Back in April, Team SRM announced to be working on a 1.2 version update for their popular Formula One 1990 mod for rFactor.

Alongside new car models and other improvements, the new version will be introducing brand new sounds for various cars.

Now, the team has released a new preview video, letting us experience some of the new sounds and the results are impressive to say the least.

A list of key changes that will be introduced with the upcoming patch has been released, including fixes for most of the problems that have been reported by the community.

Bug fixes:

1. Corrupt Save Games – We have identified an over-zealous anti-cheating check that manifested as falsely identified corrupt saves, specifically the ones relating to practice and R&D upgrades, the save-games should now load without issue. However if any of you are experiencing corrupt saves outside of this then please continue to send your PS3 save game files to us (Xbox360 & PC saves aren’t of any use to us) and we can test these against the latest patch to see whether all instances of this issue have now been fixed

2. AI not pitting in dry races where a mandatory pit stop was required (20% or more) – This has been fixed.

3. Player held in pit-stop too long – We’ve improved exit logic so that it isn’t too cautious in holding players during a pit-stop.

4. Puncture frequency reduced – The likelihood of players suffering punctures has been reduced.

5. Pit-stop lock-ups – Fixed several instances which caused the pit crew to lock-up and not be able to service the cars.

6. Automatically updating race strategy – Selecting prime tyres from the tyre menu (over default option) now updates the strategy so that the pit-crew assign options during the pit stop as opposed to re-attaching another set of primes (in a dry race of 20% or more).

7. First lap calculates correctly – The lap time for the first lap of the race now calculates correctly, from the lights going out as opposed to the cars crossing the start line.

Improvements:

1. OSD changes – showing split times rather than gap to leader – We’ve changed how the OSD timing information functions so that split times are now displayed on the OSD, showing race time and race time differences to the other cars – I.e. how far ahead/behind are at a sector boundary.

2. AI affected more by damage received – Damage sustained by an AI’s car will have a greater effect their handling characteristics, effectively slowing damaged AI down more. AI cars that cannot maintain a racing speed will naturally yield to faster cars & come into the pits for repairs. As before, If they receive too much damage, they will retire from the race.

A guy called F1Racer has put together a very impressive F1 2010 reality check video, showing us a lap around the famous Monza circuit both in real life and Codemasters’ popular title.

The video includes commentator narration of the lap to make it even more realistic. You can check it out on Youtube below, a high-resolution download link is also available.

6e66o has put together a very interesting reality check video of the Fiorano Circuit in the recently-released Ferrari Virtual Academy 2010.

The video shows 6e66o’s cracking 57.3 second lap paired up with real-life footage and narration by Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso.

Released on September 9th, the Ferrari Virtual Academy 2010 simulator includes the Ferrari F10 Formula One car and the Fiorano Circuit, selling for 14,99€. Two more laser-scanned tracks will be released for 9,99€ each, check out the VirtualR review of Ferrari Virtual Academy 2010 here.