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Zandvoort 2010 Masters Edition – First Previews

Posted on August 21st, 2010 in RACE On, rFactor – 46 Comments

After releasing his majorly-overhauled version of Le Mans 2004, Riches has picked up the work on another track, aiming to bring Zandvoort to rFactor & Race On.

Made with over 1000 photographs and aerial photos, the scratch-made track will feature microbumps, custom-modelled trackside objects and high-resolution textures aiming to match the graphical quality of the iRacing version. The track is being made to replicate its looks during the 2010 Zandvoort Masters weekend, Riches expects the download to be available in a few months. Until then, check out the impressive previews below!

Opened in 1948, Circuit Park Zandvoort has hosted 30 editions of the Dutch Formula One Grand Prix, today’s layout is 4.18 kilometers long and consists of 11 turns.

Located in the near-beach dunes, the track is notorious for sand being blown on track. The layout is made up of slow and quick corners as well as many elevation changes that make Zandvoort a rather tricky place to drive. Even though Formula One is long gone, the track still hosts many major events, including DTM & WTCC touring car racing as well as an annual A1GP event.


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  • dknine

    stunning previews, looks to be a great track!

  • sosman

    looking awesome!

  • Carbonfibre

    Holy crap! Better start paying attention to Mr. Riches, he’s hit the ground running with track design! :-D  Extremely happy, polygon bumps is the way to do it.

  • Riches

    Well… i don’t know if i build another track soon after i finished this project.
    My wife is expecting a baby in 4 months.
    So i guess i will have a lot less spare time next year.
    Thanks for nice comments, i needed that.  8-)

  • Frikadelli Racing

    Please explain “microbumps”?!

  • Riches

    Most tracks we drive  the road surface is as flat as a pooltable, forcefeedback road vibration and rumble is done by sinewaves bumps send to your steeringwheel.
    These standard canned artificial effects make the feeling of the road and the behaviour of the car much more sterile. As the effect are send at a constant frequency.
    This track contains thousands of real microscopic bumps, so the speed at witch you are driving them effects the feedback to the driver and the car, just like in real life.
    Although this needes a much higher polygon count, that’s no problem for most modern PC’s.

  • felipe

    very impressive! one of the best tracks preview I’ve ever seen :)

  • felipe

    iRacing’s Zandvoort http://i38.tinypic.com/160c688.jpg have to say your looks much better!

  • felipe

    iRacing’s Zandvoort http://i38.tinypic.com/160c688.jpg needs an update!

  • Rhys Gardiner

    Looking good Riches… extremely happy to hear you’re bringing it to the RACE series as well. RACE 07′s Zandvoort is a fun track, but this should be even better. Looking forward to this… :D

  • sutyi

    Any chance that we might get GTR2 versions too? :(

  • Andrea Lojelo

    Hi Riches, stunning work. This is my favorite track and I had a track day there also driving several cars.
    http://team.radiators-champ.com/Home/drivers/andrea-lojelo/bp-ultimate-experience-zandvoort
     
    With my team, Radiator Springs Racing, we are working on different track projects for netKar PRO.
    http://www.virtualr.net/?s=radiator
     
    I would love to help you out bringing your track on netKar PRO as well. I can give you even feedback on the track or help you with on-site pictures. I live at less than 1 hour from the track 8-) . We can help you modeling some objects also, if needed.
    how can I contact you? I haven’t found your website/mail nor a way to send a PM here.
    Maybe the easiest way would be that you will send me (Andrea Lojelo) a PM on our forum
    http://forum.radiators-champ.com
     
    Thanks a lot.
    I hope to hear from you soon
    Andrea

  • BSR-WiX

    i see some fine craftsmanship.  looks like  one of the better projects . 

  • Patrick van der Zand

    Nice work Riches! Nice work indeed! I would love to see it when it is finished!

    Keep up the good work!

    Greetz, Patrick

  • Luka Oslakovic

    this will be one of the best tracks made for rF till now ;) looks awesome!

  • Ben

    Looks so much better than the garbage RACE07 version…

  • MDZ

    Needs no update!

  • andy

    Thanks for this famous F1 track!

  • Dennis Douna

    Great job Riches  8-)   Your last alpha version was already briljant to drive, so I can’t wait for the result! Keep on the good work :)  

  • Riches

    When the track is done we can convert it to nK as well offcourse.
    I keep in contact with you about this.

  • Com8

    looks good! keep it up!

  • Lukas Kvietkauskas

    Looks good, hope to use it for F1lietuva.com championship O:-)

  • phil23

    Looks fantastic :-D

  • Suarez16

    Wow this looks absolutely amazing!!!!

  • Gpfan

    In one word…… superb!!!!!!!

  • wakkawakka

    I’d buy this if only it didn’t cost so much. I mean it looks real nice, but 15 bucks for a track is j…..oh wait, wrong sim :-P

    Just kidding. Great preview :)

  • Stan

    Impressive work, track of the year !?! Thanks a lot. And yes please, Riches, convert it to nkp, and Yes again, do an other track.

    Stan.

    P.S. : +1 for the micorbumps

  • felipe

    that ain´t funny! every sim is out there for an specific audience and I bet you many people wished they could “lease” iRacing! 

  • Jack_NL

    Wauw  looking very good!

    and Microbumps  what a novelty! 
    impressed by what you explained what they do

  • Jack_NL

    just tried your Le mans version wow  now I know what Microbumps do 
    a whole new experience

  • felipe

    As more and more tracks become available for iRacing modders of other sims will benefit a lot from it. They will be able to better recreate bumps width and many other aspects for a track. And I do NOT see this affecting iRacing memberships iRacing succeeding even the haters will benefit greatly from it!

    Looking forward for Sebring by Virtua_LM as I see this one the the early tracks to take advantage of a straight forward comparison. Also I wish if possible to run the alfa or so version as a current iRacing and rFactor racer :)

  • felipe

    As more and more tracks become available for iRacing modders of other sims will benefit a lot from it. They will be able to better recreate bumps width and many other aspects for a track. And I do NOT see this affecting iRacing memberships iRacing succeeding even the haters will benefit greatly from it! I hope Richie is running iRacing´s version as it was laser scanned and benefit greatly from it. Even if you don´t run iRacing Richie let me know as I would give you my user name and password so you could run some track tests on Zandvoort.Looking forward for Sebring by Virtua_LM as I see this one the the early tracks to take advantage of a straight forward comparison. Also I wish if possible to run the alfa or so version as a current iRacing and rFactor racer <img style=”padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;” src=”http://cdn.js-kit.com/extra/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif” title=”Smile” border=”0″ alt=”Smile”/>  

  • felipe

    As more and more tracks become available for iRacing modders of other sims will benefit a lot from it. They will be able to better recreate bumps width and many other aspects for a track. And I do NOT see this affecting iRacing memberships iRacing succeeding even the haters will benefit greatly from it! I hope Richie is running iRacing´s version as it was laser scanned and benefit greatly from it. Even if you don´t run iRacing Richie let me know as I would give you my user name and password so you could run some track tests on Zandvoort.Looking forward for Sebring by Virtua_LM as I see this one the the early tracks to take advantage of a straight forward comparison. Also I wish if possible to run the alfa or so version as a current iRacing and rFactor racer

  • wakkawakka

    Relax. I’m an iRacing subscriber. I was just poking fun at the usual comments

  • felipe

    As more and more tracks become available for iRacing modders of other sims will benefit a lot from it. They will be able to better recreate bumps width and many other aspects for a track. And I do NOT see this affecting iRacing memberships iRacing succeeding even the haters will benefit greatly from it! 
    I hope you are Richie running iRacing´s version and benefit greatly from it. Even if you don´t run iRacing  let me know as I would promptly let you run my account  so you could run some track tests on iRacing´s Zandvoort.
    Looking forward for Sebring by Virtua_LM as I see this one the the early tracks to take advantage of a straight forward comparison. Also I wish if possible to run the alfa or so version as a current iRacing and rFactor racer :)

  • felipe

    As more and more tracks become available for iRacing modders of other sims will benefit a lot from it. They will be able to better recreate bumps width and many other aspects for a track. And I do NOT see this affecting iRacing memberships iRacing succeeding even the haters will benefit greatly from it!  I hope you are Richie running iRacing´s version and benefit greatly from it. Even if you don´t run iRacing  let me know as I would promptly let you run my account  so you could run some track tests on iRacing´s Zandvoort. Looking forward for Sebring by Virtua_LM as I see this one the the early tracks to take advantage of a straight forward comparison. Also I wish if possible to run the alfa or so version as a current iRacing and rFactor racer :)

  • felipe

    As more and more tracks become available for iRacing modders of other sims will benefit a lot from it. They will be able to better recreate bumps width and many other aspects for a track. And I do NOT see this affecting iRacing memberships iRacing succeeding even the haters will benefit greatly from it!  
    I hope you Richie run iRacing´s version and benefit greatly with feedback. Even if you don´t run iRacing  let me know as I would promptly let you run my account  so you could run some track tests on iRacing´s Zandvoort. 
    Looking forward for Sebring by Virtua_LM as I see this one the early tracks to take advantage of a straight forward comparison. Also I wish if possible to run the alfa or so version as a current iRacing and rFactor racer :)

  • felipe

    As more and more tracks become available for iRacing modders of other sims will benefit a lot from it. They will be able to better recreate bumps width and many other aspects for a track. And I do NOT see this affecting iRacing memberships iRacing succeeding even the haters will benefit greatly from it!    I hope you Richie run iRacing´s version and benefit greatly with feedback. Even if you don´t run iRacing  let me know as I would promptly let you run my account  so you could run some track tests on iRacing´s Zandvoort.  Looking forward for Sebring by Virtua_LM as I see this one the early tracks to take advantage of a straight forward comparison. Also I wish if possible to run the alfa or so version as a current iRacing and rFactor racer

  • felipe

    As more and more tracks become available for iRacing modders of other sims will benefit a lot from it. They will be able to better recreate bumps width and many other aspects for a track. And I do NOT see this affecting iRacing memberships iRacing succeeding even the haters will benefit greatly from it!    I hope you Richie run iRacing´s version and benefit greatly with feedback. Even if you don´t run iRacing  let me know as I would promptly let you run my account  so you could run some track tests on iRacing´s Zandvoort.  Looking forward for Sebring by Virtua_LM as I see this one the early tracks to take advantage of a straight forward comparison. Also I wished I could if possible run the alfa or so version as a current iRacing and rFactor racer

  • Vince Klortho

    There are members of the team who are iracing subscribers so if we want to compare the two courses we will.

    Personally, I see no value in a comparison because we are not trying to make our course look like iracing’s version.  We are trying to make our version look like the real thing.

  • felipe

    that´s great to know and we all know iRacing tracks are all laser scanned and recreating bumps at the right places would add a lot to the experience  ;)

  • Riches

    Offcourse i have iRacing account, it gives great inside on the angle of corners and elevation.
    As well as where the more noticable bumps and ditches are on the track

  • felipe

    Awesome Riches! What seemed great can turn out supreme :)

  • DeDios

    Looks stunning. Really well done Riches :-D

  • fulapo

    This must be a joke.. “trying to make our version look the real thing” LOL

  • Ash McConnell

    Wow, looks fantastic!  Congrats Riches!

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