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Post by tomlory on Mar 7, 2023 3:12:51 GMT
It looks like the highlight for me this Week 13 will be that the Test Drive service will be enabled all day Tuesday, supposedly with all content that was released for 2023 Season 1.
In the past, there has been a fair number of cars available but never literally all of them. You must own any and all tracks, cars are available so long as you have downloaded them.
Aside from that, I only see Sebring Sunrise being of interest (FR500S vs GT4) on the road race side.
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Post by mikec1 on Mar 7, 2023 11:10:47 GMT
Thanks for the heads up Tom.
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Post by tomlory on Mar 8, 2023 8:29:50 GMT
By the time I was able to get on, iRacing was up and running again so no TestDrive server that I am aware of. If one has it bookmarked maybe it's possible when iRacing UI is back up???
Anyway, I was greeted with a new base content Formula Ford ("FF1600") and a paid content Renault Clio as far as RR stuff goes. I had to check my inventory to discover that we also get a free Dirt UMP Modified car.
I already have more cars than I can hope to use with any proficiency so I doubt that there will be a Clio in my near future. From the car "bio", it reads like Clios are raced in most European countries so I'm guessing iRacing is reaching for more Euros. 200 HP,2100 lbs-ish IIRC...
The FF1600 is being used for a couple of unranked Week 13 series. I jumped in a Battle of the Little Wings race with the FF1600 and no practice. It appears to be positioned above the Skip Barber Formula 2000 and Formula Vee based on the grid and how the standings were displayed. I haven't driven the Skippy but the FF1600 seems some steps more difficult than the Formula Vee. Much faster with seemingly the same or less grip from its Avon treaded tires as the FV gets from its Toyos and a boat load of off-throttle oversteer to master.
The preliminary 2023 Season 2 Schedule is out. I skimmed through it just to see the available series, will dig deeper soon.
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Post by mikec1 on Mar 8, 2023 16:17:32 GMT
I read the test servers are only available during updates and in between season changes. I missed the test servers also. Haven't tried the new FF car yet. Looks interesting.
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Post by tomlory on Mar 8, 2023 20:22:18 GMT
iRacing posted that TestDrive would be available for 24 hours. It's obviously much more important for the full service to be up and running but TestDrive is a nice a treat so I thought maybe having TestDrive even with iRacing UI running was a new feature.
I have feeling that Mike will like the new Formula Ford.
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Post by tomlory on Mar 9, 2023 6:23:19 GMT
I was mistaken about Sebring Sunrise, it's a bunch of GT3 cars this time around.
iRacing is supposed to be down again Wednesday morning so TestDrive (should be renamed to Demo or something) should be enabled from 05:00 PST and I can get some laps in before work.
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Post by tomlory on Mar 9, 2023 14:07:31 GMT
Evidently, the iRacing techies are exceedingly competent as iRacing is fully operational already, no TestDrive
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Post by tomlory on Mar 10, 2023 16:01:39 GMT
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Post by tomlory on Mar 10, 2023 19:31:05 GMT
Only three evenings left for Week 13.
The track selection will affect how much I am on but could be Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings expecting rain and cold here.
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Post by tomlory on Mar 13, 2023 10:53:28 GMT
This week was a blur. I did a bunch of Battle of the Little Wings races but many of them were dampened by incidents negatively affected me or Coffey which effectively ended my race, too (because Week 13 Unranked and being a friend) including what would probably been a win with the new Formula Ford.
By Friday night, I was iRacing'ed out but late Saturday night, I put in about an hour with the P217 @ Sebring to get acclimated ahead of the 12 Hour.
I hope to proven right with the Skip Barber car and series. The car is probably the funnest car that I've tried with iRacing and the Skip crowd should be among the cleanest. I moments of laughter at every track where I have lapped with it. I'm probably going to have to settle down, be smoother and slide less but I can't help it, it's so much fun.
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Post by tomlory on Mar 13, 2023 10:54:12 GMT
TestDrive will supposedly be up again Mon 05:00 PDT.
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