Some New Alfa Content Coming to Assetto Corsa?

[Paul Jeffrey]

Marco Massarutto of Kunos Simulazioni has posted a very interesting picture on Facebook, prompting speculation that new Alfa Romeo content could be heading to Assetto Corsa soon...

The mystery post from Massarutto highlights one of the more ambitious and rare historic cars of Alfa Romeo's rich heritage, the visually (and audibly) stunning Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale.

Posted as part of his personal Facebook account, Massarutto confirms the brilliant little 33 Stradale will be "coming soon to Assetto Corsa", prompting some speculation as to if the car will be released as a standalone vehicle or part of a wider Alfa Romeo DLC package further down the line.

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Produced between 1967 and 1969, Alfa manufactured just 18 examples of this high performance mid engine sports car and represents Alfa's intention to build a racing car for the road. Based on the foundations laid down by the Autodelta Alfa Romeo Tipo 33, the car immediately achieved near legendary status amongst motorcar enthusiasts.

Despite having been built during the early days of performance road car manufacture in the late 1960's, the 33 Stradale was still capable of achieving an incredible 0-60 mph in under 5.5 seconds and retailed from new for $17,000 - now thought to be in excess of $10,000,000 for a clean example of the vehicle.

Technical Specifications

Engine: 90° V8 DOHC
Displacement: 1,995 cc (121.7 cu in)
Power :230 bhp (170 kW) at 8,800 rpm
Torque: 200 N·m (150 lb·ft) at 7,000 rpm
Top speed: 260 km/h (160 mph)
0–97 km/h (0-60 mph): 5.5 seconds

Massarutto nor the Assetto Corsa team themselves have confirmed any release dates or pricing structure for the new DLC as of yet, however stay tuned to RaceDepartment to find out more as and when it becomes available.


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Looking forward to more Alfa Romeo content in AC? Which cars would you like to see included if indeed a pack should be released? Let us know in the comments section below!

 

[Fat Rich]

I just missed a couple of updates

That means you also missed the MASSIVELY improved AI in the last patch.

Something Lord Kunos phoned in from his local espresso bar (if some people are to be believed)

Anyhow, I can't wait for the Alfa, can't wait for the Ferrari pack, can't wait for Laguna Seca.... even if some other people are unhappy with the game

 

[Epistolarius]

I just missed a couple of updates

It's fine.

 

[Hoksu]

Racing cars imo should be a priority. Street cars are well and good, but surely homologated racing cars should be the bread and butter of a racing sim. With all DLC Assetto Corsa has a massive amount of cars, but the car selection seems quite random and incoherent. There aren't a lot of classes where you can have a decent grid with a good BoP, certainly not considering the sheer number of cars. Having more of those would help AC be something better than a hotlapping sim

 

[St3fan]

I just missed a couple of updates

Okay my bad thought iwas beta only. I only had beta version installed and I just installed the released version and there is custom season tool.

 

[Epistolarius]

There aren't a lot of classes where you can have a decent grid with a good BoP

Having more of those would help AC be something better than a hotlapping sim

There's plenty to race in AC... From Cup classes like the Audi R8 LMS and R8 LMS Ultra (Audi R8 LMS Cup), Audi TT Cup, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, BMW M235i (BMW Sports Trophy), Ferrari 458 S3 (Ferrari Challenge), Abarth 500 Assetto Corse (Trofeo Abarth 500), Tatuus FA010 (Formula Abarth and Formula 4), Lotus Cup with a variety of Lotus cars, Mazda MX-5 Cup (Global MX-5 Cup), 911 GT3 Cup (Porsche Supercup, Carrera Cup and GT3 Cup Challenge) and Maserati Gran Turismo MC GT4 (Maserati MC World Series) to all the GT series with GTE, GT3, GT4 and Cup cars, 90s touring cars (DTM), LMPs (WEC) and all the F1 cars from the different eras (if those had competitors they wouldn't be equal in pace anyway).

Then add all the mods that complement these cars and add race series, like the Ginetta GT4/GT4 Cup cars, Caterhams, Indycar and Indylights, Formula 3, Renault Sport Trophy with the R.S.01, SEAT Sport Leon Eurocup, ETCC or even old WSC races with the Lancia Fulvia and Abarth 1000TC (adding to the Giulia GTA and Escort RS), the Corvette DPs and Oreca PC cars to make an IMSA field, the Formula Easter mods, the Lola and Jaguar to complement the GT40, 908 and 917, the GT-R GT500 to make a Super GT grid, the 90s BTCC cars... I'm sure I forgot a lot of cars and series.

There's more than enough cars in the game and available as quality mods to have great racing. More competing cars would absolutely be great, especially for the GT1s and old prototypes, but that AC is just a hotlapping sim and that there are no cars to race is just not the case.

And there are BoP tools (ballast, restrictor, fixed setup settings) to further equalise grids, people just need to use them...

 

[Deleted member 241736]

There's plenty to race in AC... From Cup classes like the Audi R8 LMS and R8 LMS Ultra (Audi R8 LMS Cup), Audi TT Cup, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, BMW M235i (BMW Sports Trophy), Ferrari 458 S3 (Ferrari Challenge), Abarth 500 Assetto Corse (Trofeo Abarth), Tatuus FA010 (Formula Abarth 500 and Formula 4), Lotus Cup with a variety of Lotus cars, MX-5 Cup (Mazda Global MX-5 Cup), 911 GT3 Cup (Porsche Supercup, Carrera Cup and GT3 Cup Challenge) and Maserati Gran Turismo MC GT4 (Maserati MC World Series) to all the GT series with GTE, GT3, GT4 and Cup cars, 90s touring cars, LMPs and all the F1 cars from the different eras.

Then add all the mods that complement these cars and add race series, like the Ginetta GT4/GT4 Cup cars, Caterhams, Indycar and Indylights, Formula 3, Renault Sport Trophy with the R.S.01, SEAT Sport Leon Eurocup, ETCC or even old WSC races with the Lancia Fulvia and Abarth 1000TC (adding to the Giulia GTA and Escort RS), the Corvette DPs and Oreca PC cars to make an IMSA field, the Formula Easter mods, the Lola and Jaguar to complement the GT40, 908 and 917, the GT-R GT500 to make a Super GT grid, the 90s BTCC cars... I'm sure I forgot a lot of cars and series.

There's more than enough cars in the game and available as quality mods to have great racing. More competing cars would absolutely be great, especially for the GT1s and old prototypes, but that AC is just a hotlapping sim and that there are no cars to race is just not the case.

And there are BoP tools (ballast, restrictor, fixed setup settings) to further equalise grids, people just need to use them...

Epi, it's our old discussion. Now I could list all the more or less great cars in AC haven't got an opponent. This list would be double of yours. Btw mods doesn't fits (execpt Ginetta GT4) and with the announced Alfa, Kunos fills-up his virtuell garage and I guess his real garage too. At the end of the day AC approaches a next big step to a really great "hot lap simulator" as often mentioned. Stuttgart greetings Epi

 

[Stereo]

Epi, it's our old discussion. Now I could list all the more or less great cars in AC haven't got an opponent. This list would be double of yours.

And there's a sim where every car has a partner?

 

[Epistolarius]

Now I could list all the more or less great cars in AC haven't got an opponent. This list would be double of yours.

And? How does that negate that there are absolutely cars that have competitors and can be raced against each other? (Plus the BoP tools to expand on that even further)

I already wrote that there are definitely cars that are in need for competition, there's no doubt about that. Doesn't change that you can totally race cars in AC already.

Btw mods doesn't fits (execpt Ginetta GT4)

Why?

and with the announced Alfa, Kunos fills-up his virtuell garage

The announced car will no doubt be interesting to drive, has roots in motorsport (many race cars back then were road-legal, you should know that) and is closer to race cars than a lot of todays road cars and no one keeps people from actually using it to race in the sim. We don't even know the pace of the car yet so no point to complain about it having no competitors. If you're categorically against road cars in the sim and see it just as car collecting game/virtual garage I can only disagree.

and I guess his real garage too.

You're jealous or what? Work hard and you'll get your classic car eventually. Plenty out there that don't cost millions.

At the end of the day AC approaches a next big step to a really great "hot lap simulator" as often mentioned.

In your mind it is a hot lap simulator and becomes more so. That's on you. In my mind it is a racing simulator that gets better with each feature and content update, even if those updates are coming slower than I'd like.

 

[Radu Oros]

People calling it a hotlap simulator but there's more racing happening in AC than in the other sims, rf2, ams, raceroom.. you don't race more if you don't want.

I'm not saying AC reached its racing potential, because it hasn't, but I think that's a story for a next game where the online multiplayer could be thought other way (matchmaking in official servers under a competitive mode, like other popular games do, not necessarily from the racing games genre, but are still great examples to follow for how to make people race online; only community servers, leagues, clubs, don't cut it - but matchmaking in official servers).

What's the problem in AC also being great for hotlapping? That comes from people who above racing simply enjoy the cars and the tracks. Aren't we playing racing games and sims because we are car enthusiasts? So that's what we are doing, we are having a good time doing pretend track days.

Stop with the extreme views of sim racing games being exclusively for racing, because they aren't, they are up to what each player wants to take out of the game and simulator.

 

[Isaac Chavira]

How about this classic beauty

1964 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale

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[Hoksu]

long post

You are listing one-make race cars. Many of those cars are great to compete with, but doesn't refute my point. As for the classes you listed: GT3, GTE, LMP1, 90s DTM, yes. GT4 has two competitive cars. So yeah, the amount of classes with which you can make a decent grid is low, considering how many cars the game has with all DLC. I'm quite familiar with mods so you don't need to lecture me about them. Whatever mods there are or aren't doesn't really change what the official car selection provided by the game's developers is.

I don't mean to sound overly critical as AC is a very good game all things considered, but one major flaw it has is the incoherent car selection, containing too many street cars with little to compete against. When a car has little to race against it, then... hotlapping. What they should be doing more is pick a class of racing cars, then do a few cars from that class.

 

[Epistolarius]

you don't need to lecture me

Well apparently you need it.

would help AC be something better than a hotlapping sim

You are listing one-make race cars. Many of those cars are great to compete with, but doesn't refute my point.

Yes it does. And I didn't just list one make series either.

You're saying there's not much to race and AC is a "hotlapping sim". That's just not the case. Nothing more to say about it, really.

 

[Hoksu]

You're saying there's not much to race and AC is a "hotlapping sim". That's just not the case. Nothing more to say about it, really.

I'm talking about the official car selection in the game. That does not mean I don't know anything about mods. Please stop making things up. I said the car selection is quite random and incoherent, you have offered no convincing counter-argument to that, the fact that you need to resort to talking about mods speaks volumes. I said the amount of racing car classes that have a decent grid is low, GT3, GTE, LMP1, 90s DTM is a low amount of classes considering what a large amount of cars the game has. I explained what I mean by hotlapping sim, not a perfect way to describe it but the fact remains much of the car selection seems to be for hotlapping rather than having coherent classes for racing. Nothing more to say, fine by me.

 

[hal4000]

 

[Deleted member 241736]

Well apparently you need it.



Yes it does. And I didn't just list one make series either.

You're saying there's not much to race and AC is a "hotlapping sim". That's just not the case. Nothing more to say about it, really.

Epi, don't know why you are so uncritical to this simulator? Are you paid for defending AC contents? Not only you love AC - we too, but for that criticize (positive) is an important tool to improve relationships. We've all one aim: Having the best toy for fun!

 

[garyjpaterson]

Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3

So many good looking Alfa Romeos.

Indeed, but to get these beauties we need proper front live axle support... (hint hint).

Once we do, oh that's it, I'm dead. So many cars I want to make, but holding off till we can make them properly.

And don't tempt me!

 

[Jim Layee]

I often wonder if those who moan every time AC etc release a new car are the same folk driving GT3's at the same couple of tracks online day after day .

 

[hal4000]

Aaaaaaaand time for another Alfa 33. This time the Iguana from 1969.

I love this thread.

 

[Robertinotje]

Give us more group C cars . Jaguar xjr9 and Peugeot 905.

 

[hal4000]

Tipo 33-2 Coupe Speciale

Another tasty variety of the 33.