SOME have criticised the current craze of professional eSports for being too serious. Fortunately, there are alternatives out there.

COMPILED BY: Mark Walker

If you have read these pages previously, you might know that I am unashamedly a huge fan of the work of Dinner with Racers, a hit US Podcast which has recently branched out into an Amazon Prime TV series.

In this time of extended lock down, the team have started hosting their own whacky brand of iRacing, with grossly miss-matches classes on hugely inappropriate tracks, with great guest commentators. And damage off.

Some recent iterations of their “Thursday Night Blunder” series have featured:
An Ode to Germany – seven classes of German cars on the Müllenbach, the shortest layout at the Nürburgring
Not-So Historic Le Mans – Nissan GTP, GRC cars, 410 winged sprints & Pro 2 Trucks
Talladega Unrestricted – NASCAR, IndyCar, LMP1 & Legends
Long Beach – Formula 1, Indycar, Formula Renault 2.0 & Skip Barber
Martinsville – NASCAR Trucks & Stadium Trucks

Keep an eye out for some special guest drivers throughout, as well.

For this week’s round, the winner of a fan vote was Mount Panorama by Night, with the choice of machinery featuring GT3 cars (with headlights) and Indycars (without).

Adding to the spectacle was Twitter legend NASCARCASM providing special comments. Enjoy!

Thursday Night Blunder – Bathurst at Night

Some of the “Highlights” From Bathurst…

Lap 1 calamity seems to be a trend tonight.https://t.co/zvtZ3mVulYhttps://t.co/lneuwLbHNxhttps://t.co/A1vJz2y4uH#TNB #ThursdayNightBlunder pic.twitter.com/AyhKr0WamV

— Dinner With Racers (@DWRshow) May 15, 2020

How the GT3 leaders deal with a wrecked car in the middle of the road.https://t.co/zvtZ3mVulYhttps://t.co/lneuwLbHNxhttps://t.co/A1vJz2y4uH#TNB #ThursdayNightBlunder pic.twitter.com/mXpEAC9q5c

— Dinner With Racers (@DWRshow) May 15, 2020

All of the mayhem!https://t.co/zvtZ3mVulYhttps://t.co/lneuwLbHNxhttps://t.co/A1vJz2y4uH#TNB #ThursdayNightBlunder pic.twitter.com/BAjEy1YDNK

— Dinner With Racers (@DWRshow) May 15, 2020

Well that escalated quickly https://t.co/zvtZ3mVulYhttps://t.co/lneuwLbHNxhttps://t.co/A1vJz2y4uH#TNB #ThursdayNightBlunder pic.twitter.com/fzj10EZ3tq

— Dinner With Racers (@DWRshow) May 15, 2020

Meanwhile, they also created “eRacing”

Elsewhere on the Internet…

We have already critiqued the excellent work of Tom Arron, and thankfully, he has kept coming up with the magic.

Below are some examples, but much more can be found on his Twitter page.

There are many, many steps on the motor racing ladder.

You’ll find most of them in the European Touring Airfield Equipment Championship.

As you can see here, things often escalate pretty quickly… pic.twitter.com/WcGfJdYDhU

— Tom Arron (@norramot) May 14, 2020

Another motorsport admin mix-up in the late ’90s led to CART rather than kart machinery being shipped to the Isle of Man for the Manx Kart Grand Prix.

The single-seaters were obviously far to big to use the compact Peel kart circuit, and so the full TT course was opened up. pic.twitter.com/ZxbYoFra5R

— Tom Arron (@norramot) May 11, 2020

I enjoyed the Le Mans ’66 movie, but what I really want to see on the big screen is an adaptation of what happened next.

For me, the Ford vs Ferrari rivalry truly came to a head the following year, when the American car giant entered a pair of MkIVs in the Monaco Grand Prix. pic.twitter.com/s6VzrCV9Fu

— Tom Arron (@norramot) May 5, 2020

They have everything in the Pays de la Loire: The 24 Heures du Mans, 24 Heures Motos, and even the 24 Heures Camions.

My favourite event on the Circuit de la Sarthe however, has to be the 24 Hours of Le Mown.

Cream of the crop. pic.twitter.com/CEBzvn1umm

— Tom Arron (@norramot) May 4, 2020

Some of the most exciting racing I’ve ever seen has been in the Abellio British Production Single-Decker Championship. Especially at Brands Hatch.

Unfortunately though, I don’t have any footage from the Routemasters Historic Festival on the full Grand Prix circuit. pic.twitter.com/OaR9A6sL2U

— Tom Arron (@norramot) May 3, 2020

Bonus Lolz

Copying @norramot‘s alternative motorsport history idea:

V8 Supercars once tried to run the Adelaide 500 with the Stadium Super Truck jumps still in place. The Ford teams all pulled out, leaving just Holdens to start the race, very few finished. pic.twitter.com/FiFLCFThYT

— Ben Gooding (@BenGooding93) May 3, 2020