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The 2013 Championships are starting soon:

• TORCS Endurance World Championship 2013
• Simulated Car Racing

You can find the links as well in the menu on the left in the section "Racing Competitions". I added as well a video and research section to make it easier to find content on the net.

For those of you who want to model cars or to create textures I created a series of tutorial videos, have a look here. Btw. part 5 is coming soon.

A last thing to mention is that Quinten Kock has created a TORCS community here. I recommend to use it for small talk, for discussing TORCS support and development, please stay with the mailing lists to avoid fragmentation.

Enjoy, Bernhard.

I created a video covering the last championship, if you are interested you can watch it here.

Enjoy, Bernhard.

I wish you all and your families merry Christmas and a happy new year. As a little gift I uploaded 2 new TORCS songs, TORCS2 and TORCS3, I created them for 2 TORCS videos. The menu song of TORCS is as well available.

I set up as well the Championship for the next year, you can find details here. To warm you up/get you going test races are offered.

Another thing: I did recently a 100000 km practice session (took around 3 hours real time to complete) and endurance race in the command line mode (took around 3 days real time), it worked like a charm. Btw. the simulation time is stored as double in TORCS, so I expect the simulation to start to struggle in the range around 1 and 10 million simulated days;-) So you can do pretty extreme things with the current version.

I hope to meet some of you guys in the championship, see you next year.

I found that there is not much manually driven TORCS footage on the web, so I ran 40 Laps on Corkscrew and captured videos of them.

• Setting up the steering wheel and 5 laps practice.
• Quickrace, 10 laps against 11 AI opponents, first try.
• Quickrace, 10 laps against 11 AI opponents, second try.
• Setting up the gamepad and 5 laps practice.
• Attempt for 10 clean laps in a row with the gamepad.

I used vanilla TORCS 1.3.4-test1 with no custom car setup whatsoever, so I run the same thing you got from the shelf.

Enjoy, Bernhard