@Meza994 F1 2020 received great input from Norris, Russell and even Albon. It was the perfect storm, with the world locking down and the simracing + streaming trends on a crescent. Nevertheless we didn't see any official piece of marketing from Codies highlighting that input, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the possibility of real driver input for F1 22.
I mean, there's plenty of drivers with Super Licenses that are not competing in F1. While I would obviously rate any assistance from Leclerc very highly, there are plenty of professionals orbiting the F1 circus with real and actionable insight for a game like this.
This topic I think it's quite moot: even when the input was notorious (early Covid days), there was never any official marketing around it.
Back to tyre grip, forget Michelin, mate. I mentioned it because it is a great piece of technical info on the whole physics of the thing, varying for two different scales of surface smoothness (macro and micro levels) and that doesn't change. Pirelli compound's adhesion to the tarmac is still a multiplying factor along with the total load of the car – i.e. real world physics didn't change – and the tyre capacity for load is still The Limiting Factor performance wise.
@Nuvolarix yep, but my point is that we're seeing a bunch of youtubers going out with cold tyres and attempting overtakes on lap 1 of a 5 laps race. I just think it's bonkers to try to assess how realistic the handling is based on an irrealistic attempt from people that probably never sat in a car with a H-shifter.
As the meme goes, the number of paragraphs written over shaky foundations is too damn high.
It's an early build released to content creators to generate hype before one of the key events of the whole season, the Miami GP. Whatever the QA team and the devs are currently testing the game on, it's not what we saw in the videos.
Honestly, we got "let's predict how the Miami GP results!" level of click baity senseless cheap content.
Cars go fast, cars spin. We will know it when we play the game or when we hear from people that knows how to cut a steak. And so far I've liked their impressions – the articulated, thought upon and expressed impressions, not the "from zero to hero in 5 laps with cold tyres" bull we also got.
