Without those black marks it wasn’t that easy to even know there was a corner coming along, not until you’d done seven hundred and nineteen laps and disregarded a term’s worth of homework, anyway.

I was running Ind圜ar Racing at a resolution of 640 by 480, this made corner entries, braking zones, anything at all, largely impossible to make out. The Skip Barber 2000 slides on a green track Not dynamic, in those days, but usually enough to tell you that it was about time you stepped off the loud pedal and jumped on the brake pedal before you end up completely crashed and dead.

Since the days of Papyrus’ Indycar Racing (which was 1993 for those of you not quite as old and grey as me) we’ve been treated to hints painted on our race tracks in the form of skidmarks. As fresh as the driven snow (though slightly more grippy) and lacking in the usual visual cues that many a simracer had come to appreciate. You see, when things started out with this technology, every time you started a new session, or dived into a quick race, the track was green. Pleasing features, but one has to wonder if this is an area where a lack of education led many to turn away from early beta builds. Or, as it is now named “Realroad.”īuild 118 of the rFactor 2 beta inaugurated this name and provided new functionality to manipulate the technology. I wrote some time back in detail on the variance in track conditions that can prevail in on-track sessions in rFactor 2 ( here), but that piece only touched on what is probably the biggest new addition to ISI’s new sim, that is, the variance in track grip afforded by cars leaving rubber behind on track.

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