iRacing has announced the addition of two new race tracks to their online racing simulation as Australian Oran Park and the Belgian Zolder track will join the simulation in 2010.
Located outside of Sydney, Oran Park is Australia’s oldest operational circuit and has hosted V8 Supercars, the Superbike World Champiopnship and two rounds of Formula One. The track will be demolished in 2010 to make room for housing estate, the iRacing staff has already laser-scanned the track last month, conserving a piece of motorsport history.
Following Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zolder will be the second iRacing track in mainland Europe. Located near the Belgian town of Hasselt, the track was built in 1963 an has hosted notable motor racing such as Formula One and other World Championships ever since. Today, the 4 kilometer Zolder track hosts the FIA GT & WTCC championships, it’s own 24 hour race as part of the Belcar series and countless other national events.
Both tracks will join the simulation in 2010, alongside the already-announced European additions Brands Hatch, Oulton Park & Circuit Park Zandvoort.
hoboracer
December 1st, 2009 at 20:30
Love Oran Park, scan Eastern Creek and you have another subscriber!
Lincoln Miner
December 1st, 2009 at 20:56
Very good to see iRacing sending their laser scanning crews to Australia and Europe. There are a ton of International tracks I’d like to see added to the collection and this definitely helps.
Glad to see iRacing continues to expand. Good work iRacing!
UncleChuckle
December 1st, 2009 at 21:30
They’re destroying Oran Park?
ForzaBarca88
December 1st, 2009 at 21:48
Yep its a complete joke, this used to be my local track practically. Thank you NSW government
It’ll be interesting to see how the rfactor lidar version compares with this version when iracing release it because its very good accuracy-wise.
And screw Zolder, I want Spa dammit ><
Lincoln Miner
December 1st, 2009 at 22:16
My guess is the two versions will be pretty close. I think the iRacing scanners may be more accurate, but both are much much better than GPS, so they should both be excellent. My guess is the more major differences may be in the trackside details. Not sure how much there is at Oran Park though.
Dave Kaemmer told the story of driving Lime Rock in real life and the beta version at iRacing wasn’t quite right. He later figured out that the artists had gotten the tree canopy correct, but had just dropped the tree trunks under the canopy randomly. Since, he sometimes used the trunks for visual markers it wasn’t “right” under they matched up the tree trunks with the laser data.
I think the Lidar won’t have as much horizonatal data, because it’s from above. The iRacing crews scan the track and horizontally, so they can capture more trackside detail. How much the both to accurately postion though is a function of the artists attention to detail and time available for the process.
BSR-WiX
December 1st, 2009 at 23:02
Zolder…. dreams do come true.
orubasarot
December 2nd, 2009 at 02:25
More tin tops please, fun ones like old school ETCC, WTCC, DTM, Porsches, whatever. A hickmobile and a FWD diesel isn’t enough, I already told them this in a survey about why I didn’t renew.
The tracks are great though, just a shame there’s nothing to drive.
moppenheimer
December 2nd, 2009 at 03:48
V8’s are coming
commodore
December 2nd, 2009 at 15:26
I think driving on Oran Park LiDAR will not be different from driving iRacing’s version. The difference is too small to feel it, you will probably only notice the different graphics :)
Zenitchik
December 2nd, 2009 at 17:19
I love how they skipped the well worn spa and monza!
Brands, Zandvoort and now Zolder! IRacing just made my day
orubasarot
December 2nd, 2009 at 17:27
Awesome, I’d certainly try a month of that.
navalhawkeye
December 2nd, 2009 at 19:13
I think you will be surprised at the difference…iRacing doesn’t just scan the track surface, they scan the entire thing so it all fits together correctly and all objects are placed in the right spot.
Lincoln Miner
December 2nd, 2009 at 20:28
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free2game365
December 2nd, 2009 at 20:51
I remember someone said on here that iracing doesn’t plan to have different cars racing against each other so I think we’ll only get one V8 Supercar, which I think was supposed to be the Ford :(
moppenheimer
December 2nd, 2009 at 21:46
At first, yeah it will only be a Ford, but eventually they’ll have holden as well…..just like they’ll have all 4 Nascar makes
Lincoln Miner
December 2nd, 2009 at 22:07
Mult-Class / Multi-Car racing already happens in Week 13 or Fun Races like the Mixed Martial Arts with Daytona Prototypes, Radicals and Solstice together on the track.
iRacing said we may have multi-class/car racing for official races next build, so they could mix the V8’s with other cars or V8’s.
Arnold Carter Wong
December 3rd, 2009 at 05:47
I am going to try this one