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iRacing.com – Two Scan Image Previews

Posted on April 5th, 2012 in iRacing 9 Comments

iRacing.com – Two Scan Image Previews

iRacing has released new previews of new content that’s due to be added to their online racing simulation.

The previews show laser-scan data of the Mclaren MP4 12-C GT3 and the Japanese Tsukuba Circuit, the data shown in these previews is used by the developers to create the virtual versions of the cars.

Powered by a 3.8 liter V8 bi-turbo engine, the MP4-12C is build to the FIA GT3 regulations based on the MP4-12C road car. The car made its competition debut in the British GT Championship last year and went on to compete in various events, including the Spa 24 Hours race. The car became an instant success as all 20 cars built for the 2012 season have already been sold to customers.

With a length of just 2 kilometers, Tsukuba is the shortest internationally-known race tracks, the circuit is no venue for professional road racing but mostly used for tuning-related events such as drifts and time trials.

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  • Andy Bee

    I’m looking forward to Tsukuba!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Marcus-Caton/647940120 Marcus Caton

    Tsukuba should be fun in the GT cars.

  • Anonymous

    Looking forward to Tsukuba, especially if we get a better touring car to race on it.

  • Anonymous

    Holy moley!  Tsukuba is gonna be sick! i hope we get that course just outside as well, would be a great bonus! This track would be great in the skippy too! that Mclaren looks sexy!

  • Anonymous

    That’s TC1000, TC2000 is the main course. It’s used for smaller club level events, and yes I want it :)

  • Anonymous

    what’s the point in releasing these images? iRacing’s development is way slower they it should be specially when adding new cars. Seems like iRacing had to scan the car first they said they received CAD from Mclaren but why did they had to scan it now? I hope at least the data is accurate and the car drivers 10% like the real thing. Ford GT got killed because iRacing used wrong data to build the thing.

  • Anonymous

    The CAD data they got wasn’t complete, so they said they scanned it to get the rest. I’m guessing a lot of what they needed was the internal structure, the CAD looked like it just covered the body shell. Majority of their info will come from the CAD, though.

    Doran sent the wrong info to iRacing, it isn’t like they chose to use bad data.

  • Marco Conti

    Bakkster, I ddn’t follow the Ford GT saga. All I know is that I waited for it for a long time but when it came out I spent more time facing the other way than driving it. To me it was broken so I ignored it and went on to other things. What I am reading here intrigues me. 
    I drive the GT recently and it seemed much better, so it looks like they are at least trying to fix it, but if there is a more in depth article on that somewhere I’d love to read it. 

  • Anonymous

    Not a ton of info, but here is some:
    “Specific work on Ford GT outside of New Tire Model (and NTM). We just received much better data on car so one of our engineers is doing a full review and making appropriate adjustments as needed.”
    http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/1712965.page
    “The problem comes from the polynomial fit of the non-linear downforce generation at low ride heights, which then blow up at higher ride heights and pitch angles. In the normal operational envelope, the numbers are correct, but once the ride heights exceed the linear range, odd things do happen, which is totally my fault for not identifying in the rush to get the car out with real-world aero numbers.

    I have taken another look at the calculations and I believe I have revised them adequately to prevent odd situations like this arising. We will be running this through some testing and will roll it out to members once it’s been deemed to be resolved by the testers.”
    http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/100/1706765.page#3736337

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