Tracks Virginia International Raceway 1.1
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Magnificent. Pro quality of one of the best tracks in America.
Thank you. What a gift to the community! Very generous. How do we donate to support you?
AC street car fans will want to bookmark this page: http://www.caranddriver.com/feature...results-historical-lap-times-and-more-feature
A few facts about the C&D Lightning Lap:
Car and Driver does not use a pro driver for their times and they are time limited due to running 20-30 cars at once over the course of a few days with multiple drivers. Tires have to be an option for sale... so many cars would be well served to use street tires in AC to compare. Also, VIR was (partially?) repaved a few years ago and the green paved runoff areas you see on two corners of the track were not there a few years ago. Car and Driver has been trying to avoid using those green runoff areas when setting lap times to provide some consistency with older lap times. Their new issue with the 2016 lightning lap should be out in a month or two.
I drove a default Mustang GT for 4 laps at the Grand west course with street tires in AC and did a 3:05 lap--- same as Car and Driver's time last year. AC may be slightly quicker as I matched their time pretty quickly but it is in the ballpark to be sure. Very cool.
Thank you. What a gift to the community! Very generous. How do we donate to support you?
AC street car fans will want to bookmark this page: http://www.caranddriver.com/feature...results-historical-lap-times-and-more-feature
A few facts about the C&D Lightning Lap:
Car and Driver does not use a pro driver for their times and they are time limited due to running 20-30 cars at once over the course of a few days with multiple drivers. Tires have to be an option for sale... so many cars would be well served to use street tires in AC to compare. Also, VIR was (partially?) repaved a few years ago and the green paved runoff areas you see on two corners of the track were not there a few years ago. Car and Driver has been trying to avoid using those green runoff areas when setting lap times to provide some consistency with older lap times. Their new issue with the 2016 lightning lap should be out in a month or two.
I drove a default Mustang GT for 4 laps at the Grand west course with street tires in AC and did a 3:05 lap--- same as Car and Driver's time last year. AC may be slightly quicker as I matched their time pretty quickly but it is in the ballpark to be sure. Very cool.
Donation sent. thanks again for the outstanding track.Thanks! we're glad you like itThere's a donate button in the Overview tab.
The codes are on the VIP signs.
ok finally found the first one i feel like a fool driving around for an hour on the backroads while its just in plane site on the fence beside the track
The extra vip codes included shows just how much thought was put into the making of this track. and adds that little something extra to a already top notch track
Just raced online with the gt3's around here.... Wow.. Just wow. Now if only the popular servers would run this... Was just 5 of us!
Andreas Knöpke
Let's drive side by side!
We run the IER mod for hours already on the ALOG1. It's perfectly fine! We had full class earlier too.
Donation sent, enjoy it as much as I'm enjoying the track! Sheer class!
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Looking wonderful, as expected All the kind words have been said a hundred times so I'll simply "ditto" that.
The pits before the pits (on the left hand side) has some issues with asphalt detail scaling. The track itself has rather large stones (I know, it's a trade off), but that patch of asphalt has 20 cm stones
The grass edge is very obvious on some places. Perhaps most likely due to the stretched UV maps.
Some people said the track is a bit dark and I would say the same. Although I use the photographic PP which has pretty heavy HDR, and with a large bright sky it might be getting underexposed. Haven't checked and too lazy at the moment - sorry..
All the kind words have been said a hundred times so I'll simply "ditto" that.The pits before the pits (on the left hand side) has some issues with asphalt detail scaling. The track itself has rather large stones (I know, it's a trade off), but that patch of asphalt has 20 cm stones
The grass edge is very obvious on some places. Perhaps most likely due to the stretched UV maps.
Some people said the track is a bit dark and I would say the same. Although I use the photographic PP which has pretty heavy HDR, and with a large bright sky it might be getting underexposed. Haven't checked and too lazy at the moment - sorry..
PM me the codes please, I only got a couple hours a night to play.Yeah I finally found them all this morning, lol. Good stuff
I see a lot of attention went into easter eggs and that VIP content I think the testers should have pointed out that the track has some shader issues, making it dark and very much like, i don't know, like it belongs to rF2 or Automobilista.
It has amazing details, trees are great, majority of texture work is outstanding, but these shader issues are making it look like a track from 2006 title or something.
Here's a comparison with Brands Hatch and Paul Ricard.. See how more 'modern' they look, and it's not because the amount of details (they probably have less) it's just these colors and that dark tone..
I think the testers should have pointed out that the track has some shader issues, making it dark and very much like, i don't know, like it belongs to rF2 or Automobilista.It has amazing details, trees are great, majority of texture work is outstanding, but these shader issues are making it look like a track from 2006 title or something.
Here's a comparison with Brands Hatch and Paul Ricard.. See how more 'modern' they look, and it's not because the amount of details (they probably have less) it's just these colors and that dark tone..
Oh well, I tried!That entirely defeats the purpose of the VIP content
Dont spoil it for others please. I havent had the chance yet for example. Looked forward to that...until i saw your post, lol.
