Me & my horses - Pt.1
Recently I decided to drive all the Ferraris I own in chronological order. So here's my experience with the first four:
Dino 246GT
The project started how I like it - with pure chaos🤣
I love how this car looks & sounds! But I don't like how it drives. I don't know how to explain this and if there's a term for this but it's like the steering gets stuck. So you go into a corner and you release the steering but the car keeps going in the direction you steered and it requires counter steering to go straight again. Awful! And then there's also this snap oversteer (I guess?) which is really annoying in the esses. One moment I was like "Oh, the car is doing pretty well here" and a second later I was having an unexpected meeting with Mister Barry R.
Also, if an AI car hits you, it's almost impossible to save the car. So overall you have to drive very carefully with this thing.
On the plus side it's pretty fast, the brakes are quite good for an old car and the fuel efficiency is pretty good also. You can do 3 laps on FM3 without any management.
But unfortunately rain started already at the end of 2nd and so I had to pit early. I was on P19(!) after my pitstop but thanks to the incredibly dumb AI(?) I could take P1 within a lap. The remaining three laps required just driving very carefully but because of the car and the heavy rain (rainmeter darkblue, above 2/3) I was under constant tension. So much that I completely forgot to check fuel. I turned FM up to have an advantage on the straights but then forgot to turn it down again and so I ran out of fuel just after the esses in the 6th and final lap. Still won with more than two minutes in lead.
365GTB4
The complete opposite to the Dino. Visually this is my least favorite Ferrari in the game. But in contrast to the Dino, a car that constantly tries to kill you, it's pretty easy to drive. It may slide a bit if you're too fast into a corner but it's always controllable. Brakes are ok and so is tire wear. Suspension was a bit soft and "wobbly" on default settings so I lowered the car a few millimeters and set the ARBs up to 5.
Race was rather boring, a little bit of rain on laps 4&5 but not enough to require IMs.
Did 3 laps on FM4 without any fuel management on RMs and 4 laps with a bit of shortshifting on RHs and FM6.
308GTB
The successor to the Dino. And it is indeed the same as the Dino, a car that looks amazing (IMO ofc) but is rather awful to drive.
First, although this is completely maxed out and weighs just 1090 kilograms, it doesn't feel very fast or powerful.
Second, it has the tendency to slide in every corner. Now as long as it is dry and the tires are fresh, this isn't so bad. But as soon as the tires wear down (which happens rather quickly) or the surface gets wet, the car becomes pretty much uncontrollable through corners.
Only good thing I can say about this car is that it's efficient on fuel. 3 laps on FM3.
For the race it started raining on lap 3 but just lightly. I pitted after 3rd and switched to IMs. Quite heavy rain on lap 4, then it started to dry up. IMs were ok until lap 6 but then died within one lap. Luckily my lead was just barely enough to end the race at this point.
512BB
Pretty much all I wrote about the 308GTB is also true for this car. Same tendency to slide in every corner. Pretty bad when wet or tires are worn down.
Efficiency is ofc worse 'cause the car weighs in at 1.4 tons. Still, 3 laps on FM4 and 4 laps on FM6 are not bad. Sound is nice but somehow muffled.
Had two dry laps until it started raining. 3rd lap was chaos with 3 yellow flags and lot of crashes. Went from P12 to P1.
This was, AFAIR, the first 6 lap race where I didn't have to stop and wait for the clock to run down. Looks like the car isn't a very quick one🤣
So far a rather disappointing experience. But I'm positive that the next batch will be better👍
