Driving in FormulaAbarth

Above all say it is the best simulator I've had in life. Thank you very much for making us enjoy this simulator.
I've never tried a formulaabarth, but the feeling is Assetto Corsa a total grip. Looking on youtube see it's a hard drive:


Aris, Could you explain that in Assetto Corsa is so different in this video? sure you have the answer.

 

This car is just Awesome in everyway

I love the grip levels even if it isnt real, its more than close enough for me, check the stearing angles on this video its nearly exactly the same.

In that video you posted, who knows what setup the guy was running, but if you had that in the game everyone would complain about not being able to control the car.

 

me too... don't know how close this is to real, but
it's the best formula car i've ever tried in a sim!

 

Can you post your answer here? The AC car seems to lack the 'punch' of the real car judging from the videos. It just seems very flat to drive, around, like it has no power at all.

 

What you said still does not explain the discrepancy we see with the real life video of the car sliding around when driven very hard and over the limit. I would suggest that having accurate telemetry is only half the puzzle, and a car can still have unrealistic handling, while matching raw telemetry numbers.

Look at the 50 second mark of the video and massive drift he holds exiting the last corner. You can't do that in AC with that car, it is stuck to the ground.

 

Funny that I could do that...

 

video?

 

turn the traction control off and it gets tail happy like it should, still has plenty of grip but then again I have never driven in real life one of these but with plenty of down force and slicks it should be more "grippy" then say the xbow

 

did you watch the video you posted? it looks quite cold.. (I mean the ambience temperature and so the track temperature)

also do we know the setup and tires in the video?

 

I think that the video could be a special case, for example below video, formula ford.



It looks very unstable and tricky throughout braking, turning and accelerating, but in most cases almost formula ford compared to the rest of videos shows that is as stable than we think. I'm not sure yet how close the formula abarth in AC is to real though anyway the heavy oversteers in the video could be not in common case.

 

Either y'all ain't got your wheel settings proper, or you're not driving hard enough. This thing is is pretty danged close to the video to me.

 

The AC abarth does not seem to require any 'balancing' on the limit. You just push as hard as you want. In the videos they are balancing the car on the edge. The difference seems quite clear regardless of the data apparently matching. I don't expect the car to be really hard to drive, but it should require some skill and car control.

 

Sorry, even when it ment to be usefull, but you are compairing a over 10 years old formula car with something that is state of the art.
Wings and a carbon fiber monocoque make such a huge differenace to a car, that you can't compare them.

I drove some formula könig (metal frame monocoque) and formula renault 2.0 (carbon fiber monocoque) and the formula abarth in AC is really close to my real life formula experience.
Formula cars have tons of grip, but getting to the edge of the car, they get very agressive, you just jumping from on the edge to over the edge in fractions of a seconds and to handle this is the benchmark for any good driver.

I think a quite big amount of people have the opinion that racing cars are pretty hard to handel, but this is not the case.
As a race driver you have to go as quick as possible and a car which is easy to drive makes your job much more comfortable, so you are able to focus on your drive and not on holding the car on track.

 

Just to clarify that i'm in love with Assetto Corsa, but when driving over hugh curbs (Imola small chicane) i think the car reaction is not realistic at all because it seems like it don't let you go until car is fully connected to the ground again...

 

Tottally agree with Danny, those who are saying they can't make the car slide, it's too grippy, etçª, i bet they've never doing it in their lives. Cars are safe, mostly understeery, if they were made to slide for sure thousands of deaths would happen on our roads. Don't think rFactor2 simulates real life physics for example because at 100 km's/h on a large corner the car slides like hell on slick tires with race springs like it was on ice and that's just stupid, not even my road car does that!! Just shut up and enjoy the game with the best physics ever made, that recreate a real car behaviour...

 

No that's not my point.
My point to say is that just one case one video can't represent a whole charicteristic of that, and the formula ford video was a example.
OK here's another video of formula ford and you'd find more at youtube. In fact, most formula ford videos I've seen so far despite no wings show that it is not as unstable as we think. And I mean the video quoted by gray fox could be a special case, given the heavy oversteers, that's my point.