The popularity of this purely racing car is more than debatable, but being a free item and offering large doses of learning and driving, it never hurts to have an update of its day to day. In the next major update to iRacing, this quirky mount comes to the third generation with a few changes.
Official notes:
Slated for the Season 3, 2021 (June) release, we have transformed the Spec Racer Ford into a third Generation (Gen 3 / SRF3) racecar. While this update will not see any significant art updates, the underlying chassis and performance has been upgraded.
Significant changes:
- New radial tires using the latest iRacing physics model. This includes updates to more closely match the Hoosier measured sizes.
- More powerful (135HP vs. 105 HP or 30% more) 1.6L DOHC Ford engine that revs to 6750 RPM
- Overall vehicle weight reduced by 7% to reflect SCCA rules for this car class
- New SADEV 6-speed sequential dog-ring gearbox (coming to SCCA competition in 2022) replaces the old 5-speed H-pattern syncho unit.
- Temperature sensitive brake pads (require some heating by the driver) for the first time on this car
- The car model was developed with the help of top iRacing sim and real world SCCA drivers.
- The Baseline setup was developed with input from real world and sim development drivers.
- Laptimes are ~5% faster or 5 seconds/lap on a typical 100 sec road course.
- This update will replace the current model upon release.
See you on the track!
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