Aventador SuperVeloce! - Real VS Assetto Corsa

Nope, 17th announcement is much bigger!

 

So let's start talking about the car, shall we?

First thing that impressed me... the same in-game sensation that you get with all hypercars, of "brakes are not enough".
I mean you feel that they do an exceptional work, really big deceleration... but you also see the turn approaching much faster than you would like. You need to start braking much sooner than your usual braking points on the track. Physics are physics no way around it.

 

Awesome driving Aris. How many time/laps for preparation did you have before this first hell of a lap?

And wow for the AC comparison, SO close. How many takes did you need to match the real video (per corner, I suppose)?

 

Thanks @Minolin and everybody else, no false modesty, we are very happy about that video
The video is the 4th lap. I had 3 laps to understand the car and then in the pits and instantly out with the overheated tyres. With optimum temps it pushes a bit more, but it's easy to overheat them as you can imagine.

Well for the AC preparation, it's not easy to respond because obviously I was doing the physics and trying to make the car behave as close to reality as possible.
All in all, it took me around 7-8 laps to match the drift and smooth lap, plus some extra passages for outside cameras.

The main issues I had, trying to match the real with the virtual, is that a 4WD car is not so easy to drift exactly where you want it, both in reality and in the sim. It's easy to start the drift and to maintain it and control it, but not so easy to go exactly at the place you want with the exact same steering wheel angle and so on. Too much power, too much traction, too much slip with all 4 wheels... too much

 

Impressive, this is pretty little practice - especially the IRL part.
Alien

 

To be honest, I was surprised myself.
I've found out that the car had lot's of lock. At the first lap I was doing some small drifts but instantly releasing the accelerator because of fear of course (you know... 400.000€)
Second lap I did a pretty big power drift on the exit of the corners and understood I could put my foot down and drive it out with the steering wheel. The trick was to countersteer a bit less than normally needed, otherwise the car would go very wide and off the track...
Then I did a half spin, and turning around I found out it had lot's of lock... so I tried again and when I was around 60° sideways I gave it some gas... and it straighten back! From there on, it was full hardcore!

 

Soon™

Personally I'm not so sure about that. I believe the Magnetorheological (gasp!) dampers permit a much wider setting range than normal valve dampers (which in virtual world you don't have issues with, you just set whatever value you want, no fear of breaking a piston or a valve). I think the car has simply a much more aggressive setup both in suspension and in the differentials.