New practice track features help you tune your car right on the track and save baselines to see exactly how the work affects your performance. An all-new interface makes customizing and upgrading your car in the Parts Shop and Garage simple and straightforward. Earn money to unlock new cars and receive quality upgrades as you progress towards the IHRA Sportsman Championship. For more in-depth play, experience the season mode with the excitement and challenge of the IHRA Sportsman 12-event season. If you're looking for instant action, try the arcade mode and choose from single event or two-player split-screen racing. IHRA Sportsman features intense and authentic bracket racing action between cars of all makes and models. "I want to bring people closer together instead of just looking at a screen," Beattie says.From the creator of the most successful drag-racing games in the world comes the next generation of action, IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition. But the ultimate win will be to make slot car tracks accessible enough that they might draw away some of the audience they once lost to video games.
"Two and a half years ago I was broke, and now I have tracks in museums and am making tracks for Jay Leno," he says. Each car will also have a POV camera inside so racers can experience the thrill of the course first hand on their tablets, no fire suit required.īeattie has eased the pedal off the metal to enjoy some of his hard-won success. His next project is a massive 20'x16'x12' course that uses iPads, instead of the iconic pistol grip controllers, to drive the cars. Though Beattie uses old-school techniques, he isn't opposed to new technology. To build the tracks, he studies racing footage, aims for a high level of authenticity, and isn't afraid to "tear a track apart if it's not working." The "slot" that guides the car is designed in CAD and carved with a CNC mill, but the rolling hills and dynamic elevations are "all done with a Sawzall" says Beattie. Very few elements on a SlotMods track are digitally manufactured.
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