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TRLbLOGMONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR ALL ONLINE RACERS

Issue 2 July 2012

TWITTER FEEDS who to look out for

This month were going to take a look at the Team at Codemasters and for those that are

on Twitter we thought wed add the people that might be the front runners to follow. So

currently in terms of driving games there is DiRT Showdown, F12012, F1 Online and the

highly anticipated Grid2. Below is a list of the lead developers and key personnel to

follow, remember with Twitter you dont have to have a phone, you can use your

pc/laptop as well.

Steve Hood -@T4RG4 - Creative Director for F1 Codemasters

Andy Gray -@AndyGray_ - Communications Manager at Codemasters

Ian Webster -@HeliosCM - Community Manager at Codemasters

Ben Walke -@BenWalke Community Manager at Codemasters for Dirt, RaceNet.

Paul Coleman -@Kick_Up Chief Games designer of Dirt Games

Rich Eddy -@Rich_Eddy Communications Director at Codemasters for Dirt, F1 and TBA

(Grid 2) we believe*

This Issu

Twitter Feed

The World of Online Motorsport Game

Driver b

Forthcoming Even

Tweets of interest

might have to increase the

number of faults you get whendriving as Schumacher tweeted

Steve Hood@T4RG4

From Martin Brundle at Le Mans

@MBrundleF1

And this is 'home' at the track. It's

better than it looks +just behind

the pits, but @ 5000 for week so i

should be

Coming Home says Anthony

Davidson@antdavidson
https://twitter.com/#!/T4RG4https://twitter.com/#!/T4RG4https://twitter.com/#!/T4RG4https://twitter.com/#!/AndyGray_https://twitter.com/#!/AndyGray_https://twitter.com/#!/AndyGray_https://twitter.com/#!/HeliosCMhttps://twitter.com/#!/HeliosCMhttps://twitter.com/#!/HeliosCMhttps://twitter.com/BenWalkehttps://twitter.com/BenWalkehttps://twitter.com/BenWalkehttps://twitter.com/Kick_Uphttps://twitter.com/Kick_Uphttps://twitter.com/Kick_Uphttps://twitter.com/Rich_Eddyhttps://twitter.com/Rich_Eddyhttps://twitter.com/Rich_Eddyhttps://twitter.com/#!/T4RG4https://twitter.com/#!/T4RG4https://twitter.com/#!/T4RG4https://twitter.com/#!/MBrundleF1https://twitter.com/#!/MBrundleF1https://twitter.com/antdavidsonhttps://twitter.com/antdavidsonhttps://twitter.com/antdavidsonhttps://twitter.com/antdavidsonhttps://twitter.com/#!/MBrundleF1https://twitter.com/#!/T4RG4https://twitter.com/Rich_Eddyhttps://twitter.com/Kick_Uphttps://twitter.com/BenWalkehttps://twitter.com/#!/HeliosCMhttps://twitter.com/#!/AndyGray_https://twitter.com/#!/T4RG4


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The World of Online Motorsport Games

Interview with Steve Hood Creative Director at Codemasters F1 2012

DRIVER PROFILENeo_JACK96

Is the next TRL member to share his

thought and experiences with us.

What do you enjoy most about racing

online?

Being competitive, and aiming to beat

my friends on driving games. I also like

the interaction with other people from

around the world.

What would you say is your greatest

achievement so far?

My greatest achievement is either a B

main win in Catalunya 2012 or the 4th

in A main in Canada 2012. In Catalunya

i went pole by half a second and led

from the front. I was consistently very

quick whilst managing to keep my tyre

longer than others. A safety car came

out with 10 laps left but I again got the

hammer down and won by 7 seconds

What would you say is your favourite

driving game?

I would say the F1 2011 game from

Codemasters.

What motorsport are you interested in

real life?

I'm interested in BTCC, NASCAR and F1

What would be your Dream job in

Motorsport?

My dream motorsport job would be a

commentator or driver

What Driving Game in the Future woul

you be looking forward to the most?

Definitely F1 2012, Im pretty sure its

going to be everything that it promises

to be

I would like to start by saying a big thank you to Steve for taking the time to answera few questions for our Newsletter.

As of the start of July you have been able to demo the COTA track at E3 how far

now are you into completing the game.

I would say that we are now 75% complete, we are running tests on most of the

tracks now and come across about 40-50 bugs that we can quickly resolve at any

one time. This is not on top of getting the game ready for three different platforms,

however we are on schedule.

Will there be a much wider range of set up variables in 2012?

Well this time around we have stepped closer to the real thing by you not being

able to change your set up between qualifying and the race as you are inevitably in

parc ferme. I can say the only thing you are able to change is tweeks to the front

wing and tyres if youre outside the top 10.

Some online racers use automatic gears because of pad and some use manual will

there be changes to make it easier to get the right gear going into a corner?

Yes, we looked at this and this time around you can override the auto gears by up

or downshifting yourself.

Free practice is only available offline have you considered making this available

online as a lot of league racers would benefit from this rather than the 15 mins of

quail we get before a race?Yes we considered online practice from comments made before by you a while

back and this time Im pleased to say that this will be part of a larger featured set

at a later date for us to reveal. (Mums the word so to speak)

I know its been mentioned before but to confirm will there be a parade lap?

No!

Short and sweet I guess(laughing)

Yeah we thought about it and then decided it was 3 mins not needed in the

game.

A lot of people I know are hoping that you will be able to introduce online replaysfor multiplayer. Is this going to be in for 2012?

Unfortunately I cant confirm or deny that at the moment!

In our League racing we found that certain cars were always quicker than others, is

this now rectified for 2012?

We are working on it and I have paid particular attention to this as a lot of tweets

my way before were about the unequal equal cars.

Will there be New Helmet Designs in the Game

Yes we have changed and added a few more to the choices you can have.


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Junes Month of Racing Online in TRL

Driving Game review of the Month

Ridge Racer

Unbounded

An old member of the family has

returned, or so we are led to

believe. Ridge Racer is nearly 20

years old. Starting in the arcades

then being one of the first driving

games for the PS One. So how

does it fair now in its latest form?

Well to start, dont assume it has

remained true to its original

concept. Unbounded is not that

game. Instead it's all tight, filthy

streets under a constant twilight,

muscular vehicles smashing into

walls and each other from every

which way without particular

regard for safety. It's a down and

dirty street racer, so those of youwho are familiar with developer

Bugbear's Flatout series will be

more on the right track.

Multiplayer is all about track

creation and for some this will be

why they want it. I found it tedious

and after a while very boring. Add

to that going into other peoples

creations was difficult as they

would win 9/10 because they were

familiar with what they had made

always leaving you at adisadvantage. Many people left

after 1 race.

Score Breakdown

Graphics

8.2 / 10Sound

8.0 / 10Game play

8.1 / 10Longevity

7.2 / 10Multiplayer

7.5 / 10Overall

7.8 / 10Final Verdict

Single player feels more fun, if youlike your music Drum and Bass. Ifyou like huge explosions, Then buyit.

So Junes month of racing seems to have

been a bit on the sparse side. We had a lot

to compete with this month with England

making it into the quarter finals but not

going further at the end of the month. The

turnout for the GT5 races were of a similar

turnout to the F1 races of this month, both

seemed to be compromised by things that

drivers had to do elsewhere. All in all though

the racing was still of a high caliber without

the familiar moans and grumble of disputes

between drivers. Seems like everyone who

wants to race is racing and having fun.

Still as we enter the month of July and we

are in for 4 more races one of GT5 and three

from F1, might I take this as an opportunity

to encourage you all to start to think about

how we can increase the numbers wether

its individually for GT5 or F1 or people

who are willing to race in both series.

If TRLbLOG was to pick out the outstanding

race of the month I think it would have to be

Montreal F1 race when at lap 62 of 72 the

safety car came out made it anyones race

at the end as all finishers crossed the line

within 10 seconds taking out the penalties

incurred by Scotpags and Shizzle right at the

end next to the wall of champions

Race Results for the Month of June

The Top 3 Podium winners in each race of June

Congratulations to all those that raced this month

JUNE 2ND

GT5 Tsukuba Circuit

SPRINT RACE 1ST

RER_SHEDDEN 2ND

NEO_BLUR 3RD

RER_MADMAXX

FEATURE RACE 1ST

RER_HUFF 2ND

RER_MADMAXX 3RD

NEO BLUR

JUNE 10TH

CANADIAN GRAN PRIX MONTREAL

PODIUM 1ST

NEO_BLUR 2ND

PRT_LH22_UK 3RD

GBM_LUPPY_UK

JUNE 16TH

GT5 INDIANAPOLIS CIRCUIT

SPRINT RACE 1ST

NEO_xSHIZZLEx 2ND

RER_HUFF 3RD

RER_SHEDDEN

FEATURE RACE 1ST

RER_HUFF 2ND

GBM_BEARDY_UK 3RD

RER_SHEDDEN

JUNE 24TH

EUROPEAN GRAND PRIX VALENCIA

PODIUM 1ST

PRT_LH22_UK 2ND

NEO_xSHIZZLEx 3RD

GBM_BEARDY_UK

JUNE 30TH

GT5 FUJII SPEEDWAY

SPRINT RACE 1ST

RER_SHEDDEN 2ND

JIMFTR2 3RD

RER_HUFF

FEATURE RACE 1ST

RER HUFF 2ND

GBM BEARDY UK 3RD

RER TARQUINI


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Upcoming Events

F1 Santander British Grand Prix

Sunday July 8th

will be the first race of July. Qualifying will again be done on Friday and

Saturday prior to the race

TRL ROUND 13 GT5 RACE PADDOCK

Saturday 14th

July will be at the Suzuka Circuit and the car that will be used is the Super

Autobacs Apex MR-S 00. The race is also a tuning event

F1 Grosser Pries Santander von Deutschland (Nurburgring)

In a change to the official track we will have to race at the Nurburgring, the date is the

Sunday 22nd

July. Friday and Saturday qualifying as usual

F1 Enir Magyar Naydij 2012 Budapest

Sunday the 29th

sees us in Budapest with the qualifying again starting on the Friday at

8:00 pm and Saturday 3:00 pm

Best of Youtube in June

You can access via these links some of

the best video we have been able to

find from online racing games and

racing in general.

If there was ever going to be a London

F1 Race- this is what it might look like

Santander F1 Grand Prix of London

SIMULAJEreleased their quick

release system for the Steelseries SRW

S1 wheel,

It can be mounted

easily in a G25/G27 Logitech wheel,

taking adventage of the multiple

buttons, rotarys , leds and analog

paddles that can be used as throttle,

brake, clutch, without loosing the force

feedback and adventages of a proper

axed wheel.

The wheel can be purchased for around

90 from Amazon then you need to buthe quick release for about 40 from

SIMULAJE.

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