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iRacing.com – Development Updates + New Williams Preview

Posted on August 25th, 2010 in iRacing – 29 Comments

Racing’s Steve Myers has released another one of his famous “Cat Herder” blogs were he usually outlines many of the upcoming features and content additions. His newest blog also includes the first ever in-game preview shot of the Williams FW31 that you can check out below.

Myers has laid out the roadmap for content additions in the coming months, announcing that the Williams Formula One car has already reached the testing-stage and Spa Francorchampss i expected to be ready in time for the holiday season.

NASCAR fans will be getting their hands on two new tracks much earlier as iRacing plans to release Pocono (icluding no less than five road course configurations) by next week and Dover by the end of September.

Aside from content additions, iRacing is also working on other features including the new tire model and graphic engine improvements. Another very interesting new feature adds to the spectator mode that was added with the last build as iRacing plans to give spectators the chance to get into each race in a ghost-car mode.

The spectator driver’s car won’t be visible to the drivers that are actually in the race and ghost cars will of course not be scored either. The new mode aims to give iRacing subscribers off all skill levels the chance to compare themselves to the simulation’s alien drivers like Greger Huttu. The blog also mentions other new features such as an improved pit crew system, make sure to read it here.


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  • AeroMechanical

    I like the ghost spectator idea.

  • GTEvo

    Wait for the Day, if the German Motorsport Industrie start there Simracing Monster Commercial. 
    Im pretty sure..only 5 Years, and Germany will be the WorldMarketLeader in SimulationsRacing Games^^ 8-)  
    iRacing leads only the Trackmodelling at Moment.
    But each other important Components to make Illusions perfect..are not lead by iRacing! 
     
    “Think about this Words”..Germany will be the Simracing WorldMarketLeader in 5 Years! 
    Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, VW, BMW, Opel, the SchumBrothers and BayernMünchen are in the Pipeline^^ 
     
    GlückAuf 
    Holger

  • wakkawakka

    He also mentions:

    1. The two new japanese tracks will be announced on September 18th (The day Indycars race at Motegi and a week before F1 races at Suzuka, two track owned by the same company *hint hint*)

    2. They’re flying Huttu off to the states to “do something really cool”. Given how much the community has discussed what Huttu would be like in a real car, everyone’s assuming they’re going to put him in a Skip Barber

  • wakkawakka

    (Note: “1 week” should obviously read “1 month”)

  • mike88

    man suzuka laser scanned would be heaven. after spa and if suzuka is going to make it into the game i guess only thing left would be the ring.

  • Carbonfibre

    FMOD please, I’m not interested in laser scanned Spa until I’m interested in iRacing. :-D

  • Husky42

    wtf are you on about?

  • Empty

    You dont want a car. You dont want a track. You dont care about physics. You dont care about racing.

    You care about sound.

    Cmon, modern F1s sound like crap. TBH, there isnt a car in the sim that I want to hear. They all sound pretty dang crappy, outside the C6R. Which, is impossible to do justice too.

    Well, without a super uber sound system.

  • Carbonfibre

    There’s no need to be belligerent about it. I’m not so blind as to what’s important in a sim. 
    I’m just saying it’s about time to rebalance the equilibrium with the other areas that are always being left behind; Sound (in all racing games) and also graphics (for real sims). 
    The first of which hasn’t seen any real innovation for the past decade or more. 
    FMOD is more significant to me.

  • scca1981

    Good question.

  • Mike Oppenheimer

    ah…Holger spouting incoherent nonsense again…nothing new to see….

  • jonelsorel

    Deutschland uber alles!!!

  • shum94

    I hear you Holger loll

  • shum94

    Le Mans
    Bathurst
    Monza
    Monaco

  • Firefox

    ISI is american, SimBin swedish, SMS english, iRacing american.
    What good simracing studio is german?

  • Rhys Gardiner

    Funny thing, actually – just last night I was thinking about how cool it would be to have an invisible spectator car which you could drive around during the races. Then I hop on VirtualR after school and see this… :)

  • David Wright

    “We are kicking around some ideas here internally on how to make this car (Williams F1) something everyone can use so stay tuned.”

    Free demo including the Williams is my suggestion :)

  • felipe

    completely unreal! iRacing will increase bandwidth demand from players and take away the realistic aspect of racing!  

  • Rhys Gardiner

    I do believe the article said that the ghost cars are people who aren’t actually in the race, and they’re invisible to the drivers actually racing… How, pray tell, is it unrealistic to be able to do that? 

  • Vince

    Ignore the asshat felipe as he mainly makes comments that make no sense. 

  • felipe

    ignore people who doesn´t lick your wound a very old strategy!
    tell me how realist it would be to be racing and knowing “ghosts” are competing against you learning your driving in a totally complete unrealistic manner!

  • gerrymodo

    gotta get me some of that german bier

  • Fuzzi0n

    They aren’t competing against you. Basically you’re driving on your own at the same time as the actual race. The people in the race cannot see you nor know you are there. All you do is drive against their ghost cars – its mainly been implemented to give drivers another way of trying to improve.

    Its not possible in real life, but then every game has a ghost car system. RTR’s concept IS just that. Problem is every other game makes it so you have to save a ghost, then someone else can download it – this allows you to do it live.

  • Chad Smith

    You have no idea anyone one is “ghost racing” you.   It is just like spectator mode, the people racing don’t know you are there.   It seems like an alternative to AI or your own ghost car, you try to beat the best time of actual people in a race and you can even follow their lines.    This will be a great thing for new people who aren’t quite ready to jump in a race. 

  • Chad Smith

    They already tried a free demo and that was a disaster because all the idiots were just wrecking everyone intentionally. 

  • Fuzzi0n

    Yeh, pretty sure they’ll never do another free demo. Last time everyone just abused it by wrecking and signing up with stupid/offensive names.

    What it might be is a license free car/have mulitple license series.

  • RFactor Resources Rf

    Many new and good ideas, are doing a great job

  • felipe

    btw it was NOT free everyone had to have a paypal account and 1 dollar was charged from everyone who signed up!

  • Empty

    Not at all. You did not need paypal, there are other options. Any charges were also to be refunded. Myself, did not lose a dime in the process.

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