Lotus 49, Rockingham and Oran Park Available for Pre-Sale

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History is poised to come alive on iRacing with one of the Formula One’s most significant cars – the Lotus 49 -- and two of the world’s most beloved race tracks – Rockingham Speedway and Oran Park – now available for pre-sale. iRacing’s introduction of the Lotus 49 is a milestone in the evolution of motorsport simulations, one hearkening to the classic Grand Prix Legends game developed by iRacing co-founder and CEO Dave Kaemmer and his associates at the Papyrus Design Group more than a decade ago.

Designed by the legendary Colin Chapman, the Ford-Cosworth-powered Lotus 49 scored a memorable debut at the 1967 Grand Prix of Holland in the hands of Jim Clark, who went on to three more victories in the Lotus 49 that season. The Lotus 49 continued winning Formula One races through the 1970 season, while the Ford-Cosworth (and its derivatives) became the most successful racing engine in history with victories from the 24 Hours of Le Mans to the 1987 Indianapolis 500 to its credit.

When it comes to historical significance, it takes a special race track to be mentioned in the same breath as the Lotus 49 and GPL. But in Rockingham and Oran Park, iRacing has two worthy companions for the Lotus and GPL. Rockingham (aka North Carolina Motor Speedway or just “The Rock”) hosted a pair of NASCAR Sprint Cup races annually from 1965 until it was dropped from the schedule in 2004. Oran Park suffered an even worse fate in 2010, when it was closed to make way for a housing development after some 48 years as one of Australia’s premier road courses. Now, thanks to iRacing, Oran Park will live . . . forever.

But these two tracks have lots more going for them than history. Now a fixture on the ARCA and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedules, Rockingham remains one of the toughest mile ovals in racing and, what’s more, includes a challenging infield road course. Similarly, Oran Park features three different configurations including the 1.62 mile (2.620 km) Grand Prix Circuit and the .410 mile (.660 km) North Circuit, which utilize the track’s cross-over feature, and the 1.218 mile (1.96 km) South Circuit.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity to relive some great racing history – and to create new memories of your own.

Click Here to add the Lotus 49 to your garage of great race cars for just $11.95

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Oran Park

Rockingham

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quasi ci siamo (forse) per la Lotus...

Tony Gardner:
Yes, right now the plan is to release Lotus 49 in the range between a couple weeks before this coming build and the coming build on V5 of tire Model. As painful as it has been for us and I know you, we are glad we waited. It was worth it. Much better.
No. Should have some cars with V5 of tire model in coming build, we just may release Lotus a little before build. We shall see.

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We should see a few cars in the Season 3 build updated with the newest (NTMv5) tire model. Expect the Lotus 49 to see it as it is planned to be released a couple of weeks prior to the build. No word yet on which other cars we might see in the build, but we anticipate the top level NASCAR Series cars and maybe some more popular road series cars. 7/7

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da Twitter

Thanks everyone for being patient about the Lotus 49. The racecar is still in testing and development.

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Lotus (finalmente) in arrivo?

http://www.iracing.com/1967-the-summer-of-lo-tus-49/

There were a lot of places where people were loving the summer of 1967, but the cockpit of an F1 car with a brand new 3-liter engine was not one of them. The engine formula had just been changed in 1966 to allow 3 liters of displacement, up from 1.5 liters in previous years. 1967 was the first year the teams had time to produce new engines to fully exploit the additional power. And that power was considerable—in just about a single year the drivers (and car designers) had to cope with a doubling of the power, from 200 to 400 horsepower. This created some problems…

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