Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes W08 F1 Car Is Coming to Gran Turismo Sport

[coryclifford]

It won't go to a higher numerical gear unless you are on the throttle.

 

[GTP_Ezza75]

Racing W08 at Suzuka. Found that going down to 2nd gear for hairpin loses grip and guaranteed spin. This car doesn't like to be in 2nd gear at all

 

[sinner]

do the tires change color on different compounds or is it always yellow? that would be a neat little detail

Another neat little detail... Comfort tyres.

 

[DesertPenguin]

Another neat little detail... Comfort tyres.

Sport tires make it look like the grooved tires of yesteryear

 

[flatthebest]

Sorry if it was discused before, but does the drs working automaticky on that car?

 

[GTP_Ezza75]

Mercedes F1 W08 @ Nurburgring Nordschleife

 

[Krypton78]

This car doesn't like to be in 2nd gear at all

This car is bugged, "automatic" throttle during braking.

 

[DaniBvo_]

The W08 is fixed on patch 1.24 - and it’s a blast to drive. You’ve got to be careful and not use low gears on slow turns (as it’d happen with the real thing), but it’s otherwise brutal. Very enjoyable.

 

[AKps3]

"Fixed an issue wherein driving the Mercedes-AMG F1 W08 EQ Power+ 2017 (both Standard and Colour Variation models) it was not possible to properly shift down while braking;"
https://www.gran-turismo.com/gb/gtsport/news/00_3613055.html

 

[sinner]

Nice. Finally.

Any tweaks to the sound (transmission and engine pitch)?

 

[David Bailey]

Great update the piece of **** still spins on hairpins.

 

[Krypton78]

Great update the piece of **** still spins on hairpins.

What a pitty PD made it hard to control a F1 car out of the curve.

Because real F1 cars are soooo easy to drive, right?

The Pilots are paid that millions becuase they have cute eyes, right?

 

[baldgye]

What a pitty PD made it hard to control a F1 car out of the curve.

Because real F1 cars are soooo easy to drive, right?

The Pilots are paid that millions becuase they have cute eyes, right?

To be fair you can't actually look into Alonso's eye's for too long without getting lost

The W08 is fixed on patch 1.24 - and it’s a blast to drive. You’ve got to be careful and not use low gears on slow turns (as it’d happen with the real thing), but it’s otherwise brutal. Very enjoyable.

To be fair, it was great pre-patch it was just a bit broken going into braking zones. With that fixed I'm pretty excited to get cracking with it.

 

[TonyJZX]

Yeah but its known that a few cars like to do this... the RS01 GT3... if you're limited by the controller and your car does this then your failback shouldnt be that the cars are 'hard to drive in real life'...

THere are a lot of things in real life that are hard that the ps4 is asked to simulate.

 

[Scuderia Paul]

All this time we have had the Lewis Hamilton W08 EQ Power+ and we've been using a Bottas steering wheel!
#SteeringWheelGate

 

[GTP_Ezza75]

Hotlap Mercedes F1 W08 @ Nurburgring Nordschleife

 

[Team THRT Drift]

The Pilots are paid that millions becuase they have cute eyes, right

Forget the eyes, what about Ricciardo's smile?

 

[Greycap]

What a pitty PD made it hard to control a F1 car out of the curve.

If it only was out of the curve that was the problem. I'm pretty sure that real cars weighing 800 kg and running on soft racing slicks 405 mm wide don't just spontaneously snap around at 50 km/h with no throttle input. This one does. And when it's done that it just sits there and looks pretty because after nearly 180 degrees of steering lock is still does a very shallow curve to one side and simultanoueusly flooring the throttle does nothing but slips the clutch for a few seconds.

At low speeds, below 8000 rpm or so, the engine behaviour is seriously weird. It makes jarring, crashing sounds I'd be very worried about in a real car and the clutch has a mind of its own. If it worked like the F1500T-A does in that regard I'd have nothing to complain about.

 

[Shottah072]

Had great fun driving this car tonight. It handles quite nicely and downshifting indeed works fine now. Most slow corners 3rd gear is just fine.

Had a go at a few real world GP tracks.

 

[meck_rb7]

Had great fun driving this car tonight. It handles quite nicely and downshifting indeed works fine now. Most slow corners 3rd gear is just fine.

Had a go at a few real world GP tracks.

Man i need a wheel.... No way i can drive this way with my DS4. It's just so hard to turn in at the right point and hit the apex...

 

[Skygrasper550]

Great update the piece of **** still spins on hairpins.

Yes, because God forbid that downforce works on low speed corners. And also that F1 cars produce a lot of power but they simply don't have enough mass to plant those tires at low speeds.

 

[watashi49uk]

I agree with those who think the car still spins out far too readily. I understand the points made about low weight, and lack of downforce at low speeds but, having run the car in some extended Time Trials, at slow corners I still find myself facing backwards far too often!

 

[kimkafwan]

I agree with those who think the car still spins out far too readily. I understand the points made about low weight, and lack of downforce at low speeds but, having run the car in some extended Time Trials, at slow corners I still find myself facing backwards far too often!

I came back home this week and tried the mercedes.

I think there is some kind of assist when a lower gear is engage. Try to look at the indicator and compare to the actual wheel position:





You will spin out if you apply too much angle. Hope it help.

 

[BrakeCheck101]

Loving this car even more, now that it's fixed (kind of). However, the lack of a DRS button is annoying and without traction control, the car is still horrendous out of low speed corners.

Here's my attempt at Suzuka, trying to beat Hamilton's real-life world record:



I probably had the potential of knocking off another four tenths, but I just couldn't hook up a whole clean lap. Such a challenge to drive this car!

 

[Shottah072]

Loving this car even more, now that it's fixed (kind of). However, the lack of a DRS button is annoying and without traction control, the car is still horrendous out of low speed corners.

Here's my attempt at Suzuka, trying to beat Hamilton's real-life world record:



I probably had the potential of knocking off another four tenths, but I just couldn't hook up a whole clean lap. Such a challenge to drive this car!

Looks sweet in VR.

Beating Lewis his lap times is definetely not easy.

Suzuka i ran 1:28.7 vs 1:27.3
Interlagos 1:10.2 vs 1:08.3 (Bottas time Hamilton spun and crashed)
Monza (pre patch) 1:23.0 vs 1:21.4 (FP2 time qualy was wet)

These laps were not perfect but they were decent laps. Maybe with a good setup and some more laps you'd be able to get close. But i feel the car may be a bit underpowered, at least against full power Q3 mode.

 

[Guffaluff]

Really like driving this car, don't really have issues with the handling, but I feel the tire squeal is a bit too much for a F1 car.

Maybe it's how it's supposed to be, but I don't remember hearing F1 tires squeal like this when watching races

 

[BrakeCheck101]

Looks sweet in VR.

Beating Lewis his lap times is definetely not easy.

Suzuka i ran 1:28.7 vs 1:27.3
Interlagos 1:10.2 vs 1:08.3 (Bottas time Hamilton spun and crashed)
Monza (pre patch) 1:23.0 vs 1:21.4 (FP2 time qualy was wet)

These laps were not perfect but they were decent laps. Maybe with a good setup and some more laps you'd be able to get close. But i feel the car may be a bit underpowered, at least against full power Q3 mode.

Yup totally agree. We're not aliens like Lewis Hamilton, but given we have DRS available around the lap far more than he is in real life, GT Sport have unfortunately made it slightly too slow.

I feel like the back end is the main issue. In real life they seem to have far more confidence on the rear and the hairpin at Suzuka is a prime example of GT Sport's problem. You probably waste .500 each time through there compared to real life - waiting for the back end to stop snapping.

 

[Shottah072]

Yup totally agree. We're not aliens like Lewis Hamilton, but given we have DRS available around the lap far more than he is in real life, GT Sport have unfortunately made it slightly too slow.

I feel like the back end is the main issue. In real life they seem to have far more confidence on the rear and the hairpin at Suzuka is a prime example of GT Sport's problem. You probably waste .500 each time through there compared to real life - waiting for the back end to stop snapping.

Well turned out a good setup really helped. Used @MINKIHL setup and managed to match Lewis Hamilton's laptime on Suzuka.

1:27.3

 

[MINKIHL]

Well turned out a good setup really helped. Used @MINKIHL setup and managed to match Lewis Hamilton's laptime on Suzuka.

1:27.3

Wow very nice lap mate - nice to see you used my setup for the W08 - i made the setup on Soft tires - so its cool to see that it works pretty well on SuperSofts aswell - again, great lap

 

[Shottah072]

Wow very nice lap mate - nice to see you used my setup for the W08 - i made the setup on Soft tires - so its cool to see that it works pretty well on SuperSofts aswell - again, great lap

Thanks !

And Nice work on the setup. Could go a bit faster still but the goal was to match Lewis for now. Your setup worked way better then the trial and error i had going on I went with SS because they ran SS in real life to.