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My jaw started to hit the floor at the first one, then kept getting lower. Between these four tracks, also announced Donington, and Brands, Oulton, and Silverstone, we will have most of the BTCC series. All but Knockhill and Rockingham. All great tracks too. Tony Gardner later announced on the forums they’re investing in speeding up both track production and graphic updates, which is definitely needed.

Good to see animated flaggers coming next season as well. Should do a lot to improve the track ambiance.

So, what about not enough European centric content?

Nobody’s happy unless they’re complaining, already tons of complaints that these are all UK and wishing they were mainland European instead…

Whenever the new content is released, it will be done well.  iRacing is not a “game” one can approach with a casual, immediately gratified inclination, it’s a racing sim that requires a committed mind and effort – and patience (in many regards).  I think it rewards the ones who understand the nature of the service and will pay dividends to those who make a long term commitment to it.

I’m impressed with the effort and commitment iRacing is putting into tracks of interest to the road racer.  It’s good for the long term popularity of the service and for those who are in it for the long haul.  It will take some time, and it may be “soon”, that’s understood. 

I remember way back in the “Roaring 90′s” when it was ICR on a 14″ CRT!  It would have been impossible then to conceive of what we have now.  If it takes a bit longer for the rest of it to happen…I’m patient.

The BTCC series which will eventually unfold from this should impress anyone!  I think the roadies are finally getting their fair share of the pie!

Name one car that´s european but not english. 

(Jetta doesn´t count)

The only downside of the iRacing version BTCC they are doing just one car, a Honda.
That’s dumb, nothing to do with the real BTCC, where many brands fight for the victory.

Great news. I think these tracks will be really challenging with the upcoming Civic. Can’t wait.

Neither do most other sims unless they’re either focusing on a specific series, or they’re something like Forza/GT/pCARS and have hundreds of cars. Can you give me an example of a sim that does multiple cars from a single series without focusing on that series? It isn’t rFactor, AC, nKP, or LFS. Will pCARS have multiples from the same set of specs?

For you?

Nope. Jetta counts.

I just hope they lessen the contact penalty so we can race these tracks like the real guys do :)

Nobody asked for it, it doesn´t count :)

Great news. Give us too a BMW 320, a Vauxhall Vectra and a Seat Leon, and take all my money.

you mean to anglo-europeans road racers it’s a shame they don’t have a single track in Italy or Brazil two great places with some great tracks and a huge simracing community. now that they dried up anglo-americans (include aussies in there too) hope they go to Italy or South America. But I’ve to say I’m very happy with the tracks they are adding up lately.

it’s pointless to have multi-brands in a single series in iRacing as everybody would run the fastest car for each track and you end up with a multi-brand with only one car on most tracks. waste of money and time.

As in the real world you can even the cars out. We will know within an hour which car is quickest. 
When we know that we can apply weight penalty, restrictor etc to equalize the performance. ‘

Running several brands in one class is fantastic because they all got their strong points in certain areas of the track. 

One of the issues with Brazil was the fact that to take in the scanning equipment to get Interlagos ready caused a huge issue as the equipment was worth too much to import in and not get stung with huge taxes. I think they’ve been trying to sort that as they have a deal already signed with Interlagos. As for Italy, I wouldn’t be surprised if Monza and a couple of others get signed soon though I’d prefer Hockenheim and the Nurburgring first.

They tweaked the V8SC recently so it gives fewer 4x contacts for minor contacts. In general I don’t want people punting me off without an incident though ;)

I’ve had a number of recent races around 20 incidents each, still have my A license though, not that I need it. I’m not too worried about SR keeping me from racing hard.

Sounds like they’ve been working on a license for Monza recently. Also Monaco and the Ring though they’re a bit trickier.

Ruf

See what appened with the two mx5… It’s pointless try to equalize two or more cars every season. People will find the faster car and will jump on it. 

Immagine if in the real btcc drivers can jump from a car to another car, there would be a spec series because everyone want the faster car, also for 0.010s  

NO Cadwell Park??? There was a pool over 70% wanted Cadwell Park as the next British track and still iRacing comes out with a list of 4 new British tracks and NO Cadwell!!!! RIDICULOUS!!!!

Fantastic list of content, I love Thruxton after doing a track day there, surprised to see Mallory included as its not one of the most famous British tracks but its a nice track anyway, had a spin around there in a Formula Ford years ago.

 I really don’t understand this point. God, we’re trying to simulate the real races, i’d like to see more cars in same category, as it works well in real life. I’m an happy iR user, but i don’t care at all to take the “fastest” car. The same goes for the shifting style: some people don’t care at all about it, using the paddles in all cars, because it’s the faster way to change. I prefer to use the correct gearbox for that car..is it slow? i don’t care at all. We’re trying to simulating the real races, my goal is not to be the fastest driver in the world.
If you give me 2 cars, i’ll choice the car i like more, is it slow than the other one? i don’t care it. Every single car, like in real life, have the strong and weak points.
IMHO of course :D

 I think you fail to understand the basis of the NGTC that run in the BTCC, the whole idea is that different makes of cars compete on a level plaing field. So although there will be multi makes of cars, they should all be within tenths of a second of each other.

Thruxton! So fast, so scary. MEGA!

They never even bothered to make a proper attempt to equalize them. 

Tony should mention the two foot magic save hax as an added feature.  :)

Don’t be so sure Richard about just one car.

Tony G

Nice, but it´s a street car, we need a race car. 

Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Pagani, Mercedes, Porsche, Lamborghini etc
Instead we get a Cadillac and a street car with 700hp that will be fun hotlapping, not so much racing when those tires start to go off. 

A waste of time in my opinion. 

 remember bro these track deals depend on the owners etc
Maybe they did approach them and is still working something out.

You’ve got to remember that iRacing are US based and they’re going to do a lot more business with people who are either in the US or speak English. They’ve had issues with licensing content from other countries a few times, trying to get discussions going isn’t always easy. Also instead of just naming car companies you’ve got to think where their cars would fit it and how cheap it would be for iRacing to license. Audi have an LMP1 car that we could have, except the HPD is just as quick because they’re running to different regs, otherwise they don’t really have anything. BMW have a DTM car, but then people might prefer the Audi or Merc. They do have a GT2 car, but we already have one and having another car which would be quicker is pointless. Porsche isn’t going to happen, simple as that. Lamborghini and Ferrari are also pretty unlikely and don’t have any race cars that fit into a different class. Getting extra GT cars is a waste of time if we already have one in that class. Pagani make road cars, so we shouldn’t have anything from them, its already bad enough that we’re getting the RUF – its a road car and shouldn’t be in iRacing. Only reason for that was the massive amount of tards on the forum complaining we don’t have a Porsche, even when they’re told that iRacing cant license it.

BMW M3 GT4, would fit right in. 
Pagani has built one race car. Although not built for any regulations in mind, which would make it perfect for iRacing. Zonda R is seen in GTR3 for example. 

There´s loads of cars iRacing could get that would fit right in. 

Oh, the 2FMSH is really getting old already.

Watched a clip of the F1 2010 season review the other night and saw Massa pull off the 2FMSH during a spin @ Silverstone. So maybe not so much a ‘hax’ as a lot of folks seem to think PC racing sims contain.

At work a bunch of us took a vote: The majority was in favour of the company giving us three million pounds to share. They said they would have to think it over first, but our regular wages will have to do until the decision was made. We also said this was ridiculous.

 A load of folks wanted Interlagos.

iRacing went but had issues at customs and we didn’t get it. Just because folks want things doesn’t necessarily mean iRacing don’t try and get them.

At least the Cadillac was free.I guess all the manufacturers you mention would require a hefty license agreement to be signed to even get close to some of that as content. Or do you expect iRacing to just magic some out of the air?

Yea i think Ferrari and Porsche will demand huge sums of money although i remember reading a link with some games company having a partnership with BMW and it was free, no money transactions. 

All other companies seems to “make some magic out of the air”. 
With what i would bet my house is a smaller budget. AC and the BMW license for example. 

should be no problem. it’s owned by motorsport vision. they own Bedford Autodrome, Brands Hatch, Cadwell Park, Oulton Park and Snetterton. two of them are already in game and snetterton will follow “soon?”.

The General expects magic, and can’t be reasoned with. He also gets angry and yells, which is why he was banned from the iRacing forums…

what are you? an 80 years old folk trying to act like an 8 years old? This kinda comment makes me wonder if humans are in a process of devolution!

Justin that’s exactly what surprised me the most because it’s a group iRacing already does business with and included new tracks from them. Cadwell Park would feel the gap for many cars not suited for most tracks out there the RUF would be great there. BTW you can go 3 wide in Cadwell Park for those saying it’s to tinny.

Simbin has been able to equalize their WTTC cars very well in race 07. I have tried to find which is the fastest but after driving every single one of them all day I didn’t have a clear winner. My lap times were identical over and over. iracing can do that too. 

 seems like you get what they want you to have not what you really want.

Not that this comment had anything to do with the discussion but as always Bakke just keep hitting those letters on his little keyboard, that´s what he loves the most, hence the 10.000 posts in iRacing, we know you love your opinions more then anyone else in the world so don´t throw rocks if you live in a glass house.

Ha, I feel the same about most of your Pcars/VR comments too.  

With a bit of effort it’s possible to balance the cars. It’s the cost that keeps them from having multiple makes since iRacing is a general racing sim rather than a BTCC sim. Tim Wheatley posted a while back to that extent similarly for rFactor.
http://www.virtualr.net/rfactor-2-80s-formula-one-cars-coming#comment-505005247

I completely agree, cadwell would of been amazing, but i’m not gunna complain because this content is incredible anyways!
 

i would imagine the ruf to be hell round there lol! although the air you would get over the mountain would be insane!

I may be off the mark here but given what appears to be iRacing’s marketing and business model it wouldn’t surprise me if the reason for specific tracks being selected for production have been “sponsored” by interested corporate 3rd parties. 

I also suspect we’ll see a British spec Formula 3 car sooner rather than later if my hunch is correct. 

Wouldnt surprise me either, though I think equally likely is these were easy to get being British and owned by only 2 companies. I know there were a ton of requests for a ‘proper’ touring car (from myself as well), so I’m sure the ability to get the BTCC Honda was a good incentive to get more BTCC tracks.

They’ve gone after Montreal and got rebuffed right before the last signature. They worked for several years to finally get Bathurst. They haven’t been able to get CotA to talk with them. They’re trying to talk with Monza through intermediaries. They’ve expressed their desire to get Monaco and Nurburgring.

I think it is a bit silly sometimes when people accuse iRacing of not wanting to get good tracks. Everything I’ve seen convinces me they have good taste, it is just hard to license the best content.

Agreed, wish they’d either make an effort, or put the Roadster back on the street tires it should have.

:)

Must mean Audi, since that’s the NGTC RWD car ;)

I’ve accepted that I’m a Chatty Cathy ;)

 Great :D

Relax amigo.

He was just cracking a little joke :)

Cadwell Park is a must have the track is great for lower class racing. if they added it I would at last subscribe to iRacing!