31.12.2014   4 comments

Today the other 3 classes had their main finals completed, 1:8 nitro buggies at Naxos, 1:8 sportscars at Lostallo and 1:10 ITSC touringcars at Collegno. The 2014 VRC Worlds are now over and 12 more VRC World Champions are crowned!

The most controversial championship was 1:8 Nitro Buggies Open Class. Marcin Malinski’s result was disputed by 5 other racers which automatically triggers disqualification. But there was absolutely no ground to accuse Marcin of cheating and the disqualification was rolled back by race director Pieter Bervoets before the event finished but unfortunately this is not yet visible in the results where he still sits in p8. But Marcin Malinski is the undisputed 2014 nitro buggy VRC World Champion Open Class.

OFFICIAL RESULT 1:8 NITRO BUGGY OPEN CLASS AT NAXOS
1 MARCIN MALIŃSKI PL Pro 96 60:13.626
2 David Ronnefalk SE Pro 96 60:26.603
3 Tobias Isaksson SE Pro 96 60:36.494
4 Markku Honkanen FI ... read more

24.12.2014   7 comments

The long awaited Oslo track has been released today. This track was the very first track in VRC v3 and hit the computer screens exactly 10 years ago!

Oslo is a very compact track with a few tricky corners which you must get spot on to do consistent lap times. Enjoy the ride!

23.12.2014   11 comments

Best wishes to everyone and family!

Thanks to everyone who has supported VRC PRO this year; our customers, our moderators, premium members. We appreciate that! It's been a really exciting year for us. We've seen absolutely spectacular racing in the online race events, with great commentary from Mike Garrison. We've had two racers reaching the incredible total driving distance of 100.000 km. And our member base is about to reach 100.000 registered members as well.

We look forward to a very exciting New Year, with our Steam release ahead, new tracks, new car classes and a brand new racing Season.

Thanks again, and let's take your hobby to the next level in 2015!

17.12.2014   3 comments

The first half of the 2014 Worlds series is now completed and we can congratulate 12 new VRC World Champions:

1:10 Short Course trucks at Naxos
Open class
1 Chris Sturdy AU Club 23 15:38.031
2 Martin Wollanka AT Pro 22 15:08.963
3 Nicolas Loriot FR Pro 22 15:22.880

13.5T Spec class
Club
1 Vincent Guigli FR 20 15:17.437
2 DELAMARE Christophe FR 20 15:23.294
3 Michael Zufelt CA 20 15:25.106

Sport
1 Joan Espasa ES 20 15:05.777
2 Ewan MacLennan GB 20 15:07.525
3 Thomas NUZZACI FR 20 15:18.554

Pro
1 Chris Sturdy AU 21 15:11.526
2 Jerome djay Delcourt FR 21 15:26.983
3 Francis Wathlet BE 20 15:02.911

1:10 200mm nitro touring ca... read more

05.12.2014   0 comments

It has taken some time because our commentator Mike Garrison was very busy with other stuff, but here is the video of the exciting A-Main final video between Loriot, Toth and van Rijnberk.

01.12.2014   58 comments

December 1st update and release
Content update: 100 MB

NAXOS TRACK
Just 2 months after the Worlds, Virtual Racing Industries is releasing the Naxos track in Sicily, home of the 2014 IFMAR Worlds for nitro buggies. It’s a great but demanding track with lots of challenges, just like the real track proved to be back in September. We have made a comparison video between some real laps during the World Final, and who better to pick than World Champion Ty Tessman, against one of our 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 incredible accurate detail of the track and the fantastic realism obtained with our state of the art physics engine.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ZbRKvtVtg


The Naxos track is home of the 2014 VRC Worlds for Short Course trucks, starting De... read more

01.12.2014   13 comments

Interview with VRC Centurion 1 Graham Raistrick:

PB: Graham, congratulation with getting to the 100K point first. It looked like Tom was going to be the first to cross that line but you obviously made a big effort in the last day to get there first. This milestone means a lot to you then?

GR: First of all I would like to apologies to both Tom and you (and everyone for that matter) for taking you by surprise…even I wasn’t sure if I could get to the line before Tom. When it was ‘declared’ a ‘race’ in the October news letter ‘The Race is on – Who will reach the 100k First’….it has been in the back of my mind since…and I was one of the contenders, I’m a racer…it was going to be a race. As Tom got closer to the finish I snapped and HAD to have a go.
As to meaning a lot to me, Yes it does, as you know I am a great fan of VRC…have been from Version 3 and to have the honor of first to 100k means a lot to me. One for the history books you might say.

PB: what exactly did you do to ... read more