Most Successful Grand-Am Prototype Racer

To Be Included in Motorsport Simulation

BEDFORD, MA (July 18, 2008) - iRacing.com will add the Riley Mk XX Daytona Prototype to the stable of racing cars available to users of the company's motorsport simulation software and service. The agreement was announced today by Bill Riley, president of Riley Technologies and Scott McKee, iRacing's vice president of marketing.

"Riley Technologies is one of the world's foremost designers and manufacturers of racing cars, and the Mk XX continues Riley's long line of winning prototype sportscars," McKee said. "Several Daytona Prototype drivers have already made use of our service as part of their pre-race preparation for Grand-Am events; with the top car in the class becoming available, and so many of the tracks where they race already in our inventory, we expect even more teams and drivers will decide to take advantage of our simulation service for race rehearsals."

"I drove a pre-release version of the iRacing software last December at the Performance Racing Industry show in Orlando," Riley said. "The accuracy of the tracks and the cars was just amazing. One of the secrets of our company's long-term success has been the level of support we provide for our customers. I look at our association with iRacing as an extension of that service; now the drivers for our teams can get meaningful behind-the-wheel practice before a test session or a race. That's a big advantage."

Ian Berwick, vehicle dynamics engineer at iRacing, noted that working closely with Riley's engineering staff and having access to their design and performance data will permit iRacing to produce an extremely precise digital representation of the physical race car. "That's one of the benefits of licensing all of the content in our simulation - tracks as well as cars," said Berwick. "To be useful to real-world racers, the level of fidelity needs to be really high; approximations just aren't good enough."

One of the keys to making the Riley Daytona Prototype perform in the simulation precisely as it does in the real world is reproducing the car's aerodynamic qualities accurately. "Our general aerodynamic model is very good, and getting better all the time," Berwick said. "But we'll be able to check our values against what the Riley engineers have found in their real-world testing. For a high-downforce car like this one, that's an important factor."

The iRacing.com laser scanning team recently visited Riley Technologies' Mooresville, N.C., facility to scan the Mk XX for modeling purposes. Additional data gathering is underway, and the same version of the car that the Grand-Am professionals will use for their race rehearsals will be available to all iRacing subscribers later this year.

iRacing.com was founded in September of 2004 by Dave Kaemmer and John Henry. Kaemmer was co-founder of Papyrus Racing Games, Inc., developers of award-winning racing simulations including NASCAR Racing: 2003 Season and Grand Prix Legends. Henry is principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group - the co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing - as well as an avid simracer. The iRacing.com team combines more than 100 years of real-world racing experience with more than 50 years of successful racing simulation development.

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Sun, 20 July 2008 14:00 GMT

Gradual Ramp-Up Begins With Wave of E-mail Invitations

BEDFORD, Mass. (June 25, 2008) – Having completed beta testing earlier this month, iRacing.com today began a phased rollout of its internet racing service with the distribution of several thousand invitations to subscribe. In addition, the company offered further detail as to when the service would be available to the general public.

"This first wave of invitations really marks the start of our launch of iRacing.com," said Scott McKee, vice president of marketing for iRacing.com. "Completing beta was an important final step for us to confirm that all of our back-end systems were functioning correctly. We still want to be careful to ramp up the service in a controlled fashion that ensures each subscriber will enjoy a high quality experience. But over the next week or so, we expect to add thousands of new members, which means that our scheduled races will be more fully populated. We'll begin to see the iRacing service work as it was designed to and the community of iRacers begin to come alive."

McKee explained that this initial list of invitees included names supplied by the beta test group, each of whom was permitted to nominate ten additional names, as well as individuals who had registered on the iRacing.com public Web site. Subsequent waves of invitations, which are to be distributed throughout the summer, will include iRacing corporate partners and additional registrants from the iRacing public site.

"We expect to have our doors wide open by the end of the summer," McKee said. "But people who want to get started sooner can still go our site (www.iracing.com), register for updates and get on the list. As part of the process of gradually expanding the membership, we'll be sending out additional waves of invitations over the next couple of months."

One-month subscriptions are available to invitees for $20, while the purchase of an annual subscription brings the monthly cost down to $13. All subscription packages include all the cars and tracks necessary to compete in the iRacing rookie oval and road-racing series. Additional cars and tracks can be added as a driver progresses through the service or can be purchased at any time and used for testing.

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iRacing.com was founded in September of 2004 by Dave Kaemmer and John Henry. Kaemmer was co-founder of Papyrus Design Group, developers of award-winning racing simulations including NASCAR Racing: 2003 Season and Grand Prix Legends. Henry is principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group – the co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing – as well as an avid simracer. The iRacing.com team combines more than 100 years of real-world racing experience with more than 50 years of successful racing simulation development.

Thu, 24 June 2008 0:00 GMT

*ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF DYNOMATION-5 *

(*Anaheim, CA*) - World renowned automotive simulation developer, Motion Software(R), announced it has reacquired the rights to enhance and publish future versions of Dynomation. The newest release of Dynomation, labeled "Dynomation-5", is the most significant enhancement to the software since it was first published.

Dynomation-5 is rich in new features including:

• Combustion and ignition modeling
• "Auto Timing" Feature builds Optimum Advance Curve
• Rocker ratio/lash timing calculator
• Environment modeling
• Improved interface
• Enhanced accuracy
• Full-Feature Iterator(TM) With Wave Action Modeling

Tue, 24 June 2008 23:00 GMT

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In This Issue:

• COVER STORY
• iRacing.com Special Preview
• DIGITAL COCAINE: Alison Hine finds perfection at the limit in iRacing
• THE PHYSICS: Aristotelis Vasilakos spends time with iRacing's simulator to judge precisely where it stands ... and where it sink
• THE GAME: Lou Magyar gets under the skin of iRacing's Interface
• SPENCER PUMPELLY 2006 Rolex 24 At Daytona winner on why he is addicted to iRacing
• SPECIAL FEATURES
• Under The Skin Of Forza Motorsport 2
• Jon Denton shares a spanner with Dan Greenawalt—Game Director at Turn 10 Studios
• The Minardi Story
• AUTOSIMSPORT sat down with the legendary Formula One team owner Giancarlo Minardi
• At The Speed Of Light
• AUTOSIMSPORT lets Paul Mrstik, Vice President Technology, and co-founder of Terrapoint, a division Ambercore Software, walk us through the process of laser-scanning
• F1 Project
• Ivan Askew on the management-sim that has been such a phenomenal success in Italy is about to go global
• REVIEWS—HARDware
• Canon Simulation Technologies
• Aristotelis Vasilakos finally tests the mythical pedal-set as used by Dale Jr., and as employed by iRacing's marketing tour
• Rally GT Force Feedback Pro Clutch Edition
• John Gregorio on Thrustmaster's return to form
• A View To A Kill
• Lou Magyar takes a look into head-mounted displays, and comes up for air motion-sick, but rather pleased!
• REVIEWS—SOFTware
• GZ Street On EZ Street?
• Magnus Tellbom reviews one the first-ever pay-for tracks for rFactor, GT208's GZ Street GP ... does its animated crowds and stunning graphics make it worth the admission price?
• Singtel Ultimate Race Simulator 2008
• Andrew Tyler watches as the nKPro saga takes another bizarre turn
• Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
• Bob Simmerman, and Brent Rubeck on Sony and Digitial Polyphony's great-sim hope
• NASCAR 09
• John Gregorio on EA Sports' new NASCAR sim ... the best in the franchise's history? EA have certainly pulled out all the stops this time
• Grand Theft Auto 4
• Brent Rubeck reviews the game that turns kids into raging beasts
• INTERVIEWS
• Davide Rigon
• FIA GT Ferrari driver, Euro3000 and Italian F3000 Champion, A1GP Italy driver and ... Italy’s great F1 hope?
• Christer Cralle Lindholm
• Many will remember 'Cralle' in his days as one of Europe's top bike racers competing in the Superbike series for a decade with Yamaha ... so you'll be surprised at where he is now
• A Trip Down Pit Lane At The Indianapolis 500
• Lou Magyar finds that sometimes, even when you're cleared with an all-access pass, and for an interview, doesn't mean you're going to get your man
• FIA Rally Sardegna

Tue, 24 June 2008 22:00 GMT

Sole Storefront and Registration Site for Internet Racing Service

BEDFORD, MA. (June 11, 2008) – iRacing.com, which is introducing an innovative Web-based motorsport simulation and internet racing service, today announced the opening of a completely revamped public Web site. The new site, www.iracing.com, features product information, testimonials from professional racers, news and video. Most importantly, it is the sole point of purchase for subscriptions to the iRacing service.

"As the only place you can subscribe to the iRacing service, our Web site has to address the needs of all of our prospective customers, who represent a wide variety of motorsports participants and enthusiasts," said Scott McKee, iRacing's vice president of marketing. "This new site conveys a lot more information than our previous site, and it does so in a more user-friendly and visually interesting way, making it even easier to understand our service, register for news updates or buy a subscription and get started racing online."

Although development of iRacing's simulation software and internet racing service will continue indefinitely, the company recently completed beta testing and has commenced a gradual public launch process, in which the new public site will play a key role.

"In order to maintain a high-quality customer experience, we're being careful to grow our community slowly," explained McKee. "For at least the next couple of months, we'll be adding new members by invitation only. Some of those invitations will go to people nominated by our beta testers and some will go to our corporate partners – graduates of Skip Barber Racing Schools, for instance – but individuals can secure one of those early invitations for themselves, too, just by registering for updates on the new public site. The registration database will be a primary source for our invitation list."

Visitors to the new iRacing site will see a short, introductory flash video, showing clips of on-track action from within the iRacing simulation as well as footage from physical-world racing. From the home page, visitors can investigate various aspects of iRacing's service, including testing/training, racing and community, as well as the technology behind the simulation and the cars and tracks currently available.

"The new public site will be refreshed frequently," said McKee. "Not only will we have regular news updates, but we'll be adding new product information, new features, a merchandise store, and, of course, once we've completed the invitation-only phase of our launch, we'll open up the subscription function to the general public."

iRacing.com was founded in September of 2004 by Dave Kaemmer and John Henry. Kaemmer was co-founder of Papyrus Design Group, developers of award-winning racing simulations including NASCAR Racing: 2003 Season and Grand Prix Legends. Henry is principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Group – the co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing – as well as an avid simracer. The iRacing.com team combines more than 100 years of real-world racing experience with more than 50 years of successful racing simulation development.

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Fri, 13 June 2008 23:00 GMT

Fri, 2 May 2008 00:30 GMT

We are pleased to announce the latest edition of AutoSimSport Magazine. Volume 4, Issue 2 is now available for download at http://autosimsport.net

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In This Issue:

COVER STORY

iRacing.com ...........................................................................22

JON DENTON gets an inside view of iRacing's promised service ...

SPECIAL FEATURES

Alison Hine .............................................................................44

ALISON HINE on the glory days at Papyrus ...

Pit Stop Boss .........................................................................72

IVAN ASKEW becomes the world's first beta-tester for the online management sim that promises the fun of BATracer, and the depth of Grand Prix Manager ...

Inside A1GP .........................................................................106

SERGIO BUSTAMANTE gets involved in a riot while organizing the Mexican round of the' World Cup Of Motorsport'!

CTDP06 .................................................................................83

LOU MAGYAR previews the return of the best Formula One experience available on any platform ...

For Colin .................................................................................61

LUISA GHIBAUDO gives her touching tribute to the legend ...

The Almost Sim .....................................................................114

JEFF A. REID on the sim that dreamt big ... and fell flat ...

REVIEWS

Logitech's Driving Force GT ........................................................37

BOB SIMMERMAN gets his hands on the DFP's successor ...

Virtual Roadster ........................................................................54

LOU MAGYAR gets his butt into the Cadillac of racing-rigs ...

The New SLI .............................................................................80

LOU MAGYAR gets hold of CXC's SLI-now available for all wheels and surfaces ...

ARCA Sim Racing .....................................................................86

BOB SIMMERMAN and RASFIGJOHN on the first major sim release of the year ...

INTERVIEWS

Swing Lo .................................................................................101

Side-by-side with ISI's Laurent (Lo) Evernisse...

REGULAR FEATURES

HeadOpEd .................................................................................5

News With VirtualR.net ...............................................................8

Fromadge .................................................................................19

SPAGE FROMLEY prattles on about stuff ... and stuff

Force-Feedback ........................................................................20

COLUMNS

Test-Drive .................................................................................119

ELIOT EARLE struggles to find a porsche ...

5th Column ...............................................................................122

AUTOSIMSPORT on the past ...

GPLegacy ................................................................................126

SERGIO BUSTAMANTE keeps you updated on the most energetic group in sim-racing ...

The Dent ...................................................................................132

JON DENTON's vodka diaries continue ...

Magnus Opus .............................................................................136

MAGNUS TELLBOM wears his helmet and steps into the minefield

Checkered Flag ...........................................................................139

All the results from sim-racing's premiere series

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We hope you enjoy this edition of AutoSimSport Magazine. Thank you for your continued patronage and confidence in AutoSimSport Magazine.

Regards,

The Staff and Crew at AutoSimSport Media

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Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:30 GMT

AutoSimSport Magazine Volume 4, Issue 1 is ready for download. You can get your copy by visiting http://autosimsport.net.

Contents:

COVER STORY

iRacing.com............................................ 19

JON DENTON sits with Scott McKee to get the inside story of Dave Kaemmer's return ... finally ...

SPECIAL FEATURES

"Four-Wheel Drift" Revisited........................... 32

STEVE SMITH on writing the grandest manual of them all ...

Arca Sim-Racing........................................ 35

BOB SIMMERMAN takes a look at the final (but not quite!) build of the sim that is on everyone's lips ... gentlemen, this one's ready to go!

KartSim................................................ 54

ZACH GRIFFIN previews about the most gorgeous sim we've seen in some time ... keep your eyes on this one ...

A1Legacy Preview....................................... 59

SERGIO BUSTAMANTE & LOU MAGYAR preview the best kept secret in town-A1GP is about to get a sim, boys!

TPSCC Mod Preview...................................... 66

BOB SIMMERMAN finds heaven in the new beta from the US Pits-shine, baby, shine!

Grid Motorsports....................................... 70

BOB SIMMERMAN assesses the most startlingmod he's seen in ages-but then it's not just a mod, it's so much more ...

Looking Back At Papyrus................................ 77

JON DENTON takes a loving look at the history of Papyrus ...

REVIEWS

Fanatec's Porsche Wheel 911 Turbo Wheel................ 47

LOU MAGYAR finds love and respect for what will become the G25's biggest competitor

Burnout Paradise....................................... 91

BOB SIMMERMAN has found heaven: Now he finds Paradise while showcasing the most amazing damage model ever seen

The Cow................................................ 87

Side-by-side with Stuart Cowie ...

REGULAR FEATURES

HeadOpEd............................................... 5

News................................................... 8

Fromadge.............................................. 16

SPAGE FROMLEY prattles on about stuff ... and stuff

Force-Feedback........................................ 17

COLUMNS

Advanced Setups....................................... 83

PROT. ING. ARI STONE answers your setup related questions

5th Column............................................ 95

AUTOSIMSPORT give you the inside scoop on what's what in 2008

GPLegacy.............................................. 99

SERGIO BUSTAMANTE keeps you updated on the most energetic group in sim-racing ...

The Dent............................................... 106

JON DENTON's vodka diaries continue ...

Magnus Opus............................................ 110

MAGNUS TELLBOM wears his helmet and steps into the minefield

Checkered Flag......................................... 113

All the results from sim-racing's premiere series

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:30 GMT

Groundbreaking Software to be Available by Subscription

Bedford, MA. (Jan. 23, 2008) - iRacing.com today announced pricing for its racing simulation, which will be available on a subscription basis starting in 2008. A one-year subscription to the service will cost $13 per month and includes all of the content necessary for a subscriber's first season of oval-track and road-racing. Shorter terms of six and three months are priced at $15 and $17 per month, respectively. A one-month trial subscription is available for $20.

"We're building a community," said David Kaemmer, iRacing.com's CEO. "Our pricing reflects our desire to attract simracers who are interested in being part of that community over time, providing the lowest monthly rate to those willing to commit to a longer subscription. At the same time, we want to offer people a low-cost way to try out our service and see if it meets their needs."

Kaemmer noted that every subscription, regardless of length, includes a selection of both oval and road-racing cars, tracks and series, as well as a certain number of free "iRacing Dollars" that can be applied to the purchase of additional content. As with the monthly subscription price, annual membership offers an advantage, bringing $60 worth of free iRacing credit.

"We expect to appeal to racers of all types, including all skill levels and budgets," said Tony Gardner, the company's president and CFO. "Through the purchase of additional content - tracks and cars - subscribers will be able to drive what they want, where they want, and when they want. Some of our members will want to have every track and every car right away. Some will only ever be interested in a very limited number of cars and tracks. Some may want to purchase everything up front, and some may want to progress more slowly, using mainly their free iRacing dollars to collect content over time. The point is to offer a pricing solution for everyone."

"We've spent a lot of time and committed substantial resources to create the most accurate racing simulation outside of what the top Formula One teams use," said Gardner. "With this approach we expect a typical member's average monthly cost, including content, will be on the order of $16 to $19 over a three year period - which we think is very reasonable for the quality of experience we provide."

Kaemmer, who races in both the physical and virtual worlds, emphasized the importance of the inclusion of both experienced simracers and those who race in the physical world in the development of the new sim.

"We're grateful to all of the people who have participated in the development process as testers," Kaemmer said. "The input of the experienced simracers into literally every aspect of the user experience, combined with the expertise of the real-world racers validating car and track accuracy, has resulted in a product that we think will be truly groundbreaking. We know we can't be all things to all people, but with all of the help we've had, we're hoping to get as close as possible to meeting the needs of everyone in the community."

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:40 GMT

Inspired by the danish 24hr races and VLN, we are organizing an event in Stockholm with a 24 hour race on Nurburgring Nordschleife in rFactor.

Schedule, information and regulations are under constant adjustements. Please post comments and suggestions in the SSR forum and return here for latest edition.
(Last updated on January 20, 2008).

Date

March (7)-8-9 2008.

Track:

Nordschleife VLN-layout.

International teams and drivers are most welcome! We can do special arrangements regarding payments of starting fees if necessary. Also, if you need a ride from the airport, ask in the forum if someone can help you.

Times

We are on site from 16:00 on Friday March 7 to welcome you. At 20:00 we will have some funraces as warmup.

On Saturday we start with connecting the computers that haven't yet been fixed and have free practice until 10:00

We qualify before lunch and at 14:00 the race starts. The race will end at 14:00 on Sunday the 9th.

Detailed schedule: here.

Gear?

We have access to network and servers, plus chairs and tables. Network will be 10/100mbit TP. Teams must have their own computers with correct software, steering wheel, power cord and 6-way power extension. Bring your own network cables.

You will also need some lights for the cockpit as it will be dark during the night. Some flashlights may also be good in case you need to do service on the cockpit. It is allowed to have an extra computer for the pit wall to use for telemetri and Teamspeak. The only ways to communicate with the driver in the cockpit will be via Teamspeak or pit board. Headsets are therefore also necessary.

Checklist for gear:

Eat?

We are negotiating catering. There is also a MacDonalds one minute drive from the LAN. Another four minutes away there are several other restaurants.

Sleep?

We offer floors in classrooms. Bring sleeping bag! Of course there are hotels a few minutes away, but since you will probably drive during the night it may be uncomfortable to use a hotel.

Find the place?

We will be at STFG which is located here, 15 minutes drive south of Stockholm.

If something unexpected would happen, we will have our usual SSR LAN place as backup. That is located in western Sweden, close to the Norwegian border in Karlstad. If you have further questions, ask in our forum or via PM to Tobias Harnvi or John Sjostrand.

Signup

Teams must be signed up and car selections be done by Friday February 22 2008.

Car selections and teams signed up will be published as soon as a team has been cleared for the race.

Welcome to an exciting racing weekend!

Swedish Simracers

SSR 24H Challenge - LAYOUT AND REGULATIONS

Classes

The starting field is made up of three groups - G1, G2 and G3 - who race together in the same race. The event will be decided both as a race with an overall winner plus as a race with winners within each class.

Qualifying

Qualifying is 120 minutes and split into two sessions of 60 minutes each to set a laptime. Number of laps is unlimited. A laptime must be set in both qualifying sessions. The team must nominate two qualifying drivers who will do one session each. The starting position will then be given as an average of the position gained from the both sessions. If two teams get the same position, the result from qualifying session one will be decider. After the qualifying, Race control (RC) will save the result and servers plus all computers will be rebooted for the race.

Race

Race is decided over 24 hours. Start will be behind Safety car (SC) driven by RC.

When the race is started, the cars will automatically be moved to its position on the grid. All drivers must be careful not to move until the lights go from red to green or else the game will give a black flag for jumpstart.

When the lights go from red to green, all drive nice and easy away in ONE line behind the SC. SC will keep approximatly 100 kph during the formation lap up until the exit of the Bit turn, out on the GP track back straight when it will speed up and leave the field. NO OVERTAKING will be allowed UNTIL the point where the field leaves the GP track. At the exit of the GP track, the race is effectively started.

Simracing is not a contact sport and "over offensive driving" will be punished. Brake in time when you have a driver ahead of you and do not try to overtake unless you are certain to manage the overtake without collision. A good sportsman simracer prefer to drive off the track rather than crashing into another driver.

If you would end up beside the track, show extreme caution as you re-enter that track as visibility is very limited from the cars.

Safety car and reconnection

If the SC has to come out, it will drive up to the turn where the track takes off to the Nordschleife and stop there. A flashing light will show in the racing room to notify the driver that SC is going out. The cars can race to the start/finish line but are not allowed to overtake after that. Drive up to the SC and stop behind it in ONE line. When RC gives the order, drivers press ESC to park the cars in the garage. When all cars are parked in the garage, servers and clients are rebooted and reconnection is made. Grid is sorted and thereafter the SC makes the restart the same way as when the race was started. All competitors, excluding anyone that might have been disqualified by RC, re-enters the race.

During the race, if a car is left standing on the track or in the terrain or is unable to repair at a usual pitstop, it can be placed in the garage for repairs. This is made with the ESC button and the team notifies RC. A repair will take a maximum of 45 minutes. After that time the SC will go out and a full restart is being made as described above. No repair restart will be made within the races first hour or in the last 90 minutes.

Cutting rule

At least two wheels must always be on (or in the air directly above) the track. As track the tarmac within the painted with lines, the white lines and also the kerbs are counted. "Widening" of kerbing, often painted green is NOT counted as part of the track. A driver found by RC to cut the track can be given a stop and go penalty. If you accidently cuts, avoid penalty by slowing down and show that you did not make up any time on the cut.

Server settings

Difficulty: Simulation

Fuel consumption: x1

Tire wear: x1

Mechanical failures: Off

Damage multiplier: 25%

Driving aids: Only "Auto Clutch" allowed

Preliminary schedule

Friday:

16:00 Access to the facilities. Teams can start building their cockpits and pit walls.

20:00 Funrace

Saturday:

08:00 Free practice and connection of the race computers.

10:00 End of free practice and connection setups. All race computers to be connected to the server. Cars in parc ferme*.

10:15 Drivers briefing. Obligatory for drivers that will participate in qualifying sessions.

10:30 Qualifying

12:30 Qualifying ends. Parc ferme*.

12:35 Drivers briefing and lunch together. Mandatory attendance for all drivers, Race Control and other personel.

13:25 Warm up

13:45 Warm up ends.

14:00 Race starts

Sunday

14:00 Race ends

14:15 Podium and press conferens

*When cars are in parc ferme, it is not allowed to drive or work with cars or any other technical equipment. Does also apply on non connected computers, pit wall etc. If ie a hardware failure makes it necessary to do repairs, a race steward can give permit to work on that specific detail.

Car selection

The race will be decided in three classes - G1, G2 and G3 - with a maximum of 10 cars in each class. A maximum of two teams will be allowed to drive the same model. Exception: The organizers are aware that some teams may be forced to use a certain car brand because of contractual reasons from non-simulated racing. These teams will not be affected by this rule. Contact Harnvi for details.

All cars will be from a selection of rFactor mods. They will use the same physics as original mod has so that teams can test and evaluate cars and work on setups. In all cases except one, it will be allowed to use the updates shipped with the mods. Exception is "Engine & Drivetrain" on Porsche Fabcar Challenge where only " Original Fabcar Performance Package" is allowed. The other Porsche Fabcar upgrades are allowed. This rule may be updated if mods are updated before the LAN.

Adjustements for tyres, damage model, repair and service times will be made and all cars will be fitted with a 100 liter standard fuel tank. Pit stops will take longer time than in the original mod and for the fastest cars within each class additional time will be added at pit stops to slightly even out differences within class. Adjustements for tyres will only affect wear variables so that the tyres don't puncture before fuel tank is empy during normal race speed.

For the PCC 2007 cars we will use the graphics from PCC2005 because of the tough performance hogs they would otherwise present during night racing. The physics will however be from PCC 2007. Remember this when producing the team texture if you select PCC 2007.

The selection

Practically the selection is made like this, special arrangements may be made with drivers not living in Sweden. Make contact with Harnvi to discuss if this seems difficult:

Pay correct signup fee to account number 1201-15-01253 in "den Danske bank/Provinsbanken Varmland". Sign the payment with teams name and class. When payment for at least three cars in a team has reached the account, the team is officially signed up and can select a car. Send a PM to Tobias Harnvi (tharnvi on forum).

1. If your car selection is accepted your team will be listed on the entry list. If it is not, you will get a message on PM. Make sure to check your PMs daily when expecting reply! Car selections are made in the order of payments done. Max two cars of each model can enter the race.
2. You will get a paint kit with templates and car number decals to use for your car. Paint yourself a team texture and send the PSD files to Tobias Harnvi.
3. On site on the beginning of the weekend a complete GameData and rfm folder will be given to each team. Before these are installed on the teams race computer, the current GameData and rfm folders must be moved from the rFactor folder.
4. To make sure the field won't be too spread out between the classes if low number of signed up teams (<20), class G3 will be locked and unable to select to begin with. Teams who wants to select G3 pays for and selects a G2 or G1 car and in the selection PM writes they wants to change to G3 should it open for sign up. If G3 is opened part of the starting fee will be repaid.

Models and classes

Mods

The cars available are gathered from these mods:

DBR9 Challenge 1.0

Gallardo Challenge 2.0

DTM 2007 1.1

Sports Car Challenge (American Le Mans) 1.2

Porsche Fabcar Challenge 1.3

Megane Trophy 2.02

Panoz Esperante v1.0

Alfa 147 GT-R 3.0

BMW 1 Challenge 2006 1.1

ETCC 1.2

MINI Challenge 2006 UK 1.1

PCC 2007 1.0

Renault Super Clio 1.0

Supercopa Leon 2006 1.1

V8 Supercars 1.1

VW Lupo Cup 2003 1.0

Classification

From those mods, these cars have been selected and classified:

G1, Team numbers 10-19

1. Aston Martin DBR9, DBR9 Challenge
2. Gallardo GT3
3. Audi, DTM
4. AMG Mercedes, DTM
5. Corvette C5-R, SCC GTS
6. Ferrari 550, SCC GTS
7. Saleen S7R, SCC GTS
8. Viper GTS-R, SCC GTS
9. Pagani Zonda GR, SCC GTS
10. Porsche Fabcar
11. Panoz,Esperante GTR-1

G2, Team numbers 20-29

1. BMWGTR, SCC GT
2. Ferrari 360, SCC GT
3. Porsche 996 GT-R, SCC GT
4. Megane Trophy
5. Panoz,Esperante GT2
6. Ford, V8 Supercars 1.1
7. Holden, V8 Supercars 1.1
8. Porsche 997 Cup, PCC 2007 1.0

G3, Team numbers 30-39

1. Panoz,Esperante GTS
2. BMW 1
3. MINI Cooper S
4. VW Lupo
5. Supercopa Leon
6. Alfa 147 GT-R
7. Alfa Romeo 156, ETCC
8. Audi A4, ETCC
9. BMW 320i, ETCC
10. Honda Civic, ETCC
11. Seat Toledo, ETCC
12. Skoda Superb, ETCC
13. Volvo S60, ETCC
14. Renault Super Clio

Teams and driver fees

A team is made up of three, four or five drivers, driving a car during the race. To enter the competition a fee for each driver of 100 swedish kronor (sek) for class G3, 150 sek for G2 and 200 sek for G1 has to be payed. 10 euros is approximately 100 sek.

When a team has been formed and payment for at least three drivers have reached the organizers, the team is officially signed up for the race. More drivers can enter later, all up to the drivers briefing at the qualifying.

Last date for signup and car selection is Friday February 22 2008. Car selections and teams are published on this website when they are found valid.

Welcome to an exciting racing weekend!

Swedish Simracers

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:35 GMT

NEW WEBSITE IS UP TYPE IN WWW.TCRG.INFO AND SAVE

Rejoin its easy and quick and were waiting for the email 

The Charity Racing Group 2008 Season will be starting in February: 

1. NASCAR      FLAGGS TRUCK SOURCE CUP SERIES (Tuesday) (TBA)

2. NASCAR      ACD SERVERS TRUCK SERIES (Saturday) (Qualify 9: EST)

3. TCRG        JR RACING SERIES (Sunday)(Qualify 8: EST)

4. NASCAR      JNS TRACKS SCE CUP SERIES (Monday) (Qualify 9:EST)

5. NASCAR      N2K3 SERIES (Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday (Qualify 8:50 EST)

6. NASCAR     VHR Cup & CTS Fun Series (Sunday, Thursday) (Qualify 9: EST)

7. Dirt        Rfactor (Monday)(TBA) 

1. Flagg's truck Source Cup Series is a Sponsored Broadcast race. With a pay out on 1^st 2^nd and 3^rd Place Interested drivers must contact dflagg@tcrg.info
2. ACD Servers Truck Semi Pro Series contact dnovak@tcrg.info
3. TCRG JR Series contact mkerns@tcrg.info
4. JNS Tracks SCE Cup Series contact Citgo@tcrg.info
5. N2K3 Both Aids and No Aids allowed contact Marvin@tcrg.info
6. VHR Fun Series Fixed Setups contact mkerns@tcrg.info
7. Rfactor Dirt see jlinville@tcrg.info

1,2,and 3 will be together in a stand alone Mod, which will be at TCRG to download. It should be ready for downloading by the middle of January.

1 and 2 will be the VHR mod with the several changes including the addition of the JR Racing Series  

With the merger of Old School Racing (N2K3 Racing League) and the addition of running aids and no aids out N2K3 Field or car count is over 20 per race. 

All drivers need to ensure that they have an approved number and car painted for the series. (Except the Fun Series.) If your number matches your current vehicle then you're ok. If not we have several painters here at TCRG that will paint or change numbers for you, All drivers must use there real name to race, all drivers must have team speak installed and working. This makes it better for the admins to take care of their business and for the TV broadcasters to do their jobs. 

There will be a first and second haft champion, along with the series champion at the end of the season. All champions will receive a plaque that tells of their achievements here at TCRG. Gifts will also be given out to the Champions and winners of the Broadcast races 

The 2008 schedule will have all the broadcast dates included 

If anyone is interested in getting involved in the broadcasting please contact me. We really could use the help! 

Thanks 

Jr. Dowdy "Rowdy"  (Racing for a Cause)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:00 GMT

• Virtual Grand Prix 3 - Lx Martini on the latest installment of (without question) the most under-rated simulator in history
• Touching Legends - AUTOSIMSPORT sit down with some of the men that make up the GTLWorshop, creators of the astonishing Power & Glory mod
• Rolling With Roland - Ivan Askew on Roland Ehnstrom's epic year
• Obutto oZone - Troy Dalton on the multi-purpose cockpit simulator that boasts a remarkable price and remarkable performance
• World Super GT Mod - Arnold Wong Carter on the return of the GT Mod for GTR2
• My Summer Holiday - Michael Ennes on how he drove from London to Mongolia ... but not back!

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:45 GMT

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:30 GMT