Ancora immagini di anteprima per l'attesissimo Assetto Corsa: la Kunos Simulazioni ci mostra infatti questa sera altri 4 screenshots di preview work in progress della Lotus Type 98T, mentre qui sotto avrete già riconosciuto il podio dell'autodromo nazionale di Monza! Altri tre screens li trovate invece a questo post.

• Complete Pack (Car Pack, Course Pack, Special Paint Pack, Racing Gear Pack precedentemente usciti)
  
• Car Pack 2
  
• Car Pack 3 e Course Pack 2
  
• La Nissan GTR guidata quest'anno dal creatore della serie, Kazunori Yamauchi, durante la 24 ore di Nurburgring
  

L'edizione speciale del gioco sarà disponibile al prezzo di 29,99 euro

We are adding a whole new league racing experience to iRacing.com. Members will be able to create their own leagues entirely on the member site! Features like points tracking, custom points, league home page with a wall and email capabilities are just a few of the new features. Check out Greg Hill's video blog to learn more. This new functionality will be available very soon!

The most successful car in Formula One history, the iconic McLaren MP4/4 dominated the 1988 season. Sporting the instantly-recognizable red-and-white Marlboro livery now banned from F1 racing, the Gordon Murray-designed MP4/4 conjures memories of a golden era for McLaren. Featuring an innovative low-line chassis based on the Brabham BT55 and a 680-bhp twin-turbo Honda V6 engine, the all-conquering MP4/4 secured the Constructors' Championship for McLaren and the Drivers' Championship for Ayrton Senna, who was competing in his debut season for the team.

In fact its superiority was such that, during the 1988 season's 16 Grands Prix, Senna and his teammate, Alain Prost, grabbed 15 pole positions and the same number of race victories, including ten top-two finishes. The car's consistency was underlined by the fact that it led the field in an unbelievable 1003 of the 1031 laps contested that year. The subsequent ban on turbo engines curtailed any chance of the MP4/4 reprising its dominant role in the 1989 season but you can still take a rare ride into Formula One folklore by opening it up on the Simraceway tracks today.

We also got a lot of request about the dev team behind our racing simulation. At this stage we can say it is not Slightly Mad Studios from UK. As we are a community project we are also using the power of our community to develop our simulation, but the strength of our own studio as well. We are using super talented race developers from the modding community to create a racing simulation which is as close to the expectations of our community as possible. Also we can state at this point that the rFactor1 engine is not the basis for our future development – this is just for our tech guys out there.

Per contro, Ian Bell degli SMS fa invece sapere il suo punto di vista tramite VirtualR e non sembra essere propriamente d'accordo:

We have emails from Porsche’s head of marketing clearly stating to their CAD people that they are developing a game in cooperation with us.We fully expected a company with the reputation of Porsche to operate professionally, This was a fully playable build installed on a simulator (that we also specced and partly paid for). It’s very clear that our property has been exploited and abused and we’ll be approaching both Automaniax and Porsche in no uncertain terms. We’re taking legal advice ongoing. In short were owed a substantial amount of money, into the high six figures and we clearly feel we’ve been led down the garden path by a company we had the utmost respect for. I have two Porsches myself for goodness sake.

Reading the latest news article from Automaniax is interesting. I wonder how much ISI was paid for Automaniax’s use of the rfactor engine. I’d give 10 to 1 odds ISI hasn’t even been approached with a permission request, let alone a contract for fair payment. My personal opinion? We don’t need crap like this in our community.