Audi R8 LMS RaceRoom Images Revealed - Releases Soon?

[Paul Jeffrey]

Images from the upcoming Audi R8 LMS 2016 in RaceRoom Racing Experience have been revealed, leaving fans to wonder if the long awaited release of the car is just around the corner...

Originally announced back in August last year, the 2016 specification R8 LMS is the latest GT3 challenger from German manufacturer Audi and represents the latest breed of GT3 specification machinery. Built to strict regulations and available to purchase by customers throughout the world, the new R8 LMS has proven to be a popular and successful GT racing car in multiple championships at both International and local level, going on to achieve success with victory most recently coming at the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring last weekend.

Much teasing of the car has been done on social media and various forum message boards since the announcement last year, however with Sector3 now having released a sizeable batch of in game screenshots it appears that a release might not be too far away.

Joining other latest generation GT3 cars in the form of Mercedes, BMW, McLaren and the yet to be released Corvette, fans are eager to get themselves behind the virtual wheel of one of the most successful current GT cars in the world.

Stay tuned to RaceDepartment for more information on when the car is expected to be pushed live in game soon!

Audi R8 LMS 2016 Specs:

• Vehicle type: GT3 sports car
• Chassis: Audi Space Frame (ASF) in aluminium-CFRP hybrid construction with stressed steel roll-cage, bodywork parts from CFRP and aluminium
• Engine: Audi V10
• Displacement: 5,200 ccm
• Power: up to 430 kW (585 hp)
• Torque: over 550 Nm
• Drive system: rear-wheel drive
• Gearbox: 6-speed sequential
• Dimensions: 4,583/1,997/1,171 mm
• Minimum weight: 1,225 kg
• Fuel tank capacity: 120 l

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Keen to try out the 2016 spec Audi R8 LMS in RaceRoom? Do you like the modern style GT3 cars? Which other GT3 car would you like to see added to R3E? Let us know in the comments section below!

 

[Fanapryde]

Still WIP I hope (the headlights look a bit weird to me).

 

[Patrick van der Meulen]

Soon is just a relative thing on the scale of S3S... S3S "soon" can mean days, or weeks, even months, and I guess sometimes even years...

 

[Christian Moreau]

Looks great, and the livery looks fantastic as well! I like driving the R8 from time to time, but the suspension is just a little too much spongy in most cases for me to be completely comfortable with it.

The GT3 field is filling out quite nicely with all the new gen cars. A storm is coming...

 

[M-Bimmer]

That is great news. If we get this baby before july then this would be impressive. expecting October or later but they said "very soon" and not "soon" so i could be wrong.
Patches and new content left and right so far.
What i am missing is Monaco/monte carlo track with all layouts (Formula 2 and 1) and i will shut up

 

[kimbo]

I really love this sim, but the waiting times from the announcement, until its realization, are very frustrating

 

[Kurupt CDN]

1 of 2 cars ive eagerly been waiting for, the new Audi R8 and BMW m235i.
Excited to drive this when its released

 

[Christian Moreau]

BMW m235i

Holy ****, I completely forgot about the 235i! Just checked the S3 forums and I see it was announced on February 18th 2016.

Literally the ultimate RWD Cup car, must have!

 

[Nick Gregory]

1 of 2 cars ive eagerly been waiting for, the new Audi R8 and BMW m235i.
Excited to drive this when its released

I'm waiting on the Callaway C7. It might even get me out of the P4/5!

 

[Metalogic]

Nice, but please release the AMG GT3 soon!

 

[Knoxstar]

Yes please! I'll take one and while you're at it is there any chance of an actual Porsche or Ferrari? Seems that the other developers got the jump on R3E there as well as with the Huracan.

 

[fl0wf1r3]

there is always this overall blue tint in raceroom :/ it never really feels sunny. Despite this, new cars are always nice.

 

[Vangelis Parginos]

there is always this overall blue tint in raceroom :/ it never really feels sunny. Despite this, new cars are always nice.

You should do the trick with changing moods, realistic mood is great for my taste.
If you dont know how, i can explain how you do that.

 

[Case_]

there is always this overall blue tint in raceroom :/ it never really feels sunny. Despite this, new cars are always nice.

You know what, I never really noticed, but you're kinda right. While the image is properly whitebalanced to 6500K, it could use a bit warmer tint to make it a bit less sterile.

I think I'll try to play with SweetFX or Reshade or whatever when I have a bit of time. Should be quite easy to change the white balance a bit.

 

[Patrick van der Meulen]

I have a Dell U2713H monitor which I hardware calibrate. On my monitor the colors are actually very natural when I'm in my cal2 setting which is my sRGB calibrated setting.

I think the blueness appereance is exagerated by the nature of uncalibrated monitors. They have most of the time a bad color temperature and are blueish by nature. Even the mildly factory calibrated sRGB ones.

 

[Case_]

The colors are very neutral with white balance at 6500K. The thing is, sunlight is usually warmer than 6500K. I usually white balance my photos taken on a sunny day at around 5700-6000K as "perfect" 6500K just doesn't give that sunny day feeling, it feels a bit too cold and sterile to most people. So adding a bit of warmth to the game to slightly accentuate the sunny day feeling would kinda make sense.

And yes, I have my monitors calibrated.

Also, these days, even cheap monitors often have fairly good baseline settings out of the box. Well, except for contrast and brightness. But as far as white balance and colors are concerned, it's much better than it used to be.