Hello from Italy!

**niccotadde** Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:51 pm

Hello to everyone, I'm Niccolò Taddeucci, I'm 25 and i live near Florence, in Italy. I've seen that I was already registered in this forum (something like 4 years ago) but probably didn't go further than clicking the "register button" Rolling Eyes

Well, it's never too late to do a presentation of myself! Laughing

I started playing GTR2 in 2008. I first discovered a demo-trial of GTR (i remember I could only drive the Murcielago in Barcelona) and I fell in love with that sim. At the time I was playing mostly with PS2 console, so I didn't have a large background in PC sims and furthermore didn't have a powerful PC.

Discovered GTR, I also found GTR2 and GTR Evo. GTR2 was the best, in my opinion. I bought the CD version online (I always thought that it was a pirated copy of the CD, as there was no manual except for a single sheet with some obvious information and an invalid serial number thumbs

). Played the CD version with the No-CD hack for ages, then I recently decided to buy a steam key of the game (it was on sale at 2 euros) and retire the old CD. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

I always play offline as i like to do my private stuff Cool

I like endurance racing and especially endurance sim racing. One thing I love the most of GTR2 is the middle race save, giving me the opportunity to do longer endurance races in more days. This feature is hard to see in newer sims as it's seen as something "outrageous" for a sim racer. I personally disagree with that Evil or Very Mad

.

I discovered EEC searching for good mods, as it's the best place to find endurance mods (tracks with larger grids and multi-class racing cars). In my freetime I also skin some cars, but for private use only. Maybe I could share some works in the future, who knows.. I've never done that before because of permissions and my fear of being judged for a bad work

Out of sim racing, I watch F1 (supporting Ferrari, so pls no comments on last 4 races geek

) and every year I watch every single hour of the 24h of Nurburgring event (my favourite motorsport event of the year). Probably I will be there in 2023, at the Nordschleife. Occasionally watching GTWC, especially this year as Valentino Rossi (our national hero Smile

) is competing there.

Looking forward to see the new Ferrari's WEC hypercar and I hope there will be more battles in WEC's top class (I'm dreaming LMDH vs LMH at Le Mans.. Twisted Evil

)

My hobbies are cycling and running (I used to run, then my knee got injured and now i mostly go cycling), as I love to see the views nearby my home (Chianti and Casentino areas). Yeah, from this point of view I feel very lucky.

Sorry for the long presentation and for my bad english tongue