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Nice track. Although it’s one track more where I can destroy my SR…

I wish there where tracks like this for rFactor!
Hopefully Reiza will bring detailed tracks like this one to us…

iRacing is just too expensive!

shame they used the Dallara Indy a crappy car their F1 car for Hispania is said to be out of F1 standards by years difference ! just feel sorry for Indy racers!!

felipe: shame they used the Dallara Indy a crappy car their F1 car for Hispania is said to be out of F1 standards by years difference !

you make absolutely no sense…?

watching this vid however really gives you an idea of the ‘feel of depth’ in the game, thats nice although I will never subscribe yadda yadda yaddi baddi blanalleie…

Kiwiiz: I wish there where tracks like this for rFactor!

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http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Mid-Ohio%20Sports%20Car%20Course

The Virtua_LM version has no need to be ashamed, specialy for a non laser scanned work.

As for Ir, nice sky yea, nice grass texture.

Rest… specialy the sound.

PS : The Driver who did the lap sux.

Impressive.

But how much nicer could it be with a proper race car? (CART)

At some corners, it’s more a drift driving style as the steering angle is too high, especially in the last turn. I’ve never seen an open wheeler use that much of steering angle. or am I wrong

felipe: shame they used the Dallara Indy a crappy car their F1 car for Hispania is said to be out of F1 standards by years difference ! just feel sorry for Indy racers!!

What drugs do you currenly take Felipe? You should put the crack pipe down and try using words that can complete full sentences.

The iRacing tracks continue to improve and this looks like another masterpiece.

felipe: shame they used the Dallara Indy a crappy car their F1 car for Hispania is said to be out of F1 standards by years difference ! just feel sorry for Indy racers!!

Yeah, the Audi R8 they made that won Le Mans in 2000,2001,2002,2004 and 2005 was a horrible car. Also the World Series by Renault, GP2, GP3 and F3 cars are so stupid that no one wants to use it. OH WAIT, they are all the major single seaters before F1, nearly all modern F1 drivers have driven in a Dallara! Know your facts Felipe. HRT pays crap, so they get crap delivered. If they gave Dallara alot more money I bet they could have also spend alot more money and made a better car.

Is it just me, or is there a slow improving graphics from the latest iRacing tracks? I swear iRacing videos from a year back looks pale in comparison to this, yet apparently nothing graphical has changed.

Anyway this makes me really appreciate the quality we get from VLM for free! (Thanks Virtua_LM! )

The layout and camber changes were spot on after all, the only information missing is the bumps which only a laser picks up.

Nonetheless if VLM did do bumps for Mid Ohio, I’m confident rFactor FFB couldn’t translate it as well as iRacing anyway without huge disproportional morphing of polygons. Time for rFactor 2 and with new RealFeel me thinks.

Fantastic. Also shows that VLM wasn’t off much at all. Only thing I noticed were a little of the height changes and maybe the length of a few areas of the track. However though major props to VLM they did do a good job.

Having driven this track in real life and visiting it often its great to see it finally get laser scanned. My only gripe is I think the tree textures could be better.

Now we just need laser scanned tracks for real offline games (rfactor 2, GTR 3).

iRacing does no good for someone who just likes to do solo laps.

Apart from a depressing desaturated look, the VLM version is impressively close to this!

Going to be interesting to see how elevation changes compare, between the iracing and the vlm version, with a more realistic FOV setting

But where is the “box on wheels”, I can’t wait to see that thing in action!

Ahmad:
…http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Mid-Ohio%20Sports%20Car%20Course

Shum94: The Virtua_LM version has no need to be ashamed, specialy for a non laser scanned work.As for Ir, nice sky yea, nice grass texture.Rest… specialy the sound.PS : The Driver who did the lap sux.

I think you understood me wrong.

I know the Vitua_LM and they’re making great tracks, I never said they were bad!
TBH they make the best ones for rFactor! Thankfully there’re modding-groups like them developing such highquality freewaretracks…

Its just the fact that iRacing’s Tracks (not cars) are better, that is no secret.

I just “wished” there were tracks for rFactor like there are for iRacing, without having to pay 14 bucks monthly!

felipe: shame they used the Dallara Indy a crappy car their F1 car for Hispania is said to be out of F1 standards by years difference ! just feel sorry for Indy racers!!

While perhaps not as technically advanced as an F1 car, the IndyCar series provides far far better racing. F1 has gone from my favorite form of racing 15 years ago to my least favorite. It’s just to clinical and sterile these days :(

Are you telling me given the chance you would drive one of these cars? And I’m sure if you were given the chance to drive one, crappy would be the last word on your mind. To us mere mortals who don’t get to race at the higher levels of the sport I’m sure an Indycar would be very exhilarating.

sigmatc24: At some corners, it’s more a drift driving style as the steering angle is too high, especially in the last turn. I’ve never seen an open wheeler use that much of steering angle. or am I wrong

sigmatc24: At some corners, it’s more a drift driving style as the steering angle is too high, especially in the last turn. I’ve never seen an open wheeler use that much of steering angle. or am I wrong

sigmatc24: At some corners, it’s more a drift driving style as the steering angle is too high, especially in the last turn. I’ve never seen an open wheeler use that much of steering angle. or am I wrong

I was just about to post that, and it’s something I have noticed in many sims. I just compared this video to a real on board video and there is far more steering input the same and the car seems to be suffering heavy understeer, again something I have noticed in many sims. Kind of ruined the video a little.

Ooops, sorry about the triple quote. Is it not possible to edit my posts? Thought it used to be…

there is a big difference between very good and spot on. I cant wait to see someone do a comparison video(hint)

felipe: shame they used the Dallara Indy a crappy car their F1 car for Hispania is said to be out of F1 standards by years difference ! just feel sorry for Indy racers!!

What the hell are you talking about? The Dallara IndyCar is unchanged since 2003 due to LEAGUE REGULATIONS, not by the ineptitude of Dallara. The League will introduce in 2012 its first new chassis since 2003.

Dallara is more than capable of building a good formula car chassis. It’s the most successful open-wheel chassis manufacturer in the world for good reason.

sigmatc24: At some corners, it’s more a drift driving style as the steering angle is too high, especially in the last turn. I’ve never seen an open wheeler use that much of steering angle. or am I wrong

How is it drifting if his wheel is turned in the direction of the turn???

This driver is way off the pace and has no idea where the line is on the track. He’s going to have to turn his wheel more than you should be since he’s entering the turns so close to the inside of the track.

You can’t even begin to try and analyze the car’s behavior if you are watching driving like that.

This is a video for showing off the track, not the car, so that’s what you should be focusing on.

The elevation is the most striking difference to me.
It looks great but I will never subscribe to IRacing.
It’s not a question of money, its just that I don’t
think the monthly subscription is a good system.
And one of the reasons I like racing sims (Rfactor, etc…)
is for those guys who are modding just out of passion, for free, just
to express their love.

It´s true that iracing isn´t cheap, but because of money, they can update sim all the time.
I just renew my lisence for a year even I haven´t raced much lately. For me iracing is a perfect sim.

iRacing tracks are about the surface. Don’t get me worng, they kill everything is sight graphically thanks to laser scanning. But the true benefit of this technology is the high resolution surface map that the physics engine “reads”.

There are already laser scanned tracks for rF and at least one in the making for LfS. But iRacing doesn’t go after the eyecandy of laser scaning. It goes for it because of physics.

When you drive in rFactor tracks you’re basically going over smoothed polygons. The feel dead compared to a true race track.

Well in iRacing the bumps, cracks, asphalt seams and of course rumble strips are feed to the tyre model, suspension system and finally felt through the Force Feedback. That’s why the experience is so much inmersive.

After a properly trying iRacing, even Real Feel seems to be broken at least to me.

Although they scan the surface, the asphalt grip levels are 100% no matter where you drive. No fast line, no marbles…
Have a iRacing quality track in rFactor and you would feel the connection to the road.
Just that most rFactor tracks are flat, becuase their makers never put any vertex bumps in.
The quality of the later iRacing tracks is outstandingly modelled.
FFB on the last V8 is not that special.

I just hope that one day we’ll get that quality from a modder based sim
I’d like to see a sim that is lighter than Rfactor lite: no cars no tracks, just pure physics and graphic engines that can than be applied by modders. And who knows it could even be used for other purposes (planes, sports, etc…)

I agree with Crazy Bored. The driver here is way off the pace and it looks like he has the car setup for stability. While the iRacing indycar does understeer a bit, you can set it up for pretty aggressive turn-in and it can be a handful, especially if you lack throttle control on exit.

Track looks awesome. I’ve only seen it on tv and had no idea it had so much elevation change!

Just a compliment to the graphics of the game. I’ve been flagging at Mid-Ohio for 3 years now and am impressed with the track in iRacing’s graphic form. Very well done.

It looks like about 2 in the afternoon at the beginning of June during an 85 degree day… a bit washed out, just like being there, even the glare is accurate. The colors are spot on, from the track surfaces, curbing, buildings, armco, fences, even the yellow tint of the grass…

Gets me all wound up for the coming weekend… (SVRA) Vintage Cars!

Saving my pennies so I can come and play with the rest of the iRacers!

marc1111: I agree with Crazy Bored.The driver here is way off the pace and it looks like he has the car setup for stability.While the iRacing indycar does understeer a bit, you can set it up for pretty aggressive turn-in and it can be a handful, especially if you lack throttle control on exit.Track looks awesome.I’ve only seen it on tv and had no idea it had so much elevation change!

I believe it’s over a hundred and forty feet from the highest to lowest point, with at least 4 places the cars get light on the suspension. A great track to view a race if you can’t afford to drive it.

CanoeTTT: It looks like about 2 in the afternoon at the beginning of June during an 85 degree day… a bit washed out, just like being there, even the glare is accurate. The colors are spot on, from the track surfaces, curbing, buildings, armco, fences, even the yellow tint of the grass…

I thought all their tracks looked like that.