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This is about the Ferrari 312B from the 1970' F1 season... The very first "boxer".

This mod will be limited to this car only. If successfull, we may extend to the others cars of the 1970's season such as BRM, Matra, March, Mac Laren, Brabham and Lotus... But it will be a huge work!

Short history
The Ferrari 312B F1 for the 1970' season was the very first F1 from the "scuderia" with the "boxer" engine (flat 12 cylinders).
After a slow start, the 312B ended the season with a storm of victories: 4 GPs win in 1970!
All thought, it was not enought for Jacky Ickx to win the title wich goes for Jochen Rindt (the one and only to be post mortem world champion).

The 70' season was the first of a prestigious decade who saw the fight between the Ferrari and the Cosworth' based english teams. On these days, the tires are yet wide and the wings everywhere but the cars remains basic and the speed has not reach the peak of the wing-car aera.

The concept behind this mod
Our goal was to realize a realist mod of this wonderfull car but, also, to get a pleasant behavior on the track and not difficult to drive.
So, it's mainly a compromise between realism and fun to drive. The realism is important but it's not a dogma for us. If we have to choose between sticking with reality of the car and a good behavior or look, we will not choose realism...
For example: the dashboard of this version is ugly!
But this dashboard looks like the real one because the real dashboard was really ugly (unfinished to say the last). In the next versions, we will put another "nicer" dashboard (but it will no longer stick with the real look...).

Beta version
Keep this in mind: it's only a BETA version, so it's unfinished!
This version 0.85 is full of bugs (some are obvious like no mirror) so don't be surprised if it not match of the others mods you already used in online races.

Why releasing this mod in beta?
This a call for help!
Something in this mod is wrong and you think you can do better?
No problem, your contribution will be welcome!
We are short of skill on Rfactor this is why we need to enlarge the team in order to finish this project.