The first episode of my BeamNG Showdown Series, a Best Motoring inspired show where fast rival cars face-off in a time attack battle with detailed vehicle commentary and cinematics. This time we have the top models of the Gavril Barstow vs the Bruckell Moonhawk on Hirochi Raceway. It's my first attempt at voiceover, so please share your feedback if you have any.

We find ourselves on the challenging Hirochi Raceway Full Circuit in version 0.6.1 of BeamNG.drive, with plenty of challenging corners that are great for pushing the cars to their limits and fairly high speeds. Considering the specifications of these two cars, you might be surprised at how different these two muscle cars actually are, but it may be more understandable once you realize the Barstow had a 1969-1971 production run while the Moonhawk had a 1973-1978 production run. A lot of mechanical innovations can happen within that period of time, as well as the general approach to performance cars. The Barstow has a larger engine with much more torque and power while the Moonhawk has a somewhat slimmer profile and emphasizes racing suspension and chassis stiffness with a rollcage instead.

Watch to find out how the track-focused models of these two cars compare, and expect to see a mystery version of one of these cars with a much higher performance rating than the featured two toward the end of the video. I hope you enjoy the presentation, as I tried to channel Best Motoring somewhat in my voiceover and description of the technical details regarding the powertrains and chassis of these vehicles, and put some effort into getting some nice Forza inspired cinematic opening shots to set the scene. There's also some drifting, a few wrecks, a braking stunt, and some countersteer heavy saves and two-wheel moments with the aggressive curbs.

For my controls, I used a Logitech G27 racing wheel with the H-pattern shifter and 900 degrees of rotation, PC specs are a GTX 1060 and i7 4790K with 16 gigs of RAM. Edited and produced using Avidemux and FL Studio.

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Check out my Thread on the BeamNG forums with extra media, including cinemascope car photography and Gfycat gifs/webms.
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Intro and outro songs are work-in-progress pieces by myself, "The Tepid Mountain King" and "Tranquil Pressure." Reveal of the third challenger is an excerpt of "In the Hall of the Mountain King."

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