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I made another side by side comparison between real life and iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations today with a lap around Circuit Park Zandvoort.

It was quite difficult to find an onboard lap on Youtube that I could use and after contacting the poster (who turned out to be the rights holder – woohoo) of a lap in the Corvette C6 I decided that was probably as close as I was going to get. I then asked our testing team to supply a replay of a decent lap in iRacing’s C6R and one came fairly quickly with what he described as more of a safe lap than a quick one.

Because of the fact that the driver of the real-world video was pushing a lot harder than the sim driver I had a little bit of work to do to get things to match up. As these videos are about showing the track geometry more than anything else I extended the real-world video just a little at each segment to make them match up.


Watch on Youtube. Watch on Facebook.

I think it turned out well, the only differences really are very minor and most will be because the in-sim footage was recorded from a single car testing session while the real-world video is from race day (more trackside objects).

 

38 thoughts on “iRacing Track Comparison: Circuit Park Zandvoort

  1. Tryphon34 says:

    [..YouTube..] this is cool

  2. clipto2 says:

    [..YouTube..] Wow this looks amazing!

  3. [..YouTube..] Can´t wait!

  4. [..YouTube..] Damn, does this track will be available tomorrow ? :)

  5. amnickable says:

    [..YouTube..] @Tryphon34 It is isn’t it, they have out-done themselves once again!

  6. amnickable says:

    [..YouTube..] @Tryphon34
    It is isn’t it, they have out-done themselves once again!

  7. JoostHermens says:

    [..YouTube..] This is going to be EPIC.. to say the least :)

  8. [..YouTube..] only thing that iracing has different from the real vid is the porsche fighting the corvette ;)

  9. DGelink says:

    [..YouTube..] nice

  10. [..YouTube..] I am really looking forward to this track..

  11. duviii says:

    [..YouTube..] Very nice

  12. AtomElfman says:

    [..YouTube..] Very nice :-P

  13. 1085oliverda says:

    [..YouTube..] Why is the video sped up around 0:36?

  14. Diswanio says:

    [..YouTube..] iRacingJeffrey aka Rietveld lol ,MDZ hereRELEASE IT NOW PLEASE, getting destructive here lol

  15. Diswanio says:

    [..YouTube..] iRacingJeffrey aka Rietveld lol ,MDZ here

    RELEASE IT NOW PLEASE, getting destructive here lol

  16. Diswanio says:

    [..YouTube..] RELEASE it PLEASE, takes too long lol

  17. Diswanio says:

    [..YouTube..] Release it please come on now! :)

  18. MadCat360 says:

    [..YouTube..] Sweet! Really cool to see the buildings way far off too.

  19. wdtiger says:

    [..YouTube..] Kinda looks like he got held up a little from that Mustang. I’m also guessing it’s because the iRacing Corvette is the ALMS GT1 C6.R and the real-incar footage is from the Certainty Racing Team production based C6. There’s a couple spots that look sped up a little, but that one spot is pretty dramatic. Since the point of the vid is to show how accurate the iRacing version of Zandvoort is, a little sped up video doesn’t hurt just to keep the two in sync.

  20. HiredGoonage says:

    [..YouTube..] Amazing. I’ll consider a subscription when they get a few more non-oval circuits like this and non-US cars.

  21. HiredGoonage says:

    [..YouTube..] Amazing. I’ll consider a subion when they get a few more non-oval circuits like this and non-US cars.

  22. iRacingTV says:

    [..YouTube..] @wdtiger Indeed. It proved impossible to either find or get permission for another real-world video, so we did the best we could in the time given. It is a track comparison and we claim it to be nothing else. :)

  23. iRacingTV says:

    [..YouTube..] Indeed. It proved impossible to either find or get permission for another real-world video, so we did the best we could in the time given. It is a track comparison and we claim it to be nothing else. :)

  24. iRacingTV says:

    [..YouTube..] Track is now available.

  25. 85darkone85 says:

    [..YouTube..] HiredGoonage They have allot of non-oval circuits agree with not non American cars, but the current road cars are fun like skip barber and lotus 79. And they are getting V8 super cars soon and a few aussi tracks. You should give it a go even on a month subscription you wont look back

  26. 85darkone85 says:

    [..YouTube..] HiredGoonage
    They have allot of non-oval circuits agree with not non American cars, but the current road cars are fun like skip barber and lotus 79. And they are getting V8 super cars soon and a few aussi tracks. You should give it a go even on a month subscription you wont look back

  27. 85darkone85 says:

    [..YouTube..] HiredGoonage
    They have allot of non-oval circuits agree with not non American cars, but the current road cars are fun like skip barber and lotus 79. And they are getting V8 super cars soon and a few aussi tracks. You should give it a go even on a month subion you wont look back

  28. CykoNL says:

    [..YouTube..] I’d assume it’s because they race with a iRacing GT1 and have footage of a GT4 and on that part of the track its really fast and pretty bumpy so you can see that pretty much the whole part is sped up a bit

  29. CykoNL says:

    [..YouTube..] If A1 car are implemented you should have used those, because they race there aswell.what this video and the game can’t show you is the great acoustics if u sit on the grandstand during A1/euroboss/dutch supercar challenge/gt4. you can hear some cars all the time due to the sound rolling over the dunes, track is located roughly 200m from the shoreline. to bad it’s close to the town aswell limiting its “noise days”

  30. CykoNL says:

    [..YouTube..] If A1 car are implemented you should have used those, because they race there aswell.

    what this video and the game can’t show you is the great acoustics if u sit on the grandstand during A1/euroboss/dutch supercar challenge/gt4. you can hear some cars all the time due to the sound rolling over the dunes, track is located roughly 200m from the shoreline. to bad it’s close to the town aswell limiting its “noise days”

  31. VLAHONDA says:

    [..YouTube..] Yeah this track looks great, but i still want to see some more non US cars as well. BWM, Porsche, etc.

  32. metan0ll says:

    [..YouTube..] awesome.. i enjoy too much these comparative videos!!!!!!

  33. [..YouTube..] Next year we’ll have 12 of those days. The World Series by Renault wants to take use of 3. Another 3 are reserved for the Masters of Formula 3. DTM may use another 3 but it’s not unlikely they’ll vanish completely. That leaves us with 6 days we don’t know yet. Maybe FIA GT1/2/3/4 due to connections with SRO via Dutch GT4 championship. Oh, and WTCC may but likely won’t come this year on a non noisy weekend.

  34. djspeed06 says:

    [..YouTube..] Put new non-fast cars, that way we can race to the limit, like : bmw’s (from wtcc or lemans series) – Super Taiku – AE86 N2 – MX5 cup – Fun Cup – , and you should seriously consider puting the nurburgring (be sure that’s THE track if you want to increase player subscription, imagine the first real copy of the legendary green hell) as well as some notorious tracks like tsukuba – Fuji – Suzuka – Imola – HTTT Paul Ricard – the 24H le mans etc.. avoid too much open wheelers, boring in the end

  35. djspeed06 says:

    [..YouTube..] Put new non-fast cars, that way we can race to the limit, like : bmw’s (from wtcc or lemans series) – Super Taiku – AE86 N2 – MX5 cup – Fun Cup – , and you should seriously consider puting the nurburgring (be sure that’s THE track if you want to increase player subion, imagine the first real copy of the legendary green hell) as well as some notorious tracks like tsukuba – Fuji – Suzuka – Imola – HTTT Paul Ricard – the 24H le mans etc.. avoid too much open wheelers, boring in the end

  36. macker33 says:

    [..YouTube..] i love track comparisons

  37. [..YouTube..] Dutch GT4 !! <3 it :D

    nice comparison ;)

  38. muffronfar says:

    [..YouTube..] they will never make fun cars like the gt3 spec cars from nurburgring 24h. they dont have any real drivers to help them. only shitty guys who can only turn left

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