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Known primarily for their mod-friendly SCGT and rFactor racing platforms, ISI also developed Formula One and NASCAR titles on PC for Electronic Arts, but perhaps their lasting contribution to the genre was the licensing of the isiMotor engine that allowed studios such as 2Pez, Blimey! Games, KW Studios, Motorsport Games, Reiza Studios, SIMBIN Studios, Slightly Mad Studios, The Sim Factory, Tiburon and rFactor 2‘s ongoing developer Studio 397 to begin with or release on an evolution of their software.
Another fork of the isiMotor engine, rFpro, continues to be developed and is used by a wide array of automotive companies for both road and motorsport simulation.
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Studio 397 today announced on social media that they have begun to host regular time-slotted race events every day using their competition system. Until now, it hosted special events or one-off tests.
Obviously finding online races has been a major issue for rFactor 2 since launch, so this should be welcome news to many and the first step many people will have towards using it online.
Find the races in the sim, via multiplayer. The tweet and Facebook posts don’t say the timezone, but I’d assume it to be CET. Regardless, the races appear to run every 30mins and every 6 hours so should be easy enough to figure out.
Tatuus | Every 30 mins
Radical | Every 30 mins
Ferrari | 4 Daily Races 03:00-09:00-15:00-21:00
Formula E | 4 Daily Races 00:00-06:00-12:00-18:00
rF2 is a simulation designed to simulate any type of multi-wheeled vehicle of any era, supports modding directly, and features an advanced physics, suspension, and tire model.
