Hux's Grand Prix Legends Section

This is my brief section on the game I have been playing since December 1998 - Grand Prix Legends. It's the most challenging and realistic racing sim on the market with the added bonus of being able to be played over the internet against real drivers. This is possible because of something called VROC.

VROC - or Virtual Racers Online Connection - is a collection of serveral 'servers' you can join races on as a 'client'. The easiest way to play is by using GPL Spyboy. GPL Spyboy shows a list of all the races currently running on VROC and tells you what your latency (lag) is to each of them. It's no picnic out there let me tell you! These drivers are fast and the racing is expected to clean so you better behave yourself. Most of the races carry one of the advanced damage settings too so your conduct impacts on others tremendously.

For the best experience on VROC you need to have a ping time of 500ms or less but I have had a few stable races with pings slightly higher than this. Packet loss is probably more vital to a good race than latency. Press ALT-L in the game to see your connection details to the host. You will get disconnected a few times on VROC but it's just one of those things you have to put up with. It's very frustrating when you happen to be leading a full field of drivers only to get bumped on the final lap with a nice lead!