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Wow! I need this!

Codemasters eat this!

Nice? but Ferrari?? Come on McLaren

Oh…SHIT!!!

ps: NUERBURGRING LASERSCANNED!!!! HELL YEAH!

pss: oh my god just look at this! 

Bah! physics look like arcade crap.

Only joking, great news!!

Looks stunning. I’m just curious regarding physics ;)

after the first excitement…

no…seriously look at this! *.*

Looks awesome!

The wsgt guys might take a look at this engine? :D

:)

Well this is interesting, i wonder if reviews of F1 will compare this to the F1 game.
Bet codies might wish it was coming out a month or 2 later.

Is this what Blimey Games have been working on? Was it them doing a ferrari sim?

Want want want and also, want.

Did I mention want?

Don’t get too excited: it obviously is only the GP circuit. ;)

Definitely not: it correct that they were working on a Ferrari title, but this looks more like netKar Pro engine. :)

heres hoping it won’t be like ferrari virtual race

Is it a custom built game engine? Looks very good. :)

Looks awesome.

Which would be awesome! maybe its the exciting thing kunos has mentioned before on drivingitalia.

Seriously, who needs F1 2010 now? btw do you know a price of this title?

LOL, who needs F1 2010 anymore. ;)

Racer engine?

Me like it :DD
I hope one of thous “rF, iRacing and so on -like” physics :)

Netkar Pro doesnt look that good, does it?

I naively believe in iRacing-like physics 8-)

This is awesome! I am really itching to give it a go. (Even though the trailer made me cringe and giggle at the same time)

wow, i mean WOW! =-O

Price unveiled: it will costs 15€.

http://www.ferrari.com/English/Formula1/News/Headlines/Pages/100901_F1_Maranello_unveils_new_online_simulator.aspx

Indeed: this one looks better!

Great. Just GREAT. And its wonderful to just see everybody happy and not complaining :)

lets hope it’ll be modable

what’s the requirement for PC?

I hope it´ll have advanced FFB too….

sound very promising, hope they will release more tracks for it!

Is it just going to be effectivly time-trailing on your own, or are they talking about being able to race against other people in _real time_  ?

Wow this has come out of nowhere. Talk about stealing Codemaster’s thunder

Looks stunning, but it won’t worry Codemasters having “just” a time trial with one car and three circuits,
but for sure ;)  it will be great to see what times Fernando and Felipe did and trying to get near.
Sadly I feel my PC is not up to the task

this has got to be running on racer engine.

just refer to this article here
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/f1/495544/digital-reality-f1-simulators-revealed.html

so the 15 euro cost is only the cost of F10 and fiorano laser scanned track?

does it mean mugello and nuerburgring is going to be additional cost.

I think it will be “only” simple hotlapping – you and your car and clear track against opponents’ times. But it does not matter to me…

Is this “gMotor3″ engine? Maybe ISI secretly has something to do with this. 8-)
Hand over hand animation looks natural, but i couldn’t see entirely though.

Oh no it dosn’t matter to me either, im just curious. 

Looks like netKar Pro to me.

If that’s the case then it’ll have great tyre physics and great FFB.

One thing I’d like is an option to do multiplayer races – would be good fun.

Graphics really look very nice and clean, like something between gMotor2 and iRacing :) – but colours are rather iRacing-ish IMHO. I would be totally satisfied with such graphics in rFactor 2…

My guess is also that this is the Kunos project. To me, looks similar to NetKar Pro as well.

An F1 sim from Ferrari with graphics this good would definitely keep my anxious to try it.
Hope it’s that good though.

looks very promising

off topic: they would be my favorite team if they could stop cheating. they done it again in spa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlxHOcWMM5c

I think it looks a lot better then iracing and anything we have seen from rf2 so far.
I wish rf2 would look like that.

I don’t think it looks _alot_ better than iRacing.  Infact the surrounding scenery quality and grass/curbs looks identical, even down to the general ambience, the only difference is the actual car itself which does look alot better, sharper, but then it would when you’re creating a game with only one car, your own car, with only one users car on screen/track in any given session.

but it won’t be free! SUX

this will have better physics than f1 2010 for sure!

Kunos Simulations confirm they made this software!

http://www.drivingitalia.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=50572&st=220

The lighting and reflections are just spot on,
that really makes the difference for me.
It´s something i miss in all currently available sims.

Hats off!

Certainly won’t pay for a pure hotlapping game, I’d pay if it had AI or online races, but 15 Euros for driving alone one 1 track? Not with me sorry :(

Hope there is only one camera position, real!   
  Next. F1 international builds a full simulation of all tracks and cars. Inviting all F1 fans to join in the races. Utilizing iOpener, virtual winners will be awarded cups, championships and prizes along with the real drivers.  

This is great news. 

I don’t see this as a “threat” to F1 2010.  If its NetKar based then there’s no AI and it won’t be out on console.  If it does have on-line racing it is a direct competitor for iRacing’s Williams though.

Nice graphics as some write ?
I think the track looks like drawn with a set colour pencils.

Looks pretty sweet! would be real nice to see Fernando Felipe and Giancarlo’s times and compare to them… 

I would! 15 euros for an f1 sim based on real data from SF and laser scanned Fiorano, Mugello & Nurburgiring GP??? … freaking SWEET

Yeah, I`m getting this too, I am prepared to pay for something that will most likely be really interesting. This and the Williams in iRacing, sweet times for F1 fans.

A definite buy for me (although I’m a McLaren fan 8-) )
It sounds (and looks) really-really interesting. Knowning it comes from Stefano Cassilo makes it even more interesting.

That really came out of nowhere!

hi hi  codemasters f1 =-X

Wow, that’s great! Thanks for this info.

Wow.. Did not see this one coming. I guess this is a must buy for me considering I am not just a Formula 1 fanatic, but a Ferrari fan also. Though I wish Super Aguri were still around! While I wouldn’t normally pay for a time-trial game, it is still an F1 game and I cannot get enough of F1. The car modeling is beautiful also. 8-)

halleluyah!
must…resist to watch it…..again, and again, and again….till 9.9. :-D

now is the perfect time to compare iRacing’s price scheme with someother content disbributer. in this case it’s ferrari themselves selling 3 laser scanned tracks and nothing less than the F10 as real as you can get. I declare iracing the most damn expensive simulator on this planet! :)

btw its the first F1 sim I’ll really give it a go as it’s as authentic F1 car as possible in the simulation world!!! :)

Same here! Judging purely from the images, I think this could be the best looking PC sim ever. And I hope that Ferrari will keep their promise and physics will be as good as possible. This is really great, unexpected surprise. Now I am looking forward to similar Porsche sim with laser scanned Le Mans and GT3RSR / RS Spyder :-D

it’s only 1 car & 1 track for 20$ !

There are  three track in the  packet..fiorano mugello and nurburgring..

There are  three tracks in the  packet..fiorano mugello and nurburgring..

Will be fun when gregger huttu and the other aliens start to made faster laptimes than the real life drivers.  I guess that this will be too much for his massive egos, since they believe that they are the fastest men in world.

It is only time trial. And as stated above 1 & 1 track $20. You are not even get a racing experience out of this, just hot lapping by yourself. 

IMHO, totally wrong response!  Think how much Codies were screwed into thinking they would be trumped two weeks before there release of F1 game by the biggest race manufacture in the world…!

I wonder if they get any refund from Bernie… remember, think how much they paid for this license?  Maybe if they could just develop a game with no license fee, the game would be so much better than it will be.  License is Multi Millions for F1.

However, I’m glad to see this and was surprised… I do not own stock in Codies !

this isn’t iracing! I’m expecting a more proper sim, and no unrealistic times.

The initial release on September 9th will include the Ferrari F10 Formula One car
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bargain

Don’t underestimate the Huttu.

Ever. No other simmer could even possibly hope to do what he is doing to the competition right now.

But Huttu isn’t from this world, we all know this. So I guess they could still think they are the fastest men in the world, because only guy faster comes from, well, another world. lol

And what about GPL, GTR2, NR2003 and any other sim he’s touched—all too unrealistic?

:-P

I am pretty sure Huttu will crush Massa and Alonso in this sim.
But I am also pretty sure Alonso and Massa would crush Huttu in a real F1 car.

15€ is no money for this!

looks way better than iracing.

Looks good visually. but physics is far from promising judging from the videos. Ofcourse, that’s my first impression, I’m wrong for sure. :)

Looks good, Been wanting a good modern f1 sim for a long time. Just wondering if its permanent sim game  or does the game stop working at the end of the tournament?

I think this is the reason the Virtual Academy has no races and no championship mode.

The F1 license has to mean something.

Stealing Codemaster’s thunder?

That would actually be very good. It would mean that the mainstream people and the big sales are interested in simulators more than in shiny games.

And, as money talks, we will get shiny and popular simulators.

Having said that, I already preordered F1 2010 on Steam, and I am still hesitating about buying this Virtual Academy thing tomorrow.

Lol, many ppl will be faster than they were. Simply cause they probably did less than an hour of driving while all simracers will be doing hundreds of hours of testing and practice. 

Bono Huis can beat Huttu any day of the week also..

07 second its not the same car!!!!

Since the game requires authentication from Ferarri’s servers, they could kill the game whenever they want, I’m fairly certain they won’t for a few years though.