Until now, most of iOpener’s activity for their Real-Time Racing simulation was held at Circuit Zolder, the first ever iOpener Enabled test track.
Now, the company expands their testing activity to another, very well-known venue: The Nürburgring Nordschleife. iOpener and BMW will be hosting a test in the Green Hell later today, trying to determine if. when and how it would be possible to make the legendary Nordschleife iOpener Enabled.
Unlike other iOpener Enabled activities, this one won’t be open for Real-Time Racing beta testers to participate in, the next live-event is only just ten days away though.
If you´re interested in joining future beta test events, make sure to pre-register for a Real-Time Racing beta key here.
paupau
December 8th, 2009 at 13:17
Hopefully a laser scanned Nordschleife will come.
Gulyo
December 8th, 2009 at 14:20
total all the same laser scanned or not … this game will remain simbim *>;<*
Gulyo
December 8th, 2009 at 14:31
simbin … sorry
but if you’d like to drive realistic racer game try out PS3 + GT5P + G25 … wow 
I have all of simulator games like … rFactor,GTR Evo, etc but this one is my favourite now 
Gulyo
December 8th, 2009 at 14:31
oops not here
carbonfibre
December 8th, 2009 at 19:13
You know you can edit posts but you probably can’t see the button in Firefox because of a bug.
Montoya can’t see any issues in IE though so it might be worth switching browsers for this site.
paupau
December 9th, 2009 at 03:35
Would it be a solution if Montoya could try fixing this using Firefox?
kill4f00d
December 9th, 2009 at 05:41
SimBin really needs to get with the times an raise the visual quality of their content. It’s so blah looking, even racing at fast speeds. (The Evo track at least)
michael
December 9th, 2009 at 11:37
Seems moot. IMO, the only commercially viable use for this is Formula one. Which Codemasters have probably got the license for.
The announcement here of “a racing legend” only serves to confirm that, they had to temper our imaginations…or in other words, we came up with the names of real racing legends and they’ve got an old bloke who has driven on a track before.
That’s assuming it works at all, and is commercially viable in the first place.
iracing only have 5 digit subscriber levels, clearly the rest of the sim community prefer paying £20 to buy a game outright, and want to race for free, perhaps donating occasionally when Bram moans about it.
Why they would pay for this but not iracing is a question I’d ask before doing it TBH. Especially since iracing’s idea to sell their service by kidding us that real racing drivers are actually playing against us in the same game is a better idea. For one thing you know, level, playing field, etc.
The actual technology has a lot of potential for adding to TV coverage and so on. Including in other sports, but it’s clear as day that racing games on PC isn’t a large, viable market, especially where sims are concerned.
It’s difficult to see why they went with simbin unless their preferred choices weren’t interested, which doesn’t bode well.
the.cosmic.pope
December 10th, 2009 at 11:38
I’ve had my ass kicked by Dale Earnhardt Jr, Tomas Scheckter, Justin Wilson and Will Power on iRacing. Or did I imagine it, as iRacing made it up?