RRE - Portimão - Jul 2 Race Room TEST RACE

[phspok]

Race Room Experience TEST RACE


Practice : 19:20 UK (60 mins)
Qual : 20:20 UK (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 UK ( 40 mins )

Cars allowed: 1992 Cars (Which have to be purchased)
Track: Portimao (Free Track)
  
Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Weather: Dry
Start: Standing

Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit-stops: None required


Server: Phspok1
Password: see above

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see
cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules especially the
rules about in-game chat messages.
(4) Please exercise caution when pitting as some tracks have a speed limit.

[phspok]

This is a special to try out Race Room Experience On line.
It will be on the free Portimao Track with the 1992 car set.
It will take a similar format to our normal P&G events, but there will be no results posted
and there is no championship.
The On line is still "alpha" so is very incomplete.

There is a P&G Interleague event this week on the Tuesday, and though some might argue that you
can never have enough P&G, I am going to use this slot for this special event.
Apologies to any who lose their gruntles about it, but I need to investigate alternatives to P&G.   

[Wiltshire Tony]

Possibly helpfull to say that the 1992 car set has to be purchased?

[phspok]

Done

[Clive Loynes]

Great!  If you can keep that up for the rest of July then I shall not be missing any races!   

[Wiltshire Tony]

If you want to try before you buy, Steam are doing an "everything free to try" weekend.

[EvilClive]

 

Totally confused of Bristol here.......

Can someone explain ( in words of 2 syllables or less!) what is being discussed in this post. I am getting the impression that this is NOT a PnG event even though it is on the PnG forum?
Maybe I am a bit out of the loop here. Is Race Room a new lobby for PnG?? or am I as dumb as I sound.................................

[Wiltshire Tony]

Matt is keen to try out a newish race sim called Raceroom Experience by almost the same company that have in the past bought us GTR, GTR2, GTL, Race etc etc. As the P&G grids have diminished recently he is planning, if all goes well, to introduce an alternative to P&G to run alternate weeks. The first step is to test it's multplayer behavior. The Multiplayer aspects of this driving sim are still in alpha (early development) phase.
http://game.raceroom.com/
The sim is free to download but you have to buy the content. It comes with three free tracks and a couple(?) of cars to try out.

[EvilClive]

aha!  the fog clears a little. Thanks Tony.

Happy to try a free download and try this out, but I have to confess that I have a natural aversion to paying for content in a sim after being involved with the iRacing experience and spiralling costs of staying involved.



 

[Clive Loynes]

I have binned everything that I've been sent on this so I don't know what is on offer.

Will it give the cars from the 60s and 70s?

EDIT:  I've read a bit and don't think that I shall be putting my arm in this particular mangle.  If you are going to knock PnG on the head then it makes more sense to adopt AC as the primary sim for tin-tops.  And I can retire all together!

[Wiltshire Tony]

Unfortunately no which is my largest moan about this sim. If your a modern day GTR/DTM/WTCC fan your in 7th heaven as most of the car packs cater for these dudes. For more hysterical content you have to seek out the Gr.5 Classics car pack http://game.raceroom.com/store/cars/group-5 or the 1992 DTM car pack http://game.raceroom.com/store/cars/dtm-1992

[Clive Loynes]

Unfortunately no which is my largest moan about this sim. If your a modern day GTR/DTM/WTCC fan your in 7th heaven as most of the car packs cater for these dudes. For more hysterical content you have to seek out the Gr.5 Classics car pack http://game.raceroom.com/store/cars/group-5 or the 1992 DTM car pack http://game.raceroom.com/store/cars/dtm-1992

They all look a bit too "modern" to me. 

[Hotkeys]

I have Simbins Race07 and all the various Add-ons. I presume Raceroom use the same car physics more or less, am I right?

Anyway, I'll DL it, when I get the chance, even though I don't like the new concept of a 'free' game,  that ends up being far more expensive than a full game is.

Stig

[goldtop]

And don't forget this class...

http://game.raceroom.com/store/cars/touring-classics

As I've said before, if you don't want to buy a full pack of cars you can test drive them all before choosing your favourite one to buy from each class. You don't have to own them all to race alongside them.

You do need the tracks but you can buy them individually or as a track pack (Portimao is free so you don't need to buy a track for this race).

I reckon there's easily a year's racing with the three historic packs and existing tracks.

[goldtop]

I have Simbins Race07 and all the various Add-ons. I presume Raceroom use the same car physics more or less, am I right?

Anyway, I'll DL it, when I get the chance, even though I don't like the new concept of a 'free' game,  that ends up being far more expensive than a full game is.

Stig

Yes, it's the same ballpark and will seem familiar to you. However compared with the Retro pack from Race07 for instance, RR is certainly a big step forward in just about every department.