Tom Fitch, Author at GRAND PRIX 247

Simming Memoirs – Part XII: One to remember

My year 2008 was dominated by one single story: the struggle for ultimate dominance over season 7 of GBGPL’s Division 2. It is impossible to comprehend how sad Belgian November months can be without havi... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part XI: rFactored days and Grand Legendary dreams

Between 2005 and 2016, two sims – one old, one brand new – got under my skin. The Boss knew it all along: “From small things Mama, big things one day come.” In simming language, that reads something alon... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part X: A Weight Watchers cure called online racing

A pile of mid noughties' sims had me heading straight for serious simming overdose... And just then, a saviour of sorts appeared unexpectedly. Life moves in circles, they say. So, after a spell on the Pl... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part IX: The return of King Sim Obesity II

Becoming a father rekindles the child inside, Artroticus wrote. So when my first daughter was born, I developed a voracious appetite for a new generation of sims. During the first years of the new millen... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part VIII: My PS2 days

It has been said that a step back is often the best answer to a growing loss of perspective. So, when sim racing was getting overwhelming, I turned to Gran Turismo. As we neared the new millennium, thing... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part VII: The unbearable complexity of simming

As of the mid-nineties, ever-improving computers pushed sim racing to new levels of quality and immersion... But what seemed unimaginable in earlier years was slowly turning into reality: too much choice wa... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part VI: Ditching the keyboard

Somewhere in the second half of the nineties, arcade halls started invading my home office. So, I had been raking up all kinds of Formula 1 records. I even managed to bring a world championship title hom... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part V: Finally… Formula Uno

Just as the urge for the occasional right-hand turn became nearly unbearable, the doors to Formula One-heaven opened... slightly. By the spring of 1992, I had turned into a virtual Andretti, Unser and Me... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part IV : Unser, Mears… here I come

Europe and ovals... never has it been a happy marriage. But when I started simming for real, it was on the absolute king of ovals. It was in late 1990 that our house welcomed its first PC; a “white label... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part III: My very own Spanish castles

As the eighties roared on and the very first sims appeared, I went looking for racing thrills in amusement arcades and several other wrong places. In 1984, a man called Geoff Crammond released REVS. It s... Read More...

Simming Memoirs – Part II: The era of second generation game consoles

Moving on from a bicycle as race simulator... although a true simulator was still a far way off. Google Dictionary adds the following example to its definition of simulation: “the production of a computer model of something, especially for the purpose of study.”

Simming Memoirs: Improbable beginnings

Simming Memoirs takes you on journey through Tom Fitch's attempts at replicating auto-racing. From initial elementary attempts to the latest current sims on his computer. These contributions have no ambitio... Read More...

Author Tom Fitch