The rF Open Wheel Racing Project has released the Open Wheel Racing 2007-2008 mod for rFactor. Does not sound too spectacular? Well, behind this name hides a 2007-2008 Indy Car Racing (IRL) mod, bringing us two seasons of American open wheel racing.
The mod includes all cars of the 2007 season as well as all cars of 2008’s pre-season testing. With pretty much all Champ Car teams joining the IRL; the series is once again the single force in high-profile open-wheel racing in America. The mod does not include any tracks but most tracks of the 2007 & 2008 seasons can be found on several rFactor sites.
The Thorn
March 26th, 2008 at 18:09
This must be the best thing to get a feel of real Indycars. I was racing in a league online with F1 2002, with another IRL mod. This mod shows that the development has been great between those years, and also brings back a lot of good memories for me.
deks
March 26th, 2008 at 20:44
Im so happy… So looking forward to saturday and start of new season and this mod comes out..wonderful, wonderful
Diswanio
March 27th, 2008 at 09:49
hmm, ill stick to FN07!
Paul Kelly
March 27th, 2008 at 14:26
This IRL mod is SICK online, absolutely SICK!
I ran it last night on public servers and ended up in a group with seven other guys, all cool, all clean as hell. In fact, the fastest guy there gave his setup to everyone through a very cool function in rFactor where someone can place his setup into everyone else’s online setup folders in game. So we all were using the same setup.
In our last race, at Orchard Lake (1.9-mile Michigan clone), I won the pole by two-tenths. We ran a 15-lapper, and I led all but one lap.
The dude who stayed with me — he qualified second — was within two- or three-tenths of me most of the 15 laps, jinking left and right to try and rattle me and find my soft spot. On the second-to-last lap, he pulled alongside me exiting Turn 4 but couldn’t lead at the stripe.
On the final lap, he tried to go outside on the back straight, and I eased up an inch or two to give him pause. I hugged the low line in Turns 3 and 4, and he rocketed outside exiting 4, cracking the whip. We were side-by-side through the tri-oval, and I edged him for the win by 46-thousandths of a second.
It was absolutely INSANE. This mod fulfills every “What if?” dream we had with IndyCar Series 2005 on Xbox Live. “What if there was no warping? What if there were no parallel universes? What if you could run a full field of humans at Indy? What if the graphics were excellent? What if the fuel burn model and its effects on handling were realistic?” This mod does it all.
Take care,
PK
Mike Peters
March 27th, 2008 at 17:05
I thank you all for your feedback so far and hope you all continue to provide more! We will be continuing to work on this mod to make it the best possible!
This is not a 1 off thing which I will not continue to support.
We already have some great changes in store for 1.1 from the feedback thus far!