Open Wheel Races

At last, the feat of engineering no one asked for: a road bridge over the Alamo sea. And who is this great masterpiece for? Is it the much-needed infrastructure that will finally drive capital investment into the economically deprived area of Sandy Shores? Don't be ridiculous. It's a racetrack for the dumbest 1% of the wealthiest 1% of BAWSAQ 100 CEOs. Welcome to progress. Lap race for open wheel cars.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Los Santos International Airport. The runway is clear for departure. Please note, in the likely event the cockpit catches fire, the emergency team have been dismissed due to budget cuts. Turbulence is expected so fasten your seat belt and familiarize yourself with the emergency exit. Clue: it's straight out the top. Lap race for open wheel cars.

Everyone knows the health and safety board are too strapped for cash to stress test The Land Act Dam. Maybe that's why they gave a private company the rights to build a high speed open wheel racetrack. Nothing will confirm its sturdiness like a dozen exquisitely fine-tuned ultra performance machines smashing into the first corner. Lap race for open wheel cars.

What's the last thing an endangered bird sees as it cruises through a turbine at Ron Alternates Wind Farm? Once upon a time, the answer was 'progress'. These days, it's more likely to be an open wheel race car detonating two meters to its left. So, better progress. Lap race for open wheel cars.

Forget the purpose-built track. For true open wheelers, it's all about the historic street circuit. The narrow straights, the winding hairpins, the sun-drenched glamour of the French Riviera. Or in the case of the Vinewood Hills, the chubby insurance brokers doing yoga on their roof terraces. Lap race for open wheel cars.

Sure, Europe gave the world underage drinking and open wheel racing. But America showed the world how to do them at the same time. And now, courtesy of City Hall, Los Santos has a city circuit custom-built to showcase the kind of visionary synthesis that makes this great nation what it is. Lap race for open wheel cars.

The iconic Vinewood Sign means many things to many people. To some, it's fame, fortune and making it Big. To you, it's reaching the finish line with your cranium intact. Get ready to drive so close you can kiss the V for luck. Lap race for open wheel cars.

Forget racing 50-foot catamarans through the Vespucci Canals. This season the Vinewood elite have jumped on the open wheel racing hype with a track in their own backyard. It's an easy living. Just roll from your sun lounger into the cockpit and get ready for that first-place champagne. Lap race for open wheel cars.

In light of the recent spate of preventable drownings at the Port of Los Santos, the Port Authority's audacious rebranding emphasizes the stunning possibilities for exhilarating open wheel racing on a windy dockside with no safety barriers. It's all a question of optics. Especially if you're underwater. Lap race for open wheel cars.

What's more uncomfortable than being in an open wheel cockpit in a g-force inducing slipstream hurtling you hundreds of miles an hour on a twisting road that makes you uncontrollably seasick while dodging competitors as they crash out around you? Doing all that with sand in your pants. Surf's up. Lap race for open wheel cars.

With the kinetic energy recovery system in your R88 propelling you with all the force and stability of black-market cluster munitions, you might wonder if there's enough room for a conventional racetrack in Fort Zancudo. There's not. Enjoy the S-bends. Lap race for open wheel cars.

How were the residents of one of Los Santos's most affluent areas convinced to give their permission for a challenging open wheel race right through their neighborhood? Bribery of course. That and the fact no one mentioned it would take place 20 stories up and block all natural light. Do the residents mind? Yes. Do the race organizers care? No. Lap race for open wheel cars.

Close your eyes, breathe in deep, and go to your happy place. Is there an ambience more soothing than waves gently lapping at your chassis, gentle breezes whispering through your air intake, and the violent explosion of your PR4's oxidized carbon-carbon disk brakes? Lap race for open wheel cars.

The Los Santos Freeway has an estimated 71 fatal accidents per 100 miles. We know what you're thinking. Those are rookie numbers. Let's see if we can't amp them up. Lap race for open wheel cars.

There are two ways to make it into the executive boardrooms of the Los Santos business district. Option one, nepotism. Option two, you get into an open wheeler and insert yourself right into the AGM, because nothing impresses the hiring committee like driving a race car through the 40th floor window. Lap race for open wheel cars.

Some say that Davis could never host an open wheel series. But a state-of-the-art pit stop is surely just the kind of public investment that an underprivileged neighborhood needs. So don't think of the track as 'poorly funded'. Those potholes and concrete blocks are the natural obstacles that separate the weekend racers from the real pros. Lap race for open wheel cars.