"One bit of advice:
Once everything is installed and you got your wheel and video and audio settings done, load up 1960's formulas, pick an F3 and Spa. Set the weather to "default" (you will get some clouds and light rain) for practice, qualy, and race and set time to about 4pm.
There is NOTHING like this version of Spa. You will feel every bump, crack... it's almost like a laser scanned track. Just fantastic. Drive with a smile so big you get bugs in your teeth."
buddhatree
And all I can say to that is after a few laps I gad to go and brush my teeth lol...
It was absolutely mind blowing!
Oh yeh... the rain:
Not handy at a place like Spa...
But it`s another area of the sim that ISI have done (and are doing) a great job. If the weather is set to default at a circuit like Spa you will get the kind of weather changes that affect the real track... one minute your driving in glorious sunshine... half a lap later your in pouring rain trying your best to control a very powerful 60`s F1 car... the transition is quite spectacular and the physics and ffb changes that come with that transition is like nothing I`ve ever felt in a sim.
Once the rain stops and after a lap or two, a very visible "drying line" appears as it does in real life and the longer the rain stays away, the drier that racing line becomes and therefor the amount of grip you get on it increases too. If you stray off that drying line though onto the greasy, damp parts of the track it won`t take long until your sitting in the hedge facing the wrong way with parts of your car strewn all over the track.
The "Real Road" tech also allows for a "Dynamic" drying line to appear when not driving on the racing line... if you were to take a completely different line from the AI (or real racers if online) and you stuck to that line for several laps, a drying line would appear where you have been driving as well as one appearing where the rest of the field have been driving... awesome!
The Dynamic drying line:
Here`s a video made by ISI`s Tim Wheatley on the Dynamic drying line:
I drive an unusual line to show that the drying line is dynamic. Mine dries slower than the AI line, as I am the only one driving my line.
Had a lot of queries on this one, so I thought I would make a video showing it. The best way to test it is to just a random line yourself and see if rubber gets laid down, or it dries from being wet.
This is with rFactor 2 Build 90.
ISI`s Tim Wheatley
Here`s another video of the rain in rf2 made by kludger:
Spa Rain full realism, lots of exhaust backfires when using auto blip off and heel-toe, you can hear my first shift with no backfire where I didn't blip, versus all the other shifts where I did proper heel-toe blip.
Very immersive experience IMHO really excited about how great rF2 is for historic racing, especially once other historic tracks get released ('67 nordschleife, rouen, imola etc)
kludger
Some more Spa in the rain...
Ok... now we`ll move onto Historic Monaco. Still in the Eve F1...
Eve F1 - Historic Monaco 1966 - rf2 b85
Monte Carlo - Monaco... the jewel in the crown. A race that all racing drivers want to win, it`s that special. A challenge like no other as you literally have to drive the perfect line, within inches, every lap at top speed for lap after lap and ISI have brought this legendary circuit to life in rF2. In my opinion one of the best racing circuits in the world but as I`ve said, for reasons all of it`s own and ISI have captured this perfectly...
An extremely difficult challenge in the Eve or Spark F1`s and still a handful in the F2`s or F3`s but in the latter two, at least you have a better chance of completing a few good laps and learning the track to later attempt in the awesome F1`s.
ISI have made a fantastic job of this track, it`s portrayed in all it`s 60`s glory with all the excitement and danger that was present in the real life layout back then. Step out of line by just an inch or two and your in serious trouble...
It`s quite something to be sitting in a 60`s F1 car on the start line waiting for the flag to drop so you can unleash the power and roar off into the first turn at Sainte Devote, then up the hill at Beau Rivage, round Massenet, Casino, Mirabeau and full locking with tyres squealing to get round the old Station hairpin... then blasting through the tunnel at insane speeds to the chicane, taken as fast as possible to roar off down towards Tabac and that ramp! A ramp on an F1 circuit! Amazing...
If successful at Tabac you then blast off towards the final turn at Gazometre (the old gas works hairpin) and off on another lap pushing all your senses to their limits...
Just tremendous!
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