL houses/buildings included. Another fun fact, the willow trees in the track are from photographs i took of willows in the camping grounds in the centre of the circuit, by the river. Except for one, which is from just to the left at Tannery Corner. The poplar trees are all authentic Longford trackside poplar trees. The large one at the start finish line is the actual tree, another is from the down-hill section after turn 1, and the smaller one is from the paddock area. They've aged a bit. And the large pine inside the final turn is the actual large pine. Several of the buildings were also photographed and turned into the models, including the Pub, which is still active as a pub :) Thanks for the video :)

The amount of times I went 3 miles straight into a field because I braked entirely too late for a 90-degree right turn that I couldn't see coming... good times, such a fun track! Only raced the AC version but no matter the sim, this is an underrated gem.

Your content is incredibly evocative. Always feel a false sense of nostalgia for an era I never came close to living through. Cracking music choices too.

That pub in the corner seems to actually be a hotel these days. They even have some racing exhibits on display. So there still is the chance of having a cold one there...

Wonderful. Hands up if you've ever braked a bit late here, and ended up in a fence, or in the field...

My wife and I went to Tasmania for our honeymoon and she was so generous to allow a visit to Longford. Awesome to say we have had the opportunity to sit at the bar have a drink and a meal at the pub. What a honeymoon, a pub and a motor racing museum surrounded by history in one place, well worth a visit.

I have this for rF1 and I can't recommend it enough. It's not just that it's a great circuit to drive, it's a faithful representation of the look and feel of country-town Australia. I grew up in places like this so if it was a bit off I'd know immediately - but it isn't. Thanks for coming back to this one. I'll be racing here in my own career mode when I get to 1972 - I'll be pulling double duty in Australian Formula 5000 and Series Production touring cars. Can't wait!

Growing up in nearby Launceston I often dreamed of being born at a time where racing was a regular occurrence at Longford. Unfortunately some of the circuit is no longer in place however the famous back straight / flying mile before the start finish is still public road and the pub featured has plenty of racing history inside.

Don't want to make you envious, but I was actually in that Pub drinking a cold one as you were racing past, what a Day.

New GPLaps at Longford? Hell yeah baby

Glad you redeemed yourself by calling it a pub after calling it a bar ;) Unfortunately most of the cool stuff (like the bridges) are no more. You can still see the underpass from the road above. Great vid as always.

Your intro is literally what I spend way too much daily

This is a fantastic circuit, one of my favourites in RF2. Try it with the Apex 917 and Ferrari 512, add some Lola's etc and you will have huge fun.

Ciao GPLaps I follow your videos with great pleasure. I am always amazed how you can speak clearly, and at the same time you are focused on the race with a great drive. I, on the other hand, remain in apnea for most of the time.

You are 100% the reason why I’ve taken such a liking to vintage racing. I want to try and get GPL working so I can finally experience that game in all of its 2022 modded glory! But yeah, you’re the reason for my new found love of vintage racing, as well as one of my inspirations to start making videos myself here soon. Hope to see more old school road races in the future, those are my favorite right now haha. Maybe a 60s GP race around Rouen Les Essarts👀

Good stuff again Jake. Love Longford. Created by woochoo for rF2. He`s done some other fantastic tracks. Le Grand Circuit 1967 (In association with VLM) is another really good track. Good to see you doing some more rF2 content too.

Just had to say, "You drove the wheels off that thing" on a course that dictates, "Having a huge set!" Great vid for sure and gives me another great track to look up from long ago. Superb!👏🏁

Can't believe I'm born in the same state and will never get to see racing here but so happy it influenced so many

One of my favourite tracks in Assetto Corsa. I usually run 1960’s sports cars in multiclass setup.

Was driving this the other day in rf2 omg soooo so good, ffb is perfect

Road racing is so beautiful! Especially with historic race cars 🤩 Just bought rFactor2 some weeks ago. Thanks for the idea to put up exactly this race!

Love these videos GP! Keep up the great work!

WOOHOOO!!! You finally found the original 1st (mark [rF]2) masterpiece of w00ch00! Dunno if you found it in my comments on Krunch's Gnoo Blas clip a while back or on the more recent clip of yours featuring his car mod, or found it on your own & I dont care- Im just glad you found it! ;) The ONLY thing that I don't like about Longford is that he never finished the track that he started before it; Lobethal, South Australia @13.9km/8.6m :v ;) 1st released for the original rFactor(1), Longford was the track that landed w00ch00 a job with ISI & why the rFactor2 version of his track is practically a 'factory release'. The first version has 3 different weather/lighting conditions as well as roadside objects having mass similar to Targa Florio. Linked is some info on the Lobethal track along with a pair of W.I.P clips from w00ch00's own YT channel... What an epic track that would have been if finished! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobethal_Circuit ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hQiwZ21KimI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AzpxHCaKcfY.html Thank you for your content, it's REALLY given me the urge to get back to track building- I always preferred doing the road/terrain 'meshwork' & AIW lines than the actual decorating! :v Some of my best AIW's would have to be Johannes Rojola's Cannonball Run who went on to create 'My Summer Car' sim & Dmz's Mount Arrowsmith... Anyway, Bob's Track Builder is open again as I fall back into the rabbit-hole of 'triangle-land' once more... :v Cheers! ;)

My dad worked on a 2.5 Riley with a chain driven supercharger, he also got to drive it there, when mechanics were allowed to jump in 🤣

You've done it again. Such an awesome creation. I much prefer to watch your races and content than anything new, real or live. You really bring these to life. I felt like I was genuinely with you on that back straight and YES it had to be a brake check. I was most genuinely annoyed for you, but you soldiered on as though it's quite normal. Well done.

Some of the parts on this circuit look more like a tarmac rally stage than a Grand Prix circuit, especially the bridge over the river, and the section under the viaduct.

Longford is in northern Tasmania, Australia. It’s about 20 minutes from my home town of Launceston.

This is one of the, if not the best GPLaps video I've seen and that's saying a lot. Really well done, thanks very much.

oh yeah, this will make my day better!

Fantastic quality, thank you very much!

Another awe-inspiring immersive video, thank you so much 🙂

I love these kinds of tracks, the layout is simple, but with some really nice corners. Great stuff!

Another masterpiece of a video. Thanks Jake

A quick Google suggests the pub still exists! Great content as ever, I really feel involved with the race when watching your content!

Happy to see Longford get some love! Great video as always

I miss these videos, GP. Great work, as usual. More, more!🙏

I love the historic parts in your videos!

Very nicely done Sir. Beautiful track!

Yet ANOTHER amazing video Jake! Great stuff! This was a track and car combo I never knew about. Still really enjoying the "Track and car historical background info, then race it format." Thank you!

Brilliant, best one for a while imo :)

As an ex Longford resident this is awesome 👍🏻

This is one of the most charismatic sim tracks and these old 1966/7 cars in RF2 are still amazing, giving a fantastic sense of power, balance and weight transfer. Great video as always, many thanks.

I drove the version that was made for AC back when it was first released. For practice and qualifying you started in the infield and had to drive the car out onto the track just like you would have back in the day. I really like little touches like those for the sake of greater immersion.

This looks so fun, another enjoyable video

Absolutely brilliant!!!-)

Epic recreation of an epic track.

Bonzer video mate! Appreciate learning about Strayan motor history.

Thanks so much for this, mate. Since subscribing, every video I've watched of yours has been epic! Your commentary enhances an already brilliant video too. Cheers, once again.

One of the great tracks of the 60's!

Ahhhhh... The cars of my childhood... ;) Love it!

You make such great and unique content. It's really inspired me to try making videos. Keep doing what you're doing man! It's working.

Yep. That is Australia. Magnificent Graphics

Holy heck this looks great. Gonna give it a try tomorrow

Great stuff as always. When you go confront that driver, remember to leave your helmet on.

Great video aabout a great track. Longford with the Howston G4 is my favorite sim racing combination, such a challenge.

Yeah when you see pre-1970s racing the vast majority orf the time it's roadcorses... Great video nice overview of every thing!

That chicane under the viaduct looks incredibly fun!

Not my favorite classic track but certainly a gem. It got recently updated for AC as well. I ran through that field gate after the Long Bridge many times due to braking very late. Kudos to you for not abandoning the video after that spin, the inner toddler in me would have rage-quitted in that moment. Your videos are always fun to watch, for a guy like me who is terrible at sim racing and doesn't have the equipment to play it properly, but still enjoys it nonetheless.

Wonderful video as always. Love this track. On a holiday to Tassie a year ago, the family and I spent an enjoyable hour or so in Longford tracing the remains of the ciruit. Sadly King's Bridge doesn't exist any more, and an area near the Long Bridge seems to be closed off, so you can't do the whole lap any more. We were confronted by an angry rooster on the now dead end going backwards to Long Bridge from Newry Corner. The surrounds are so peaceful and idyllic it can be difficult to imagine it in it's racing prime. The rfactor2 version is a great recreation, my only point would be that in real life the hump coming up to the pub at Longford corner is much more sudden and steep (about 2m high over about 8m length), and would probably require pre-emptive braking.

Just tried this combo and it was amazing!! After dinner going to do more laps 👍👍👍 I

Beautiful track

I was always a NASCAR/left turny guy, until I discover vintage road courses.

I would have crashed a hell of a lot sooner. 😂 Track looks great!

Amazing video e fantastic race, I don't have a PC gamer but every time that I want to have a vintage felling I turn on ps4 and dive into the tracks and vintage cars on PC2.

Great mod. Thanks.

Very interesting track, I never knew about it

Fun but dangerous. Simple to learn hard to master. I hope I can watch exhibition races like that.

A true road race circuit .

I desperately want to boot up AC and drive this magnificent track, but my back is fucked, and I've done my maximum of 20 minutes of racing for the day. I know what I'm doing tomorrow!

Pity most of the circuit is gone, at least the pubs still there. They were doing a “Longford festival of speed” event not too long ago, and the pub in town has stuff from the tasman series plus targa Tasmania stuff.

I like the fact you still uploaded after coming off, This is probably the hardest car to race there is, Basically a 180 mile an hour go kart, Takes huge skill will an stanima to drive one of these at high speeds I bet, And the people who raced these cars are legendary in their field, Utter madness aswell, Safety wasn't a thing when you're racing a bathtub full of highly flammable liquid, I dont think they even wore seat belts lol..... Yeah if you can master driving a car like this, Then most other cars will be a lot easier for you, In the rain you will gain even more skills, Quality video tho bro, I began sim racing stupidly using console, Now I'm skint I can't afford a PC I needs for sim racing, I'm going to see about paying instalments instead, Console sim racing is so limited I'm getting bored, I can't do GT sport, I need full on simulation, Fingers crossed tho I will be upgrading to the PC soon, Can finally enter some proper races, The lobbies on AC are good bit yeah I'm getting bored of the same tracks, AC on the PC is loaded, I don't understand if it's available for the PC why not console after all isn't a console a computer aswell, But yeah stroll on when I can upgrade to the PC.... Top quality video tho......

I like your style. Very Bruce Brown / On Any Sunday esque.

XD I saw the dude go off into the tree in your mirror and then you said “some dust behind me” and I’m just like “yep…. dust and a mangled car.” Obviously it wouldn’t be funny IRL but just that you noticed the dust but I saw the whole thing since I can watch your mirrors a lot more gave me a chuckle.

Open wheel racing back in 60s and 70s was dangerous race driver back in the day had very big balls it was life or death

woochoo did a lovely job on this and Matsusaka (Suzuka). Maybe he'll finish Le Mans (Le Grand Circuit) someday...

It's a shame the guy who made this never managed to finish his version of Lobethal, that track was even crazier, probably the only Australian track to really match Bathurst.

17:45 "He'S jUsT bRaKe TeStEd Me!"

another great video.u always give great car track combos...what do you have yr Ai agression set at

One my favorite track, I past a lot of hour runnng with various car on it

the f1legends 67 mod is worth a try.fictional but fun

#14 was clearly Fernando Alonso, same fierce defense

how do i make my shadows not look like trash in RF2? this looks great, my shadows look like they are getting bilinear filtered like a 90s game.. i can see them changing quality 5 feet in front of the car and it's very distracting. thanks for any tips

So any particular Boston intersection you had in mind? Not an intersection, but I've always thought a Sturrow Drive/Memorial Drive loop would be an awesome track.

Another good one. Now on to Gnoo Blas?

I wonder if anyone has ever done Elkhart Lake in Wisconsin just before Road America was built.

i live just a few k's from here! very unfortunate its gone now though :(

To anyobe: there is a version of this track for assetto that can be downloaded :)

I bought this game thinking it was about Pirates. It was not.

Is the gpl tutorial on the way or is it a cancelled project?

Can you imagine a modern day f1 on that track?? Or even an LM Prototype??

Longford was in the original rFactor.

Sort of an Australian version of Rheims. Bit more interesting with the Long Bridge and the viaduct.

G'day movers and shakers.. So nice to see our old roads. Just over my road on our Auto club land is site for the.. new Aussie World Class, FIA approved Motor Recreation and Education Park. V8 Supercar, F1 and more. I will learn and know it like the back of my..

this place is like 20km from me

I know each has its own pros and cons but if you could only have one of Assetto Corsa, rFactor, Automobilista, which one would you choose?

Is it me, or does this track have alarming similarities to the Farmlands circuit mod on WreckFest, as demonstrated by Eddie Soundhead??

What country?

Good video, shame about the AI bug at 17:42