RaceDepartment Awards 2010

[Ryan Callan]

Poll closed. Full announcements 26th December.

 

[Ryan Callan]

After weeks of voting and thousands of votes cast, we can now announce the winners of the much coveted RaceDepartment Awards 2010 on the 4th anniversary of RaceDepartment. That's right, we've been here 4 years and with more award categories than before, the quality was ever higher.
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The big one, and one that was likely to be competed by the two biggest racing games of the year - Codemaster's F1 2010 and Polyphony's Gran Turismo 5. And it was Codemaster's effort which got your vote in a landslide win, with well over twice as many votes than GT5. Coming a distant third, but still well ahead of the rest of the pack, was Ferrari Virtual Academy 2010, which took commercial racing simulation to unique areas this year.


RaceDepartment's members voted the two Sebastians as Drivers of the Year, with the German Vettel, F1's youngest World Champion, coming out on top. Seven-time WRC Champion Loeb ran a strong second, while Jason Plato found a place in people's hearts this year, taking a distant third place, beating off competition such as Jimmie Johnson and Jorge Lorenzo.


Back to simracing again, and the SimRacer of the Year award. This was a very close battle throughout voting, but Canadian Keith Barrick, ranked #1 on our unique ranking system, took the narrow victory from three-time champion Gregory Degreef of Belgium, congratulations to Keith. Holland's Bono Huis outstanding season in Formula SimRacing also saw him rank strongly, taking third.


We organise many leagues here at RD, and competition for the Simracing Series of the Year award was understandably fierce. However, it was Xose Estrada and David Garcia's brainchild, SimRacing Team Challenge, that took the laurels, with very close competition from the RD Le Mans Series and Ryan Callan's World Touring Masters. STC has set the standard this year with it's novel team concept, outstanding presentation and live broadcasts.


The rFactor Mod of the Year was also a fiercely contested three way battle. F1-S-R's F1 1991 Historic Edition started strongly but faded to take third place, IPM's FSOne 2009 came on strong late on to take second but it was the Touring Masters mod by TCL Team & Ryan Callan which took the overall honours. Overhauling the original TCL v1.1 mod, improving and making fit for league use, Touring Masters has proved popular with RD members, regularly filling grids in the rFactor Racing Club.


The Track of the Year in rFactor saw an incredibly strong field of nominations, shown by the wide variety of voting seen. 2010 has surely been the strongest year yet in track-building. And it was com8's Salzburgring 2009 took a very narrow victory from Virtua_LM's Fuji of 82-93. Bringing up a strong third was Riches overhaul of Le Mans 04, just beating Vitus 09 and woochoo's Longford to the final podium position.


The Addon of the Year spanned all genres, and it was Rallyesim's RSRBR 2010 which deservedly took the honours, taking the win from RaceDepartment's own modding team, RDDev, and their Truelights Weather mod for F1 2010. Bringing up third was CTDP's rFactor Dynamic HUD.


The RACE Mod of the Year saw many nominations for True2Life Racing's Guenthar Rowe and his collaborations, and they took the top two spots overall. FVRFactor's FVRV8 2010 took the win, bringing the 2010 V8 Supercar season to the RACE Series, while the Blancpain Super Trofeo from Ultimodteam took second position. Bringing up third was AndreaFSC's Super Touring 1998 modification.


The RACE Track of the Year saw a landslide victory for 6ecko's conversion and improvement of nferraz's Autodromo Algarve. FVRFactor's Surfer's Paradise took a distant second while Neel Jani's conversion of Relesy's Saponaro took out the final podium position.


The GT Legends scene is still going strong and it was Butch's splendid Ford Mustang Boss 302 which took the mod vote with Bathurst 60's, a conversion from philrob, taking the track win.


The Super GT mod from Team BB took the GTR2 Mod of the Year award, with a strong win from DTM Classics and alless' R15. The Super GT mod simulates the Japanese Super GT championship and it's many iterations have won the hearts of the GTR2 community.


Finally, just a word to congratulate all nominations for the RD awards, to be nominated means you are very special indeed and thanks again to all those who voted and contributed to this occasion.

 

[Ryan Callan]

The Winners 2010!!

After weeks of voting and thousands of votes cast, we can now announce the winners of the much coveted RaceDepartment Awards 2010. Although with more categories than last year, the quality was ever higher.


The big one, and one that was likely to be competed by the two biggest racing games of the year - Codemaster's F1 2010 and Polyphony's Gran Turismo 5. And it was Codemaster's effort which got your vote in a landslide win, with well over twice as many votes than GT5. Coming a distant third, but still well ahead of the rest of the pack, was Ferrari Virtual Academy 2010, which took commercial racing simulation to unique areas this year.


RaceDepartment's members voted the two Sebastians as Drivers of the Year, with the German Vettel, F1's youngest World Champion, coming out on top. Seven-time WRC Champion Loeb ran a strong second, while Jason Plato found a place in people's hearts this year, taking a distant third place, beating off competition such as Jimmie Johnson and Jorge Lorenzo.


Back to simracing again, and the SimRacer of the Year award. This was a very close battle throughout voting, but Canadian Keith Barrick, ranked #1 on our unique ranking system, took the narrow victory from three-time champion Gregory Degreef of Belgium, congratulations to Keith. Holland's Bono Huis outstanding season in Formula SimRacing also saw him rank strongly, taking third.


We organise many leagues here at RD, and competition for the Simracing Series of the Year award was understandably fierce. However, it was Xose Estrada and David Garcia's brainchild, SimRacing Team Challenge, that took the laurels, with very close competition from the RD Le Mans Series and Ryan Callan's World Touring Masters. STC has set the standard this year with it's novel team concept, outstanding presentation and live broadcasts.


The rFactor Mod of the Year was also a fiercely contested three way battle. F1-S-R's F1 1991 Historic Edition started strongly but faded to take third place, IPM's FSOne 2009 came on strong late on to take second but it was the Touring Masters mod by TCL Team & Ryan Callan which took the overall honours. Overhauling the original TCL v1.1 mod, improving and making fit for league use, Touring Masters has proved popular with RD members, regularly filling grids in the rFactor Racing Club.


The Track of the Year in rFactor saw an incredibly strong field of nominations, shown by the wide variety of voting seen. 2010 has surely been the strongest year yet in track-building. And it was com8's Salzburgring 2009 took a very narrow victory from Virtua_LM's Fuji of 82-93. Bringing up a strong third was Riches overhaul of Le Mans 04, just beating Vitus 09 and woochoo's Longford to the final podium position.


The Addon of the Year spanned all genres, and it was Rallyesim's RSRBR 2010 which deservedly took the honours, taking the win from RaceDepartment's own modding team, RDDev, and their Truelights Weather mod for F1 2010. Bringing up third was CTDP's rFactor Dynamic HUD.


The RACE Mod of the Year saw many nominations for True2Life Racing's Guenthar Rowe and his collaborations, and they took the top two spots overall. FVRFactor's FVRV8 2010 took the win, bringing the 2010 V8 Supercar season to the RACE Series, while the Blancpain Super Trofeo from Ultimodteam took second position. Bringing up third was AndreaFSC's Super Touring 1998 modification.


The RACE Track of the Year saw a landslide victory for 6ecko's conversion and improvement of nferraz's Autodromo Algarve. FVRFactor's Surfer's Paradise took a distant second while Neel Jani's conversion of Relesy's Saponaro took out the final podium position.


The GT Legends scene is still going strong and it was Butch's splendid Ford Mustang Boss 302 which took the mod vote with Bathurst 60's, a conversion from philrob, taking the track win.


The Super GT mod from Team BB took the GTR2 Mod of the Year award, with a strong win from DTM Classics and alless' R15. The Super GT mod simulates the Japanese Super GT championship and it's many iterations have won the hearts of the GTR2 community.



Finally, just a word to congratulate all nominations for the RD awards, to be nominated means you are very special indeed and thanks again to all those who voted and contributed to this occasion.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Congrats to all the winners :thumb: and to our fourth anniversary today!!

 

[Gregory Degreef]

BIG BIG THX to everyone who voted for me!!!!
Congrats Keith
Merry Christmas and happy new year to all!!

 

[Keith Barrick]

Thanks everyone who voted for me and for the polls. I very honored to win this award and am thankful to have so many good ppl here at RD my simracing home.

The list of simracers in that list is an all-star lineup of talent.

Thanks again everyone merry Xmas and happy new year

 

[Andreas Hultgren]

Grats to all the winners! Personally, I am very happy to see STC as one of the winners

 

[Brian Clancy]

Congrats to all the winners :thumb: and to our fourth anniversary today!!

+1 Brilliant stuff!

 

[David Garcia]

Thanks everybody who voted for STC, and of course thanks a lot RD and Ryan for taking care on the awards matter.

About STC and the Best Simracing Series award, I would like to add that any of the series competing there deserved the award, as the standards on the RDLMS or WTM have been very very high.

Happy Xmas & Holydays!

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

Thanks everybody who voted for STC, and of course thanks a lot RD and Ryan for taking care on the awards matter.

About STC and the Best Simracing Series award, I would like to add that any of the series competing there deserved the award, as the standards on the RDLMS or WTM have been very very high.

Happy Xmas & Holydays!

+1

 

[Robin Chung]

It has been a great year, can't wait for '11.

 

[Matt Shewmake]

The Super GT mod from Team BB took the GTR2 Mod of the Year award - Where do you find this mod? It isn't here or at no grip racing. I need more links to places to download things. Can someone please help. Thanks for doing the awards. Things like this always bring people like me to try things that they never would have known about otherwise. I love sim-racing but am new and I don't have all the "in's" everyone else has so when I hear about things it is usually behind the curve. Thanks again...

 

[Ryan Callan]

It is at NoGrip

 

[FerrariMan96]

Yay, FVR V8s won the RACE section. That is one of my favourite mods

 

[Helmut Skrdla]

Scary when a game gets released with core features broken, gets a single patch that breaks other core features, then the developer cuts support - and still it gets voted a "Game of the Year".

Are our expectations that low or is it simple a lack of choice?

 

[Rob Musgrove]

Scary when a game gets released with core features broken, gets a single patch that breaks other core features, then the developer cuts support - and still it gets voted a "Game of the Year".

Are our expectations that low or is it simple a lack of choice?

110% Agree. I think it was due to the lack of anything decent coming out. If RF2 and GT3 was released this year. F1 2010 wouldn't even be close to No 1 spot.

I have this game and played 2 hrs on it and then deleted it from my Machine. :tongue:

Roll on 2011 and the release of some decent driving games.

 

[Ben Buitendijk]

played it, deleted it aswell

Too bad GT5 is a single platformgame, it may not be 100% perfect, but they release patches almost weekly, so I can't wait to see where it'll be in a couple of months time.

 

[Vevex]

Congrats for all the winners and also for all the teams wich contributes for us pleasure on simracing games

 

[David Nichols]

What was the voting breakdown?

 

[Günthar Rowe]

thanks for the votes and well done to the winners!