Team Redline is one of the world’s most prominent online racing teams, founded all the way back in 2000. Today, it claims some of sim-racing and motorsport’s fastest drivers, including iRacing star Greger Huttu and Formula 1 pilot Max Verstappen.
As you may recall, we sat down with Redline Team Principle Dom Duhan for a two-part interview earlier this year, where we talked about the team and the future of sim-racing. Now, Dom’s back in the news again with an insanely fast virtual lap around the Nurburgring Nordschleife.
Using the 2013 Ferrari F138 car (available to Assetto Corsa players via the Red Pack), Dom has set a new record of 5’09.3 in Assetto Corsa’s laser-scanned Green Hell. The video above is narrated by Duhan himself, providing useful tips and explanations where required.
Try the run out for yourself and see if you can break the 5-minute barrier. Good luck!
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shame he did not do the the 25 km track,… thats for time comparisation a bit better for me…
Not at all better. When people talk about Nordschleife track records they’re not talking about the 24h layout, they’re talking about the green hell, the Nordschleife layout.
Virtually every road car tested their going for lap records does it on the Nordschleife, Stefan Bellof’s famous 6:11 lap, Nordschleife, Pagani Zonda R, Nordschleife, McLaren P1, Porchse 918, Ferrari LaFerrari, etc. all on the Nordschleife.
Nobody talks about lap records on the 24h layout because it’s mostly used for endurance events, not for attacking lap records so no, it wouldn’t be better for comparison by any means.
A given set of parameters includes the car. So, for any car, there will be a “perfect lap” calculated by the computer and a “human” feasible lap calculated taking into account the reactions sampled from the competitors. The human “feasible lap” by this concept will be the fastest with the same given set of parameters. This is valid for any game, any car.
As it’s all running in a computer some other (huge) computer can be used to calculate the minimum logical lap time within a given set of simulation parameters. This meaning perfect acceleration, braking, trajectory, overall car response to the track, along all the track, so to minimize lap time. It’ll be up to the racers get the nearest to there. The data from the trials can be used to evaluate the saturation lap time a particular human racer can achieve given his (hers) biological response to the inputs as mapped by the computer. This will allow to bench mark the minimum logical lap time against the feasible human lap times.
This headline is confusing, makes it sound like this is the fastest virtual lap of the ring ever. But of course you could take out one of the red bull gt5 or gt6 cars and do it faster. So this is the fastest in AC? Or fastests using what exactly?
It’s probably the fastest sim racing lap on the ‘Ring with a car that exists in real life as an actual, raceable car that’s been tested at the limits. Cars that are made up and not track tested would have no business being mentioned in the same breath as the F138.
why is the homepage image for this article the sf15t when he uses the f138?
who cares? its just a freaking picture..
wrong picture? oh my god, thats it im deleting everything, nuking windows.
Cheers guys:) was a fun lap, this lap was done with pro weather (26c 12.30pm)which is quite a bit slower.
Sub 5 minute is on the cards:)
What do you think are the fastest settings for Nordschleife in Assetto Corsa? What Temp & time of day?
Highest temperature, close to noon, ideal track conditions.
But to qualify for RSR “Pro” settings you have to be at 26C and with aids off, damage on etc.
In each course there is an unbreakable limit – eventually the pros will reach that limit – the only achievement is on who reaches it first, because it’s not impossible to reach the same second – but for being able to make the same 0.XXX by any driver is like one in a million chance on a circuit like the nurburgring.
As long as every driver can reach the same second – then they should be counted as equals :)
Wow… To beat a world record by 7 seconds in the same car in one day of trying… How was this time even a world record ever?
Meant to reply to Johnnypenso.
If it’s at the top of the RSR boards it’s generally considered a WR because there is no other leaderboard I’m aware of that comes close to the level of participation that RSR has. Most of the busier leaderboards are dominated by the best of the best in sim racing.
Unfortunately for Dom his lap was beaten 3 times yesterday and the RSR best is now 5:02.450. I think downforce is a big key. The drivers ahead of him had significantly lower top speeds.
SRT Tomahawk in AC anyone?
No thank you ;)