Laguna Seca is the Latest Confirmed Content Coming to rFactor 2

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A busy period of announcements from the Studio 397 development team continued today with the confirmation the Laguna Seca will soon be available in rFactor 2.

The rapid-fire release news coming from the Studio 397 team continued today with the announcement that the Laguna Seca circuit will be coming to rFactor 2.

This announcement was somewhat surprising, as it breaks the trend of British content being confirmed for the sim. The second quarterly content release for rFactor 2, scheduled for this month, has previously been confirmed to include Donington Park, Brands Hatch and BTCC cars as new DLC.

The WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca is a long-standing racing circuit located in Monterey, California. Like the previous circuit announcement for rFactor 2, Brands Hatch, Laguna Seca has a presence across a large number of racing sims and racing games.

The track's most famous section is the complex containing turns 7, 8 and 8a, known as the corkscrew. The sequence drops several stories of elevation in a matter of seconds, and features a blind entry.

Laguna Seca is home to numerous race series currently including INDYCAR, which will be a perfect fit for rFactor 2 since it already offers the Dallara IR18 as DLC.

Laguna Seca and the rest of the previously announced DLC should be available to us this month.
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I have been obsessed with sim racing and racing games since the 1980's. My first taste of live auto racing was in 1988, and I couldn't get enough ever since. Lead writer for RaceDepartment, and owner of SimRacing604 and its YouTube channel. Favourite sims include Assetto Corsa Competizione, Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, Automobilista 2, DiRT Rally 2 - On Twitter as @simracing604

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TheRealCeeBee
wonder if it will be better than the current conversion form AC.. because the AC conversion is DAMN good.
 
passenger
By the way, just in case some of you don't know yet, Laguna Seca is being released
on Monday. I hope the new update is released too the same day.
 
passenger
The engine sound updated too. This is a lot of work by the Studio. Another pleasant surprise.
Hopefully there is no delay and we can have all these goodies on time. Great stuff.
 
dreamer al
davehenrie said:
I'm not talking content. See what's already in the April RC pipeline, due out shortly for everyone. ISI had about two major updates & several smaller one, but they essentially had left rF2 to die before selling it to S397. The above 4 page list is probably the largest list of fixes since S397 has been in charge. It includes dozens of items that were well down their 'list' of things to do as well as several surprising surprises. If we get another one or two quarterly updates with this amount of fixes, we won't have very much left to whine about. They are not there yet, but this is truly progress, which I attribute to increased funding via MSG.
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I hope you are right, however, on reading more (negative) about the Motor Sport Group and the recent departing of MarceI Offerman. I hold some fears.

At this stage I am more than happy about the current upgrade and DLC.

Watch this space.
 
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tlsmikey said:
The track appears to be missing all of the yellow sausage curbs that are present in real life. Maybe they haven't been added yet?

Nice track to have, but hard for a game in this current state to charge top money for all of these tracks when there are so many things to fix.
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Replying again, Laguna does indeed have those sausage curbs on the inside of the corners, but they are not the bright yellow as shown in the IMSA race last week. Pretty much marked up with tire tracks just like the rest of the curbing. I thought Laguna had gone through a major overhaul of the curbing some years ago to allow the World Superbikes (?) to race there. With all that rutting from water drainage, you would NEVER want to put a tire wrong there.
 

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