rF Open Wheel Racing 2007 Season 1.25

rF Open Wheel Racing 1.25.1 Patch

***New "Version Number" Naming Scheme***

major.minor.revision

This version is major version 1, minor release .25 and revision .1

***1.25.1 Revsion Information***

time to fix front wing - 15 seconds (down from 50 seconds)
fuel time 6.3 liters/second (1.6 gallons per second)
tire change time - 9 seconds (up from 5.5 seconds)
1.5 seconds to adjust wing angle (front) and 3 seconds to adjust rear angle (driver could not previously change rw angle, now can, as some IRL teams have the ability now)
allow driver to change individual tires, if wanted

***Physics***
fixed "instant" engine blow on configs outside of indy
More tire wear (tires get to the yellows now)
Less cold tire grip penalty
Grip penalty increased for being over temp and having more wear (used to be only 10% grip loss at 90% wear...now is around 20%).

***Tips and Tricks***

Fuel Mapping in rFactor

IndyCar Series cars in real life give drivers the ability to adjust the amount of fuel flow to their engine in real time via their steering wheel. This is an ability we have given drivers in rF Open Wheel Racing also via the "Increment/Deincrement Boost" mapping in rFactor.

* To set these, map them to keys on your keyboard or to buttons on your steering wheel. They can be mapped from the same window where you set your gas/brake, steering, lcd mode, etc. buttons in rFactor options.
* Once on the track, use these buttons to make real time setup changes while on the track to your fuel flow. You can increase/decrease from 1 to 9 using the increment/deincrement boost.
* Use the term "boost" loosely. 9 is actually 100% horsepower/100% fuel consumption.
* Horsepower and fuel consumption decrease as the boost is deincremented (lower number).
* The strategy comes in allowing a driver to draft off of someone running full rich (9) and perhaps lower his boost to medium-rich (4 or 5) to conserve fuel but maintain a consistant pace.

Basic Open Wheel Setup Tips

* Always drive with the lowest wing settings you can safely handle.
* Front wing angle creates less drag than rear wing angle, but also creates less downforce.
* If a car pushes in traffic, try adding more front wing to stick the front to the ground, but dont go too far or you will lose the draft!
* IndyCar Series cars can run as much (up to 22 gallons or 83 liters) or as little fuel as they like. Low fuel loads for qualifing can help to increase speed and change the handling of the car.
* On large high speed ovals, a high front brake bias is reccomended to slow the car from 220+ to 50mph for pit road.
* Be sure to map the revlimiter to a key or button on your whee as it is available on IndyCars.


Seasons should now work. It should not say "must own vehicle".

RFM values for caution sensitivity, laps of caution, pit/pace speeds, etc. tweaked.

Finally, included are Driver Suits and Helmets for all teams, by Bassman

2008 Helmet & Driver Suit Information

Suits & helmets are as accurate as possible within the limits of the templates, available photos and my talents.

Some helmets were originally in the Helmets folder and were renamed and copied to the team folders. ChiefWiggum made some great helmets and his were used whenever possible but his were made for 2007 so some needed updates.

Helmets by ChiefWiggum
Castroveves
Dixon
Wheldon
Patrick
Kanaan
Andretti, Marco
Manning
Carpenter


Helmets replaced by Bassman58
Mutoh
Rice
Scheckter
Meira
Briscoe

All driver suits and other helmets made by Bassman58


Notes:
EJ Viso - no good helmet photos & beyond my abilities
Wheldon - changes helmets every race & beyond my abilities
Marco Andretti - changes driver suit every race, NYSE suit used

For those worried about LARGE downloads, promised, it is a PATCH to the previous version (Indy Edition 1.25).

Enjoy and keep the feedback coming!!!!

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Someone have a new link to download?
Pedrohc on Apr-25-2013

Good size and good mod
rfrd23 on Oct-09-2012

For the 1.25 update you can find it at http://www.racesimulations.com...R/OWR/files/7493.html

Enjoy it this great mod guys

gretz!
fely on Jan-07-2009

Guys,

This is dead. I can put the links back up, but there is really no need.

You all will completely forget about this mod once IndyCar 2008 rolls out.

As most have figured out, this really was just a "public beta" for the past 8 months and it will pay off BIG TIME in the end. We got great feedback that we wouldnt have gotten if we said all along this was a "beta".

I direct everyone over to http://rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Indycar Series 2008 to follow the progress of the REAL release!!!!
mrpeters on Nov-12-2008

Mike Peters would have to answer those questions. I don't have templates or the old 1.25 upgrade. I can say that we are working hard to get 2008 Season out very soon, so it may be a moot point. I will send Mike this direction though.
Redwings20 on Nov-12-2008

Where can I get a copy of the Panoz template? The Panoz cars look SO much better than the Dallaras do, and I'd like to paint a few skins for it.
fastmaster26 on Nov-11-2008

Yes, link to 1.25 Upgrade is dead.... Came someone help????
deanjet on Nov-11-2008

Make sure you have 1.25.1 installed. That should address this issue.
Redwings20 on Nov-10-2008

Recently reinstalled rFactor and this mod. As soon as I start a session the car instantly overheats getting to 1000 degrees in seconds. It wasn't like this before, what have I done wrong?
Chev_350 on Nov-10-2008

No, this mod is not dead. Freedom Motorsports (RaceFMS.com) has been working with Mike running a season on Mondays with the latest build. We are working out some kinks that we have, but I can tell you the racing has been awesome. Check us out if you're looking for some league racing too.
Redwings20 on Nov-09-2008

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