rFactor 2 Round 5 Hockenheim 1988 - Sun Nov 7, 2021

Welcome to Hockenheim (1988 track version)

The Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg is a motor racing circuit situated in the Rhine valley near the town of Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located on the Bertha Benz Memorial Route. Amongst other motor racing events, it has hosted the German Grand Prix, most recently in 2019. The circuit has very little differences in elevation. The circuit has an FIA Grade 1 license.

During the mid-1980s "turbo era" of Formula One where fuel was restricted to either 220 (1984–85), 195 (1986–87) or 150 (1988) litres for races for the turbo powered cars, Hockenheim also saw drivers, including World Champion Alain Prost, at times fail to finish due to simply running out of fuel near the end of the race. Prost ran out at the end of the 1986 race, pushing his McLaren towards the line before giving up. He was placed 3rd when he ran dry and was eventually classified 6th, gaining a valuable championship point that would help him with his second World Championship.


The latest version of old Hockenheimring layout (1992-2001)
Many problems came to light during the 2000 German Grand Prix, which was won by Brazilian driver Rubens Barrichello from having started 18th on the grid. The race finished in changeable weather conditions, with pouring rain in the stadium sector and almost completely dry forest straights. All the overtaking moves that took place during the race were in the chicanes of the forest sector, meaning hardly any spectators saw most of the best action. Midway through the race, a former Mercedes-Benz employee, who had been dismissed, breached the track's security barriers on the first forest straight, showing vulnerable security facilities in the forest and leading to the deployment of the safety car that neutralized a comfortable lead for the two Mercedes-powered McLarens. Later on, French driver Jean Alesi collided with Brazilian Pedro Diniz in the braking zone for the third chicane and his car spun uncontrollably down the track, which caused him to suffer dizziness for three days.

These events prompted much protest from the FIA to greatly improve spectator viewing, safety, and security at the track, as it had become clear that the track was no longer suited to modern Formula One racing.

Race starts at 30:18

 

Thanks for the heads up Neil. I have updated the track according to the link above.

 

The F1 race in Mexico starts at 19:00 GMT. That would overlap our race time.
I propose this solution:

Poll: I want to re-schedule the Hockenheim event to November 14

 

It's the 1988 version. I will look into it tonight.

 

Try it now Chris.
I was running the old F1 1988 by carrera.4 on the server.
We are running the updated version by oliver-ray: F1 1988 mod

 

They also have the old F1 1988 version installed

 

Sorry to hear it Chris. There hasn't been a rF2 update and we're still driving the same mod version. So I don't know why the detection would have changed for you.

 

That sux Chris, frikin PC's .. Computers are a lot like boats, the worse thing you can do is let them sit keep them running every day and they last a lot longer.. let them sit & it all goes to hell ..lol (20 years of running a charter boat taught me that lol) hope you get it sorted!