Virtual World Touring Car Championship returns
SimBin just announced a follow up season of the V-WTCC. The setup will be a little bit different compared to the inaugural championship in 2008 where a massive prize, a Chevrolet HHR, was to be won. Five onsite semi finals eventually led to one of the most impressive sim racing finals I have ever seen. Eventually it was RaceDepartment member and RDTCC S4 champion Roland Ehström from Sweden who was crowned as the first ever official world sim racing champion.
During the WTCC 2012 season, people from around the globe will get the chance to test their skills as virtual drivers online as well as onsite at selected WTCC events.
Throughout the season, a V-WTCC roadshow using a 400m2 gamepark will be visiting selected events of the WTCC championship.
The Virtual Championship covers the complete WTCC season calendar. The gamers visiting one or more of the WTCC events will be able to compete in high quality racing simulators. The gamers not visiting a real WTCC event can simply compete from their home PC still having the chance of winning the Virtual WTCC Championship.The competition is a point based Hotlap contest. All points scored in online and onsite events go in to the championship scoreboard where a winner is announced at the end of the season.
Onsite points are worth twice as much as points scored in the online events, so it will really pay off to participate in the actual WTCC events that will be visited by the gamepark.
As the headline suggests, the V-WTCC 2012 is not only a roadshow and a championship. It is also a free PC game featuring the WTCC 2012 cars and circuits.
The game is developed by SimBin Studios AB and will be released in steps via their RaceRoom websiteas the WTCC season unfolds.
The first game package covering 1/3 of the season will be released in April, around the same time as the online competitions are started.
More details of the competition calendar, competition prizes as well as a more detailed presentation of the project partners will be announced later at raceroom.net
A few pictures from long ago:
Video highlights as shown to a potential reach of 480 million viewers on Eurosport
Round 1 @ Valencia
Round 2 @ Brno
Round 3 @ Brands Hatch
Round 4 @ Oschersleben
Round 5 @ Mantorp
Grand Finale @ Monza
More information can be found in our RACE 07 forums
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14 Comments
WOOT! I love this!
The grid girls…I don’t know, man.
You know what they’re thinking.
They’re thinking; “Why isn’t Jamez here? None of these nerds have even dared pinch my bum”
What loved from the old championship were the different stages a sim racer had to participate in:
1) Online prequalification (hotlapping)
2) Online racing event with the best of the brands (actual racing)
3) Onsite semi finals (actual racing)
4) Onsite super final with a cheat free race on the RaceRoom computers in Monza.
In the end the absolute best and cleanest racer won, this year the title will go to a hotlapper which I find a bit disappointing because of the cheating/cutting risk.
Very curious what measurements will be taken to avoid cheating and I hope those tools will be shared with the community as well so every league administrator can implement them in their own leagues.
Make sure you guys install a RACE ROOM also in Curitiba-Brazil. Otherwise its gonna be another European Championship than a World Championship. I manage to qualify to Valencia Semi Finals in 2008 but couldnt afford with the trip’s cost.
Yeah that was a bloody shame Gabriel as it would have been fantastic to meet you in person during that event.
Reading the press release, posted above in between the quotes, they say they cover all the WTCC events so that should also include overseas events in Brazil and the USA. Lucky you
Thats good news Bram… Thanksss
Reading the press release again they seem to use smart wording as they speak of “selected events” for the V-WTCC roadshow and one line below of “The Virtual Championship covers the complete WTCC season calendar.”
Guess I jumped conclusions
Probably an all euro-event when it comes to onsite roadshows and a full season of online hotlapping.
Great to see V-WTCC back!
the wtcc 2012 cars and tracks are tehy gonna be free to everyone or only to people participating in v-wtcc?
Not very interesting format to be honest, its just a hotlap competition.
just looked at the wtcc schedule, here’s my guess:
event #1 29th april slovakia slovakiaring (new)
event #2 06th may hungary brno
event #3 20th may austria salzburgring (new)
event #4 03rd june portugal portimao
that way, they stay in europe and only have to build two new tracks plus new liveries and one new car (ford)
also thinkable:
event #5 22nd june brazil curitiba
event #6 23rd sept usa infineon raceway (new)
however, those two would drag the tournament out over the summer and also would of course be much more expensive for simbin, shipping, storage etc.
just a guess, of course
Hotlapping is not racing in a sense that there no PVP action, just Player vs Computer.. Racing involves wheel to wheel action and hotklapping is qualifying in an empty track. Not interested.
After initially being excited for this and realising it is in fact just a big hot lap compeition, my enthusiasm has dropped very signifcantly.
I was hoping there would be at least SOME racing in it. Now though, I am not so keen on it. Its a big shame for people hoping it would be a repeat of 2008.