Lets talk about how the Red Pack cars feel!

[Fatty McGassy]

I just did a 30 second jump in in a few cars and...

Modern F1 car: WOW...fun and agile, but honestly it feels like a F40 or RUF boost kicking in and wanting to kill you! I lose control so easily with Factory settings! I always thought oh F1 just pedal to the metal and you're good to go...man is it hard!

Lambo SV: Tame as hell and soooo easy, until I realized my pedals were only putting in half of the power! Fun car.

Old Maserati's : I NEED TRACTION! I felt like I needed to half pedal and shifting half way through the rpm's, TERRIFYING!

Maserati SVU: Slow and steady, thank you! Headphones off while driving this one though.

[Frosty Jack]

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[Frosty Jack]

How is the Red bullring ?

[Cygon_Parrot]

The 250F Six!!! Yesss! Gorgeous. Love it!

This sim rules. Keeping in context with the OP, just this one Red update shows how racing evolved from supreme handling skill in Fangio's day to ridiculous speed management for today's boys in pefectly designed F1 hyper rockets that stop on a dime with just the thought. Awesome update, and I am so pleased that they keep moving the timeline back as well as forward.

PS: Red Bull Ring is A-OK. Very fast, alternating sweep section, hard braking, tight turns. Fun, good racing line junkie stuff!

[in memoriam of Sharky]

"Modern F1 car: WOW...fun and agile, but honestly it feels like a F40 or RUF boost kicking in and wanting to kill you! I lose control so easily with Factory settings! I always thought oh F1 just pedal to the metal and you're good to go...man is it hard!"

After yesterday I did 2 laps at the Nord with these cars and around 40 lap at the Red Bull Ring witht the F132 I thought the opposite. I felt these cars are running on rails . :)

[Plaskus]

I also enjoy the F1 cars. They feel abit better in AMS but this is really fun too. I played some multiplayer yesterday and went a few laps. Good times.

[cb62fcni]

The Maserati 250 6 is a blast. Brakes were surprisingly competent. It's pretty difficult to keep it straight, the steering feels quite loose, and not just in the old-timey car way. Like something is mechanically wrong with it, or like you have elastic tie rods or something. It wanders quite a bit.

[Murdoch]

The Lambo SV was the one I was looking forward too the most. So I took on the Nord.... Oh holy f***! It was terrifying, frustrating and sad....

Now, I took it on Barcelona, it was great. So it seems it does not handle the very bumpy and uneven roads of the Nords, but on a nice GP track its amazing. It has great turn in and speed, corners fairly well with some power, think preferably with TC off to get it to rotate abit. But it does feel abit soft, easy to get its weight shooting off and getting you very unsettled.

The other cars is great too.
F1 cars are amazing! Levante was a nice change up, haha
The old Maserati's are really cool but tricky to drive.
The GT4 is well, like most of the other race cars, GT2 cars but less power and Aero I guess.

I had driven the Red Bull ring with the mod already so nothing new, but I enjoy it alot!

[kazereal]

Originally posted by cb62fcni:

The Maserati 250 6 is a blast. Brakes were surprisingly competent. It's pretty difficult to keep it straight, the steering feels quite loose, and not just in the old-timey car way. Like something is mechanically wrong with it, or like you have elastic tie rods or something. It wanders quite a bit.

It has a "De Dion tube" at rear so it stands to reason why it feels strange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Dion_tube

[Bigbazz]

I've only driven the 2 F1 cars.

F138 - Extremely planted rear end at medium/high speeds but a little bit scary in low speed corners, first gear to mostly be avoided where I might normally expect to use it and instead 2nd gear is best, mechanical grip is fantastic with the car making it easy to place. At high downforce it feels like the engine could give me more power and you really need to maximise the DRS + KERS to get the most out of the car. The steering rack makes the car slow at Monaco due to the hairpin, the first F1 car to have this issue.

SF15 - This is like an alien technology machine, I don't know what the hell I'm doing with it, the mechanical grip is fantastic but it feels like the rear end is a bit slippery on medium/high speed corners, tend to have to run more rear wing than front wing to keep the balance, the opposite to the F138. Unlike the F138 it can take the Monaco hairpin perfectly fine, but my laptimes there were slow because of difficulty driving it and not making the most of the ERS, aka I didn't even work out how to change it from default.

[Bean™]

Originally posted by Bigbazz:

I've only driven the 2 F1 cars.

F138 - Extremely planted rear end at medium/high speeds but a little bit scary in low speed corners, first gear to mostly be avoided where I might normally expect to use it and instead 2nd gear is best, mechanical grip is fantastic with the car making it easy to place. At high downforce it feels like the engine could give me more power and you really need to maximise the DRS + KERS to get the most out of the car. The steering rack makes the car slow at Monaco due to the hairpin, the first F1 car to have this issue.

SF15 - This is like an alien technology machine, I don't know what the hell I'm doing with it, the mechanical grip is fantastic but it feels like the rear end is a bit slippery on medium/high speed corners, tend to have to run more rear wing than front wing to keep the balance, the opposite to the F138. Unlike the F138 it can take the Monaco hairpin perfectly fine, but my laptimes there were slow because of difficulty driving it and not making the most of the ERS, aka I didn't even work out how to change it from default.

F138 feels very agile and tight, I love it. The SF15 does feel sluggish but has power, I can barely get into 7th gear.. cant adjust the gearing? Wierd, am i missing something or is that really how it is?
Red Bull ring is awesome, nice long high speed turns and straigts. The second to the last turn right before start lines always confuses me lol, kindof hard to notice because of the lane split, and the speed you have at the point... it just appears out of nowhere it seems.

[BruceCheE]

if i compare the sf15 from assetto to the F1 2015 one, the f1 2015 version wins. the old maseratis feeling like driving on ice or soap. and the new Lambo is boring and the behaviour of this car is really strange. feels like a tumbeling truck ^^ definately the worst of all the packs out there. i don´t want to talk about the bugs which the 1.7 introduces to some people from warping cars in multiplayer to buttons which can´t be assigned. thumbs down for kunos this time!

[Bigbazz]

Originally posted by StBean:

Originally posted by Bigbazz:

I've only driven the 2 F1 cars.

F138 - Extremely planted rear end at medium/high speeds but a little bit scary in low speed corners, first gear to mostly be avoided where I might normally expect to use it and instead 2nd gear is best, mechanical grip is fantastic with the car making it easy to place. At high downforce it feels like the engine could give me more power and you really need to maximise the DRS + KERS to get the most out of the car. The steering rack makes the car slow at Monaco due to the hairpin, the first F1 car to have this issue.

SF15 - This is like an alien technology machine, I don't know what the hell I'm doing with it, the mechanical grip is fantastic but it feels like the rear end is a bit slippery on medium/high speed corners, tend to have to run more rear wing than front wing to keep the balance, the opposite to the F138. Unlike the F138 it can take the Monaco hairpin perfectly fine, but my laptimes there were slow because of difficulty driving it and not making the most of the ERS, aka I didn't even work out how to change it from default.

F138 feels very agile and tight, I love it. The SF15 does feel sluggish but has power, I can barely get into 7th gear.. cant adjust the gearing? Wierd, am i missing something or is that really how it is?
Red Bull ring is awesome, nice long high speed turns and straigts. The second to the last turn right before start lines always confuses me lol, kindof hard to notice because of the lane split, and the speed you have at the point... it just appears out of nowhere it seems.

In the SF15 you have to shift up way sooner than you think to keep the turbo boost at full, if you look at the steering wheel then as soon as the white light is on you shift, you never even go close to the limiter or you lose so much power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1Jok3_dJA

As you can see here I hit 8th gear and 196mph (315kmh)

Originally posted by BruceCheE:

if i compare the sf15 from assetto to the F1 2015 one, the f1 2015 version wins. the old maseratis feeling like driving on ice or soap. and the new Lambo is boring and the behaviour of this car is really strange. feels like a tumbeling truck ^^ definately the worst of all the packs out there. i don´t want to talk about the bugs which the 1.7 introduces to some people from warping cars in multiplayer to buttons which can´t be assigned. thumbs down for kunos this time!

Are you mad, the SF15 in F1 2015 is like an arcade game version while this is a simulation, it's not even comparable. I think the Maserati 250F is great, I'm not sure what you expected when it's on super thin and hard as rock bias tyres.

[*.zip]

Love the new SF-15.. . wow, what a machine! I was so happy to see that 8th gear, too! The 488 GT3 is nice, great feeling & amazing gutteral sound.
Lambo Aventador SV left me...well, wanting more. The one I was looking forward to most, too. :( Oh well, I love playing with every vehicle on every track (mod tracks included), so it will still be an adventure.
The entire Masarati lineup is GREAT. The MC GT4 was one I was expecting, and it didn't let me down. The new SUV is cool. Decent power; I always love driving 'lowly' production vehicles in racing games. The two 250F cars are gonna be a blast to play & conquer maps with.

All in all, okay. Still prefer the Japan DLC to this one, but the SF-15 makes up for it.

[BruceCheE]

i´m not mad. tested it on the same track, with the same car. f1 2015 is far from arcade if you disable all driving aids.it´s not 100 sim accurate but it´s definately not arcade like the prequel games from 2010 to 2014.

[Bean™]

Originally posted by Bigbazz:

Originally posted by StBean:

F138 feels very agile and tight, I love it. The SF15 does feel sluggish but has power, I can barely get into 7th gear.. cant adjust the gearing? Wierd, am i missing something or is that really how it is?
Red Bull ring is awesome, nice long high speed turns and straigts. The second to the last turn right before start lines always confuses me lol, kindof hard to notice because of the lane split, and the speed you have at the point... it just appears out of nowhere it seems.

In the SF15 you have to shift up way sooner than you think to keep the turbo boost at full, if you look at the steering wheel then as soon as the white light is on you shift, you never even go close to the limiter or you lose so much power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-1Jok3_dJA

As you can see here I hit 8th gear and 196mph (315kmh)

I see.. nice. It's definatley a powerful monster.