Il noto magazine AutoSimSport, mensile scaricabile gratuitamente e dedicato al mondo della simulazione di guida, non sarà disponibile a giugno, ma tornerà in edicola ad inizio luglio con un rinnovato sito ufficiale ed il nuovo indirizzo, già attivo, di www.autosimsport.net.

As some of you have probably noticed (yes, we have smart readers!), there was no June Issue of AutoSimSport. Why, you ask? Well, apply any euphemism you choose but the most descriptive would be - due to factors beyond our control. Which, for anyone who has ever seen any of us racing, is not too difficult to imagine!

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Please rest assured that your favourite Sim-Racing ezine will return July 1st, at Midnight EST.

We sincerely hope that you will find our July Issue a welcome addition to your Sim-Racing experience and we assure you that we are working as hard as we can to ensure that July's Issue will be our best edition ever: A double bumper bonus edition packed with a plethora (and so much more!) of unique content unavailable anywhere else in sim-dom as our way of apologising to you for our June lapse. Considering the many world exclusives we have offered you, we hope that our promise of providing you with our best Issue ever will be met with some anticipation and you will forgive us for this month's aberration!

The particular problems that prevented us from having an Issue this month - the first time this has happened (and the last, we promise) in our 15 month history - have been firmly addressed and will not, we assure you, be repeated. We would like to remind you that we are open for content, race results and advertising.

July's Issue of AutoSimSport (as well as all future Issues) will no longer feature any FILSCA-related material, and AutoSimSport is no longer affiliated with FILSCA in any way. We would like to thank FILSCA-members for your contributions, and would be proud to be associated with you on an individual, league-by-league basis as we go forward.

With our independence assured, AutoSimSport remains the dedicated Sim-Racer's monthly reference point to all things Sim-Racing-related. Your interest remains our commitment, and your continued readership ensures our dedication and enthusiasm.

We thank you for your continued readership and interest, and look forward to seeing you at our new home, . Please take a peek and bookmark your pages! Our forum will also be back up sometime at the end of this week.

We hope to see you all July 1st, when our entire and usual staff of talented writers, columnists and contributors will offer you a sizzling hot start to Summer 2006!

Best regards,
All The Staff and Writers at AutoSimSport

E' stato annunciato oggi il lancio di un nuovo magazine dedicato esclusivamente al sim racing: il primo numero di VirtualMotorsports Racing Magazine, questo il suo nome, sarà disponibile a partire dal 28 giugno prossimo.

We are proud to announce a new magazine dedicated to sim-racing and sim-racers. The inaugural issue of VirtualMotorsports is scheduled for June 28, 2006. The magazine’s co-founders, Christoph Schirmer and Bruce Saltzman, have vast experience in the professional publishing arena and have for many years been actively contributing to the community-based development of sim-racing.

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Christoph is co-founder and president of FILSCA, the global association of online racing leagues and the home of FMI, the first and most comprehensive automated league system. In addition to being a co-founder and the publisher of AUTOSIMSPORT, he has also been its occasional author.

Bruce Saltzman is a graphics and publishing professional with almost 20 years of industry experience and also has an extensive background in advertising and marketing. Since 2001, he has been a member of Team McPherson Racing. He took over the design and production of AUTOSIMSPORT in July 2005. He was responsible for the development of the magazine’s classic layout which contributed highly, not only to its current visibility, but also to its standing with industry partners. In May 2006, both Christoph and Bruce resigned from their positions with AUTOSIMSPORT.

While the plan is to continue with the tradition of reporting on the issues that you want to read about, we are planning somewhat of a departure from the usual format. This will include tight integration between the magazine and a companion web site, which is planned to be launched soon. We shall do our best to offer you a format which brings you all the knowledge and information fit to publish about sim-racing.

For those that would like to participate in building an exciting new environment for sim-racing as news or feature contributors, please let us know by using the contact info below.

VirtualMotorsports Racing Magazine

Publishers and Co-founders:
Christoph Schirmer
Bruce Saltzman

Tempo di piccoli aggiornamenti per il sito ufficiale di rFactor: sulla sinistra è infatti comparsa una piccola finestra che mostra alcuni istanti di gioco, in particolare la futura Panoz Esperante, la BMW Sauber e il tracciato del Nurburgring. Altra news interessante è poi la presenza di rFactor anche a Barcellona in occasione dell'ultimo GP di F1, con la pista che sembra sia stata a sua volta riprodotta e che potrebbe essere rilasciata nel futuro pacchetto comprendente la già citata BMW Sauber 2006.

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Da qualche anno è risaputo che AMD è uno dei fornitori e partner della Scuderia Ferrari di F.1. E' però curioso notare da questa immagine (pubblicata in una news da un sito web, che riportiamo di seguito) scattata a Imola come alla 248 F1 sia collegato un pc... dotato di tecnologia Intel! Potenze... di calcolo.

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Moles not far from Imola noticed something quite interesting. Instead of attaching an AMD Turion 64 notebook to the Ferrari F1 - sponsored by AMD, the technicians appear to be relying upon the awesome power of the Sentryno brand. Unfortunately the screen was too far from our ace camera man's digicam to catch details of the electrolytics used in the little Ferrari beastie. But you can easily see the Intel stickers.