Zand has released his FIA GT 2008 mod for GTR Evolution, bringing last year’s FIA GT Championship season to the simulation.

The mod contains all GT1 and GT2 class cars that competed in 2008, combining several mods that have been released for GTR Evolution before. Mods that have been used include the GTR2GT mod, the Porsche 997 & Ferrari F430, taku’s FIA GT skins and several other mods.

Also included in the comprehensive mod are talent files, correct helmets and driver suits and much more.

 

Download FIA GT 2008 Mod for GTR Evolution Here

United Racing Group has released new previews of their Super GT 2009 2.0 mod for GTR2 and rFactor, showing us the mod’s cars in the showroom.

Made by Alless & United Racing Group, the mod will bring all GT500 class cars of the 2009 Super GT season to rFactor and GTR2. That includes cars such as the Honda NSX, the Nissan R35 as well as the Lexus SC43 0,all battling for the title in Japan’s popular GT championship

 

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Until now, the Need for Speed Shift modding community has been busy improving the title’s physics and graphic effects as well as providing new liveries.

Modding efforts will now go a step further as the popular 3DSimED tool is now Shift-compatible, allowing to import new cars and tracks.

The tool is also able to export Shift’s .MEB files, allowing modders to modify Shift’s content even further. Supporting a wide range of file formats of simulations such as rFactor, GTR Evolution, NASCAR Racing 2003 and Grand Prix Legends, 3DSimED is a visual editor for car and track makers.

The tool sells for 25 British Pounds, a 30-day demo version is also available. More info on 3DSimED and its comprehensive list of features can be found on their official website.

Gran Turismo godfather Kazunori Yamauchi completed his second VLN race on the Nürburgring Nordschleife last month, getting some real race experience that is surely helpful when developing a driving simulator.

Yamauchi partnered with motorsport journalists Owen Mildenhall & Peter Lyon, driving a Lexus IS-F touring car against over 150 competitors, ranging from small tin tops to powerful GT cars. His second race on the Nordschleife was ended early due to differential damage, Yamauchi is nevertheless determined to compete in the Nürburgring 24 Hour race next May.

You can check out his car in action in the video below, showing some of the atmosphere that Germany’s popular GT & touring car series provides.

Ethone has made some great progress with bringing the 2009 version of Road America to rFactor as he has released a bunch of new preview shows, showing off some of the track’s buildings and bridges.

Located in Elkart Lake, Wisconsin, Road America is considered to be one of the finest road racing facility in the United States. The 6,5 kilometer track offers an interesting mix of ups and downs, long high speed straights and fourteen corners, including the famous carousell. The track accommodates up to 150,000 spectators and is one of the few US tracks suitable to host a Formula One Grand Prix.

 

Last saturday, the Beglian Zolder track was the site of the annual Zolder 10 hour race and thousands of sim racers participated, being part of iOpener’s Real-Time Racing beta test programme.

While the real drivers were racing on track, sim racers got to drive virtual versions of the Mini Cooper S and the BMW Z4M, joining the live event right from their home. While most beta testers were racing lots of miles away, a local team of RTR beta testers also competed in the event, clinching a very impressive result.

The five-person team swapped drivers every hour, clocking in a very impressive total of 311 laps in ten hours. Based on the times of the real competitors, the virtual team would have finished fifth overall, clinching a dominant class win. The team didn’t just prove that the sim racing community offers some real driving talent, they also enjoyed themselves as team captain Jochen Lennaerts explains:

“It was really thrilling to be on the real track fighting with the real drivers. It was hard, it was long, but it was great fun. We are looking forward to the next event”

To take part in RTR’s next beta test event, make sure to pre-register for a key here. If you have already registered a while ago and haven’t received your key yet, make sure to check the spambox of your mail account as you might already be the owner of a key without knowing it.

Following their hugely-popular alpha test video released a few days ago, Team RMT has made a new preview video of their World Super GT 2 Mod for rFactor 2.

The video shows the Nissan R35 GT500 SuperGT car at Suzuka, using an alpha set of sounds and physics.

Successor to World Super GT for GTR 2, World Super GT 2 will bring some of of the most legendary GT cars of the 90s as well as Super GT GT500 class machinery to rFactor 2.

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The HistorX modding team has released a new preview snipped of their upcoming Historic GT & Touring Car 2.0 mod for rFactor, showing us some a spyshot of a mystery car, practicing in Le Mans.

The team has announced that more images of this car will be available soon, in the mean time everybody’s welcome to guess what we´re dealing with here.

Using GT Legends as a base, the Historic GT & Touring Car mod for rFactor proved to be one of the most popular releases for the simulation. The second version of the mod will be made up completely of scratch-made material, bringing several famous historic racing cars to rFactor.

 

Ever since the service started in 2008, rFactor Pro has quickly gained a reputation for being a very valuable software tool for professional racing teams and F1 outfits in particular.

The Force India Formula One team has recently jumped on the bandwaggon, making it the fifth F1 outfit to use rFactor Pro to improve their race cars. That means that half of the 2009 Formula One grid is now using the software.

“The 2009 season rule changes meant aerodynamics was our number one priority. When we started budgeting for the 2010 season it became clear that driver-in-the-loop simulation was a technology we had to take advantage of to build on our achievements this year”, Force India’s James Key explained.

“We have been watching the driver-in-the-loop simulation marketplace very closely over the last two seasons, during which time the quality has improved and the costs have reduced by an order of magnitude. We decided the time was right to invest in an rFactor Pro based solution as the projected return on investment, in terms of performance gain for a given spend, placed rFactor Pro right at the top of our list. It also provides higher quality visualization and a more comprehensive simulation environment than any other system we evaluated.”

F1-S-R has released a bunch of preview shots of their Formula One 1993 mod for rFactor, giving us a first glimpse at the Williams FW15C and the Ferrari F93A.

1993 was the final season to allow driver aids such as active suspension and anti-lock brakes, the season was dominated by Alain Prost and the Williams team, clinching both the driver and manufacturers title.

 

iRacing.com co-founder Dave Kaemmer was recently interviewed by John and Frosty of The Opinion Nation, part of PSR radio.

Their ninty-minute is very interesting for all avid iRacers and those who are interested in background info on their simulation as Kaemmer tried hard to answer questions from the community  – From new features to physics, release dates to cheating. To listen to the show, follow the link below where it can be either streamed or downloaded to your computer.

Listen to The Opinion Nation – Dave Kaemmer Interview Here

12 hours from know, Real-Time Racing beta testers will get to compete in their first ever real 10 hour race at Zolder when sim racers virtually join the field of real cars.

iOpener has now released screenshots of the two cars the virtual competitors will drive, the Mini Cooper S and the BMW Z4M Coupe. The race will start on 10:40 GMT on Saturday, finishing ten hours later. While the real race drivers face the difficult challenge of completing a ten-hour endurance race, the RTR beta testers will be joining from their home thanks to the iOpener Enabled technology that blurs the line between real and virtual competition.

If you´re interested in joining future beta test events, make sure to pre-register for a Real-Time Racing beta key here.

 

EA and Ford Motor Company recently staged an interesting tournament, allowing players to prove themselves in the recently-released Need for Speed Shift title driving a virtual version of the Ford Mustang.

The four quickest contestants got to prove themselves in a real 2010 Ford Mustang, trying to replicate their times in Shift on the real-life race track. You can check out their experience below, it’s not very surprising to see that none of these guys came anywhere close to the times they´ve been setting in Shift, despite professional help from Fast Lane Racing School.

From Gustavo Dreyer & Rodrigo Moré comes a very interesting piece of software for Live for Speed users: Seven LFS Telemetry.

The tool is designed to display various data on a second screen, including timing information, gaps and real-time fuel consumption info. Seven LFS Telemetry can be used either by connecting a second screen, the data can also be streamed via LAN.

More info and the download can be found by visiting the link below.

 

Download Seven LSF Telemetry 1.0 Here