You can now organise league and community racing more authentically with a free RaceRoom Safety Car available to download. The Audi R8 LMS Safety Car isn't intended to be used in single player or competitive racing, but can be driving manually during online competitions to keep the field under control. A race admin can manually drive the Safety Car, and it takes up one of … [Read more...]
F1 2020 Safety Car Guide Video
If you don't spend much time watching motorsport, you might not appreciate the impact that a safety car can have on a race. But the F1 2020 Safety Car Guide Video might even give experienced sim racers some new ideas about how to use it as an opportunity to get a better result. The tips from Codemasters include explaining what the Safety Car is, and how the procedure works … [Read more...]
F1 2011 review 9/10
First of all, an apology. This review is late in comparison to a lot of other sites around and there are two main reasons for this: Firstly, we didn’t get a preview copy of the game, and second, it has taken a while to get used to. I didn’t want to rush out a review until I had the chance to play the game properly - I wanted to be able to say what it’s really like and to do … [Read more...]
The five most exciting things about F1 2011
We here at ORD love F1 2011, which is impressive considering it’s not even been released yet. But with the game’s launch less than two weeks away, we thought we would share with you the top five reasons our collective pants are so wet. 1. Revised handling model Don’t take this the wrong way, F1 2010’s handling was great but there were a few glitches. For example, you could … [Read more...]
Do we need a safety car?
Since the brilliant F1 2010 was released, Codemasters have also been inundated with fans’ requests for the inclusion of a safety car in the sequel. Indeed, if 1994’s Indycar Racing 2 managed to include one running on MS Dos, surely the inclusion on one of today’s superconsoles or superfast PC’s is long overdue. However the inclusion of the safety car is not quite as cut and dry … [Read more...]
Where is the safety car?
Who led more laps of the 2006 Australian Grand Prix than everyone except winner Fernando Alonso? Who led for a third of the 2007 Grand Prix of Japan at Fuji despite not actually driving a Formula One car? Bernd Mayländer – that’s who. And yes, I did just steal those facts off Wikipedia. I’m lazy, ok? For many years, since the introduction of safety cars into top-level … [Read more...]