rFactor 2 comes to LFM and it's amazing! | BTCC at Brands Hatch 

I was exactly the same, Dave. Tried my first ever online rF2 race this week, and was equally as impressed. I did the Alpine Cup at Lime Rock Park, and it’s easily one of the most fun races I’ve ever done a video on. I’m starting to think of LFM as a sim racing Superman… flying in to rescue sims in trouble by transforming their online multiplayer offering!

This is the shot in the arm that other sim titles need. Organised online races that mean something. Hopefully AMS2 next

Nice to see you join the darkside Dave 😁 With the tyre display, the display shows 4 colour bars for each tyre inner most 3 are - inner/mid/outer temps with the colours shown are blue = cold, red = warm, yellow = burning, white = melting. best to try and keep them close to pink/red as much as possible. You can hit orange a few times, yellow will just burn the rubber off and you will shorten the life of the tyres. The temp number shown is the hottest part of the tyre. The 4th outer bar is the amount of tyre ware going from green through to red the number on the outside is the % of rubber remaining. As you found out best to try and keep them above 40%. Your correct with the vibration, it was flat spots on your tyres. You were locking your front right a lot, could of reduced it through brake bias. Final bit with RF2 you will of noticed that laps 6 and 11 your grip dropped off more than other laps. Quirk of RF2 engine, every 6-8 lap cycle the grip drops off. Not sure what causes it but it is noticeable. grip does return in proportion to your tyre ware after that lap. Oh and watch those pit lanes if you ever have to do a race with stops! Unlike nearly all other sims, cars are solid in the pit lane just like RL. Just some of my garage wisdom from enduro racing in RF2. Hope to bump into you on track (not literally).

The force feedback with many of RF2 cars, especially the BTCC cars is amazing, you feel very connected to the the track. Nice first race!

Yep, I bought Rfactor2 a few years back but have not played it for ages because it look longer to get into a race than preparing to launch a rocket to Mars and then I was not in any leagues so was not able to play multipler. Time to revisit this now that LFM are involved.

Love the natural lighting and look of rf2 😍

Rf2 being useable online is a game changer

definitely want more RF2 content... i did find the sense of speed during watching absolutely plausible... the sound is helping a lot to feel in the car with the actual speed you´re going...

I don’t race or play (these are rich man games) but it is always fun to see a gamer finding a new game or new game mode to get excited about. If you aren’t having fun, you are playing the wrong game.

Yes flat spots on tyres bring a shaking to the FFB. I had my GTE car on Le Mans spinning with blocked tyres and the shaking going 270km/h on the long straights was massive, but became a bit better with every clean round driven. Was fun to watch your race, glad you made it to rF2.

Been doing some Alpine series at Lime Rock and it's absolutely amazing, have always liked rf2( I and a lot of others think it has the best FFB of any of the sims!), but online through LFM it's amazing!!! Go LFM!!!!! Thanks for sharing Dave! w

Really glad you enjoyed the RF2 experience. I must point out though that online multiplayer has always been available through plenty of independent championships such as GPVWC. Having said that, LFM is sure to turbo charge the online player base. I'll have to sign up!

imagine a world where you can decide which sim you want race on any given day, r3e, ams2, whatever, and LFM has a series for it. I can only hope it becomes reality. I almost can't contain my excitement!

Motorsport games were at the final round of the BTCC running the new Focus on this, only person all weekend to get into the 1.29’s :D, got some wicked merch from them and it made me miss sim racing so much. This is what I’ll be coming back to 100%, great vid as always Dave

nice one Dave, i'm the Toyota you easily catch and pass for 4th place. Amazing you maintained a decent pace on soft tyres, I was on the hards and they were still terrible by the end.

No disk storage left on my PC for RFactor 2 (too many Assetto Corsa mods ;-) ) for joining but happy with enjoying your great videos, as always. Have a nice weekend, Dave!

this is really amazing! hopefully they will have some of the series focused on Free mods! nice video as always Dave! keep it up =D

the graphic is amazing!! when I look at the little screen on top right I thought it was real world at few moment , my brain never lie to me , I must say Rf2 is the sim which have most realistic graphic

A thing to keep in mind should you do races where a pitstop is required, avoid the other cars, no pit ghosting in rf2

I like that RF2 didn't penalise you with a 4x for the rubbing contact in the battle for P5 like iRacing would have. I might have to re-download RF2 and give this a go.

On car choice screen select the 2022 rules. Push to pass is available once per lap for about 15 secs until you've used up 60 secs I think. Make sure to map a FFB reset button also as rf2 can lose FFB randomly. An an engine map button as having the right map for push to pass and being able to save fuel if needed or use engine maps when drive tyres are buggered to reduce power

Nice racing as always Dave. It seems very good indeed. I really like Brands but never seem to do well there all the times I've raced it. LMS is very good for the sim racing community and looks like it's getting better all the time.

That poor right front... Great racing, Dave!

If you're still at 50% tires near the end of the race you're allll gooood. You looked after your tires very well. I usually finish with around 10% or less.

Nice race with nice fight like real BTCC with little door hit in english way! Key point of BTCC is the tyre management! for a race of more than 20mn the medium ones are much better! for info on a FW the wear is worse!

What shall I say? rFactor2 joins LfM? How cool is that? I really enjoyed watching this video since I never have seen you drive rF2 before. Maybe you have and I´ve missed it. But main spirit is ACC and iRacing. I was a huge fan of ISI back in the day of rF1. I´ve got rF2 with a lifetime license back in the day, played it and it went to the shelves. iRacing and ACC caught me then. Now iRacing is too expensive for me since inflation made everything so expensive here. Seeing that rF2 joins Low Fuel Motorsports even if its beta for now is a milestone. This motivates me to reinstall rF2 since 2017 and i´m pretty sure that many things have change since then following the roadmap etc. The racing action was awesome and so lively..... As you say the curbs felt good and the tires degredates and you feel it. Wow. Time to give rF2 another chance for me :) Thanks Dave :)

great race good to see another decent alternative sim

It's TOCA Dave, contact is a must!

Really hope to see this in AC some time much needed !

NIce to have RF2 back late into 2022 thanks to LFM. Remember Dave that The ELO is not an acronym but the surmane of its crator :P

9:44 Such a smooth pass!

I love iRacing, but before that was rF2. Think with you and Dan Suzuki trying this out a few more people will sign up to give it a go.

I've been holding off buying RF2 until I had a reason. Looks like now I've got a reason! Re the incident - in BTCC rubbing's racing! As long as the cars can handle it and don't go spearing off into the wall or giving you penalty points I like a bit of door banging in racing.

RF2 is amazing and I'm salivating at the idea of doing a 24 hour race, where the weather could actually change! How exciting is that, imagine doing spa and it just turns dark then all of a sudden it starts to rain. Absolute chaos ☺️. That excites me especially for someone that comes from iracing 😂😂 and someone that just doesn't like how acc drives nor do I like it's weird graphic bugs and strange bright colours

Oh man. I have basically been racing just TCR for the past 2-3 season on iRacing and these news could not be better for me. Always wanted to try out rFactor due to its praised physics, but never ended up doing it since I am not interested in AI or community racing. Just purchased the game and the Focus, super excited to try it out. EDIT: I am definitely worried about how I'll feel about iRacing physics after racing this xD EDIT2: Also, race start with the physical track lights. Having some reference on where to look instead of iRacing UI. That and the physical led flags along the track. I know I am going to like the sim quite a lot.

I was going to wait with writing my comment till the end of the video, but when Dave said that watching this race may not be as enjoyable as driving in it, because the sensation of speed (allegedly) wouldn't be too great, I just had to sit down to the keyboard immediately (... I hope you feel guilty now, Dave ;D ...). Well, let me inform you, Dave, that the watching experience was AMAZING! I haven't enjoyed watching a simracing video so much for a long time! And I so hope that you don't leave this sim aside now, only with a footnote: it's a decent diversion for a change :). Because it really deserves better, IMO. From my, this viewer's, point of view, it's light years better than ACC. No comparison. The cars in ACC seem very "stiff" and "boxy" in the way they handle, and the characteristics of the TC and ABC only encourage that. I don't know how accurate it is to real life, but the effect, i.e. cars driving in this point-and-accelerate fashion, where you hardly see the suspension and tires loading up and the car actually going round a corner, is rather unpleasant. It also seems to me like the driver has little to do within a corner in ACC -- all the job is in braking super-hard at the right moment, getting the car set up for the turn, turning in a set amount and waiting till you can slam on the gas pedal. It's so much different here! The handling model appears quite similar to that of the iRacing, but probably even better. The car moves around in a corner and you can actually drive it (with the steering, the throttle and the brakes) while cornering! And compared to iRacing it's really nice to see the tire wear appear more quickly and have a much more tangible impact on the handling. As for the sensation of speed: I mean, these are BTTC cars -- effectively, something very much like the TCRs in iRacing. Well, I'd say TCRs, if anything, only appear slower than this in racing videos. They are just relatively slow (compared, for example, to GT3s), I guess :).

The only thing they should do is to keep two separate ratings for Rfactor and ACC, after that, they officially saved SimRacing. Great race btw, Dave 👍

Is the “push to pass” to do with the Hybrid era that came into BTCC this year? Top video as always Dave, Id love to see more BTCC content 👍🏻

Dave... I can't tell you how long I, for one, have waited for you to be able to make this video. Multilayer rf2... It's about damn time this was possible for those who aren't server engineers. 😅 I was wondering, would you be able to share your sim settings (gfx, FFB etc) at some point? I've recently reinstalled rf2 and am requiring inspiration on FFB setting specifically. I don't remember at all what I used to use for that lovely, lovely tyre feel.

Love the FFB and physics on this game but the menus and actual graphics feel like something from 2000!

I may have to give this a go! Love RF2 but online is painful

Okaaaay! I love this and RF2....

You should definetly go for the push and pass technique, is so much fun to see the guy you're passing spinning in your mirrors. Do it Dave, for me!

i could bet my arm and leg i've seen this video somewhere this week 🤔 some japanese guy? kawasaki or something? 😂🥳👌👊

Nice racing , there are some set up tips/hacks with RF2 but I’m not sure if they got patched. The RF2 does simulate flat spots in the FFB

5:52 amazing driving from both drivers. Shame the other driver spoilt it.

My wheelbase breaks just as LFM release their rF2 beta... FYI general rules for rF2 tyre wear >80% are good tyres.

Yeah the in game HUD is pants in rF2, but if you wait a little while RaceLabApps will be bringing their overlays to the game with LFM integration

Great job as always. It seems odd that the right front had more wear than the left considering the difference in left and right turns. Is that because of lock ups?

I can run ACC in VR pretty smoothly on my laptop, but Rf2 varies with weather and lighting which I cannot seam to fix, day races are smooth af and then at Daytona at night 2 days ago I had to quit the race 3min in because of the insane lags caused by lights and headlights. I need some more tweaking before I join online races again, but this is definitely where more of my time would be going once I fix performance issues.

finally, i got a lifetime account after being blown away by rf1, its been a long wait good RF2 finally be coming what it should be? ..... lovely race . FYI Push to pass is a hybrid system that gives so many laps of a boost depending on qualy or last race in BTCC so i assume RF2 is similar.

I hope this kicks off, rFactor is new for me as well but I can see myself playing this as my main sim online. I have been struggling to find reason to play iRacing after 11 months

RF2 is amazing!!!!! Most people don´t spend the time to understand why is the best simulation because on a minor red flag they blame the game and not the lack of brain instead. LFM is just a huge boost to all RF2 hardcore simracers to join in a single place easly and thats AMAZING!

So in terms of the tire HUD, 100-81% rest tirelife green graph, 80 to 51% yellow and 50 to 0 it´s red. to the temps. if the tire is blue it´s cold, purple to pink is optimum and red to yellow is too hot. It´s a nice help to read if you got too much camber on the car. The flatspots, that you drove into the tire are steady, so over the race, the tire will like in reality have the tendence to lock up on the same flatspot while breaking, so the flatspots are getting worse over the duration of the race. Softs are more flatspothappy if you lock them up than Meds or Hards and if you´d like to get the rumble a little bit less, you can slitghtly increase the smoothing in the FFB settings, but not too high, because you are loosing FFB fidelity. The BTCC cars and other cars wothout ABS i´m going with 6 to 8 smoothing, GT3 and other ABS cars i´m sticking to 4 on my CSL Elite, but i think that pretends on personal preferences

I can't wait for the new Indycar game to come out.

Nice asetek wheel -base ;O)

Hi Dave Love the videos, have you got to have a certain safety rating before you can race like ACC.

Hi Dave. I can see that you have the Simucube tahko gt-21wheel . Could you give us your thoughts on that wheel and the Simucube Paddock settings for RF2 ?

IMO you did just fine Dave, lines where very good drove the car very well. Its learning to set brake balance and some setup tweaks. Push 2 pass is only on 2022 cars. You should always choose 2021 car when possible, it has no P2P and has max power all the time. Just maximise corner speed and radius, dont overwork the tyres early which you didnt, stick to soft tyres always.

Such a shame I can't get RF2 working. Great race Dave!

Sorry Dave late to the video had Day Surgery in pain. One more video to get to.🤕👍

Dave online racing on RF2. Hell will freeze over :D. Its only going to take 2 month before you will spend much more of your time on RF2.

What headphones/earbuds are you rocking dude? Very interested headphones get hot AF as i'm sure you know.

Quality video and will definitely download from Steam now. I'm relatively new to PC sim racing, will I need the main game and just the BTCC pack to access these BTCC daily races? Any other packs you'd recommend for this game as a starter? Thanks.

I believe the push to pass you need to hold the button and there's a delay

Dave, does your safety rating and ELO carry across from ACC to RF2 and vice versa? Do any positive and negatives affect just the sim you're racing in, or does it affect your other sims too?

First time I’ve watched any RF2. Crackin race. Tyres looked ruined by the end. The track detail at Brands looked magic. Are other tracks as good?

That was awesome 😎 Great racing, great graphics and looked like very good latency.

FYI Raceroom simulates flatspots really good, and with some older cars (no ABS) or open wheelers it's not that hard to develop one :)

Dave I have a question not about the race but about your stream, I like the TV camera running in the box top right, how do you do that ?

Been trying to find a good sim to race different cars but also has good online. Is RF2 a good substitute for Iracing? I tried Raceroom but not many open lobbies but maybe thats because I dont have all the content. Or should i just keep grinding the content i want for iracing.

Hey Dave, I know this is an old video, but would you mind sharing your computer specs that you had at this point? I'm looking to get into this and wonder how much computer I would need to run RF2 on trip 27" monitors. thanks in advance!

Rf2 is definately more forgiving in terms of Door banging than other tittle.

I was surprised to hear a crew chief in your race, I did not think rFactor 2 has it besides ovals that I dont like. What are you using for crew chief, please? Thanks

Push to pass in btcc is what it says on the tin, no button required.

I was a "huge" fan of Rfactor back in the day. My biggest issue with Rfactor and RF2 from an online racing standpoint is the open mod'ing platform. Since there was never a true IRacing or LFM type race matching system for Rfactor or RF2, if you didn't have the correct third party mod, the correct third party version of the mod, the correct third party track, of the correct version of the third party track, you were pretty much screwed when it comes to just logging on and jumping into a race. And trying to figure out where to get all the mod files, even if you wanted to take the time and effort to do so, was a nightmare. As much as I was never a huge fan of IRacing, for a number of reasons, it's always had, and still currently has, the best race matching option system is the sim racing scene. Maybe I'll give LFM a shot since they're offering RF2 races now. Do you know if they have any open wheel options for RF2 Dave? If LRM going to be a platform for GT racing only, that would be a shame. :(

I assume you have to get an RF2 LFM licence before you can race online. Or does the ACC one cover this as well??

Dave what tyres are you using for the BTCC at donnington LFM? Feels like softs are not good even at the end of a qual stint.

Quite frankly, at this point, if LFM started charging for their service, I'd pay!

How do you get that addon where the man is talking to you throughout the race giving you times etc? Cheers.

Dave .. do you need a separate lFM licence for RFactor2… got my ACC one??

I really want to try this but i cannot get RF2 to feel good on my VRS. Have zero FFB unless i crash into something. No idea how to make it feel good.

6:34 if theres any series you can not moan about aggressive arrogant dangerous driving its BTCC 😂🤙

1st 😁

blows rf2 competition system out of the water

Do you have to pay for cars and tracks in RF2 or is it a single purchase and you get it all?

Dave, you should try the WTCC ones from raceroom if you enjoy this one!

I really haven’t nerves to fiddle around with rF2 - i now it can be a good sim, but sucks with getting installed all DLC‘s, getting triples running and FFB with VRS Wheelbase to setup. I stay with iRacing and ACC, anything much much easier to do…

I can’t do LFM races online because they only take place when the entire half of the United States I live on is at work lol.

This game just sits in my steam library waiting for the day it replaces iRacing.

try world sim series for ac

How do I get access to this leagues?? Can't find any thing related to any sim other than ACC which I can't even run properly

Hey Dave out of all the Sim racing titles that are out there which would you say looks like best graphically? IMO ACC looks the best followed close by AMS2

do i need both btcc car packs to race or just any 2 that i want?

Only the 2022 cars have push to pass but they are slower as the 2021 effectively have the P2P for the whole lap, don't use them. And make sure you set the engine mode to 6 or you'll be losing a lot of pace

Fucking A!! RF2 is the best sim but the worst online .. this is amazing.

Will LFM come to Raceroom?

wow, this looks amazing, my rf2 even on full graphics looks nothing like this, how?

Hi, could you find the address to download these cars?

What do I need to get the lobby to work? Any mods downloaded?