So is it meant to be harder than F1?

[don-sf]

just asking, im enjoying this demo. however.

f1 car in gt5 prolouge im talking about, seems to be easier to drive than this.

i use g25 by the way.

so is an f1 car easier to drive than a 370z in real life?...

 

[Owen.C93]

just asking, im enjoying this demo. however.

f1 car in gt5 prolouge im talking about, seems to be easier to drive than this.

i use g25 by the way.

so is an f1 car easier to drive than a 370z in real life?...

Yes, yes it is.

 

[G.T.Ace]

Judging from several sims it is.
Its hard to take an F1 car to its limits but the overall handling is quite simple because of the extreme grip. I experienced the same in LFS. The BMW F1 is pretty easy to drive there.

 

[Mad94d]

The F2007 is easy in prologue I find, but the F1 cars on rFactor are ridiculously hard I think. They seem to remind me of Richard Hammond driving on Top Gear everytime I drive one on rFactor.

But on GT, yes, road cars to me are harder to drive.

 

[Peter]

In real life, where you have G forces, and all other factors, the F1 car is one of the hardest things to drive, but in a game, there's none of those extreme pullbacks.

 

[HN7]

In game, F1 cars are easier to go fast and harder to go slow than a road car because of the down force and racing tires.
In real life, however, they're just hard.

 

[myke6699]

just asking, im enjoying this demo. however.

f1 car in gt5 prolouge im talking about, seems to be easier to drive than this.

i use g25 by the way.

so is an f1 car easier to drive than a 370z in real life?...

The physics and the FFB have changed quite a bit from Prologue- it would be interesting to see how the F1 would drive in the full GT5. Another thing you should consider doing in Prologue is to drive the F1 2007 with either N1 or N2 tires instead.

 

[Leweegibo]

What year F1 you guys driving on rFactor, considering the 09 cars are a much harder car to master than the 07's due to the aero restrictions etc...

 

[Mad94d]

What year F1 you guys driving on rFactor, considering the 09 cars are a much harder car to master than the 07's due to the aero restrictions etc...

FSONE2008, but the 2009 mod is harder.

 

[jeffreypang911]

In real life, if you go as fast as you do in GT5, yes it is that easy.

But in real life you are scared of dying. Which is why Hammond couldn't drive the F1 car fast enough to get around a corner.

If you drove a F1 car in real life it would handle just like in GT5 no doubt, but its the fear of crashing that would make you slow down, no air, locking up brakes, ect.

The 370z has no assists turned on too. that might be a factor.

 

[don-sf]

im getting mixed opinions here.

im talking about easier to drive. not easier to 'max out', obviously its very hard to max a f1 car, thats why f1 drivers are the best and get paid so much.

but if were talking about grip and steering and braking and stuff, is f1 going to be easier?...

 

[TBR 427]

Yeah, its massive amounts of aero grip cover up the mistakes that would (in a 370) cause a complete loss or mechanical grip.

HUGE amounts of downforce really help a lot; it means you're not completely boned when you enter a corner too fast because you have a ton of downforce. If you don't have that (say, like in a 370), you haveno rip, and you're gone.

 

[Stonemonkey]

In real life, if you go as fast as you do in GT5, yes it is that easy.

But in real life you are scared of dying. Which is why Hammond couldn't drive the F1 car fast enough to get around a corner.

If you drove a F1 car in real life it would handle just like in GT5 no doubt, but its the fear of crashing that would make you slow down, no air, locking up brakes, ect.

The 370z has no assists turned on too. that might be a factor.

He couldn't keep tyre or brake temp up either, lower tyre temp=lower pressure=lower ride height+more tyre deformation and lower brake temp=longer to heat up and work when applied which is all a bit of a vicious circle. I'm not sure if I've seen that much simulated in a playstation game.

There might've been TC and some sort of engine controlled rear ABS in the car Hammond drove but they don't have anything like that now.

 

[CoolColJ]

Let's hope PD fixes the steering lock for F1 and racing cars. No F1 car uses 900 degrees on the wheel.....

 

[Biggles]

The 370Z isn't hard to drive at all - if you're driving it slowly.

 

[H20HYBRID_GT]

The 370Z isn't hard to drive at all - if you're driving it slowly.

This.

Plus I find the F1 very hard to drive in GT5P, even with racing tires and TCS.

 

[don-sf]

I agree. 900 Degrees is too much for Formula 1 car...

 

[TrievelA7X]

In real life, if you go as fast as you do in GT5, yes it is that easy.

But in real life you are scared of dying. Which is why Hammond couldn't drive the F1 car fast enough to get around a corner.

If you drove a F1 car in real life it would handle just like in GT5 no doubt, but its the fear of crashing that would make you slow down, no air, locking up brakes, ect.

The 370z has no assists turned on too. that might be a factor.

Hey, he went full throttle for 0.2 seconds though.

 

[balang_479]

Weve all driven F1 cars in real life, so we can all give an opinion...

 

[DTM]

Weve all driven F1 cars in real life, so we can all give an opinion...

In a way your right

I can only speak of my GT5P and GT5D experience.

If you wanna drive the F2007 in GT5P to the limit. And i really mean to the limit. it's one though basterd. The road cars (in GT5P) are much and much easier to drive to the limit and that's where it's going wrong for the less talented drivers, like me. Slow is faster. That's what i try to keep in mind all the time. But in the heat of racing your pushing to hard.


EDIT: BTW in GT5D your driving stock tunes, that makes a car harder to drive also