Brill! I shall check this out as soon as I've had my daily wank.

"Ruud Dingemans" > wrote in message
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> Well, to some of you this will certainly be old news. However, since I
> haven't seen it mentioned in R.a.s. so far, I'll make a mention of it
> since I believe it's worth knowing about.
>
>
>
> Anyway, main point is, late last year Strava (praise be him) made a really
> nice free little mod for rFactor called Vintage Formula Vee. The name
> should be self-explanatory, and it's available he
>
> http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=23475
>
>
> Turns out this one is real, *real* fun to drive. Several former real-life
> Vee drivers gave it the nod for being close to the real thing and having a
> ball with it, too.
>
> The car model visuals are simpler than most large-team mod wizards manage
> for most sims, imho it's the only thing that could do with a V2.0 update,
> but they're still decent - simple but effective.
>
>
> Now, like real vintage Vees, being based on a VW Beetle engine this only
> has 60ish BHP and a top speed of about 180 kph / 105 mph max, but it
> certainly doesn't *feel* slow on anything but the fastest of tracks.
> Mosport, Zandvoort, Rouen, Lakeside, the Ring and dozens of other tracks
> are a blast having close racing with this one (if you turn down their
> aggression level the AI isn't bad, too).
>
> After tearing through several tracks, I realised: This is rather like "GPL
> Lite", really.
>
> Not as fast, not as on-edge, but similar - having to squeeze every mph out
> of a tiny Beetle engine drifting through tight corners in a little Formula
> car makes for some real good racing. It reminded me of the best bits of
> the 65 Mod. (Some leagues are running it at the moment, but I'm hoping
> more servers will do so. How about a worldwide Formula Vee 'Vroc'?)
>
>
> As an added bonus, it also runs fine on Mac OS X.
>
> Which for me means that I don't have to fire up the old PC every time I'd
> like to do some laps in between work hours. Thanks to an 'rMactor' guide
> by Daniel Parsons (up on Google Docs) it was pretty easy to get rFactor to
> run on OS X thru a Wine-derived program called CrossOver Games 8 - I only
> had to set the rFactor Config utility to DX8 instead of 'auto'.
> Runs fine, too, and though I didn't dare hope that rFactor mods and tracks
> would work as well, turns out it all runs fine. Can't drive it at the
> highest gfx settings on my 2 GHz early-2009 Mac mini, but that's not
> really a bother. I'm too busy trying to outbrake those other Vee racers in
> the streets of Hitchin or into Moss Corner at Mosport!
>
>
> So, there you have it, FYI.
> If you haven't checked it out yet, it's definitely worth doing so and in
> my opinion, is fun enough to justify getting rFactor for it. Rarely have I
> bumped into a simulator mod that's such a blast and captures the thrill of
> racing old Formula cars as well... Hence, here we have, in my view, 'GPL
> Lite' - tho less the speed, no less the fun!
>
> Regards, Rudy
> (GPLRank: -40)