Paul Jeffrey
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With initial images teased several months ago, Sector3 Studios have today revealed preview in game shots from every model contained in the new WTCC 2015 pack for premier 'free to play' racing simulator RaceRoom Racing Experience.
The 2015 season marked the final year for the all conquering factory Citroen team with championship honours remaining firmly in the hands of lead Citroen WTCC C-Elysee driver and reigning World Champion Jose Maria Lopez. The Argentine driver capped a dominant year by becoming back to back champion in only his second full season in the sport as he firmly stakes his claim to becoming one of Touring Cars great driving talents.
The new 2015 WTCC pack for RaceRoom Racing Experience will feature all the cars and drivers that took part in the 2015 championship season as well as special guest driver and Nordschleife specialist Sabine Schmitz's Chevrolet Cruze.
With the same manufacturers present as in the 2014 WTCC pack, the main changes aside from new liveries and drivers is the whole new Lada Vesta which replaced the solid if unspectacular Granta at the beginning of the year. Although suffering from some bad luck and high rate of driver attrition in the second seat, 2015 marked a breakthrough year for the much maligned Russia team with several standout performances for British former World Champion Rob Huff, including a rare podium position at the team's home round in Russia.
As is the usual form with new content releases for RaceRoom it is expected that the WTCC 2015 car pack with feature the latest new physics and handling improvements brought to the game. It is not yet know if these physics updates will be backdated to earlier 2013 and 2014 packs already available in the game store.
In other R3E news the team over in Sweden have revealed a new licensing deal with BMW that will bring the new M235i Racing machine to our virtual tracks in the coming months.
The 333hp M235i Racing has been licensed by Sector3 and announced recently, but currently no news on expected release dates are forthcoming from the development team.
No release dates for either the WTCC 2015 pack or BMW M235i have been released at present, however in typical Sector3 style the upcoming WTCC pack is scheduled to be released..... soon!
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