I love the new patch!

The cars are all much more predictable now. When the tires begin to slide the grip is now high enough to recover from the moment, and not continue the slide forever. It's a small difference but noticable and very much appreciated

This now makes it possible to enjoy driving the LX4 and LX6, even the FV8 with a mouse! And notice how the FV8 even without TC can now get off the line just fine in first gear... no need to short shift to third before the rear tires stop spinning maddly.

The BMW F1 car is nice too. Almost too fast to be believable... but I know it's like that, F1 cars are simply out of this world. LFS gives you a fantastic overview of cars, from the small mini shopping trolly, to GT racers and now the fastest racing cars on the planet.

The contrast in speeds of these things is simply amazing. Can you just image driving a real F1 car?? I just can't get my head around it

Last edited by VOSS, Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:55.

Quote from SpooSH :

F1 cars have semi-automatic sequential gearboxes which don't need a throttle cut on upshift

Actually they do, and there is a cut... but the whole gearchange process is automatic. When the driver selects the next gear with the paddle behind the wheel, the electronics kill the ignition on the spark plugs, and momenterally reduce the load on the gears. The hydraulics engage the next gear, without the clutch being used at all, and then the ignition is turnd back on and the full throttle acceleration continues. This whole process from being flat in say 3rd gear, to being flat in 4th gear takes about 30 miliseconds