<RANT ALERT>
Just what are PD thinking, what is this ABOMINATION! Yes, I'm in a bad mood, yes people are pushing my buttons in the real world, yes nobody cares... But I'm gonna rant anyway. I love GT7, it's the only racing game I play at the moment. I have ACC, I play it from time to time, I love it's realism but more than that I LOVE road cars! GT7 gives us an incredible opportunity to try out a number of different road cars with physics that are reasonably close to real life so we at least get a taste of what it would be like to drive these incredible machines. When I saw Mount Panorama announced as the location for the next time trial my eyes lit up, I'm not sure I've done one here before but what a great track and the new Maserati supercar sounded like a great car to take round it.
I didn't know anything about the MC20 before buying it in the GT7 car dealership, I knew it would be a handful given the ridiculous decision to put it on 'sports hard' tyres which seem akin to a part worn budget brand I could pick up from my local back street garage for £10 a pop. So I threw on some Racing Medium tyres which thanks to the physics update seem to tame almost anything. I took it out for a spin round Dragon Trail... Yes, it's ok but god the brakes are incredibly poor even on racing tyres, dynamically it is all over the shop, a hyper-mobile nose that tucks in and evokes a spin with even the slightest of rotation. Piss poor. Then I threw on the sports hard tyres and took it for a drive round MP. What an absolute MESS. I know it's driveable and maybe some people will find it fun but my logical brain just isn't having any of it, this is pure arcade nonsense and so far removed from the reality. This was BEFORE I even looked into what the MC20 is like in real life. For it to be less dynamically composed than a 15 year old american muscle car with a chassis less developed than a Ford Model T is saying something. Then we add to that the most unforgiving track in GT7 and say off you go, enjoy! To add insult to injury, I hit a wall half way through the lap. Got the obligatory 3 second penalty and yet it did not register when I reached the penalty zone, so rendered almost 4 minutes of driving completely useless. Why.
And then to top it all off, I went and read some reviews on what the MC20 is really like. I was expecting to hear that it was a beautiful car that appeals to the soul not the head, best left in the car park of some five star hotel in Monaco and paraded around at 5mph, dynamically flawed but it doesn't matter. But no, it won Evo car of the year 2022. Evo magazine's tagline is literally 'the thrill of driving', it's all they care about. And they reckon this is the best thing since sliced bread, beating Ferrari's, Porsche's and Mclaren's, which just rubs more salt in the wound.
I know I know, I shouldn't think too deeply and just drive what's in front of me. But thinking deeply about things gives me the joy I get out of pursuits like this. When it's right it is so right, only last night I was driving a Porsche Carerra GT round the Nordschleife at maximum attack and thinking how wonderful it was. That's a car with a ferocious reputation and yet it was happy at 10/10ths on the most formidable track in the world. For all the painstaking hours PD spend on the smallest detail I'm just so disappointed they've missed the mark so spectacularly again, we now have two time trials that are anything but fun or realistic running side by side. It's not some deep dynamic flaw in the game, it's just incredibly poor decision making that turns one of the best parts of the game into a farce.
I'll keep going because I love the challenge but for me this is just a step beyond, for a company that calls itself 'the real driving simulator' and has just released a film exhibiting how it's realism can be translated into real world driving this is a piss poor effort.
Do better, PD.
Lots of Love, one of your biggest fans
Dan
unreal 
