Nurburgring and McLaren F1 released

[F1Fan07]

Today is the day, I'm off work and... iracing.com is dead.

[kuruptcdn]

Maybe iracing is using real life data for the mclerran and the virtual model is dying as well lol
Sorry I couldn't resist
I decided to let my subscription run out last month due to the lack of road participants during my available time slots, the busy road days seem to be on weekends and being my days off I usually got too much going on to jump into a race.

[helios16v]

They've done broke it good. It was down when I got home from work last night...and it's still down 13+ hours later.

Good thing our league race was Monday night and not Tuesday.

[F1Fan07]

It's been down for over 24h now. It sounded like they rolled out the new content and sim update at the same time as they moved the website to new hardware which got overwhelmed when more drivers than planned connected to update and purchase new content. The whole thing went up in flames.

They use Amazon Web Services which claims that as your load increases, you can just add more virtual servers. It didn't work out so well I guess. Someone either at iRacing or Amazon has some explaining to do.

The last I heard they're trying to get up some hybrid of new code on the old server while simultaneously working on the new servers in anticipation of switching to them soon.

[helios16v]

lol. Let's do ALL the things at once. It'll be fine.....trust me.









I think.

[F1Fan07]

I got on last night. The 'Ring (especially the VLN layout) is nice. There are a few spots that are different enough than the rF1 version I'm used to as to force a slightly different line but overall, the track feels like I expected.

I ran the V8SC and McLaren F1 car there. Both were fun. The McLaren's in-car tuning options are numerous and mostly confusing at this point to me.

[Jarhead]

I was finally able to get online and run a few laps last night. I joined a Touristenfahrten practice session with the Ford GT3. Since there was such a major update, I started with the baseline setup. I have only run this track in Forza and that was a while ago, so I'm having to relearn it all over again.

Overall, I'm very happy with the track. Hopefully the sight will be up when I get home tonight. It is still having intermittent problems.

I did find a setup for the RUF track car. I will try that tonight. Here it is for anyone else who wants to try it:

16S1 Ring Ruf Track V2 wing 3 Jon Hall.sto (1.82 KB)

If anybody has a decent setup for any other cars, please post them here.