Billiam

FYI - The web site for SimBin's followup title to GTR2 has gone live. A simulation of the FIA's World Touring Car Challenge. At the moment, there's more there about the real series than the game but here's the link anyway.

http://www.race-game.org/index.htm

The best part.... I finally get to race my car in a real sim!

S A CHO

Those renderings look great.

Add another to the list....

F-C

What's that hole above the tail light for?

Dan Martin

Cool!

Billiam

Good question. The only images I can find of the real car are all from the front. Maybe it's the location for the master electrical kill switch?

Dan Martin

Maybe is a connection to recharge the pneumatics.

F-C

Dan Martin

I still don't know what that is.

Billiam

The car blows up seven seconds after you pull the pin.

F-C

I was thinking the car would deflate if you pulled it.

Someone should just email them and find out. Come to think of it, I will. I hope they speak English.

vwong

I'd bet that hole is for the quick-connect fitting for the air jacks that are built into the car. So when the car is in pit, the crew just plugs an air hose into the fitting and the air jacks will raise the car. Many Touring race cars use this type of device. RTR uses these air jacks in their TSX's and RSX's.

Dan Martin

That was my initial guess, but I can't figure out why there are 3 small holes in it. Usually it just looks like a conventional air jack you'd find on any other pneumatic equipment.

cM3go

I want air jacks in my car!

vwong

Dan, where did you see 3 small holes??? I only saw one.

Dan Martin

On second review, I see 2 holes.

Yumcha

Oh yum! Added to my list!

Sly Raskal

iTrader: (1)

looks good.

KADAW

i thought its like a kill switch, if the car flips/roll over someone would pull it to kill the engine..?

vwong

An emergency kill switch normally has an "E" sticker near it, and most of the time (well, at least the European racing series), this "E" sticker is located either on the bottom of the front windshield or the trailing edge of the hood. In World Challenge series, I've seen this sticker on the passenger side door, and the kill switch is actually on the dash by the passenger side window.

KADAW

cool. it was just a guess..

srika

its either a tow hook (of some sort) or trunk release.

F-C

Behold the power of the internet. JAS actually replied to my email.

Here is the answer:

to all the people who guessed that it was the air jack.

Billiam

FYI - The release date for RACE has been announced as "November, 2006" so not too much longer to wait.

Dan Martin

Can't wait!

BTW, I took a close-up shot of a connector for an air jack system on a Mazda at Mosport last weekend:

F-C

Looks like a pacifier.