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Very nice.

Though kerbs look kinda low and when the Williams car goes over them no suspension movement is evident.

I’d expect a better driving for a demonstrational video :-)

He probably still drive better than you do programming he, he

In case anyone missed it, you can hear the transmission flexing in the video :)

I didn’t hear anything different but good for you.

I can code a bit. Not much, but still better than how ‘he’ is driving.

Look at 1:22. That is a proper suspension movement.

how old is the scan? theres a new grandstand with a big roof on the s/f straight for two years now but i dont see it in the video.

Well my wallet is ready.

They did the photography in early 2011, which was just before a few minor changes. I’m not sure if anything changed intentionally on the racing surface, just nearby objects and runoffs and tire walls I believe. The correct answer would be ‘whenever the contractor scanned it last’, so since they’re usually working with F1 teams and most of the changes for the last few years have been off the racing line that likely explains why it’s out of date a bit.

The most important question:
IS the gate open or not?

Shut up i know what im doing u dont have to tell me all the time okay now gimme my coke n ice cream tqvm

Amazing track … best version i ever seen …

Amazing track … most beautifull version i ever seen …

Amazing track … most beautiful version i ever seen

What´s wrong with the driving? Doesn´t look too bad and good enough for a presentation.

Looking forward at the purchase, only it seems they borrowed the clouds from their version Spa. Or they look very similar.

It looks amazing, really detailed. I love iRacing tracks.

I guess, he means onboard-view. There, indeed, is nearly no suspension movement noticable.

Maybe he compares the kerbs with the GSC ones. That was the best reproduction of Interlagos, but this one is laser scanned. To me is just weird the staff making kerbs lower than what they are in realty… Hope you can understand what I mean ;)

It would help if the car wasn’t covered up by that music :(

Just welcome to hear a little bit of dynamics to the sound after so long of just being bland vanilla and predictable.

It looks like the modern curbs are much shorter than the old curbs, though I’m far from an Interlagos expert.
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/Hk5Wi73mmsx/F1+Grand+Prix+of+Brazil/nybnhTZIaFT/Mark+Webber
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vpdsKIG5PDE/TNt7xaictZI/AAAAAAAACKs/hX2O2uDMIjg/s1600/Senna+-+1988.jpg

Isn’t that because the Williams has an incredibly stiff front suspension? Not that it might not be totally accurate, but the FW31 should likely have some of the least front suspension movement of any iRacing car. The Skippy for example has incredibly noticeable suspension movement.

Release notes went up before the site went down this time :)

Yes, Formula 1-cars are very stiff, but they still have suspension movements. I mean, you can see the movements in the exterior cam, but just not onboard which isn´t the biggest deal, just what I think mfcfan said.

where can I see them? the site is down now…

I submitted them to Montoya, and I’ll put them in this post too.

Website:

Hosted/Leagues/Tournaments

– The number of cars that can be used in a hosted, league or
Tournament multi-car session has been changed from 3 to 4. The frame
rate and performance in a session with this many cars will depend upon
your pc and hardware.

– You no longer need to own all of the cars in a hosted multi-car
session to participate. You now only need to own the Track where the
event is being held and one of the Cars in the session. You will only
be able to drive in a car that you own and you still must meet all of
the other criteria of the session. You will need to download the cars
you do not own. This update applies to Hosted, League and Tournament
sessions

– Please Note: The “League Sessions” page and the “Hosted Racing -
Join a Race” page are the only places on the site that support this
functionality at this time. We are still working hard on implementing
this functionality for helmet pop-ups and the “Spectator Sessions” area
of the site.

Downloads

– The downloads page has been updated to support the downloading of
cars that you have not purchased, that may be required to participate
in a multi-car hosted events where you only own one of the cars. Cars
that you do not own, that you do not have installed on your machine will
appear in a new section of the download page call “Optional Unowned”.

New Awards

Nine new awards have been added.

– Young Star – win official races in four different cars

– Honorable – win official races in eight different cars

– The Feared – win official races in sixteen different cars

– The Alien – win official races in all cars

– Runnin’ Down a Dream – win official races on four different tracks

– On the Road Again – win official races on eight different tracks

– The Long and Winding Road – win official races on sixteen different tracks

– I’ve Been Everywhere – win official races on all tracks

– Photo Finish – win an official race with a margin of one
twentieth of a second or less; this award is not granted retroactively

License Banner Update

The License Banner has been completely redesigned for clarity and visibility.

– The color of your license will change to reflect your License Level.

– You can toggle between road and oval licenses by clicking “Road” or “Oval” in the top -left area.

– You can toggle between iRating and ttRating by clicking “iRating” or “ttRating” below your name.

– Calendar, MPR and Credit maintain their existing functions, but have been restyled.

– Ping has been moved to the sub-navigation next to “Support”.

Payments with PayPal Billing Agreements

** This section is awaiting a configuration change from our payment partner – we expect within the week.

– The iRacing Member’s site now supports PayPal Billing Agreements.
Once you have a billing agreement in place you can renew your account
automatically, purchase content and recharge your account without
logging into the PayPal site. A billing agreement is setup
automatically whenever a member purchases a subscription using PayPal.
You can also configure a billing agreement without purchasing a
subscription by going to the “My Account” page on the Member’s site
(look for the link inside the “PayPal Billing Option” section of the
page).

– From the “My Account” page you can remove an existing billing
agreement (look for the link inside the “PayPal Billing Option” section
of the page).

– If you have both a PayPal Billing Agreement and a credit card on
file you should visit the “My Account” page and select your preferred
payment method for auto-renewals and instant recharges. The link for
this is located in the “Billing & Shipping Information” section of
the page.

– Additional enhancements to this page are links to remove your
credit card on file and to cancel auto-renewal (this was moved from the
Cancel / Renew Membership page).

The following areas of the site have had a visual redesign

– “My Account”

– “Account Recharge”

– “Gift Card”

– “Promotions”

Bug Fixes

– Spotter passwords can no longer be blank. You must uncheck “Require a spotter password” if you decide not to have a password.

Simulation:

Tilt / Touch Driving

– Added tilt sensor support to the existing touch driving controls.
Now you can choose to use a tilt sensor to control steering or
gas/brake or both. The sensor auto calibrates based on your device
orientation at startup, but there is a ‘recenter’ button on the driving
screen (also mapped to the ‘y’ key) that will let you change your
orientation at any time. The tilt sensitivity can be adjusted in the
black box along with the FFB sensitivity and touch sensitivity. And the
throttle and brake can be inverted with an option in the setting tab.

– Fixed a bug in touch that caused touch up events to get lost if you released your finger over another control.

Text Chat Macros

– Added in an ‘auto chat’ feature that lets users hit 10 different
hotkeys to auto transmit a chat message. By default the keys are mapped
to the 0-9 keys above your keyboard, but that can be remapped as
needed. The default messages can also be edited in the sound settings
tab. Adding a ‘$’ symbol to the end of a line will automatically send
the chat message for you, without it the message will be left waiting
for you to edit or send as you wish.

Spectating

– No longer report connecting admins as being admins, or show Join/Leave announcements for spectators that are admins.

– Spectators don’t need to do tech inspections in a fixed setup session.

Options

– Gray out driving controls and aids that are not used in the
current session. But still let the user set their preferences for
future sessions. This includes indicating if the h-pattern shifter will
be active or not, based on your car type.

– Remove a lot of text from the controls page and push it into mouse over tool tips in order to improve visual clutter.

Spotting

– Change to not do tech inspections on spotters’ machines.

– When you use the [Start Spotting] button, you will now see the
live action, instead of the slightly delayed replay tape. You can still
use the replay controls to rewind and review action from the past. To
get back to the live action, use the “fast forward to end” button
(>>|), or simply fast forward and the replay will stop and switch
to live action when the end of the tape is reached. While spotting, you
can tell that you’re seeing the live action when the playback state
says “Live”.

Camera Tool

– Allow the camera tool hotkey to be remapped (ctrl-f12) to provide better compatibility with laptops and Mac devices.

– Fixed a bug where you could not edit the camera shot aim type if your custom camera file ended in ‘track.cam’

Telemetry

– Add lap information to telemetry. (LapBestLap, LapBestLapTime, LapCurrentLapTime, LapLastLapTime)

– Add delta time information to telemetry. (LapDeltaToBestLap,
LapDeltaToBestLap_DD, LapDeltaToBestLap_OK, LapDeltaToOptimalLap,
LapDeltaToOptimalLap_DD, LapDeltaToOptimalLap_OK,
LapDeltaToSessionBestLap, LapDeltaToSessionBestLap_DD,
LapDeltaToSessionBestLap_OK, LapDeltaToSessionOptimalLap,
LapDeltaToSessionOptimalLap_
DD, LapDeltaToSessionOptimalLap_OK)

– Add radio channel information to telemetry, see the “RadioInfo:”
section in the session string, and RadioTransmitCarIdx in the telemetry
data.

– Add pit service time to telemetry. (PitRepairLeft, PitOptRepairLeft)

Race Control

– Qualifying laps will now be invalidated if any 0x or 2x car contact occurs during the lap.

– Many non-significant race control rules are no longer active once
you finish your race. This could confusingly penalize people after they
finished their race and cause their finishing position to drop as the
post-race penalty was applied.

Graphics

– We have updated how we draw extra track surface details so they
conform correctly to the road surface better and render more
efficiently. This gets rid of our good old “floating skid marks” that
we’ve come to know and love/hate.

– As part of the track detail improvements the race track’s surface
is now always converted into a set of static meshes and stored in video
memory. The old option to convert it on the fly, which had the benefit
of utilizing slightly less video memory at the cost of performance,
has been removed from the graphics options screen.

– Every car has had its paint adjusted to improve how paint will
reflect more at low incident angles than when directly facing the
viewer.

– Windshield glare at night is much reduced down to a reasonable level.

– Fixed a bug that was preventing the brake rotor glow effect from being visible.

– The sim can now reload custom car textures with the ctrl-r
hotkey. This is useful if you like painting your own cars by being able
to quickly load and see your work in progress paint scheme without
having to reload the sim many times. When reloading is triggered, all of
the existing paint jobs are immediately unloaded and will default to
white. They will then begin automatically reloading one at a time.
Reloading happens in the background. If the loading causes performance
issues while you are driving on track you may disable from loading while
you are in car via the “LoadTexturesWhenDriving” setting in the
renderer.ini configuration file.

– Also, it is possible for an external application such as Trading
Paints to tell the sim to reload car textures by sending
irsdk_BroadcastReloadTextures using the SDK.

– Shut off the auto rotate display feature in Windows 8, and force
orientation to landscape. Use app.ini [Graphics] displayRotateMode=1 to
override the default screen orientation.

Sponsors

– DSD and Lionel Racing sponsors added.

Sound

– Cold brakes now squeal until they warm up, unless the car has
carbon brakes, which don’t squeal. Note: the sim still does not model
any brake performance changes with temperature at this time.

– Engine sound power now continues to get louder as rpm nears max.

– Fixed a bug in the opponent cars that would make them sound like
they were driving around at full throttle even while coasting or hard
braking.

Flexible Drivetrains

– All cars now have flex modeled in their drivetrain math, instead
of being perfectly rigid. This gives all kinds of subtle and interesting
audible and physical engine rpm wobble effects. Note: our model of the
detroit locker differential that many of the oval cars use can cause
some pretty rough sounding off throttle rpm bouncing as the locker and
drivetrain get into a oscillation as the locker clatters between driving
the left or right wheels. We’re looking into that.

New Tire Model

– There have been improvements to the modeling of the tire carcass
motion, which improves the handling on all the cars. All our NTM cars
feel much better with this tire model update, and have had some amount
(anywhere from a little to a lot) of re-tuning, so even if a car doesn’t
have its own release note does not mean that you shouldn’t try it out
to find out how it drives now!

– Tweak skid widths, smoke and skid amounts.

New Steering Model

– All the cars have better constrained steering systems to go with the tire carcass improvements, giving more precise feel.

Drafting

– Road course and oval drafting have been reworked to improve the racing experience.

Chevrolet Impala

– New rules limit track bar split left to right to a maximum of 3″ at all tracks.

– Right rear underbody collision surfaces have been lowered to hit the ground after the proper amount of compression.

Chevrolet Impala Class B

– New rules limit track bar split left to right to a maximum of 3″ at all tracks.

Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS

– Fixed cockpit view windshield duplication when the car was damaged which caused double darkening and reflection issues.

Chevrolet National Impala

– New rules limit track bar split left to right to a maximum of 3″ at all tracks.

Chevrolet Silverado

– New rules limit track bar split left to right to a maximum of 3″ at all tracks.

– Right rear underbody collision surfaces have been lowered to hit the ground after the proper amount of compression.

– Logitech sponsorship on the windshield has been removed.

Ford GT

– This car has had a physics overhaul to improve how it drives.

Ford Falcon V8 Supercar

– Added new exterior engine sounds that better capture listening at
a distance. The previous exterior sounds are now only for the on-car
sounds.

Mazda MX-5 Cup and Roadster

– Nvidia sponsorship has been removed.

McLaren MP4-12C GT3

– In-car ABS controls are now available to be assigned, in addition to the usual black box method of adjustment.

– Updated the rpm mapping for Logitech G27 shift lights.

Radical SR8

– Updated the rpm mapping for Logitech G27 shift lights.

Autódromo José Carlos Pace

– This classic Brazilian race track, also known by its former name Interlagos, is now available!

Bristol Motor Speedway

– Update GPS position. It was off by 10 meters or so, and had been 30 meters too low.

Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps

– Improved the Endurance configuration surface types near La Source to try and avoid accidental black flags.

Lime Rock Park

– The first pit stall has been moved back one to make it easier to exit the pits past the armco wall.

Oran Park Raceway

– Added a checkpoint so turns 7-10 can no longer be shortcut.

– North B pit lane speed reduced to 20mph to make it so that
driving through the pit lane takes more time than staying out on track.

Sebring International Raceway

– New track surface shaders have been added.

Virginia International Raceway

– The last 10 pit stalls have been moved away from the pit wall to make pitting easier.

Finally, iRacing delivering some more internationally recognized, proper F1 tracks. Beautifully reproduced. I love the little details in the vehicle dynamics like the inside front off the ground at 0:52, the inside-front wheel lockups at 1:08 and 1:13, the suspension movement at 1:24, and the new transmission sound worbles at 1:40.

If iRacing could just fix their cold tire performance bust (cold tires are faster!) and add some dynamics to their environment (temperature, clouds, track), then this would be sim bliss. Problem is, seems like they are a long way from addressing these issues.

Anyway, with the competition structure and pick-up racing, I don’t mind paying a bit of money for this!

While it’s still in ‘soon’ territory, I’m very glad they’ve acknowledged that track dynamics are important and that they’re working on them. I remember a few years ago they seemed to think that if the track ever changed between sessions, everything would be ‘unfair’, so it’s a welcome about face.

Thanks!

I meant the actual kerbs, comparing to real f1 car they look very flat in iRacing. Also when real F1 car goes over kerb there is lot and lot more vibration then iRacing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVbv2uCqpwo

in iR there isn’t the shacking camera like on realty! btw if you check on telemetry you can see the suspension movement. For me that is the most important thing.

Yeah, the shaking camera is probably some of it. I use the Motion Cockpit View for some subtle addition of that, and would like to see it available in default cameras as well.

The kerbs in places at Interlagos don’t look all that ‘high…

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/b-start-f-inte-2012-9.jpg

Wow! This track is bill – I just took some laps around it, and though I know I’ll never get to do it in real life, this is the next best thing. Oh – and it’s maddening! The Brazilians will be stomping everyone else here is my prediction :)

They need a new cloud model NCM asap!!

can you adjust the steering ratio in the setup yet? This car is way too twitchy

No. You can’t do it in the real car, so no way to do it on iR!

Not even via the infamous “Monaco steering rack” most teams use?

Don’t have the track, so they don’t have the higher ratio ;)

Similarly, the longest gearing is the same Williams had at Monaco, nothing longer if you want to run it at Dega or something. Same with the ACO sports cars, they don’t have the Le Mans downforce package since we don’t have Le Mans.

You can change your wheel calibration, though, to end up with a different ratio.