Got some time to do this weeks Challenge. Seemed a nice one with the two English Bond cars. I agree mostly with
@dnlnnhs with his remarks. I have put them on paper more deeply. Off course as always with wheel and no aids except ABS. It was a bit difficult for me to get serious cause the Jag is such a fun car to play around with.
Eventually I managed to do some laps. I dont know the track that good but noticed quite early if you want to have competitive times you need to stay close to the inner walls to come out the corners fast. So you need to “steer in” the long corners way before your brain tells you to start turning.
The Jag is a pretty heavy car which you notice mostly with braking. You feel the heavy weight but it doesnt brake as terrible as I would expected. The car handles amazing and I love playing and drifting the car around this track. Especially high speed drifting is pretty easy as you can controle the car alsmost only with the gas pedal. Topspeed around 308km/h before braking.
I dont think the Aston can be such a joy to drive as the Jaguar.
I pretty easy got a 2:16,503.
So lets step into the Aston. Did not have the car so needed to spend some hard earned money on it. Was it worth it ? Oh yes ! Loading the track you can see that British Racing Green color along with the beautiful brown leather and stitches. What a car and what a combo. When the engine started, my god what a sound ! That engine just sounds like perfection. Very racy yet still very gentleman styled. The car easily wins on its beauty.
But how does it drive ? Is it as good as the Jag and more important, is it as good as it looks itself ? You wont win on the looks. Pretty much distracted when driving the laps because of its beautiful brown leather interior and dashboard, cant stop looking at it. Focus !
And gents, it
does hold up to its beauty. As it seems in the beginning. The car instantly feels at least as good as the Jag. The steering feels way lighter and more direct. Braking also seems a tad bit easier. When drifting you would not expect this to be good. But come on this is some real drift angle !
You can drift the car almost as good as the Jag, but its a little less playfull and better suited for a quicker laptime. You can notice that at the straight right away where it easily pulls a 315km/h top speed where as the Jag could not go faster than 307km/h. But then you notice that braking from high speed its not better than the Jag. Later on I found out this is due to the tyres. The sport hard tyres have more problems with the Aston than the Jag. So its not the brakes that are the problem, but the combo with the tyres and mostly at high speed.
Then when entering the bigger corners you notice that the car is also less controlable than you initially thought. This has to do with the fact that these corners because of the input steering along the walls requires perfect gas controle. I told you I can controle the Jaguar only with the gaspedal. The Aston requires a bit more care because when you step on the gas the power output is a lot bigger and therefore the car is a bit harder to balance. Balancing the Jag is quite easy. With the Aston you need more concentration and throttle controle. Another problem is when hotlapping you can do round after round after round in the Jag. The Aston has much more difficulties keeping grip with the sport hard tyres.
So even when it seemed better the first meters, in the end its not as easy to drive and have fun with as the Jag. Even though its quicker it means its much harder to get a proper time.
I pulled off a 2:15,309
Jaguar F-type: 2:16,503
Aston DB11: 2:15,309
So in the end, as much as I like the Aston, the Jag is the true winner for me.
