The FIRM, GRM’s official test track, has gone virtual. Thanks to Zac Staat, the Florida Rally & International Motorsports Park can be run in Assetto Corsa. From the Facebook post introducing the project:
Kind of low res environment and the track has a couple weird bumps in it but it is otherwise extremely faithful to the IRL track. Both the …
I think I see JG on the rendering.
Started testing with that track a few months ago, it's mostly pretty similar to the real track from videos I've seen, the only noticeable difference is the lack of banking/camber on the big left 180deg turn going onto the pit/shoebox straight.
I'm no huge fan of Assetto Corsa, but I'll swallow my pride and try to get this installed this weekend when I'm in the mood for wrestling a non-Mac environment. Really curious how close it is to the real thing. Man if this works out we may save a lot of gas on trips across Florida.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Yeah, but what about that burger place at the gas station?
David S. Wallens said:In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Yeah, but what about that burger place at the gas station?
That'll be in the everything simulator
Okay I just downloaded the file and in the release notes is says if you die at the virtual FIRM you die in real life so so far it seems pretty realistic.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Dang. What if an F1 scout signs you while there for a virtual track day?
David S. Wallens said:In reply to JG Pasterjak :
Dang. What if an F1 scout signs you while there for a virtual track day?
You get to be an F1 driver in your dreams every night 
Ohh cool now I can drive the LMP360 at the FIRM before I drive the LMP360 at the FIRM. Simulation is so cool.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
I don't even get dreams that cool.
Apparently an updated track was posted on April 6th this year in this group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefirmtrackdays/
Can anyone with a Facebook account get the file?
Edit: Got a link to a 2022 version here:
Does anyone who has successfully added this to their Assetto Corsa have any tips on how to get it to work. I downloaded the zip file from Racedepartment extracted the files and moved the folder into my AC tracks folder. It now shows up in my list of tracks but when I try to load it I get an error that says no track found. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I haven't had any trouble getting it to work, I just put the ne_firm directory into the content\tracks\ subdirectory.
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