Comments on: iRacing.com – Brands Hatch Reality Check Gallery

By: hoboracer

hoboracer — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:16:22 +0000

moppenheimer: I hope thats a joke…….

Why, did you notice how accurate the trackside objects were in the video? (granted it's model is from 2006)

By: marc1111

marc1111 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:19:02 +0000

Crazy Bored: I don’t care what anyone says, this track is a lot of fun.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opG5y03-DR8

Ha Crazy Bored!!! I recognize your car. We just had a nice battle a couple hours ago in the fun race. Too bad that guy in first spun and took us both out. I wasn’t even trying to pass him into T1 really, just trying to shake him up a little and it seemed like he freaked out every time. Was great fun!

By: Crazy Bored

Crazy Bored — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:19:22 +0000

I don’t care what anyone says, this track is a lot of fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opG5y03-DR8

By: moppenheimer

moppenheimer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:44:10 +0000

hoboracer: Easy, Toca3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8bvQ6h4ONw

I hope thats a joke.......

By: Lincoln Miner

Lincoln Miner — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:31:55 +0000

marc1111: Man that track is fun!!!Strange that I noticed a couple inconsistencies with the trees as well.Amazing that we actually complain about that, but iRacing set the standard!! Also, we are able to use a lot of grassphalt in iRacing, not sure I’ve seen many real live videos where the whole car is on the grassphalt in certain places and still running fast laps.Anyway, here are up a couple Dallaras fighting.The elevation changes are awesome!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ARNVPhceM

Nice video. You make it look way easier than it actually is... Saw your time of 1:14 in a practice session yesterday. 1st 1:14 I've seen. Good pass at the end of the video at Westfield/Dingle Dell. Nice multi-lap chase. FYI, I tried you Sebring setup and it's way too loose for me. I'd need a lot more practice to be able to run your setups! :-)

By: marc1111

marc1111 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:47:38 +0000

Man that track is fun!!! Strange that I noticed a couple inconsistencies with the trees as well. Amazing that we actually complain about that, but iRacing set the standard!! Also, we are able to use a lot of grassphalt in iRacing, not sure I’ve seen many real live videos where the whole car is on the grassphalt in certain places and still running fast laps.

Anyway, here are up a couple Dallaras fighting. The elevation changes are awesome!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ARNVPhceM

By: hoboracer

hoboracer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:54:20 +0000

moppenheimer:
the worst out there? name 1 sim with more accurate trackside objects….

Easy, Toca3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8bvQ6h4ONw

By: the.cosmic.pope

the.cosmic.pope — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:46:30 +0000

Panchito: Track looks to much yellowish on iracing, grass is to light, and as always, it feels empty (much more a trackday than a race).But is the best version I’ve seen

It feels empty because the screenshots were taken during practice. Like other sims, there is less crowd for practice than with race.

By: Panchito

Panchito — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:28:18 +0000

Track looks to much yellowish on iracing, grass is to light, and as always, it feels empty (much more a trackday than a race).

But is the best version I’ve seen

By: ermax18

ermax18 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:27:24 +0000

moppenheimer, rFactor has a freelook mode where you can fly anywhere you want on the track and can rotate the camera in anyway you want along with zoom in and out. That is what all those button maps are for. It isn’t as well done as iRacings cameras but not to bad.

By: MadCat360

MadCat360 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:00:38 +0000

Looks great! But these comparisons really illustrate the weird washed out colors in iRacing. They need to fix that (and I think I read somewhere that they are).

By: moppenheimer

moppenheimer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:58:53 +0000

carbonfibre: Can we get the same guy to do like a 4 way version of iRacing, Simbin, Shift and whatever’s the best rFactor mod side by side?

it would be much harder because you'd have to make custom cams for the RF/Simbin stuff, and maybe Shift too, not sure how their cams work

By: Lincoln Miner

Lincoln Miner — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:42:57 +0000

I’ve just run about 50 laps on Brands in the Indy car. Terrific track. Very tricky. A bit like Watkins in spots with bigger hills. They really did a great job with the elevation changes and the subtle off camber turns and bumps etc. I love coming down pit row with all the bricks into Paddock Hill and just when you think Paddock Hill was interesting you get the nasty, blind off camber Druids Bend hairpin. Then Graham Hill is pretty easy, but boom you get nailed with the very tricky Surtees. Up the huge Hawthorn Hill. The uphill Hawthorn bend is a blast followed by a tricky blind Wesfield Bend down Dingle Dell to another blind Dingle Bell Corner. You get a break at Stirlings Bend then Clearways, which is a bit like the baby brother to Paddock Hill Bend… a downhill right hander into the fast Clark Curve and you finish with Brabham Straight past pit row and the main grandstands.

This course is a blast! :-) I’ve only tried it in the Indy car, but man this is a fun track!

By: carbonfibre

carbonfibre — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:12:51 +0000

Can we get the same guy to do like a 4 way version of iRacing, Simbin, Shift and whatever’s the best rFactor mod side by side?

By: Lincoln Miner

Lincoln Miner — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:09:55 +0000

felipe: provability is that iRacing has got the best racing track surfaces out there but the background are the worse out there too and the colors look so different from the real thing. But still hats off for the track surface!

Felipe here is a picture of Paddock Hill Bend with those trees…

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Paddockhillbendtop.jpg

And the Google Maps URL.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&om=1&t=k&z=16&ll=51.356722,0.263157&spn=0.010117,0.019956/

I think iRacing positioned those big trees to close to the apex of Paddock Hill Bend. They are at the exit by the Vodaphone sign, but not at the apex. Big goof.

They fixed the water tower, which was too large at their Indianapolis track, so they are concerned with accuracy. My guess is they’ll definitely fix this goof with an update.

I don’t see any other errors, but I haven’t looked that close.

By: moppenheimer

moppenheimer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:23:31 +0000

felipe: provability is that iRacing has got the best racing track surfaces out there but the background are the worse out there too and the colors look so different from the real thing. But still hats off for the track surface!

the worst out there? name 1 sim with more accurate trackside objects....

By: felipe

felipe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:46:25 +0000

provability is that iRacing has got the best racing track surfaces out there but the background are the worse out there too and the colors look so different from the real thing. But still hats off for the track surface!

By: GeraArg

GeraArg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:35:10 +0000

jux: Some of the trees and tree lines are quite different in a couple of pics. Maybe they didn’t have a chance to photograph the track as carefully as the ones in the US. The track itself and most of the surroundings look as good as usual though.

It must be difficult to put a tree is exactly like in reality, surely for that require millions of polys and don´t make sense to overload the actual video cards for that.

By: jux

jux — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:29:08 +0000

Some of the trees and tree lines are quite different in a couple of pics. Maybe they didn’t have a chance to photograph the track as carefully as the ones in the US. The track itself and most of the surroundings look as good as usual though.