Old rFactor Articles (merged)

[Bram Hengeveld]

Welcome to the new Formula Pro Championship at RaceDepartment.com.

After weeks of speculations, the news is finally out. RaceDepartment and PrestoGP partnered to create a new fantastic Formula One league for all its members. The newly created series will feature a World and an European Championships regulated respectively by Racedepartment and PrestoGP. Both leagues will follow the basic same structure. Most importantly all will race the Mak-Corp (MMG) F1 2007 cars for Simbin Race series (GTR-Evo).



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In addition, we are pleased to announce some fantastic prizes for the top 3 of the Pro World Series division as well a nifty cash prize for the winning team.


List of all prizes:
FPWS: Drivers' Championship
• 1st place driver: Logitech G27* racing wheel or an Intel i7 920 processor (winner's pick)
• 2nd place driver: Logitech G35* headset
• 3rd place driver: Logitech Gaming Headset G330*

FPWS: Teams' Championship
$100 (US dollars) cash prize to the winning team (paid to the team owner)

Join us for the fun!!

For all league details visit -> link

League forum -> link

 

[Ben Buitendijk]

Bono's car has a german flag?

 

[OverTake.gg]

As announced last week in the forums RD received a download link to a file that we couldn't immediately get to work. After a lot of days crunching Ramon with the help of some our community members finally got this Factor 2 developer version running smoothly.

Taken from a dev presentation PC this software will give all our registered members the chance to taste what Factor 2 has to offer first hand. It's brings two layouts and three fast machines in one simple download manager. So technically we don't host the files ourselves just the download manager with installation key.

We realize that with our actions we might cross any legal boundaries that jeopardize the release of the full version later this year, though the opportunity that was given to us was just too good to be ignored and we are just going to share it anyway.

We hope that the upcoming months untill the release of the full game you will be able to exclusive enjoy Factor 2 here with us at RaceDepartment. It's just a matter of time that we will kick off our first high quality leagues and club races for this sim of sims!

Click this link to download the install manager or click here to discuss this release in the forums.

Do not forget to use the license key to activate the game!

UPDATE: Thanks everybody for a great April Fools' Day :thumb: Let's hope we have a real rFactor 2 announcement soon!

 

[Johannes Kunkel]

the German Flag is there because of the team, the same as Ferrari has the italian Flag

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Do not miss out today on round four of the prestigeous RD Le Mans Series. One of our premium sim racing leagues where the world's best racers and teams will battle for a heroic win.

Of course we will live stream the entire 8 hour race live to your pc (courtesy of simrace.tv) and we hope to see all of you engage in the chatbox and broadcast for a multimedia experience that will last all day!

Tune in at 15:00 GMT (16:00 BST / 17:00 CET) when the race starts:

Click here to vist the RDLMS subforum for the latest updates and teamchats
Click here to download the spottersguide with all the cars & drivers

Update:

The race has finished but for those of you who've missed the broadcast you can watch the replays here (part 1) and here (part 2)

 

[Caramidaru Andrei Bogdan]

yuhoo...bring it on

 

[Reggie Blain]

Happy days i will be tune in for sure, Good luck to all

 

[Dave Stephenson]

good luck all runners. Enjoy yourselves. Especially Xeno

 

[SimulationWorld]

FYI - your link from twitter was invalid

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Few minutes until the start of the race

 

[Scott Webber]

goodluck guys

shame i'll be missing this, need to practice on F1 for tonight's league race :wink:

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Broadcast replays have been posted in the article above (courtesy of simrace.tv).

 

[Ryan Callan]

The inaugural Clio Euro Series kicks off this summer and the calendar has been announced. Check it out below.

This league was designed in mind of an entry-level, low maintenance arm to the Touring Pro Series brand, and this is exactly what the Clios provide. These cars might be small in stature, but their low power, limited set-up options and ease of driving make for big excitement. This league will use a lightly modified Clio Cup 2008 mod.

The first season will comprise of 6 events, consisting of double-header 60km sprint races at each meeting with superpole qualifying for both races. The tracks in this series have been picked with the Clios in mind, having proven history or shown great promise in providing close racing.

First off we go to the brand new 2011 layout of Donington Park National. A traditional venue for Clio Cup UK, Donington is a real drivers favourite, with the new chicane adding a fresh element to this classic track. From there we move on to Toban Short; often underestimated, this default rFactor track provides great action with it's flowing layout.

For our third event we head back to the UK and Thruxton. This high-speed circuit requires delicacy and is a real challenge, often providing closely packed slipstream racing. Our fourth event sees us travel back into Europe and Czech Republic's 'second' track, the wonderful, technical Most GP layout.

Heading to our penultimate event brings us to Italy and the beautiful Varano de Melegari, where the tight and twisty confines of the circuit really allows the Clio's chassis to shine. And for our grand finale we utilise the fantasy Magnificent Park National. This high speed, wide and simple track will become a classic in future for sure and is a fitting venue for the season's end.

You can check out the Clio Euro Series forums HERE

 

[Günthar Rowe]

What platform?

 

[Rhys Gardiner]

This league will use rFactor, Gunthar.

 

[Łukasz Demolin]

I'll make it short: OMGWTFBBQ?! Great news.

 

[Andrew Reed]

I am having trouble finding Varano de Melegari and Magnificent Park National tracks on the RD website at the moment. When will they beabled to be downloaded?

Thanx A Reed

 

[Tomasz Demolin]

I'll make it short: OMGWTFBBQ?! Great news.

Same here!!!!!!!!:wink:

 

[Erik Tveit]

I am having trouble finding Varano de Melegari and Magnificent Park National tracks on the RD website at the moment. When will they beabled to be downloaded?

Thanx A Reed

http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Varano de'Melegari

http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Magnificent Park

I think those should work for you. :wink:

 

[Andrew Reed]

Thanx Erik

 

[Ivo Simons]

Everything also will be available through Simsync guys.