I estimate the feature race to go about 51 minutes, give or take. At that point, I just figured 15 laps of wet would be too much. Even at 9 laps, I expect the wet race to go about 23+ minutes, which is a respectable distance.
Okay. I actually thought later yesterday, that it's probably because the track is so long.
Yes, that's a bit rich coming from you. I know for a fact you come from the planet Suomi!
Well, I don't think so. After all, Henrik is the undefeated wheel user
But hey, I'm very impressed that you know how to write down Suomi in Finnish!
The other way (non-absolute as I say) is used to make it easier...
I think the same kind of effect you described is also in braking (maybe in throttle too?). I remember testing at beta both wheel and pad in nurburgring with the DBR9. Car had default setup and the driving settings where the same, but coming into the first corner was a nightmare with wheel. It was, well, impossible to brake with 100%. I always lost it totally. I had to brake earlier so that I had time to counter steer/lift off from brake if necessary. And also if I brake with 90% or less, I had to brake earlier. But with pad I was able to keep it on 100% for all the time, if the tail got loose, just little counter steer and it was back in control. The difference was dramatical. Pad with ABS off was similar to wheel with ABS on, when I later tried with some ABS on.
Also the thing that Biggles said, FFB fighting back is a big factor too. When you are coming out of the corner on the grip limits and you need to keep all steering inputs as minimum as possible and then you hit kerb -> FFB turns your wheel and you need to do some correction maneuvers. Sometimes those FFB effects are enough to make you loose control of the car. Even though driving over kerb has an effect for cars stabilization with both pad and wheel, it's still only wheel that the FFB makes more "trouble".
But I'm not complaining, FFB and the feeling of driving is so superb in SCC, that I don't care if there is some advantage with the pad. IMO it's actually fair that pad users have something, as they are missing out so much
For better times I agree on Alan that naturally using the track and the car as well as possible is the key thing and it's about ~95% of the whole thing. Then there's setup and that is in most tracks the rest ~5%. (With setup being ~5% I mean that "racedefault" is already implemented, min max ride height, cambers, and so on. Then the fine tuning does that ~5%).
And then on some tracks there are some little tricks. In this track there are some small advantages I think. I don't know if others have tried this, but try and have a go against the limiter on 5th gear when going into bus stop instead of shifting up to 6th gear. Basically it goes 240km/h on limiter. But if you shift to 6th, you have to do it on 239 or 240, but the speed drops down to 237-238 during shifting. Then it wont rise back even to 240 before you need to brake. Or it just might, but still, you have been driving 238-239 on 6th when you could've driven 240 on 5th that the time
Edit: haha, Alan wrote on same shifting thing while I was writing
