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Real Vs. Virtual – #12 Spa-Francorchamps

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Spa-Francorchamps

Today iRacing released their highly anticipated digital recreation of the famous racing circuit Spa-Francorchamps. A fantastic track with many world famous corners! To have access to a laser scanned Spa is extremely exciting and to mark its release I’ve produced number 12 in my Real Vs. Virtual series.

Here is the comparison in video form :

A static page containing all the source images can be seen here, and you can see the previous sets in the series by clicking here.

Real Vs. Virtual – Road America

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Number 11 in the series is from Road America. Thanks again to Jay Bonvouloir for his generous permission to use his excellent source photography.

The iRacing recreations come by way of the iRacing Road America 200, which was a special race event in the 2010 iRacing World Tour. You can read my post on the iRacing Road America 200 by clicking here.

A static page containing all the source images can be seen here, and you can see the previous sets in the series by clicking here.

Mid-Ohio released (plus new Real Vs. Virtual!)

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

The next track in the iRacing line up is the excellent Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Offering a generous five different layouts, the track is a fantastic addition to iRacing offering a unique set of flowing corners and many elevation changes. All of which makes preparing a set of Real Vs. Virtual all the more interesting!

The next series of Real Vs. Virtual is available on Vimeo below and as direct static photos here.

You can see the previous sets in the ‘Real Vs. Virtual’ photocomparison series by clicking here.