Ac car popularity

As an aside to my car performance rank (http://www.assettocorsa.net/forum/index.php?threads/car-time-ranking.22389/) which looks at the top 5% of RSR rank times since AC 1.1 at Spa, Mugello, Imola, Silverstone, Nurburgring GP, Vallelunga, Monza, Magione and Nordschleife, just for interest here are the number of laps that make up the top 5% of times for each car. You can see which cars are popular, and which cars not so much.

Most of the Lotuses, and the BMW Z4 E89, are really not that popular. Perhaps unsurprisingly, GT2/GT3/DTM cars are all close to the top of the list.

Ferrari 458 GT2 1383
Nissan GT-R GT3 1086
BMW M235i Racing 1049
Formula Abarth 829
BMW M3 GT2 827
Corvette C7R 756
BMW Z4 GT3 755
Mercedes-Benz 190E EVO II 751
McLaren MP4-12C GT3 706
Alfa Romeo 155 TI V6 645
McLaren P1 583
McLaren F1 GTR 491
Alfa Romeo 4C 481
Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 393
Ferrari 599XX EVO 391
Ferrari 458 Italia Stage 3 356
McLaren MP4-12C 298
Pagani Zonda R 286
Ferrari 458 Italia 286
Ferrari La Ferrari 253
KTM X-Bow R 234
Mercedes SLS AMG 232
BMW M3 E30 Group A 226
BMW M3 E30 205
Pagani Huayra 181
Abarth 500 EsseEsse Step1 178
Lotus Evora GTC 177
P4/5 Competizione model 2011 170
Abarth 500 EsseEsse 168
Lotus Exos 125 Stage 1 161
RUF CTR Yellowbird 161
Mercedes-Benz C9 1989 LM 160
Giulietta QV 156
BMW M3 E30 DTM 152
Lotus Type 49 150
Lotus 2 Eleven 142
Lotus Exos 125 128
Shelby Cobra 427 S/C 124
BMW M3 E92 119
BMW 1M 112
Ferrari 312T 108
Ferrari F40 108
Mazda 787B 99
Lotus Evora GX 98
Alfa Romeo GTA 96
Ferrari F40 Stage 3 90
BMW M3 E92 Step1 86
BMW M3 E30 Step1 85
Lotus Exige V6 CUP 81
Lotus 2 Eleven GT4 74
BMW 1M Stage 3 73
Giulietta QV Launch Edition 2014 69
Lotus Exige 240R Stage3 68
Lotus Elise SC 61
Lotus 98T 60
Lotus Exige 240R 52
Lotus Exige S roadster 46
Lotus Evora S 44
BMW Z4 E89 44
Lotus Elise SC Step2 43
Lotus Exige S 39
Lotus Evora GTE Carbon 38
Lotus Evora GTE 37
BMW M3 E92 drift 37
BMW Z4 E89 Step1 36
Lotus Exige Scura 35
Lotus Evora S Stage 2 30
BMW M3 E30 Drift 27
Lotus Elise SC Step1 23
BMW Z4 E89 Drift 15

 

It's interesting to note that the three "Drift" cars are near the bottom. I guess that suggests that drifting is a bit of a niche pastime when compared to racing as a whole?

On a side note, I mentioned elsewhere that I decided to drive the Scuderia Glickenhaus P4/5C for the first time yesterday, and I had several decent races at Imola against GT2/GT3/C7R opposition. Not exactly the most "alive" car that I have ever driven (it grips the track a lot better than I had thought it would), but at least it allowed me to be competitive with those GT cars. Having done that, I decided to test drive the Ferrari 312T for the first time this morning.....and I was very pleasantly surprised. I think that I have been put off the open wheelers by the Formula Abarth, which feels utterly boring to me. I was expecting all F1 cars with rear wings to be the same, but the Ferrari 312T feels really good! It has that "could spin out, but you have enough time to correct it" feel that allows the driver to relax a bit, and really enjoy the superb handling physics. I should have known that this car might be half decent to drive, because I have watched enough F1 races from the 1970s to note that those cars were slipping and sliding around in a controlled manner, rather than the "stuck like glue or you're off" handling that seems to be the case with more modern F1 cars. At least, that's the impression I get when I watch them on the telly!

 

I really thought that the Ferraris would be more popular :/ But I really dont know how many people thats actually using RSR while driving. If you driving anything else than the really popular ones you dont have much times to compare to.

 

Really glad to see the McLaren F1 GTR so high up the chart. Also really sad to see best car of AC (F40) so low.

 

At least posting record laps in drift cars on RSR is.

Keep in mind that this is a list of laptimes past 1.1, so most of the new DLC cars will get more time than the "old" cars that have been in AC for more than a year.

 

Yes, that's true.

 

You should add " popular among people who bother with RSR". I do not for example, I just play AC to relax and have fun in single player for the most part and I do love both the Lotuses (street) and the Z4 (street). Online polls and online activity only ever reflect a smallish percentage of user base. How many people have posted to RSR? How many have bought the game?

If AC only had "the most popular cars" from you list, I would not have bought it

 

The people that use RSR are a representative sample of the broader AC community, so you can extrapolate the numbers up to be a pretty good representation of a car's popularity. You can't say, for instance, that people who use RSR are more likely to drive GT cars. In fact, the people who bother with RSR are more likely to drive a bigger range of cars, I would say, since they want to improve their times over many car and track combos. The only thing that skews the data is that as some1pl said above, some cars are very old by now and the novelty has worn off, with newere cars getting more love.

 

Nope, if GT2/3/racing cars were the most popular, Gran Tourismo, NFS and Forza would be about them, but the fact that those mass-market games know their audience and focus on street cars first and foremost tell us all we need to know

Luckily Kunos understood that initially and hopefully will continue to do so

 

The Formula Abarth is a medium downforce/low horsepower open wheeler. Definitely not representative of how all other open wheelers are. Personally I love it. It's not a car that will kill you under throttle, but it is a car that will constantly laugh off your attempts to do a fast lap in it, always telling you, "That's it? That's all you've got? I aint even breakin a sweat!" It's crazy how much time I gain if I invest some time into exploring its limits around a given track. And if I step away from it for a period of time and come back, it always take a while to get back up to speed, not because it's difficult to drive, but because its limits are just so deceptively high.

 

Sorta surprised how few people drive AC's formula 1 cars... Lotus 49 is the most popular and it's barely 1/5 any of the GT cars. Maybe it needs a single year picked and fleshed out, eg. 3-4 1967 F1s like the GT3/GT2 classes have? Or maybe people just don't really want F1 so much...

 

GT3 is the motorsport in this era of time, F1 is booring and uneven, Touring Cars - exactly the same as F1...the LMP thing is kind of fading compared to its past.

 

Let's hope not, with the modern lmp cars, which are paddle shifting, they go fast, corner fast, brake fast. So is basically GT3 racing, but more exciting probably. I sense they can have high popularity in AC, if we get more than one car model, like the audi and toyota which are planned. The older LMP cars which are manual shifting are less popular by the online crowd of AC. Or maybe the C9 LM isn't that fitted for our current tracks with lots of corners. And the Mclaren F1 gtr is also waiting a competitor, like the f40 lm (or gte).

 

I'd much rather have something from the early-mid 00s:
Audi R8
Bentley Speed 8
BMW V12 LMR
Dome S101
Lister Storm LMP
Lucchini LMP2/04
Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S (a definet yes).

 

Exactly. I think classic F1 would be much more popular with 3-4 cars and tracks from each era, same for touring and sports prototypes.

I really enjoy the L49, Cobra and GTA but racing against whole grids of the same car on modern tracks isn't that exciting.

 

Based on my offline testing, the Lotus 49 and Ferrari 312T are far more interesting to drive than the GT cars. I never expected the latter to feel any good, but it does. I couldn't care less about modern F1 cars though.

 

The 312T is scary as hell at the Nordschleife...

 

Good job I won't be driving it there then.

 

Boooo

 

I agree. The Formula Abarth is definitely a car where you can really explore the limits of its performance. It seems to have a big ”edge” that you can get close to without falling off of and find a little more speed.