AC GPK Spa 2023
(update version 2.0)
This is the Grand Prix Karting version of Spa 2023, including the modifications, new grandstands and roads for the old layout from the 60s.
Sausage kerbs
The tires at the inside of corners for preventing cutting corners are replaced by sausage kerbs. These will still prevent you from cutting corners, but when hitting them it will be less dramatic.
3d trees
The old 2d trees are replaced by the newest 3d trees. For seeing these trees you need to have Content Shaders Patch version 0.1.79 (or later) installed. With older CSP versions or no CSP you will still see the old 2d trees. We have tested the impact on FPS, and in our tests it had no significant impact.
Track lights
Not all older GPK tracks did have track lights. With the 2023 updates all tracks will have track lights.
FSGP 2023
During every Formula 1 weekend in 2023 we organize a FSGP race in the MAD Formula MFT02 on the GPK version of the Formula 1 circuit. Information can be found at simracinggp Formula Student community.
For every FSGP race there will be released a new 2023 update of the GPK track.
The Track
Somewhere in the Belgian Ardennes lies a valley with the river Eau Rouge and some roads that follow the rolling landscape. A long time ago someone thought of racing cars over that. A little later it was shortened and transformed into a permanent circuit. Now we know it as one of the most beautiful circuits in the world with the name Circuit de Spa Francorchamps with the bend of bends, named after the river Eau Rouge. In 2022 it was renovated and made suitable for MotoGP. The old stands after "La Source" (turn 1) have been demolished, just like the beautiful vila at Radillion. At Radillion and on the site of the old stands. there are now two new large grand stands
This is all in the Grand Prix Karting Spa 2023 version.
Grand Prix Karting
Grand Prix Karting tracks are F1 tracks with the layout of the original F1 track but the size, look and feel of real world karttracks. No big runoff areas, but modern wide kerbs, pit not on the infield but on the outside of the track, and a pitbuilding which is also a grandstand. These tracks are not a resized conversion of existing tracks but scratch build. Not laser scanned (because they are fiction) but handmade, which was a bit of a challenge with some tracks with a lot of elevation in the track and the terrain surrounding the track.
The Assetto Corsa GPK tracks are dedicated for Formula Student and the rFactor GPK tracks are dedicated for karting.
rFactor Grand Prix Karting Spa 2022
Online racing
Would you like to race online on these GPK tracks with the MFTC3 Formula Student car against people from all over the world? Then join the simracing.gp Formula Student community,, and race us in in all kinds of events and championship. The community offers short, fast-paced, and clean races for everyone to join
Formula Student
Formula Student is a competition involving universities from all over the world. Students from these universities develop, build and race these purpose-built, single-seater racecars against other universities in competitions that take place all over the world during the summer months. Formula Student is probably the most prestigious engineering competition at a student level.
MAD Formula Team
MAD Formula Team is one of these teams, representing University Carlos III of Madrid across Europe. The team is a relatively small and young team composed of over 50 students from various degrees. The team developed the MAD Formula Team MFTC3, MFT01 and MFT02 mods for Assetto Corsa, and you can test it out for free here:
https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/mad-formula-team-mft02.58653/
https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/mad-formula-team-mft01-phoenix.51624/
MAD Formula Team MFTC3
Credits:Track converted to Assetto Corsa by @rmi_wood & @Ofitus21
Track lighting and 3d trees added by @zuno toto
3d tree models by @zuno toto
Original track created for rFactor by @Nitro McClean
