Scotracer wrote:Don't trust rFactor to gauge true performance, especially on a fictitious track.
The CTDP 2005 mod is not a very good one. It got much praise from the sim community for reasons I cannot even fathom. The performance of the cars is not representative of reality. The fastest I've been able to get one around Silverstone is around the 1:21 mark. This is a good 2 seconds off what they can do in reality. However, I can get the official BMW 2007/2008 cars to within 0.3 of a second of their respective times.
If you compare the 2007/2008 ISI BMW on any circuit against the CCWS cars, you will find the F1 car is more predictable, produces less snap oversteer and much less transient understeer and 4-5 seconds a lap faster on most circuits.
I do not like driving the CCWS cars I just can't be aggressive with them. they are very delicate and you cannot push them passed the limit easily. I can take the 2007 BMW by the scruff of the neck and throw it around and still get respectable times.
Conceptual, I will go try the Toban GP track now with the CTDP cars and see what I can manage. I believe I've had an F1 car in the 1:06s before.
Maybe we can exchange some setups then...
If you are pulling 106's on Toban on low fuel, that is in line with the computer on 120% difficulty and max agressiveness. When we ran the race for F12005, we actually did a 1 stopper (41 laps, then 31) so we usually set up the car to handle well on heavy fuel and hard tyres.
And the CCWS 2005 setting for Toban, Imola, Monza, and Interlagos are all within 2s of the F1 2005 times, and I must say, that "Wringing the neck" is exactly what I meant in the original post. I can beat the piss out of the CCWS 2005 car, and push it MUCH harder than the F1 car, and feel relaxed doing so, where the F1 car is nerve wracking the way that it requires perfect lap over lap to be fast, but gets catastrophic in a heartbeat.
Maybe the CCWS is simply more forgiving?
We gotta swap some setups...
