Hi everyone, new significant improvements are coming to the Formula One 2001 Season mod for Assetto Corsa, part of The Race Project in collaboration with AC modder Forbys. We’ve been working tirelessly to enhance your racing experience, and I’m excited to share what’s new.

Special thanks to the team at MHR for allowing us to collaborate and include the reworked Minardi and BAR Honda in this update, some of the most accurate F1 models in any sim.

Here’s what’s new:

• Realistic Carbon Fiber textures and Paint for an authentic look.
• Realistic Aerodynamic Wings Movement.
• Realistic & Improved Tyre textures.
• Realistic AI for competitive races.
• Realistic and Progressive Damage/Dirt & Tyre Wear Effects.
• 4K High-resolution liveries.
• Wet tyres with integrated AI.
• Upgraded Interior with refined details.
• CSP Features: Functional LED lights & Rear LED lights (wet weather & pit lane).
• Enhanced FPV (First-Person View).
• Improved Digital Instruments.
• Driver Gloves recreated in accurate colors.
• Improved Helmets with realistic chrome/matte paint and visor reflections.
• Authentic Exhaust Flame Behaviour.
• Improved Steering & Gear Animations.
• Realistic Onboard Cameras.
• Improved and reworked Engine Sounds expertly crafted by our official partner Prophetimus.

Changelog v.4.0 ✅

• Optimized mod size by removing unnecessary files, improving performance and loading times.
• Improved steering wheels.
• Cars digital display now reflect light properly, reacting to the illumination of each session for a more realistic effect.
• Negative Camber and animated suspensions (thanks to Forbys).
• Updated and Improved Paint shaders.
• Improved carbon fiber textures and shaders.
• Refined driver position for more realistic onboard camera angles.
• Added tyre wear effects (thanks to Spectron Team).
• Realistic Visor reflections.
• Brake and acceleration animations added.

Changelog v5.0 ✅

• Improved physics for better offline racing and AI behaviour.

• Fixed BAR Honda digital instrument display.

• Fixed Ferrari chassis mapping issues.

• Improved onboard and TV cameras.

• General optimisations and refinements across the season.

• Continued improving the existing converted cars while preparing for the arrival of the new scratch-built cars, ensuring the entire races are enjoyable and consistent to race as each new car is released gradually.

⚠️ IMPORTANT – Tyre Textures!

To make tyres work properly, drop the tyres.zip file into this folder:
SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\assettocorsa\extension\textures\cars

If placed incorrectly, the tyres won’t appear in-game.

The 2001_Tyres.rar contains the tyres.zip simply drop that zip file into the directory.

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