Why Football Manager is the most addictive spreadsheet ever designed
This month’s off-topic post delves into the world of Football Manager – a game I’ve found myself playing again in the last couple of weeks. Here I attempt to explain why the much-loved series has always been greater than the sum of its parts. If you’ve previously read even a couple...
Exploring Brands Hatch at the Formula Ford Festival
I’ve been meaning to visit Brands Hatch for a long time, so since I’d just passed my GCFE exam I thought I’d head down to Kent for a relaxing day of racing at the Formula Ford Festival. The first thing that hit me is how modern the facilities at Brands...
Review – How to Build a Car by F1 designer Adrian Newey
It’s the last Friday of the month, which means it’s time for an off-topic post – this time on How to Build a Car by legendary Formula 1 designer Adrian Newey – a book that’s just as much a history of the sport’s recent regulatory changes as it is an autobiography....
Asus GeForce Dual GTX 1060 O6G review and PC build project update
For this month’s off-topic post I thought I’d give an update on my PC project and a review of my new graphics card – the Asus GeForce Dual GTX 1060 O6G – which I’ve now been using for about a month after splashing out last payday to complete my build…...
Project Cars 2: How to find a winning race setup and strategy
I recently wrote about how to find a good setup in Project Cars 2. A few races down the line in my IndyCar league, I thought I’d cover what I’ve learnt about how to approach race weekends and find the setup and strategy that will get you the best result...
Kerbal Space Program: How to build your own Formula 1 car
As a pretty big Formula 1 fan, it was only a matter of time until I did my best Adrian Newey impression and attempted to build an F1 car in Kerbal Space Program. Surprisingly, I was able to get some pretty good results quite quickly. Here’s how I did it…...
How to design and build your own PC – and why you should
A few weeks on from building my first PC from scratch, I thought I’d offer some thoughts and tips to help other first-time system builders go from big ideas to the big switch-on. The evening of June 15th was a tense one. I came home from work, ripped open the...
Concorde, F1 cars and retro garages at the Brooklands Museum
It may have taken me eight years to watch The Social Network, but at least I’d heard of it before that. I’m amazed that I only heard about the side-by-side Brooklands Museum and Mercedes-Benz World when I was Googling around for things to do a couple of months ago! Located...
Kerbal Space Program: How to build and fly a plane
After getting a couple of satellites into orbit in Kerbal Space Program, I decided I wanted to take to the skies in a plane. I saw this as walking before I ran, but it was surprisingly tricky to get a balanced plane out of the hangar and into the air....
Project Cars 2: How to tame the IndyCar beast
After my first Project Cars 2 league ended abruptly with a mid-season whimper, I was missing regular virtual racing. Luckily, one former contender is getting the band back together. The complication? His new championship is an IndyCar league. While exciting to watch, IndyCars can be incredibly twitchy to drive –...
