![]() “When it’s really rubbered-in, if you go half a car too wide there’s just no grip at all.” “The last thing you want is understeer because that’s usually what kills you when you’re running in traffic and so on and you over-slip the tyre, you’re a passenger into the wall,” says Rosenqvist. ![]() Moving higher up will be possible momentarily – hopefully allowing a spectacular overtake or two – but not something that can be done lap after lap. This is where the grip is, and moving higher up the track usually means understeer and, potentially, a very big accident indeed.įor this weekend – unlike the recent Ind圜ar iRacing Challenge event – tyre wear will be off for drivers, but in rFactor that low-line will still be where the grip is. If a sim is doing its job, it should replicate the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s low line, where rubber accumulates along the bottom of all four corners. Moves like that don’t have much consequence in simracing, but you have to believe a field with so many champions will afford each other a bit of extra room – and respect – to stay in the race rather than just trying stupid moves to risk it all. Respecting fellow racers is important, and that’s always difficult to expect in practice for one-off sim events like the Legends Trophy where drivers aren’t racing each other in real life, risking the lives of their fellow competitors with dangerous moves. “That’s what I see most people who haven’t done the ovals before doing.” It’s like 10x more chance if you go three-wide. “There’s so much communication that needs to be done through the spotters and all the drivers have to make sure they leave room for each other. Normally when you go three-wide that’s bad news! “For example if there’s two cars going into Turn 1, and you add a third car to line up three-wide, that’s your responsibility. “It’s very easy to just put your nose down the inside – which you would do in the same scenario on a normal track – if you start putting your nose in everywhere at every opportunity you get, you might be responsible for causing a lot of incidents. ![]() “I think at Indy – whether you’re on the sim or not – you try to respect it a bit more,” says Rosenqvist. The most important way for The Race Legends Trophy to avoid a similar issue will be to race Indianapolis differently to any other track in racing… With drivers intentionally wrecking each other at various points, it made a mockery of the event which had all the ingredients to be an Indy classic, even if it was held on a sim and not on the real bricks. Who better than Mario Andretti’s Pennsylvania Ind圜ar neighbour to give us advice on this weekend’s race? Don’t stick your nose in!įor those of you who watched the Ind圜ar iRacing Challenge race at Indianapolis, you’ll know that it ended in complete mayhem. Just a couple of laps to see what it’s like and help out my neighbour, Mario!” “He got a sim a week or two ago, he asked me to come over and check to see if it’s all good with it,” Karam tells The Race. Mario Andretti had Karam set up his sim ready for this weekend. He’s become ‘Sage Karam – simracing guru’ in this period as reputable drivers have approached him for equipment advice and, incredibly, even driver coaching. Our second racer turned agony aunt is Ind圜ar driver Sage Karam, a beta tester for the original iRacing game and member of the reputable Coanda Simsport team. Ind圜ar’s reigning rookie of the year Felix Rosenqvist – a simracing regular who made his debut at Indy in real-life last year and contested the iRacing Challenge event – gives us some vital Ind圜ar tips as a veteran of both rFactor and iRacing, but a relative newcomer to Ind圜ar. You can take a ride in Mountain Peaks for yourself by downloading from rFactor 2 tracks page.A huge group of motorsport greats will make their oval racing debut this weekend in The Race Legends Trophy’s Indianapolis Motor Speedway event.īut how is oval racing on a sim different to real life, and to what they’ve been used to in the Legends Trophy’s road course rounds? What can they learn from Ind圜ar’s recent controversial iRacing Challenge, and how is the rFactor 2 platform used by The Race Legends Trophy different to iRacing? Located within a mountain range in North Carolina, Mountain Peak Speedway's 1.5-mile oval contains a number of layouts set up for oval racing and karts: RFactor 2 has received a new track available to download in the form of Mountain Peak Speedway – a track that has been in the pipeline since rFactor 2's inception, first seen in some of its initial preview screenshots.ĭue to its age, the developers stress not to expect the level of quality seen in more recently developed tracks, but they've still managed to spruce up the original textures.
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