How Realistic is F122? (According to an F1 Engineer)
Interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VwhThyQ6V8
Forum Discussion
@Blackbird90
Yea and after watdching the video i think theres one massive flaw in their comparison. And that is the traction part.
The outcome is somewhat very misleading and they compared wrong things to each other.
Alex lap was done under normal F1 22 shifting (perhaps slightly lower than you would go) but still higher than IRL and Russells lap. So essentially they are comparing Alex in third gear on the apex and throttle out of the corner to Russell whos in 2nd gear at that time and does no shortshifting, while Alex is arleady in fourth when Russell just upshifts to third.
That makes a comparison impossible as traction is obviously different in every gear. Alex should instead have done his lap in the same gears (or as close as possible) as Russell. Because then the outcome would have been completely different as George is flat in 2nd gear and Alex wouldve had to be much more cautious while putting power down.
I also asked 2 other experienced Sim pros about this and they say the same thing. Alex and the other guy probably forgot that dimension when making this video so i dont want to blame them but definitely that comparison does not give true results.
Yea and after watdching the video i think theres one massive flaw in their comparison. And that is the traction part.
The outcome is somewhat very misleading and they compared wrong things to each other.
Alex lap was done under normal F1 22 shifting (perhaps slightly lower than you would go) but still higher than IRL and Russells lap. So essentially they are comparing Alex in third gear on the apex and throttle out of the corner to Russell whos in 2nd gear at that time and does no shortshifting, while Alex is arleady in fourth when Russell just upshifts to third.
That makes a comparison impossible as traction is obviously different in every gear. Alex should instead have done his lap in the same gears (or as close as possible) as Russell. Because then the outcome would have been completely different as George is flat in 2nd gear and Alex wouldve had to be much more cautious while putting power down.
I also asked 2 other experienced Sim pros about this and they say the same thing. Alex and the other guy probably forgot that dimension when making this video so i dont want to blame them but definitely that comparison does not give true results.
@Wollcott Make a good point. I didn’t take into account which gear Alex was in.
- @ScarDuck14 yea tbf i was still suprised that it was fairly close but then it shouldnt have been a suprise as alex basically gives himself more traction via the higher gears. Unfortunately they did not consider this beforehand, would have been interesting to the the actual difference but im sure T1 already would have been big difference in traction.
still a good video tho. some things are definitely very similar. for me personally i hate this high gear shifting in the F1 game. feels so unnatural and wrong. and its also a vicious circle as the game has no good traction you go on and use even higher gears than previously. really hope that gets reverted in the future although i have no clue if i will ever open this game again ;(
