Comments on: Lotus 79 Coming to iRacing.com

By: Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:34:05 +0000

Crazy Bored: Absolutely right. :)

By: Crazy Bored

Crazy Bored — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:34:59 +0000

Here’s some last words, everyone be happy with whatever sim you like!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:49:40 +0000

You are both right, they only have developp mods for years, it’s always the same engine (even re-write), it use to same way of calculating (tyre matrix algorythm base, known as wrong). They have always updated the old engine with more/newer dx stuff and what the community do for free.

They are all modders only. I’m sure you have read the comments from simbin about modding their titles, and it’s nothing more than a modder fight.

For myself I don’t care about the graphics or details, the only important thing remain the physic.

This is only what I think and it’s not intend for any agressive form.

If you want to have the last word I let it to you.

By: Tim Wheatley

Tim Wheatley — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:55:52 +0000

I think you’re confused. ;)

I do seem to recall the guys from Papyrus were making historic cars long before anybody else. Both NASCAR Legends and Grand Prix Legends.

By: Crazy Bored

Crazy Bored — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:39:57 +0000

Because I love arguing, did you happen to notice there’s only 10,000 people with over 30 posts at RSC, and that’s the whole forums. Almost 70,000/110,000 haven’t posted once. About 21,000 people have been online in this whole year. The ratio of members to non members isn’t nearly as bad as it may seem. I am not sure how to get the total amount of members but there are 4,700 drivers ranked in road racing and 4,600 in oval. I still think that there are some people that are awaiting iRacing to become more of a complete sim instead of a beta-ish thing. There has got to be people who won’t join because of no flags, open practice servers, pitting, replays, etc. All of which will be there eventually. The guys in it now are putting up with the lack of features simply because they want the rest of the sim.

I am not trying to start a fight or make anyone angry I just don’t like it when people jump to conclusions about things mainly because it’s not the kind of thing they like/want.

By: Crazy Bored

Crazy Bored — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:30:29 +0000

I am calm, I just think it’s stupid for people to laugh at iRacing doing what the customers what which is exactly why they will succeed in the long rung.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:58:55 +0000

Calm down “Crazy Bored”, it’s because before the official iracing launch, there were more or less 4000 people, then after the launch it was 4200.

So, it seems not to appeal the community (as you can read in most forums).

Only 4200 people in the balance, with more than 100.000 on sites like RSC, so it seems (again) that the community don’t have interest for the iracing business model.

Hope you’ll understand …

By: Crazy Bored

Crazy Bored — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:01:07 +0000

But they did not do it to try and “catch” rfactor people… they did it because they can and because people already in the service asked for it. There was a thread asking what F1 car you would want in the game, from any year and it was kind of funny after especially for the guys who posted Lotus 79.

Who are you to say the community isn’t interested just because you aren’t? There’s a hell of a lot more people racing online in iR than I’ve ever seen in rF. I think that it’s funny when people get the impression iRacing is failing when they aren’t even planning to advertise the sim until next summer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:44:06 +0000

Awesome :o

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:10:59 +0000

@Crazy Bored : I don’t say they should not, I say that their business model don’t interest the community and that it’s funny to see them trying to catch rfactor simers …

By: Temp

Temp — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:11:17 +0000

lets buy this car for 50 bucks freaks, have fun

By: Crazy Bored

Crazy Bored — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:19:39 +0000

“It’s obvious now, iRacing business model don’t interest the community and they try to find clients in the field of rfactor.

Funny.”

They had a great opportunity to do this… why would they say no?

By: Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:59:14 +0000

Oops, meant to say I wish I could imagine I was Mario or Ronnie Peterson … The late, great Ronnie. :oops:

By: Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:42:32 +0000

Like I said, it would be cool to run a Lotus at Road America. Otherwise, I’d rather run it on the tracks upon it really raced in 1979. But that’s just me, I guess. I would rather imagine I was Mario or Reutemann rather than some rich gentleman racer racing a historic car today on American circuits. Still nice to see iRacing branch into some historic vehicles. Maybe a non-ground effects car will be next. ’67 Lotus or ’61 Sharknose Ferrari, anyone?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:23:57 +0000

It’s obvious now, iRacing business model don’t interest the community and they try to find clients in the field of rfactor.

Funny.

By: navalhawkeye

navalhawkeye — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:17:34 +0000

Historic racing…they run them all over the US, and the world.

By: Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:06:25 +0000

How will iRacing laser-scan historic tracks upon which the 79 Lotus ran that don’t exist anymore, such as the old Long Beach course, Oscar Galvez, old Monza and the Osterreichring?

There’s only two existing F1 tracks in the current iRacing lineup, Silverstone and Watkins Glen, so it would feel pretty weird to run a Lotus 79 at places like Infineon, Barber, Laguna, Miller, VIR and Willow Springs. It would be cool to run at Road America, though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:57:00 +0000

This will be insane

By: Ryan Gilmore

Ryan Gilmore — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:26:05 +0000

Hopefully I’ll be able to get iRacing to work by the time its released. Very excited by this news.