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Assetto Corsa EVO launched with five circuits, each laser-scanned and brought to life with up-to-date accuracy, details, animated crowds, marshals and scenery. Each update has brought improvements, new circuits, and with them new challenges. In this article, we’ll dive into all that AC EVO has to offer.
Asia
Fuji Speedway
Laid out in the foothills of Japan’s most iconic mountain, Fuji Speedway has been host to some of the most iconic racing moments over the years. Often, the weather will have a role to play too, such as in the dramatic 1976 Formula One title showdown between James Hunt and Niki Lauda, immortalised on the big screen in the film Rush.
The modern Fuji Speedway retains much of the design of the original high-speed, curvy circuit. But the current version presents new and more technical challenges. Turn 3 (Coca Cola) is a high-speed kink with kerbs that both invite you in and spit you out, and the final sector is a relatively low-speed and technical section that winds and flows back to the pit straight.
Fuji is on Assetto Corsa EVO with 2 layouts, the current GP layout and the Short circuit that changes the slow hairpin at the start of the final sector to a quicker and tricker 90-right.
Suzuka
Built as a Honda test track in 1962, Suzuka is regarded as one of the world’s most demanding and technical circuits. It has hosted the Japanese Grand Prix in Formula 1 since 1987. In 2019 Lewis Hamilton set the current lap record of 1:30.983.
The 5.807 km (3.608 miles) track features 18 corners and is unique for its figure-eight layout, with an overpass crossing over another section of the circuit. In addition, AC EVO offers “East” and “West” layouts. The “East” layout consists of the pit straight to the first half of the Dunlop curve (turn seven), which leads back to the pit straight via a tight right-hander. The “West” layout includes the other part of the full circuit, including the crossover bridge.
Australia
Mount Panorama (Bathurst)
Mount Panorama is a legendary Australian racing circuit. The 6.213 km (3.861 miles) track features 23 corners and a unique layout that combines public roads and extreme elevation changes. The Bathurst 1000 and 12 Hours of Bathurst are the main events for the circuit. Famous sections like The Cutting, Skyline and Conrod Straight are renowned for their technical demands and high speeds.
Europe
Brands Hatch
Opened in 1950, Brands Hatch is one of the UK’s most beloved racing circuits. It is known for its rich history and technical challenges. The in-game circuit features two layouts: the full Grand Prix Circuit 3.916 km (2.433 miles) and the smaller Indy Circuit 1.928 km (1.198 miles).
Elevation changes on the Paddock Hill Bend make Brands Hatch a driver’s favourite. Brands Hatch hosted Formula 1 British Grand Prix events in 1964 to 1986 when Jim Clark and Nigel Mansell secured victories. It is a staple venue for the modern British Touring Car Championship and GT World Challenge Europe.
Circuit de Spa Francorchamps
The tarmac rivers that flow through the Ardennes are arguably some of the most definitive in all of world motorsport. So much so that a GT3 race at Spa is often seen as the hallmark of what makes a sim racing title a sim racing title.
AC EVO’s version boasts the most up-to-date changes that came in during the early 2020s, to bring the track up to standard to host a return to motorcycle racing at the circuit. This included increased run-off through Eau Rouge and Raidillon, as well as an increased count in gravel traps that line the outside of some of the trickiest corners on the circuit.
Donington Park
Donington Park is a venue known around the world for tin-top action, but it also famously hosted a Formula One Grand Prix as the 1993 European Grand Prix: a race famous for Ayrton Senna’s legendary wet weather driving at its finest, including a gargantuan first lap that saw him climb up to the lead against some of the toughest rivals that F1 could have ever offered him. It nearly saw a comeback to the F1 calendar in 2010, but failure to secure funding meant that it would settle for its continued status as a leading Touring Car and GT racing venue in the UK.
The race track, set right next to the boundaries of East Midlands Airport, features its two layouts in Assetto Corsa EVO: the Grand Prix layout that ends with a fast left-right chicane and two tight hairpins, and the National Circuit that bypasses this section with a slightly slower right-left chicane.
Imola
Built in 1953, Imola is one of motorsport’s most iconic and challenging circuits. Located near Bologna, Italy, it gained international fame by hosting the San Marino Grand Prix in Formula 1. The modern layout spans 4.909 km (3.050 miles) and includes 19 corners. Notable sections like the Acque Minerali, Tamburello and Rivazza demand precision and high downforce.
Monza
The Temple of Speed is often heralded as the Grand Prix circuit. Host to the fastest races in Formula One history, it recently celebrated its 100th Anniversary and did so with a fresh lick of paint and some reprofiling of its few yet challenging corners.
Few sim racing titles feature this newest version of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, but Assetto Corsa EVO is one of them. That Rettifilio chicane that haunts every driver’s dreams? It’s now slightly wider, making it a little less likely that you’ll be spun 7 ways to Sunday on a first lap (though unfortunately not less likely to be hit by someone who has completely missed their braking point). A new surface also makes the track a little bit faster, with track limits that allow drivers to push the cars and the track to a new limit. This fresh face on this legendary body gives new challenges to rookies and veterans alike.
Nurburgring
The Green Hell is simultaneously every sim racer’s favourite dream and worst nightmare. From the modern-day GP Strecke that has hosted 4 different monikers of Formula One Grand Prix since 1984 to the legendary Nordschleife and its 154 turns that wind around 21km of forests, countless memories have been made at every corner and in some cases are immortalised by the graffiti that becomes extra slippery when wet.
Whilst sim racers may have to wait that extra while longer to see the much-teased Free Roam map through the Eifel forest feature in AC EVO, Kunos have provided us with 5 of the most quintessential layouts to keep our appetite in the meantime. These include the modern Gp Strecke and Sprint circuit, which are used by various different series both national and international, and 3 layouts that feature the legendary northern loop. The Nordschleife itself starts in the tiny supporting pitlane, the 24h layout features a full run of the Gp Strecke for a daunting 170-turn and 25km circuit, and the Touristenfahrten is the experience that every racing driver aspires to have on the world’s greatest toll road as you try to set the fastest time from bridge to gantry.
Oulton Park
Tucked away next to a little Cheshire church, one which famously means that race events may have to wait until after Sunday mass before going green, Oulton Park is a driver’s dream as a circuit.
The circuit in Little Budworth is part of the same MotorSport Vision group that also own fellow features Brands Hatch and Donington Park. And, as a circuit, it features some similar challenges to those two whilst also turning up the difficulty an extra notch. Whilst it doesn’t feature the same amount of gravel traps lining the course, the grass that lines the edge of the track can be even more unpredictable if you get it wrong. And, whilst the track limits are often defined quite clearly by runoff, the difference between getting it right and getting a strike requires your racing line to be inch-perfect. And that’s the same on the full-fat International circuit and the smaller but equally-challenging Fosters loop.
Red Bull Ring
First known as the fearsome Österreichring and then known as the modern A1 Ring, the current form of this Styrian circuit is known for being owned by the Red Bull energy drink company that has gone on to define motorsport over the previous decades.
The GP circuit may only feature 10 corners, and the shorter National circuit only 5 of these, but each of them is a unique challenge and present some unique dangers in wheel-to-wheel racing. The Niki Lauda Kurve that opens the lap is a single-line corner that is all-too-often used as a braking zone, whilst the following braking zone of Turn 3 invites attacks and collisions from all angles. Survive that and the gravel-lined turns that follow require inch-perfect accuracy, before the open corners that close the lap are almost deceptive and require you to keep within the track limits as the run-off entices you to take that extra step too far over the line.
North America
Circuit of the Americas
Host to the United States Grand Prix since 2012, this Hermann Tilke-designed track features homages to some of the best corners that sim racers have ever laid their eyes on. From a Maggots-Becketts complex in Sector 1 to the triple-apex or even quadruple-apex corner in Sector 3, and with that daunting uphill run to Turn 1 thrown into the mix, this track is brutal for hotlaps and races alike. So much so that sim racers often affectionately call it the “Circuit of the Track Limits.”
COTA has two layouts in AC EVO, the full-length GP layout and the shorter National layout. Whilst the National layout skips Sector 2 in its entirety, the fast left-right chicane that replaces it can be equally as challenging as some of the GP loop’s second sector due to its fast nature and complex camber profile.
Laguna Seca
Located in California, Laguna Seca was built in 1957 and remains a staple of American motorsport. The track is 3.602 km (2.238 miles) long and has 11 corners, including the legendary Corkscrew, a dramatic downhill chicane with a huge elevation drop.
Laguna Seca is famous for hosting events such as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, MotoGP (in the past), and the IndyCar Series. Helio Castroneves set the fastest lap at 1:05.786 in 2000. The circuit’s natural setting and lack of runoff areas challenge even the most skilled drivers.
Road Atlanta
Host to Petit Le Mans, and last on this list but by no means least, Road Atlanta is a true driver’s track that has many stories to tell about it. From races gone by to YouTube channels that tried to drive the circuit in real life using only a controller, to even the infamous story of the curved back straight being used as a runway to allegedly smuggle contraband into the US, Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta is in equal parts mythic and track design mastery.
After a tricky first corner that curves and cambers up a hill, drivers must negotiate a treacherous set of chicane turns that wind up and down the hill before taking their chances on a bumpy run-off curve at Turn 5. The rest of the lap looks straightforward on a map, but the undulating rises and drops make every braking zone that little bit tougher, and every acceleration zone an opportunity for a kick of oversteer or understeer to send you into the grass, the gravel, or the wall in the case of the final turn.
When you complete your licences, you’ll have experienced all of these tracks in all of their glory. We can’t wait to see what’s coming next from Kunos in this Assetto franchise, and we are doubly excited about the prospect of the open world.
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