One of the Best: Super Touring Seasons Mod for Race 07

Paul Jeffrey · Sep 4, 2018

Back with Race 07 again, we take another look at one of the finest mods ever produced..

Modding in sim racing is nothing new, and many have people have different opinions on which mod ranks where in the "all time" list of favourite pieces of content created by our wonderful community. We all have our preferred sims, we all have our most favoured series of cars, and frankly the level of quality of some of the mods created in recent years is simply mind blowing in both the attention to detail and level of research that is undertaken before work commences.

However despite the obvious skill and impressive workmanship of some of the modern mods, both tracks and cars, one of my favourites is a bit older than most...

Released for the Race 07 platform of the mid 2000's, AndreasFSC took the opportunity to use his formidable modding talents to recreate a class of cars that sit firmly at the top of my all time favourite lists.. the absolutely brilliant Super Touring Car era of the mid to late 1990's.

Using the game engine to pretty much its absolute maximum, @AndreasFSC set to work creating what is still the de facto number one representation of these brilliant cars, recreating the teams, drivers and vehicles from several seasons of one of the very best racing championships in the world.

Now I had no intention of making this video, or even re-downloading (the now very nicely updated) AL Super Touring Seasons mod for Race 07, until I tried the game again for another video (link HERE) and remembered just how good the title is, even now, some 10 + years after it first came out.

What started as a bit of fun to try out the cars of the Super Touring Mod one last time, turned into a situation where I absolutely fell head over heels in love all over again.. it was seriously good fun, and remains even to this day as a fantastic piece of content that is well worth keeping on any sim racing drivers hard drive. So much so, I decided it was worth another video and article, just to share that love!

Hope you enjoy the video, and keep an eye out on our YouTube page for more from footage of olden but golden racing sims in the coming weeks ahead...

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UnixRoot · Sep 4, 2018

Time to install Race 07. I didn't know this mod.

Paul Jeffrey · Sep 4, 2018

UnixRoot said:
Time to install Race 07. I didn't know this mod.

Good call

I tried it back in the day and it was good. It's since been improved further and now it really is excellent! Well done indeed @AndreasFSC and all concerned!

Brownninja97 · Sep 4, 2018

I read stuff like this and then I look over to codemasters wondering what they are doing. Toca is a fond memory for many of us, I dont get why it should stay that way, Grid autosport got a dlc but the game was weird with its blurry cockpits and odd physics.

AndreasFSC · Sep 4, 2018

Working on an update with a little faster ai (it's more difficult than it seems). I hope it will be finished one day...

Paul Jeffrey · Sep 4, 2018

AndreasFSC said:
Working on an update with a little faster ai (it's more difficult than it seems). I hope it will be finished one day...

One word...

LEGEND!

Great stuff man, loving it!

T_rac3 · Sep 4, 2018

AndreasFSC said:
Working on an update with a little faster ai (it's more difficult than it seems). I hope it will be finished one day...

Thank you for your hard work. Impressive !!!! And thank you @Paul Jeffrey for the reminder of this beautiful sim, Race07. After LFS this was my second step in the online racing world. So many beautiful memories come out

Kenny Paton · Sep 4, 2018

Paul Jeffrey said:
LEGEND!

His work on this mod is truly legendary, He also has another one which is also excellent
STCC 2015

sKeno · Sep 4, 2018

Kenny Paton said:
His work on this mod is truly legendary, He also has another one which is also excellent
STCC 2015

also worth mentioning his BTC Touring mod

https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/btc-01-04.238/

Richard Wilks · Sep 4, 2018

Well i also redid this mod's physics and many other things for rfactor1, and was raced in our HSO league two years ago

Rory Wetherington · Sep 4, 2018

I totally agree Paul, loved that ol' TOCA based mod, very fun cars to drive and flip

Teguh Waluyo · Sep 4, 2018

Yeah... back then i play alot of this mod... Time flies...

el_mattpro · Sep 4, 2018

I still use Race07 with this mod, it was insane to put 60+ cars on Nordschleifte for example and race without any problems of performance with an old 4 cores CPU, damn i love that game...

John Addison · Sep 4, 2018

Bummed you all got me fired up on re living 07 but I can get it to see my stand alone Fanatec Peddles.

Paul Jeffrey · Sep 5, 2018

John Addison said:
Bummed you all got me fired up on re living 07 but I can get it to see my stand alone Fanatec Peddles.

Really? Damn man.. I assume you cant attach the pedals to your wheel base? That works for me with this one. Unless you are running a different wheel base ofc.

Otherwise, would something like xpadder work?

RobJLee · Sep 5, 2018

I have this mod, or an older version of it. Good mod.

Still have Race07 on my HD but I barely even fire it up to look at the menu these days, plus my install needs tidying up due to addon tracks causing a mess in the menu system.

I prefer to have just a few installs for a couple of racing games with everything pretty much under one roof, not several titles with some content here, some content there etc.

I currently have GTL installed once with a ton of mods, besides tracks, mostly Brickyard Legends IMSA stuff with a self-modded menu system dividing the "cups" into IMSA Camel GT, FIA Historics (i.e. stock content plus a few addon cars) and Goodwood (4 cups based on cups at the Revival), if I ever get around to it I plan on adding a Group 5 category and WSC category (if I can fit them into the menu system) using the cars available from Brickyard Legends (most of the IMSA stuff comes with Le Mans, Group 5 (I think?) and WSC skins also)...

And I have GTR2 twice, once for modern stuff (anything post 1991) and a 2nd install for P&G historic stuff (including F1 up to 1991). I also have the Steam versions of GTL/GTR2 installed but they're for backup only and are "clean".

I have the GTR2 Super Touring mod but I'm not sure that's a conversion of the Race07 mod, by the same people at all, or of the same quality.

Shovas · Sep 5, 2018

Is the install really that complicated? Going to have to work up the will to install this...

Shovas · Sep 5, 2018

These tracks are long out of date. Can anyone upload the required tracks to RD? I couldn't find the basics and the track selection for what I did have didn't seem to take effect.