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FIRST Named Sanctioning Body for iRacing.com 2008-03-14 19:00:16 iRacing.com co-founders Dave Kaemmer and John Henry have ambitious goals with their simulation, they expect nothing less than expand internet racing and establish it as a legitimate branch of motorsport. To assure all this will happen, iRacing.com is teaming up with FIRST to administer and organise iRacing.com’s online racing activities.
FIRST’s official Sporting Code for [...]
RACE07 Expansion Pack - BTCC? 2008-03-14 12:19:45 Ever since the announcement that the RACE07 expansion pack would be delayed, there has been no info whatsoever on what this pack will be about. This changed today when a new demo of RACE07 surfaced on STEAM. Titled “Crowne Plaza Raceway Demo”, the new demo is only available to those who have the original [...] Read more:Expansion
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BMW 1 Series by Revelli - Previews 2008-03-13 22:18:48 Even though the Racers Modding Team has their hands full with creating their World Super GT Mod for GTR2, some of their members even find the time to work on side projects. One of them is Revelli, who is currently working on a BMW 1 Series race car for rFactor.
Even though this is apparently [...]
Chevrolet Opala Diplomata 1987 - More Previews 2008-03-13 22:13:54 eFirehawk has been making good progress with his Chevrolet
Opala Diplomata from 1987. Modeling work on the Brazilian Chevy is done, as soon as he finds a helping hand, this beauty will be making its way into rFactor.
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F1 1985 - Lotus 97T Beta Released 2008-03-13 19:56:48 Valiante is working on a Formula One 1985 mod for rFactor and needs your help along the way. He has released the first car of the mod for everybody to try, you can download the Lotus
97T Beta by clicking the image below.
You can help him improve the mod by telling him what you [...]
Prototype C - Progress Update 2008-03-13 16:38:44 There are not many rFactor mods as much anticipated as Virtua_LM’s Prototype
C mod. The excitement has been fueled once again today as Virtua_LM has released screenshots of new additions to the mod’s lineup as well as a brand new preview video.
To somewhat answer the countless questions of “when”, the team has updated their [...] Read more:Update
Logitech G25 - Reloaded 2008-03-16 23:19:02 If you´re an avid sim racer, chances are pretty high that you own a Logitech
G25, the flagship of Logitech’s line of racing wheels. While you´re probably pretty pleased with the product, some people try to take it to the next level. Below are photos of the JL-G25, a pimped-out Logitech G25 if you [...] Read more:Reloaded
DTM 2002 - Opel Astra Preview Video 2008-03-16 20:26:11 Turb is getting closer and closer to releasing his GSMF-approved conversion of their DTM 2002 mod to rFactor. To shorten the waiting time, here is the latest preview video of the Opel Astra
on the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
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MMG 2007 Server Edition 1.0 - Released 2008-03-16 11:39:29 Some weeks after the release of the much-discussed public edition, MMG has released the server edition of their 2007 Formula One mod for rFactor. Primarily aimed at leagues who want equal cars for close competition, the server edition also fixes some of public edition’s bugs.
What’s new from previous version?
- New Cockpit Mirrors upgrades for [...] Read more:Edition
FSONE 2007 - More Previews 2008-03-16 11:31:47 Codex keeps on working on the FSONE 2007 mod for rFactor, bringing the 2007 Formula One Season to the game. Below are the newest previews, showing several cars in game.
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World Super GT Mod - Monza Previews 2008-03-15 16:05:35 The Racers Modding Team has released new previews of their upcoming WorldSuper
GT Mod for GTR2. This time, the cars are racing at Monza
, joined by the brand new Stealth B6 in British GT spec.
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Melbourne & Interlagos - Improved Versions Preview 2008-03-19 10:44:32 After releasing the very nice Londrina track, Frank Alexandre has been busy improving the existing versions of Melbourne
and Interlagos. His work paid off as the new versions look a lot better than the previous ones and are close to be ready for release.
This will be Frank’s last rFactor work for a while since [...] Read more:Preview
Forza 2 - March Carpack Released 2008-03-19 10:30:35 Just to keep the balance here after posting all those GT5 news items, its time to have something on Forza
Motorsport 2 for the XBOX 360. The march carpack was just released, for 400 Microsoft points you´ll get thirteen brand new cars.
2007 Audi S5
2007 Audi TT S-Line
1971 BMW Motorsport 3.0 CSL
2008 BMW Motorsport M3
2007 [...] Read more:March
NAGT - Alive and Kicking 2008-03-19 10:18:50 Remember NAGT? The Pits and RSR started what was the first rFactor mod in development years ago. For months it was very silent about their project, only the news that RSR pulled out of the work had surfaced. Finally, there is good news about NAGT as The Pits’ Jan Kohl has released new screenshots [...] Read more:Alive
, Kicking
F1 1988 - Getting Closer to 1.0 2008-03-18 18:32:24 Carrera.4 is still working hard to bring his popular Formula One 1988 mod for rFactor to version 1.0. While the first released version is still heavily popular among rFactor players, the 1.0 version will finally complete the 1988 Formula One grid and bring lots of other small changes and fixes.
According to inside-info given on [...]
FIA GT 2006 Mod - Modelling Progress 2008-03-18 18:21:54 After releasing his great Italian GT 2005 mod for GTR2, arefa is now shifting his focus back to his FIA GT 2006 mod. The mod will bring GTR2 to full 2006-spec, including plenty of modified cars.
His newest work can be seen below, the almost done Aston Martin DBRS9 as well as the Viper Competition [...] Read more:Modelling
Nordschleife 2.1 - Preview Video 2008-03-18 10:11:20 Team rF-nordschleife is close to release the updated version of their Nordschleife 2.0 for rFactor, GTR2 and GTL. Don’t get fooled by the version number as the new version will contain a lot of changes and improvements. Sounds interesting? Below is a short preview video released by the team.
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GT5 Prologue - Hi-Res Ferrari F2007 Shots 2008-03-18 10:06:42 Originally planned as a surprise for American and European GT5 Prologue
buyers, the existence of the Ferrari
F2007 has been unveiled before the release of the game.
With everything out in the open, Sony has released high-res preview screenshots of probably the most exciting car of the game so far.
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GSMF TLRC Mod - Preview Video 2008-03-17 16:49:18 If East Germany was known for much but surely not for building good cars. Even though the Trabant, the GDR’s most famous car, was not at all up to the quality of western car engineering, it was and still is a cult object for many people.
That it’s also a capable race car show the [...] Read more:Preview
Project Torque - Free Game Anyone? 2008-03-17 16:24:33 In terms of mods and tracks, sim racers are somewhat used to getting stuff for free. Getting a full game for absolutely nothing is something that does not happen too often, it’s exactly what Project
Torque is about though.
Made by Aeria Games, Project Torque is a free MMORG (Massively Multiplayer Online Racing Game), letting [...] Read more:Anyone
Retrospective - How Far We´ve Come 2008-03-17 16:03:30 A topic about the possible oldest racing sim at the NoGrip foums inspired me to dig YouTube for some old computer racing material. I´ve picked three classical games, maybe these clips will bring up some memories for some of you.
Looking at these clips made me reaslise that we´ve become way too picky about things [...]
World Super GT Mod - McLaren Previews 2008-03-17 15:45:19 The preview shots of the upcoming WorldSuper
GT Mod are some of the most popular items here, hopefully the following will make no exception.
After plenty of previews of the full field, we focus on a single car this time - The McLaren F1 GTR Longtail by RMT, coming to your GTR2 (hopefully) quite [...]
Belcar 2006 Mod - Mazda RX7 Renders 2008-03-17 15:36:02 Kimi311’s Mazda
RX7 is one of the brand new cars the Belcar 2006 mod made by bsim-racing.com will contain. After showing us plenty of in-game screenshots, the team has now released four fabulous renders of the rotary-powered car.
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F1 1988 for GTR2 0.9 - Released 2008-03-21 19:45:29 morning_wood and GTI-Heizer have released their conversion of carrera.4’s Formula One 1988 mod to GTR2. The mod brings (almost) the full 1988 Formula One season to GTR2, all cars have been created from scratch, featuring unique physics for all cars.
The conversion comes with full driver animations, working gauges and a new soundpack made [...]
2007 ALMS Mod - Dome S102 2008-03-21 18:18:05 There seems to be a new trend among sim modders called “creating cars that haven’t even raced yet”. After the F1RFT 2008 Formula One mod, here is another creating that has not even hit the track in real life yet: The Dome S102.
Made by IBNE who’s part of the 2007 ALMS mod for GTR2 [...]
GT5 Prologue - Ferrari F2007 Video 2008-03-21 17:50:34 After getting high-resolution screenshots, we now get to see movable images of the Ferrari
F2007 in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
. The car can be seen racing at Suzuka and although the video is a little shaky, it looks spectacular nevertheless.
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Marcos LM600 for rFactor - Previews 2008-03-21 17:15:32 Dorfmeister has received permission to convert BorekS’s Marcos
LM600 from GTR2 to rFactor. Built by Marcos Engineering, the LM600 is a distinctive GT car that raced in the FIA GT championship, at Le Mans as well as in national championships. The car is powered by a six-litre Chevrolet small block V8 engine.
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NAGT - More Previews 2008-03-21 16:42:10 The Pits`Jan Kohl has posted some more previews of the upcoming NAGT mod for rFactor. The mod is getting close to being released with all major work done.
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Simbin and Eurosport Announce V-WTCC 2008-03-21 15:37:00 Simbin and Eurosport have formed a partnership to bring interested sim racers the V-WTCC (Virtual World Touring Car Championship). The newly designed championship is meant to combine the best of the real life WTCC races and RACE07 online and on site.
All present and future RACE07 owners will be able to access the V-WTCC registration [...]
A Message From Blimey! Games 2008-03-21 10:59:03 After the release of the free BMW M3 Challenge game, it suddenly turned quiet around Blimey! Games
, makers of the GTR series. We´ve all seen the good-looking preview screenshots of the yet unnamed Ferrari game but there is still not much follow-up info on their current projects.
This changes now as Blimey’s Jan Frischkorn has [...] Read more:Message
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