Note that way back in the early days (when LFS was still free) I read in the LFS forum that one of the future features in LFS would be karts. There and then I decided to stick with LFS, and waiting ever since ....

As long as the cost of usage of LFS does not rise and fall with the actual petrol price, it is not real. But hey, how close can you get considering the LFS package?

I don't like the unmodded rFactor that much (I played the ISI F1Challenge 99-02 a lot with Emac's season add-ons)

The two mods that keep it on my HD are H6 Challenge v2.0 (top) and Nippon Series v1.1 (soon to be 1.2). Didn't try the Megane mod yet and discarded other mods.

I like those alongside LFS, NASCAR 2003, RBR and nK-Pro (still needs a lot of patching up).

Cue-Ball,
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"However; that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be looked at and addressed, if possible."
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Agree and point taken.

Darkone55 & Honey,
I only wanted to bring across that it is very hard to judge from visual observations if the tyre model of LFS is visualy spot on or not, let alone that is very hard if not imposible to determine from visual cues if the tyre physics are acurate. Most of the remarks in this thread indicate the same (slip angle, tyre pressure, weight, power/ throttle imposed on the tire, radius of the corner and cornering speed, grip level of the road surface, ...). The second thing is that while driving you usualy don't (at least I don't) look at the tyre touching the tarmac. If it feels right it usualy is modelled right. That reminds me of a mathematicaly correct moddeled car sim that felt insanely wrong, forgot the name.

First the images (Google'd):

Normal road cars (huge deformation)
http://toyotaownersclub.com/fo ... ion/index.php/t47764.html
MRT type car (no deformation)
http://sae.secsme.org.au/home.htm
http://fsae.utoronto.ca/2002/videopr.html
Rally cars (some deformation)
http://www.2.justbajan.com/car ... 2004/042804_mcbiral/2.htm
http://www.2.justbajan.com/car ... 2004/042804_mcbiral/4.htm
F1 (slow corner @ Sepang, no deformation)
http://img39.photobucket.com/a ... g/malaysia_1st_corner.jpg
Some more F1 (little deformation)
http://autosport.sbs.nl/module ... on=gallery&image=2526
http://autosport.sbs.nl/module ... on=gallery&image=2484
http://autosport.sbs.nl/module ... on=gallery&image=2536

This should be enough. Note that F1 tyres are very flexy and balloonish and are an integral part of the suspension.

All in all I would say, to many variables at play here to say LFS is right or wrong. And frankly I don't look at my tyres touching the road when driving. I only want a good road feel when I am driving.:eclipsee_