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Back in April, I put up a first article about a rumored successor to Logitech’s popular G25 steering wheel. Apart from a part number that had already been assigned to the wheel and some dummy entries in some web shops, no official confirmation on the new product was available though.

This changes now as Codemasters has just released a list of steering wheels that will be compatible with their upcoming Colin McRae DIRT 2 title, including the Logitech G27!

An excerpt from the list:

Logitech G25 Racing Wheel

Logitech G27 Racing Wheel

Logitech Driving Force Pro

As you can see, the G25 is also listed, meaning this can’t be a typo of some sort. It’s unknown whether Codemasters intentionally released this info or if it’s a mistake of some kind, either way it’s great news for the steering wheel market. Right now, there are absolutely no specs or info available on the G27 other that it does exist – Stay tuned for more on Logitech’s newest wheel.

F1Racer has released four new renders of the Force India VJM01, part of MMG’s Formula One 2008 mod for rFactor. Even though there aren’t lots of news about it, MMG seems to make steady progress on their mod.

Click the picture below to get to all four renders. Following their popular F12007 mod, F1 2008 will bring all cars and drivers of the 2008 Formula One season to rFactor.

Following the release of their World Sportscar 1970 mod for rFactor, CSGT has now released three matching tracks from the 1970 World Sportscar Championship schedule.

The tracks let us race on 1970 versions of Sebring, Daytona and Le Mans, giving the prototypes and GTs a proper historic playing field.

All three tracks are still beta, Daytona and Sebring are pretty much bug free though. Le Mans shouldn’t be used for serious racing against the AI yet as the AIW is still work in progress, the track does not have proper night lighting either.

CTDP has released first preview shots of their Williams FW31 model for the 2009 Formula One mod for rFactor 2.

Modelled by Kevin ‘Fongu’ Wong, the car has been made based on the pre-season presentation car, not sporting the proper nose as it was first raced at Melbourne in these shots.

F1 2009 will be bringing all cars and drivers of the 2009 Formula One season to the upcoming rFactor 2 simulation, following CTDP’s famed F1 2006 mod for rFactor.

RMT has released new previews of their World Super GT 2 mod for rFactor, showing the Porsche 911 GT1 fully dressed up in the 1996 Le Mans 24 Hours livery where the car managed to win its class, finishing 2nd overall.

Based on the Porsche 993 and powered by a 600hp flat-6 engine, the 911 GT1 was Porsche’s weapon of choice for the 1997 FIA GT season. The car competed against notable race cars like the Mercedes CLK-GTR and the McLaren F1 GTR, enjoying limited success.

Successor to World Super GT for GTR 2, World Super GT 2 will bring some of of the most legendary GT cars of the 90s as well as Super GT GT500 class machinery to rFactor 2.

Liquid4653 has converted RMi’s Supercars mod for GTR2 over to GTR Evolution, bringing the Ferrari Enzo, the Ferrari F40 and the F40GTE to the simulation.

The three Ferrari road cars have not just been straight converted but equipped with all usual GTR Evolution features including working windscreen wipers, rainscreen and disc-glow.

Merlin75 is working on a scratch-made version of the Ford GT, bringing both the GT3 and GT 1 versions to the simulation.

Now, he has released first renders of both versions for us to enjoy. Built by Matech, the Ford GT is racing in two different classes. The GT3 version (white render) of the car made it’s debut in the 2006 FIA GT3 Championship season, a GT1 version for the FIA GT championship followed 2008 (blue).

In a recent interview with Autoweek magazine, creator Kazunori Yamauchi commented that “We will give the release date of Gran Turismo 5 soon.”

Even though soon is not exactly a very exact term, a good opportunity to announce the release date is coming up – The Tokyo Game Show in late September. Not only is this home ground for the Tokyo-based Polyphony Digital Studios, the Game Show was used to unveil Gran Turismo 5 Prologue’s release date two years ago!

Following a very impressive new trailer shown at the E3, Gran Turismo fans are now waiting for further info on the fifth installment of the popular GT series. While Turn 10’s Forza Motorsport 3 is already set to be released in October, it still remains unclear on how long Playstation 3 users have to wait for GT5.

Via GTPlanet

International Pro-Modding has released new renders of their upcoming FSONE Formula One 2009 mod for rFactor, showing us first shots of the Force India VJM02 model.

Driven by German Adrian Sutil and Italian Giancarlo Fisichella, the Mercedes-powered VJM02 is Force India’s weapon of choice for their second Formula One season.

FSONE 2009 will include all cars and drivers of the current Formula One season which introduced a whole lot of changes to the world championship.

F1LIGUE has released a new version of their semi-fictional Formula One 2009 mod for rFactor, vastly improving the first released versions.

Version 2.0 comes with new 3D models, new skins, new physics and other improvements as listed below.

Changelog:

- New 3D Models

- New Skins 2009 by Pa-Popov (Courant August Skins HD)

- V.1.4 Fins (V.2.0 current August 2009)

- New Physics

- New Menu

- New Garage

- Delete KERS

- Team USGPE replaced by JORDAN

F1 LIGUE’s F1 2009 was the first 2009 season F1 mod to be released for rFactor. Having many unacuracies in the first versions, the team is steadily working on improving the quality of the mod with every new version.