RaceRoom’s Impressive (and Free) HillClimb Experience

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RaceRoom Racing Experience is a free-to-play racing sim, and among the free content included is an excellent HillClimb car and fantasy track.

One of the impressive features of RaceRoom Racing Experience is its free-to-play model. The core game is free through Steam and includes several cars and tracks as base game content. Further content can be purchased a la carte, but the base game content is impressive and should provide many hours of entertainment. Among this free content is a fantasy HillClimb course, and a legendary HillClimb car.

The free HillClimb track is called Lakeview Hillclimb. It’s a 10.6-kilometer-long trek through a fictitious setting influenced by Swedish forests. It doesn’t have the elevation change from start to finish that you might expect from a Hill Climb course, but there are numerous, sudden dips and bumps that challenge your car’s grip. The road itself is two-lanes wide and paved, and its prevalent twists and turns through the forest create a pervasive threat of close calls with trees and roadside rock faces.

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RaceRoom’s free Hill Climb car is the 134 Judd V8. The late Georg Plasa drove this car in real life for the 2011 European HillClimb Championship. The car features a 3.4L V8 engine that revs to 12,000 RPM. Its scream echoing off the sides of the Lakeview HillClimb creates an excellent ambience and gives a further sense of speed for the run. The car is light but manages to generate massive amounts of downforce thanks to its exaggerated wings, canards and diffusers. Driving the vehicle at Lakeview is an exercise in bravery, as the limits of the traction are almost impossible to find, and instead the HillClimb run time is usually limited by how hard you’re willing to attack the many blind high-speed corners.

In the video below, I test out the free RaceRoom 134 Judd at Lakeview.

Be sure to let us know in the comments below if you’ve tried this HillClimb in RaceRoom, and what sort of times you’ve managed.
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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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Raceroom is actually the only current Sim that has a solid hillclimb scenario,

Strange comment, as R3E has only one HillClimb, which technically is more a rally stage than a HillClimb, when other SIM have almost all HillClimb available to be raced with almost all type of cars past and present.
Why are you saying R3E has “a solid hillclimb scenario”?
 
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Raceroom is actually the only current Sim that has a solid hillclimb scenario, and Lakeview Hillclimb is my favorite. Now iRacing is even stepping up, I hope that there will soon be more possibilities with native tracks in the sim that are so well done. I hope Sector3 will recognize the quasi-empty market and step up. Otherwise all you have to do is dust off the DiRT Rally and climb Pikes Peak. Always cool too.
This ! Sector 3, if you read this, please expand your Hillclimb content before other sims will. Even if the future hillclimbs are fictional, I don't care, they are cool as they feel as real as LakeView !! Stelvio is overrated from my opinion, maybe a section inspired on the Susten/Furka pass in Switzerland will be cool. :cool:
 
iRacing´s $11 hill climb looks worse than this.
I agree to a point......if your ok with overlooking the terrible driver shaders, lack of Track tech and many other features that Raceroom doesn't offer.
But it's free so I can't really complain.
 
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Raceroom is actually the only current Sim that has a solid hillclimb scenario, and Lakeview Hillclimb is my favorite. Now iRacing is even stepping up, I hope that there will soon be more possibilities with native tracks in the sim that are so well done. I hope Sector3 will recognize the quasi-empty market and step up. Otherwise all you have to do is dust off the DiRT Rally and climb Pikes Peak. Always cool too.
 
This ! Sector 3, if you read this, please expand your Hillclimb content before other sims will. Even if the future hillclimbs are fictional, I don't care, they are cool as they feel as real as LakeView !! Stelvio is overrated from my opinion, maybe a section inspired on the Susten/Furka pass in Switzerland will be cool. :cool:
I agree on Sustenpass or Furkapass, both are excellent Alpine Passes. Also Felsenegg or Iibergeregg(both Swiss Alpine Passes) would be a great addition in any Sim. By the way Assetto Corsa has Oberhallau, St. Ursanne and Klausenpass;) check them out, they are a Blast to drive.
 
Thanks for that good report on this "hidden" track !

But I have seen there is a second Hillclimb track within R3E,
I am not sure if it is availavble in the free version too as I have nearly all paid content.
The second track is called "Raceroom Hillclimb" and seems to be a track in the French Alpes.
I made a "blind" race with the Zonda R today (never driven before, no map) and it was really heartbeating.
 
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Maybe a little late but i let you guys this here:


The track should get released in about a week to the public.

I wish it were in RaceRoom (and free), but I'll definitely have to give it a run on AC once it releases. Will it be hosted on RaceDepartment?
 
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I wish it were in RaceRoom (and free), but I'll definitely have to give it a run on AC once it releases. Will it be hosted on RaceDepartment?
Not sure tbh, i guess its going to be available on their website. You could buy it right now for about 20$ but thats the participation fee for the event itself where you need the track.

They just commented its going to be released to the public on the 28. this month so i suggest to check then again.
 

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