July 3, 2015

VRC Pro virtual vs. real comparison – Video

VRC Pro virtual vs. real comparison – Video

Virtual RC have released another video comparing their latest virtual track, the 2015 Silver Dollar Raceway, and the real Silver Dollar Raceway, home of the 2015 ROAR Fuel Offroad Nationals. The comparison video shows Ryan Lutz driving his Tekno NB48.3 buggy “against” 2014 VRC Short Course Truck World Champion Chris Sturdy from Australia, driving the Intercept NX8-R buggy.

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June 16, 2015

2015 ROAR Nationals track available for VRC Pro

2015 ROAR Nationals track available for VRC Pro

VRC Pro have announced the release of the 2015 ROAR 1/8th Fuel Off-road Nationals track for the 17th of June. As sanctioned by ROAR, neither the real nationals track in Chico, CA nor the virtual track should be available for practice prior to the start of the event and so the release comes in time with the start of the event’s practice rounds. VRC Pro will run the Virtual ROAR Nationals from June 18th until June 21st, simultaneously with the real ROAR event. On June 17th the new track will automatically become available for VRC Pro members who have an all-inclusive license, and it is also available from the VRC Pro e-shop.

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April 30, 2015

VRC Pro introduce Psycho Nitro Blast VI track

VRC Pro introduce Psycho Nitro Blast VI track

VRC Pro now makes the Psycho Nitro Blast VI track available, bringing the number of original tracks to 13. The 430m long PNB VI features the layout as used during the 2013 version of this annual spectacle and it is a real “must have driven” track. You can experience the excitement of the event yourself with the track being available free-of-charge for all Professional Lifetime All-inclusive members and temporary All-inclusive members. Free2Play members can purchase the new track in the VRC World e-shop.

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February 12, 2015

Montpellier track now available for VRC Pro

Montpellier track now available for VRC Pro

Virtual Racing Industries has added a new outdoor off-road track, the Circuit MBM in Montpellier, France. This exciting new track was created in close collaboration with the Montpellier club and it is a typical French style track carved out in the terrain. VRI’s graphics and 3D artist Tony West has delivered yet another masterpiece by capturing the right atmosphere and character of this track spot on.

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January 30, 2015

Marcin Malinski wins VRC Buggy Worlds

Marcin Malinski wins VRC Buggy Worlds

Marcin Malinski has won the VRC Worlds Open Class nitro buggy title. The 25 year old Polish Team Serpent racer was the big surprise in the A-Main final as he did not compete in 2014, had no ranking and set an incredible pace right from the start of the Worlds, giving hot favourite David Ronnefalk a hard time. His 3rd place at the 2013 VRC 1/8th Nitro Buggy Worlds should have been a warning to all and his pace was so fast that there was a lot of gossip about him cheating the system. Even his result in the 60 minute A-Main was disputed five times by other racers which lead to automatic disqualification. After investigation of these protests the race director reversed the disqualification which means that the young Pole has earned his first official VRC World title. Newly signed HB team driver David Ronnefalk finished 2nd, 13 seconds behind Malinski, and the other Swede and winner of the 2014 Season 3 series, Tobias Isaksson came in 3rd, another 10 seconds down with the top 3 scoring an incredibly fast 96 laps at the difficult Naxos Worlds track in Sicily.

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January 16, 2015

Wollanka & Pignotti win at VRC Worlds

Wollanka & Pignotti win at VRC Worlds

Martin Wollanka and Kevin Pignotti are the new VRC Worlds title holders in 1:8th Sportscars and 1:10th ISTC respectively. Martin Wollanka from Austria scored a well-deserved title in his 2014 VRC Worlds campaign after having to settle for second in the 1:10 ISTC VRC Worlds right behind Kevin Pignotti. Martin managed to turn things around in 1:8 Sportscars at the Lostallo event, driving to victory with a 4 seconds lead on Kevin Pignotti. New kid on the block Jakub Rozycki from Poland was lapped by Wollanka at the very last lap of the race when he needed a last fuel stop as to make it to the finish line in 3rd.

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January 11, 2015

Testlogger data collecting and analysing tool

Testlogger data collecting and analysing tool

Better known as the organiser of what is regarded as one of the best World Championships to date, Finland’s Jussi Luopajärvi has been working on another RC project called Testlogger, a tool for collecting and analysing track performance. Starting with a vision for a better way to collect data from test and race days compared to notepad or MS Excel, this tool stores laptimes, setups, conditions and comments, with weather conditions automatically fetched for outdoor tracks while laptimes can be imported from Mylaps. The collected data helps to compare and analyse track performance of single days or in the long term from yourself or your racing buddies. A social sharing function helps spread the word with the public or your friends only, using the Testlogger feed or through private messages. A comprehensive archive function stores past setups with every set-up change being accessible while runs, sessions and notes can be tagged for future reference. The web based, and currently completely free to use, service is available here with a lot of new features being added all the time to further improve the tool.

Source: Testlogger [testlogger.info]


December 1, 2014

VRC Pro track & buggy updates

VRC Pro track & buggy updates

As promised in the November instalment of the VRC Pro column, the 2014 IFMAR 1/8 Buggy World Championship track of Naxos in Sicily is now available as are two new buggies and some other updates. Starting with the tracks, it’s a great but demanding venue with lots of challenges, just like the real track proved to be back in September. VRI have made a comparison video between some real laps during the Worlds final, and who better to pick than World Champion Ty Tessman, against one of VRC’s beta testers, Nicolas Loriot from France. As with earlier ‘virtual vs real’ comparison videos the resemblance between virtual and real is astonishing close, once more proof of the incredibly accurate detail of the track and the fantastic realism obtained with our state of the art physics engine.

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