Forza 6: all the thrills and spills of driving in the wet

Forza 6 takes simulation of the racing track to a new level as players grapple with aquaplaning

"It is like driving down the M1 three metres behind a truck with your wipers switched off. But at 200mph," explains Allan McNish on the experience of piloting a top-end prototype sportscar in the rain. And he speaks from experience. The former Formula One driver, three-times winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours and the 2013 FIA World Endurance champion with Audi, drove, during his extensive career, in every permutation of wet weather conditions imaginable.

Two of the cars in which he competed , the 2012 R18, in which he won the 12 Hours of Sebring and the R8 that was part of his American Le Mans Series title in 2006, both feature in the recently released Forza 6, as does, for the first time, racing in the wet and at night, now that developer Turn10 believes it can do the conditions real justice. But it has also gone further and simulated an even greater level of realism - that of standing water and the aquaplaning it can induce in cars.