RaceRoom Racing Experience is a free-to-play racing simulator for PC, developed by Sector3 Studios and published by RaceRoom Entertainment AG. Their aim is to provide an authentic racing experience through detailed car and track models as well as realistic car behavior and sounds. The game provides a selection of free-to-play race cars and tracks to drive in multiplayer and single-player game modes. So, a new update showed up a while ago, and it brings tons of changes. Check out the RaceRoom Racing Experience January 19 update patch notes down below.
RaceRoom Racing Experience January 19 Update Patch Notes
Changelog:
- Leaderboard: compare your time with others
- Everybody is invited to set their best lap on the leaderboards to compare your time against others. You do not need to own the track and you can try every car for free. The leaderboards will close on Thursday, February 1 13:00 CET.
- Support Race: TCR Leaderboard
- Main Race: GT3 Leaderboard
- Main Race: Mazda DPi Leaderboard
- Everybody is invited to race
- Everyone who wants to race is invited: all skill levels and regions. You do need to own the content in order to participate. You will be matched with other drivers based on your Ranked Multiplayer Rating and Reputation of your region.
- Time zone/regions for the race
- The races are organized in three main time zones:
- America: ET
- Europe: CET
- Oceania: AEDT
- Confirm you want to race
- When the leaderboards close, a confirmation form will be opened. This form will be sent by mail to everybody who set a lap time on the leaderboard. The form will also be announced on Discord, Social Media and added to this topic.
- The confirmation form will be open from Thursday February 1 13:00 CET until race day Saturday February 3. The form will close at a different time for each region:
- America: 09:00 ET
- Europe: 12:00 CET
- Oceania: 18:00 AEDT
- Your rating and reputation will be fetched at the time listed above. To be safe, make sure your last race ends +/- 30 minutes before the deadline.
- Race day timetable
- All times below are the local times (AEDT / CET / ET).
- Support race:
- 18:00 – Practice starts
- 20:00 – Qualification (10 minutes, private lap)
- 20:10 – Warm-up (3 minutes)
- 20:13 – Race start (20 minutes, rolling start)
- Main event:
- 18:00 – Practice starts
- 20:10 – Qualification starts (30 mins, open session)
- 20:40 – Warm-up (3 minutes)
- 20:43 – Race 1 start (144 minutes, rolling start)
- It is possible that the servers will be opened earlier for America and Europe, however the qualification for the support race will always start at 20:00 local time and the main race will always start at 20:10 local time. It is advised to join before the qualification starts, you can (re)join during qualification and during the first warm-up.
- Race server settings
- Ping limit
- Broadcast server 200
- Other servers: 350
- Incident limit:
- Broadcast server: 20/50
- Other servers: 30/70
- Mandatory pitstop: no
- Start: rolling start
- Setup:
- Support race: closed
- Main race: open
- Join during qualification: enabled
- Qualification:
- Support race: 10 minutes private/closed
- Main race: 30 minutes public/open
- Warm-up
- Broadcast server 1 minute
- Other servers: 3 minutes
- Race duration:
- TCR: 20 minutes
- GT3: 144 minutes
- Drivers per grid: minimum 16, maximum 34
- If a grid has less than 16 participants, the server will start with no password
- Allowed GT3 cars:
- Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II, BMW M4 GT3, Ferrari 488 GT3 EVO ‘20, Ferrari 296 GT3, McLaren 720S GT3, Mercedes-AMG GT3 ’20, Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)
- Classes: DTM ’23, DTM ’21, ADAC ’21, ADAC ’20 and GTR 3