I haven't had much time to drive the new patch, but the hour or so I've spent has been very interesting.

I drove the BF1 around numerous tracks and marveled at how I ever lived driving here at school with the mouse without traction control. Simply amazing. The sound engine for the BF1 is really nice too.

Then I went and drove an the XFG around BLGP for a few laps, and while I never really got up to pace, it seemed as if the tire modeling was a little less peculiar when making tight turns or getting the car momentarily sideways. It still seems to me that the cars don't hook up hard enough when they stop moving sideways, but that may be a seat of the pants thing more than an actual simulation thing.

So then for giggles I went and pulled out an old, slow, easy to drive F08 setup for BL1. And promptly blasted away my old personal best by 1.5 seconds in about ten laps of practice. Whoa! I didn't get better at driving (I'm sure I'm not as good now as I was when I was spending more time with LFS) so what changed that made the F08 so much quicker? Or is it just me? I may be horribly confused. Maybe its just easier to drive now?

The new physics make it easier to drive some cars. I always drive the FZR on Aston National, only a few laps with the new patch and I broke my personal best too. Thing I notice most is the chicane on aston, wich is now much easier to take. I used to be scared to take it, but now I run through smoothly (most of the time)

The other thing I just noticed too was that it used to take a good bit of dithering of the mouse button to get a good launch without spinning the F08...I could do it but apparently a lot of n00bs couldn't as everytime there was an open F08 race someone would spin on the grid.

Now, it seems as if its markedly easier to keep the thing pointy end forward when launching it.

Very interesting stuff. The craziest thing is that now when I switch from XFG to BF1 I actually get slightly queasy from the speed change.

if im not mistaken r2s have a bit more grip now but heat up a lot faster to compensate