Image Space Incorporated has released two brand new preview video, showing off some new tire features of their upcoming rFactor 2 simulation. The first video shows the tire wear and flatspotting in action, the tire wear has been increased by 100x to show off the effect of a 100 lap run in one single lap. Also visible [...]

Team LMT has released their Formula One 2010 mod for rFactor, bringing last year’s F1 season to the simulation. The mod is the team’s first ever full Formula One season mod following the release of their DTM mod and the Ferrari F60 single-car release. F1 2010 includes all cars and drivers of the 2010 Formula One season, [...]

Dear readers, be prepared for the long post! I has finished rebuilding Boston squad before the 9th season of the story. The season will be the 2nd one in the Premier League for our "Blue Square North League team".

Loss of Marcelinho

Marcelinho became the best Boston player of the debut PL season. I was not surprised receiving the largest amount of offers exactly regarding him. Boston chairman has been accepting all the offers and I has been cancelling them during few weeks until… Huddersfield made the minimum fee release clause:

I could only view the offer without opportunity to cancel it.  This is how I lost my leader of defence, very prospective Brazilian player  

I understood I should work even harder during the upcoming transfer window.

 

Transfer money and wage budget

The board gave me quite high transfer budget and low wage budget. Though it's much better than $220K before the previous season.

 

Players Out

I said 'Bye' to many non-first squad players. The most of them can defined into 2 groups: High wage and Too old.

High wage

- Kyle Bartley (DC)

- Ryan Mason (MC, ST)

- Walid Atta (DR, DC)

- Christoph Leitgeb (MC). Though his is 33 years old as well.

Too old

- Jeffrey Altheer (DR)

- Kalifa Cisse (DC, DMC)

- Marc Tierney (DL)

It's also necessary to single out the profitable loan of Ross Barkley.

 

Players In

How do you like this list? The long one! It contains 19 players. Surely there are several promising youngsters who were instantly moved to Boston Reserves. But the majority will be used in the main squad.

I won't emphasize on every player, just want to describe for you Top 10 Boston transfers.

 

1. Robson (MC) - $110K

This super-talent was found in Slavia Prague. And you see that low amount of money I paid… Hope this wonderkid will become a Boston leader, hope I'll be able to keep him happy in the squad for many seasons. Fortunately, he has no minimum release clause fee in the contract.

 

2. Esteban Stivan (SC) - $7M

It's my attempt to find a great forward for Boston United. Esteban Stivas is only 18 years old! Looks like another wonderkid for my club

Pay attention that my offer beat the offers of Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Independiente.

 

3. Adama Soumaoro (DC) - $3.9M   -  Great return!

I decided to replace Marcelinho with central back who became the best Boston player 3 years ago being on loan in our team. I know Adama Soumaoro very well that should help to decrease risks of putting new weak DC in the first squad.

Though it's clearly that better central defender has to be found in the next season to increase reliability of the last line.

 

4. Ben Powell (DMC/MC/DC) - $2.4M

Promising midfielder from Manchester United. Powell's speed is awesome for central midfielder!

 

5. Mike Okoduwa (AMR/MC) - Loan fee $525K

Mike Okoduwa is quick and non-typical player whom I going to use on the right flank. Highly determined, speedy and having fine technical level. Hope his Tackling will help to hassle opponent's pressing.

I like loaning Arsenal talents

 

6. Emmanuel Adebayor (SC) - Free!

I am fan of Arsenal in the real life. Therefore I could not reject myself in signing Emma Adebayor. Moreover, he agreed on very average wage.

 

7. Mohamed Sissoko (DMC/MC) - Free!

Another awesome Boston newcomer! It's well known that Momo is very tough ball tackler. The only shortcoming is his speed.

 

8. Gary Deegan (MC) - Free!

Experienced Irish central midfielder with great mental skills. I will use Gary as substitution player for Robson on MRC position with Advanced Playmaker role.

 

9. Jeff Holland (AML) - Loan fee $120K

Quick and decent left winger. Seems like he'll start the first matches from a substitution bench.

 

10. Emmanuele Terranova (DC, DR) - $1.2M

Experienced Terranova is my attempt to increase depth of the squad in defence. He can play as central and right back having decent attribute values for the both positions.

 

Boston finances after the transfers

Now please look what financial situation I have after all.

Wage budget:

Very close to the wage limit. The board rejected to increase it ignoring my request.

General finances:

$12M unspent! It's the money I can use in winter fixing up my transfer mistakes. You know normally I make them

 

Facilities:

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F1Racer has released nine high-resolution renders of the Williams Renault FW16 that is part of F1-S-R's F1 1994 LE mod project for rFactor. The Renault-powered FW16 rose to tragic fame by becoming the last car that three-time world champion Ayrton Senna drove. Following the Brazilian’s tragic death at Imola, young David Coulthard took over the driving [...]

Sim racing is having a special presence in the Renault Megane Eurocup series these days as race driver Toni Forne is running a big Mak Corp decal on his car this season. Mak Corp has been building a custom Megane simulator for him to practice for upcoming races, sim racers can try out the open beta [...]

Jessica Lopez & Tom Haake are hosting a new edition of InsideSimRacing.tv's excellent This Week in Sim Racing segment, recapping some of the things that happened during the past week. This week, the guys show off some new Autoclub Revolution previews & the new RealFeel for rFactor version, introduce us to some cool racing leagues and more. [...]

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The big iRacing.com summer update for Season 3 of 2011 is just around the corner as iRacing has published the official release notes of the imminent release. The update will introduce a heap of the new content items and improvements to the simulation, including the release of the Honda HPD ARX-01C Le Mans Prototype, the Ford [...]

Four days ago, Play3.de released an interesting video interview with Codemasters’ Paul Jeal, senior producer of the studios’ upcoming Formula One 2011 title. To follow up on that, the magazine has now released a new preview video, featuring more than three minutes of pure gameplay footage of the upcoming title. The video shows plenty of driving [...]

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InsideSimRacing.tv has released some new gameplay footage of Turn 10’s upcoming Forza Motorsport 4 title for the Xbox 360. The videos do not just show the Autovista showroom narrated by Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson and the rather arcady car bowling mode but also lets us check out Fanatec’s upcoming Forza Motorsport CSR wheel in action in [...]

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