Grande annuncio a sorpresa oggi, da parte del team di iRacing: con questo comunicato stampa infatti, viene comunicata la partnership con il team Williams di Formula 1 e di conseguenza il prossimo arrivo entro il 2010 nel simulatore targato Kaemmer della monoposto Williams FW31, che ha disputato il Mondiale di Formula 1 del 2009.

iRacing.com today revealed plans to build a virtual version of the 2009 AT&T Williams FW31 and make it available to its members in 2010. The announcement at the Autosport International show in Birmingham, UK was made jointly by Williams F1 and iRacing.com Motorsport Simulation, LLC. “Our members range from full-time professional racing drivers to fans who may never sit in a racing car in the physical world,” said Divina Galica, MBE, iRacing’s director of client relations. “For $12.95 (US) and less than $8.00 per month, anyone virtually anywhere in the world will be able to take the controls of a contemporary grand prix car, test its performance and race against other drivers. We’re excited by the prospect of producing an exact digital duplicate of the AT&T Williams FW31 and very pleased to be able to make the announcement here in the UK, the home of Williams F1 and to the second-largest national contingent of iRacers.” Galica said that iRacing’s work on the AT&T Williams FW31 was beginning this week with data collection at the team’s headquarters in Grove and that the car is expected to join iRacing’s vehicle inventory later this year.

Come gli appassionati più attenti già sanno, la tecnologia iOpener che equipaggia il nuovo Real Time Racing dei Simbin, attualmente in sviluppo, permette di sfidare in tempo reale i veri piloti in pista. Il video che trovate anche qui sotto riesce finalmente a svelarci qualche dettaglio in più...

Se siete appassionati cultori della fisica e dinamica dei veicoli o semplicemente volete scoprire qualcosa in più sul lavoro che c'è dietro la realizzazione di una vettura come la Corvette C6R dell'iRacing di Kaemmer, non perdetevi questo interessante articolo nel quale Ian Berwick, responsabile Vehicle Dynamic Engineer del simulatore, ci spiega numerosi dettagli.

What about the masses and inertias in the engine and driveline?  Thanks to Xtrac USA, the gearbox is easy.  The engine?  Not quite so simple.  General Motors  is not going to give me those numbers.  Not a chance.  So now I get to calculate all the inertias for all the moving parts within the engine...

Nuovi aggiornamenti in arrivo per RealRally, l’ormai nota utility per il simulatore Richad Burns Rally. Il parco auto sarà allargato a due nuove arrivate per il Gruppo B: Audi S1 e MG Metro. Altre vetture storiche, la nuova Corolla, la Peugeot 306 G.A e la mitica Escort Mk1. Al tutto si aggiunge, in attesa dei Campionati ufficiali, un nuovo Trofeo Omologazioni Scadute in partenza a giorni, le iscrizioni sono aperte e… Buona gara a tutti!

[Fonte Realrally.it]

Il team Sim Factory ha annunciato lo sviluppo di una nuova versione del suo ottimo ARCA Sim Racing. Per ora non sono noti dettagli sul gioco, se non il fatto che il nuovo titolo proporrà nuove caratteristiche e contenuti agli appassionati ed utilizzerà il nuovo engine GMotor che nascerà con rFactor 2.

Development has begun on the second installment of software by the Sim Factory LLC and though no release date has currently been set the goal is to try to release it by the end of 2010. Our goal is to provide a more feature and content rich experience to our users. In addition we are still working to finalize content and other features for ASR, but at the same time looking to the future and our next projects release.

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The new version is going to be rebranded as the Professional Stock Car Simulator, by the Sim Factory and will be on a timed twelve month subscription format using the new gmotor engine. The new software package will include the ARCA Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards as well as many other forms of stock cars, all of which will be programmed with real world data to be as close to their real life counterparts as technology will allow. As we are a stock car simulation company we are still focusing on ovals from major venues to local tracks. Though don't count out some roadies, the Palm Beach track is in development to be added into ASR as well as re-done for the new software and more will surely come after that. Over time we hope to move into dirt cars and the many wonderful dirt tracks still running today. In addition to the added content there will be many other new features available in the software. Some may ask...why go to a yearly subscription? The answer to the benefits of the subscription are simple and the difference between ourselves and our competitors is that it will cost far less as we only plan on doing stock cars and there is no content fee. Only the yearly fee, which is no more than purchasing the game each year at the normal cost. What this ultimately does is allows us to develop content faster and maintain more consistent content updates, which means more for you to enjoy and a software package that is growing at a faster rate. With users logging on through a web-based login system the security protocols are in place for a more structured racing environment as well as for our anti-cheat protocols to work properly. We are also looking at many other aspects such as official servers, cheat protection, front-end design and many more items that can create a more efficient online racing experience. As is with the last software, the Sim Factory will continue to maintain our superiority as the premiere physics design company using the gmotor engine. By continuing to work with engineers, teams and drivers we can offer the professional racing industry a viable training product and at the same time a product that can be enjoyed by stock car racing enthusiasts. We are also going to be designing our future tracks and redoing some of the tracks in our library based off of laser scanned and also GPS and vehcile telemetry data. Currently we are moving our website over to be more informational in regard to the new product and also to include more information about ASR. We are excited for the future of our product and look forward to providing you the most competative and realistic online stock car racing community.