I tweaked the Virtua Simulazione Ferrari for better grip. You know I have never driven a F1 car (and very few in the sim racing community have) but I have driven a lot of karting in my youth. I've driven on the ice tracks too. And being a Finn we often drive icy roads. And the Virtua Simulazione car behaved a little bit driving driving a F1 car on a ice surface. The oversteer was absolutely ridiculous.
Open wheelers have enormous grip and enormous power. You're not able to slide an open wheeler that much (unless you're Raikkonen, Senna or Schumacher). It usually loses the grip instantly and then you're gone. VS car were almost like drifting formula cars. They didn't feel realistic. With all skins and driver stuff installed they're among the best looking AC cars I've seen but they didn't drive well. Especially the Ferrari. Actually it drove a bit like AMS2 open wheelers (which definitely don't feel good to me). Sometimes I feel that some authors make the cars "hard and challenging to drive" to make it feel realistic. F1 car should ALWAYS have a great grip, and should NOT be driven sideways in the corners. You can make the season challenging in so many other ways without sacrificing the realism. This season is now very challenging as McLaren (Hakkinen/Coulthard) are extremely hard to beat. I've given them a bit of an edge in fuel and aero.
I'm not a good car modder and I didn't do any other modifications than increased the rear tyres DX REF values which eliminated most of the excessive oversteer. I think the Ferrari improved tremendously. Please give them a shot and say what you think.
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PS: I think I did well with the 1998 Leaderboard. Did you see that? That whole 1998 package now is uhh... very good thanks to Shin's full 1998 track package. Now that I'm finally satisfied how the car drives it's probably time to start a season. Happy New Year to everyone!!!!
PS2: Mod experts: Any idea why the cars will not pit in Buenos Aires 20 laps race although their fuel capacity is not sufficient? I have limited all cars' fuel capacity so that in my season 20 lap races EVERY CAR will pit and it works like a Swiss watch. But not in Buenos Aires. They will not pit and can complete the race although I can't do that (max fuel only for 16 laps). But skin based ai cars which have the same capacity, can. That is really weird and never happened on any other track in my seasons. Is there something in the track ai that creates this issue?
I had no chance at Melbourne and Interlagos but Buenos Aires ai isn't that murderous.
